Rat chomps on baby
Cherub Charu brought us some horrifying, disgusting news at 11 Wednesday night – a rat had bitten a 15-month-old baby in Henderson County more than 100 times. The child has cerebral palsy.
The child’s parents brought the baby to the hospital for treatment, and that’s how officials found out about the situation.
Charu tracked down the father and brought us video of the home. Sorry folks, but the family lived in a trailer that was an absolute shit hole. There’s no other way to describe it. Trash and garbage was strewn all over the place, piled up all around the old trailer. Charu even brought us video of a dead rat, belly up in all the garbage. They should get rid of rats with some expert help, if you’d like something similar, learn how to get rid of rats in your home.
The dad said the family had another trailer that had burned down last year, and they moved to the one they’re in. They said they had plans to clean up some of the garbage. And he said they knew they had a rat problem.
Charu had an interview with the head of Henderson County DSS, who almost broke down crying while describing the situation and saying they’ll do whatever needs to be done to be sure this doesn’t happen again. Officials will continue to investigate this story.
Good job by Charu to play it straight on this one – the facts are so astoundingly disgusting that there’s no need to do anything more than let the story tell itself. We’ll see what happens.
Woman falls from motorcycle
In another disturbing story, 20-year-old Rachel Ledford apparently fell off the back of a motorcycle on I-40 westbound near the Haywood County line early Wednesday morning. She was struck by several other vehicles speeding down the highway, police said. Also, the driver of the motorcyle apparently drove another mile and a half before realizing that he’d lost Ledford, his rider. The motorcycle driver did turn around and come back, but how does that happen?
Once again, police will continue to investigate this incident.
Here’s Rachel’s MySpace page, because all 20-somethings have one. And here’s some of what she said about herself:
“i like to work out, work on cars, go out partyin, and of course do anything that sounds crazy or dangerous. i plan on dyin young doin somethin i love, so my main attitude is “FUCK IT, YOU LIVE THROUGH IT, YOU GOT ANOTHER STORY TO TELL, YOU DIE DOIN IT, YOU GOT A LEGACY!”
“i have a lot of tattoos and piercings but they are good ones that mean something to me i plan on gettin a lot more, i got more than are in the pics i have up now. i have three jobs, im not going to mention all of them one here though haha.Im the oldest of 7 kids but they are all in florida, i love and miss the hell out of them.
“I love the color pink but im a big ass tom-boy, i love wearin jeans boots and wife-beater or bike shirt, i love beer, crown royal, yager, beer bongs, vodka, sourthern comfort and everclear. i am crazy and wild, but i do love God and i am a christian and i know where my heart is.”
Sinkhole
A sinkhole has started to open up in a parking lot along Merrimon Avenue, right in front of AAA Carolina’s local office. That little shopping center area is next to the North Ashvegas library. WLOS quoted somebody from the city saying that a 40-year-old culvert had apparently collapsed. The city says it’s the property owner’s responsibility to fix.
Random drug testing?
Haywood County’s school board is considering approving a random drug testing policy in which everyone would be tested. A mom who has a daughter in Haywood schools says that would be a good thing, as does the daughter who had a little drug episode. But some school board members think the policy won’t be effective and that money would be better spent on a drug counselor.
Battle House torn down
Heavy machinery moved in and started tearing down the old Battle House next to the Grove Park Inn. Jon “Punnyman” Le and Jay Seltzer covered the story all day. They went on and on about the lost history – most of that being lost WLOS history because that house was home to its studios for nearly 50 years. Le interviewed Bob Caldwell who said the house was really big, especially for a Madison County boy like him, and former WLOSer Bill Norwood, or Mr. Bill to you old-timers, said he was said to see the building go. Diva Darcel said she was going to go to the house and get its famous ghost, Ghost Alice.
Powerball
Anybody win the Powerball? Me neither. But that didn’t stop Carolyn “Little Red” Ryan from doing a dumb story about how much stuff you could buy with $38 million. She jumped in a pontoon boat and drove around in a Porsche. Whatever.
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"Well, the first hunnert bites or so – we’er like, "Baby’s got pimples er measles er sompin". I’d tooken rats carcasses out from under the stove – Man they’s burned up too! I found me an ol’ campin’ chair and sat in it propped against the poplar over yonner and I liked to sit’n’shoot the motherfuckers when they’d come a rustlin’ out of the garbage piles. I figured out that if you leave some ol’ kind of meat or sumpin, you can get more of ’em to come around. Since the cable’s cut off, ain’t much more to do than that, not since I quit drinkin’ thanks to the Lord. Baby’s bit up, but we’re gonna – he’s got the cerbal palsy you know – we’re gonna get him down to the doctor and get him fixed up and teach him to scream some, ’cause me and Myrna didn’t know he was gettin’ ate up by rats. If I’m gettin’ bit up by a rat, I’m hollerin’! I’m like, "Aaaaaaaaaagh!" We’ll teach the boy, and nothin’ like this’ll happen again."
Lessons to learn: swat often at things that you think should or should not be there.
This will help you both recognize attacking rats and missing bitches.
I guess that game of Frogger didn’t quite work out for Rachel. Is it just me or did the flood of "We love you" comments read like a bad yearbook autograph page?
How the hell does a baby get attacked by a rat and no one’s hears the baby wailing immediately?
As morbid as it sounds, I check in with the wife or kid very often when they are on the back of my motorcycle. They typically hang on to the rack and the springy nature of the ride masks the feeling that they may have fallen off. How could this happen? It must happen fairly often to elicit the T-shirt "If you can read this, the bitch fell off!". Humor hits the harsh wall of real life…