UPDATE: Couple Charged in Child's Death Linked to Methadone OD
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Posted: 11:24 AM Jan 7, 2009
 Last Updated: 1:58 PM Jan 8, 2009
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Update at 6 p.m. Wednesday
LINCOLN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The couple accused of giving a fatal overdose of methadone to a 3-year-old boy they were babysitting said it was a mistake.

West Virginia State Police officers in Hamlin didn't have to go far to catch Theresa and Oscar Hyatt; the couple turned themselves in Wednesday morning.

"I've got nothing to hide," Theresa Hyatt said. "I loved that child and I loved him dearly."

The Hyatt couple is charged with child neglect causing death after they gave Danny Cole Ross a lethal dose of methadone for his cold. The Hyatts were babysitting for a friend and said it was completely an accident.

"I assume what I gave Cole was Benadryl," Theresa Hyatt said. "Why would methadone be in my car?"

State Police have a different story, maintaining that the Hyatts knew exactly what they were doing and that they didn't call immediately call for help.

"We learned through the investigation that other substances were given to the child," State Police Trooper B.M. Greenlee said.

Police said the most disturbing part of the case is the lack of common sense the Hyatts showed toward the child.

"So many people want kids," Greenlee said. "It's sad they look at a child as a burden."

Police said it's quite possible the Hyatts also were taking drugs while babysitting.

Child neglect causing death charges carry the same penalty as first-degree murder.


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HAMLIN, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A Lincoln County husband and wife have been charged in the death of a 3-year-old boy they were babysitting.

West Virginia State Police arrested Theresa and Oscar Hyatt of Griffithsville Wednesday morning after they turned themselves into troopers at the Hamlin post.

3-year-old Danny Cole Ross died on December 23. State Police say the autopsy shows the boy died of a lethal dose of methadone.

The couple is charged with child neglect causing death.

As she and her husband arrived at the State Police Post, Teresa Hyatt told WSAZ.com that on December 22nd, she was babysitting Danny when he started showing signs of a cold.

Hyatt say she then gave the child what she thought was cold medication that was in a bottle in the back of her car. Hyatt says she didn't realize anything was wrong until the next morning when her husband found the child not breathing.

The Hyatt’s are being held on $100,000 bond each.

