A couple in Lawrence, MA were charged with criminal neglect after they left their dog unattended in the car in 90 degree heat.
But the dog wasn’t really alone. Heidi Dreher and Kenneth Reader also left their two children, aged 4 and 5, in the car for at least half an hour while they negotiated a drug deal, police say.
Massachusetts law forbids people from leaving an animal unattended in a car but does not forbid the same treatment of children.
“As far as we know, child neglect is a civil matter that we don’t get involved with,” said a lawyer with the Essex County D.A.'s office.
Re: Left Alone!!!
A math student is pestered by a classmate who wants to copy his homework assignment. The student hesitates, not only because he thinks it's wrong, but also because he doesn't want to be sanctioned for aiding and abetting.
His classmate calms him down: "Nobody will be able to trace my homework to you: I'll be changing the names of all the constants and variables: a to b, x to y, and so on."
Not quite convinced, but eager to be left alone, the student hands his completed assignment to the classmate for copying.
After the deadline, the student asks: "Did you really change the names of all the variables?"
"Sure!" the classmate replies. "When you called a function f, I called it g; when you called a variable x, I renamed it to y; and when you were writing about the log of x+1, I called it the timber of x+1..."
(Suspense) Re: Left Alone!!!
The woman was on the verge of death. She asked her seven children to leave the room, and she was left alone with her husband. She said: "I have something to confess..."
"Yes?"
"You know our seventh child, little Joe?..."
"He's not mine?!..."
"No, he is yours."
Re: Left Alone!!!
A plane carrying Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, the Dalai Lhama and a hippie is flying over the mountains when all of a sudden there is a small explosion and the passenger compartment begins to fill with smoke.
Over the intercom comes the pilot's voice. "Gentlemen, we have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that we are about to crash. The good news is that there are four parachutes, and I am taking one of them.
"Goodbye!" With that, the pilot jumps out of the plane.
Michael Jordan stands up. "The world needs great athletes to provide it with inspiration." he says. "As the world's greatest athlete, I feel that I have to survive." Taking one of the remaining parachutes, he leaps out into the clouds.
Bill Gates then gets to his feet. "I am the world's greatest mind." He says. "The world needs great thinkers. I must also survive." He grabs another 'chute and jumps.
The Dalai Lhama and the hippie are left alone in the plane, looking at one another. The Dalai Lhama says calmly I have lived a long life, and done many things. It is fitting that my time should be over now. I shall go down with the plane. "You, my son, have your whole life ahead of you. You must take that last parachute."
The hippie smiles. "Hey man," he says, "don't worry. The world's greatest mind just threw himself out of the plane with my backpack!"
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