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Posted by: Anonymous on May 12, 2009 at 01:25 PM
Is anyone going to do an update on this case?
Posted by: JMO on Mar 3, 2009 at 01:31 AM
THis is Just my opinion but seeing as how these ppl are probably addicts and me having been an addict before..there is NO way IN Ho0Ha that they did not know what they had! Like an addict is EVER gonna just "forget" they put some methadone in the car. WHATEVER! They knew exactly what they were doing..just like the article above said, they had given that baby OTHER substances!
Posted by: nikki on Jan 13, 2009 at 05:16 PM
to the tammy comment on jan 8 maybe you need to be in jail too. why would you give a kid something you "thought" was benadryl?get real
Posted by: clean 4 4 years... on Jan 12, 2009 at 02:54 AM
i guess wsaz doesn't want the opinion on here of someone who actually goes to a clinic. 1st i have been on meth since aug 04 2nd i have never failed a drug test, or a bottle check i have got 2wk take home for about 3 yrs and never lost them. i do believe there should be stricter rules and if you keep failing d tests kick them out! but not everyone that goes to the clinic is looking 4 a high i know that prob. 60% are, i see it all the time! if ppl r on the right dose they will NOT get a high this is where the clinic needs to step in and take control i'll b the 1st to tell you that increasing ur dose is just a formality! the dr doesnt even see u when he signs the order. i guarantee there are ppl you interact with everyday that go there, ur neighbor, docter or even ur childs teacher. and to ;) on jan 9 if you know 7 ppl that do that, what r u up 2? also it doesnt work to tell them ur out of town if by chance u actually r and they call u HAVE to have a reciept from somewhere out of state.
Posted by: sarah on Jan 12, 2009 at 02:30 AM
If the law wanted to clean it up they could sit at the go mart at greenbriar st. and catch many ppl. I have been a patient at the charleston clinic since august 2004, and it has enabled me to live a normal life, yes it does trade one drug for anyother, but it is legal. For everyone else just because you knew someone who went there or died doesn't mean you know everything about the clinic. I will be the first to say, there needs to be stricter rules, when someone keeps failing drug tests, they need to be kicked out. as for tax dollars, you dont pay ne thing for it, we do everyday we go hand over our 14 dollars. I have got 2 weeks take home for about 2 yrs now, never failed a drug test, or a bottle check. however i will be the 1st to say i think a week should be all you can get.also if ppl are on the right dose they wouldn't get a buzz off of it!!! just get the facts dont think u know it all because u know someone who went there. because u don't know until you have been through it.
Posted by: Jean on Jan 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM
If you people really want to save kids from the drugs then turn the sellers in to the police. They can not clean it up if no one tells them. They cant do it alone. I read a lot of comments and if you people knew the drugs were around the child why didnt you call the police or child services.Looks like more than the Hyatts helped take a life. Please help our kids. Call the police take pics of crimes call the news if no response to your calls. Jump in and help.
Posted by: A on Jan 11, 2009 at 09:57 AM
Ok I've been reading all this crap about the methadone clinics. First if the drug heads would simply go off the drugs of choice in a inpatient treatment facility they wouldn't need methadone. Everyone is defending methadone clinics... I hate them.. My sister was an addict her entire life and she ended up overdosing on methadone and cocaine and and and... So I don't feel that they benefit anybody. I feel that they are legal excuse for someone to be on drugs.. Second this story isn't about methadone clinics it's about a beautiful little boy that was kill because of two people's stupidity. Everybody knows that there are strict rules and regulations on the methadone meds but we ALL know that those rules and regulations are not followed. If they were you wouldn't find it on the streets so easily. So please stop fighting over rules and regulations and start focusing on this little boy.
Posted by: LINCOLNRESIDENT on Jan 11, 2009 at 09:31 AM
RIP COLE.. I AGREE CHANGE OF COUNTY TO TRY THESE PEOPLE SO THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD. THESE PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN TRYED BY THE LEGAL SYSTEM EVEN BEFORE THEY GO TO COURT. I HAVE LIVED IN LINCOLN COUNTY ALL MY LIFE YOU ARE JUDGED BY EVERY PERSON IN YOUR FAMILY NOT BY YOUR SELF IF SOME ONE HAS DONE SOME THING WRONG IN YOUR FAMILY. YOU WILL BE JUDGE BY THAT NOT THE CRIME. AND PLEASE CHECK WITH A LAWYER OUT OF LINCOLN COUNTY BY BROTHER ALL MOST LOST EVERYTHING. THEY DON'T GO BY THE LAW IN LINCOLN COUNTY I WAS TOLD "WE DON'T ALWAYS GO BY THE LAW WAIT AND LET IT PLAY OUT" FROM THE GREAT MONA SNOGRASS. WISH WE COULD GET THE STATE TO COME IN AND TAKE OVER THE COURT SYSTEM IN LINCOLN COUNTY? OR THE NEWS MEDIA TAKE A LOOK ANYTHING WOULD HELP
Posted by: NOT A FRIEND THANK GOD on Jan 11, 2009 at 04:13 AM
THESE people HAVE no MORALS THEY DONT deserve TO be called PEOPLE PUT THEM IN JAIL .THINK if they had come across one of ours..JAIL is not where they would be if had been one of my children..R.I.P LITTLE ONE...................GOD LOVES YOU.
Posted by: Help other kids on Jan 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM
God bless this family and sarah if you dont keep your kids away from people like this and i know u hang with them and i know why this could have been one of yours if u care u will stop if not im going to help your childeren myself i dont want them to die they are wonderful get yourself cleaned up god bless your little heart cole and Im sorry u had to be around these people my dad is in heaven and he will love u along with god neither of them are on drugs sweetheart
Posted by: Kelly on Jan 10, 2009 at 07:40 PM
Okay, so do people really believe that clinics kill people? I would hope your answer would be no. It's not the clinics, nor the people that work there, it's the idiots whom abuse it! Come on people get real. This is a bunch of nonsense! A little boy has died of negligence. Rather it be on purpose, or the people were really so stupid that they carry Tylenol(that contains Methadone) in their car just to give to kids, a little boy is gone over it! Obviously the Hyatts knew what they had done, or they wouldn't have just turned themselves in for no reason. I pray they will be punished for their crime. Stop the griping about the crap, and tell the family how sorry you are for their loss, and how Cole will be missed and was such a wonderful little boy! You should be saying how awful this must be for his family at a time like this, and quit the bickering over Methadone clinics! Before I go - To all of Cole's family: I am truly sorry for your loss. May God be with all of you!
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 10, 2009 at 01:04 PM
Hey... Methadone will not KILL you if you attended to Clinic... But it will kill you if you buy methadone from STREET... I feel sorry for someone who being HATE clinic for not understand... (you know what different betweeen selfish people who want to sell for $$ and people who want to HELP from clinic? I think sell user should go Jail for that and Methadone and cough med looks same... what if the sell put methadone in that cough med?? who fault? If I have kid of my own.. I would not let trash to baby sitter my own child it so CRAZY thing Nothing to blame on Methadone clinic.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM
You dont give a child a loaded GUN an you dont DONT send a child to a DOPE HOUSE....THE FATHER IS NOT THE INNOCENT ONE .........HE put this child in this danger.HE SHOULD BE RIGHT THERE WITH THEM I(N JAIL........GOD PLEASE BLESS THES CHILD ..LOVE AN TAKE HIM IN YOUR ARMS.
Posted by: to the ppl on Jan 10, 2009 at 01:22 AM
i am a family friend and i hope the ones who done this gets everything they deserve. i loved cole alot and i am his adopted mamaw he was full of life and love for everyone. it is their fault this happened not the parents. the parents didn't put it in his mouth the dope heads did. if it wasn't for cole alot of ppl here would have a bad day alot he could make everyone laugh. i hope that he is up there in heaven watching all of us and not seeing all these ppl fight about whose fault it is except the accused.he is singing with the angels now so stop the blaming the mother or the father.
Posted by: to the ppl on Jan 10, 2009 at 12:36 AM
it is a shame that the ppl who done this is only getting 3 to 15 yrs if that they that isn't enough yrs for them his life was wroth alot more then that they be spending the rest of their life in there and be buried under the jail god will punish both of them some how though
Posted by: ;-) on Jan 9, 2009 at 05:39 PM
One more thing Anonymous on Jan,9 at 2:23 you speak of these Clinics being under STRICT RULES and REGULATIONS...hmmmm I know more then 7 people who get take homes and SALE them the next day and they get by with this after telling their COUNSELOR they will be out of town for the next week or two. ANSWER THAT ONE FOR ME...why don't they make them come in for checks once a week no questions asked??? Hell make them come twice a week. BET YOU THEY DON'T..cause they know what goes on they know the people are putting it out there on the street. They would LOSE MONEY!!! CAUSE THEY WOULD LOSE THE DOPE HEADS!!! You don't know what you're talking about you really have no idea.
Posted by: ;-) on Jan 9, 2009 at 05:15 PM
This is addressed to Anonymous on Jan.9 at 2:23 YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS DRUG DOES TO PEOPLE I CAN TELL FROM THE TRASH YOU LEFT IN YOUR COMMENT! I "LIVE" <----see that...I LIVE with someone who has been on the drug for over 4 YEARS! YES IT DOES IT GET YOU HIGH in LESS than an hour!!! I watched this person since DAY 1 of going to the clinic and the drug is EASY MONEY for the state. You may have WORKED with people who take this drug but you have NEVER LIVED WITH OR WATCHED what the drug can REALLY DO!! One of the two people knew what it was and where it came from bottom line!!! ONCE AGAIN THE DRUG DOES GET THE PEOPLE HIGH WHY YOU THINK THEY SELL IT ON THE STREET??? hmmm? I swear just one more person upholding for the clinics!! I want to see others who live with people that go to the clinic leave comments and tell the real story behind the drug and what it does to your life and those around you. IT'S JUST A CHEAP BUZZ!!How about the take homes? haha yes that's when it get's good!
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 9, 2009 at 02:23 PM
This is addressed to whoever posted this: Posted by: to bill on Jan 8, 2009 at 04:49 PM Sweetie, you are telling other people that THEY are misinformed. All clinics are under strict rules and regulations by the state. If you dont believe that, you can obtain the regulations from the clinic itself or request a copy of the state laws pertaining to clinics. By the way, your opinion that people are bringing their kids there then drive off and get high...just another reason to make you look ignorant and UN-educated. People who have been going to the clinic for over a month have no feeling of being high. That is because that is NOT the purpose of the clinic to get people high. You dont feel anything after taking it and just for your info, anytime you take something in liquid form looking to get high from it....the liquid has to be digested through your entire system which would take AT LEAST one hour if not more depending on your weight. I dealt with many people with this where I work.
Posted by: CONNIE FROM OHIO on Jan 9, 2009 at 01:30 PM
I HAVE A 3 YR OLD GRANDAUGHTER WO LIVES WIT ME SHE ONLY GOES TO 2 OF HER PAPAWS HOUSES AND HER UNCLES HOUSE AND HER MOMS BUT THAT IS VERY SELDOM BUT I TRUST THEM BUT NO ONE GIVES HER MEDICINE THEY WILL CALL ME AND I WILL GO GET HER IF SHE NEEDS MEDS THEN THAT MEANS SHE IS SICK SO SHE COMES HOME I HOPE WHO EVER DID THIS TO THAT LIL BOY ROTS THEY SHOULD OF CALLED THE PARENTS TO COME GET THE CHILD I BABYSET SOMETIMES BUT I DO NOT GIVE KIDS MEDS NO WAY NOT EVEN MY OTHER GRANDKIDS I CALL THERE PARENTS THEY COME GIVE THEM MEDS AND TO PICK UP A BOTTLE OF MEDS OUT OF A CAR THAT IS SO FAR FETCHED I DONT NO EITHER FAMILY BUT GOD BE WITH THIS LIL BOY AND KEEP HIM IN UR REACH WE LOVE U JESUS AND R.I.P.COLE AND TO THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS TO HIM I HOPE U ROT IN PRISON HE WAS AND IS A INNOCENT CHILD.DID THE PARENTS KNOW THESE PEOPLE.I FEEL FOR THIS FAMILY I LOST A DAUGHTER BUT IT WAS FROM SIDS CRIB DEATH SHE WAS 1 MONTH 2 DAYS OLD I COULDNT IMAGINE HER BEING OLDER AND LOSING HER I WISH U PEACE IN TIME
Posted by: Mrs. M on Jan 9, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Sorry, I didn't know that methadone was given as a liquid. Also, I didn't know Benedryl came in prescription bottles. Either these people are complete morons or they were too high to care, or both. The parents are just as much to blame for allowing their precious baby boy to go anywhere near that trash. I have kids and I know how tired you get when they're sick and crying or fussy. But, you don't dump them off with known drug abusers who aren't even allowed to have their own children. This is a tragedy for all of them. I hope someone is looking into making safer arrangements for the other children of this couple.
Posted by: Mrs. M on Jan 9, 2009 at 01:10 PM
Isn't methadone a pill? How did a baby swallow a pill? Someone would need to crush it and add it to some liquid. I have two children and neither could swallow tablets until they were 7 or 8 years. I smell a rat! My prayers are with this family.
Posted by: Willie on Jan 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM
I was told that all the W.Va. clinics are calling in their take home patients in the next few days to check their take home doses.. Over 100 checks were done today in Huntington.
Posted by: SAD on Jan 9, 2009 at 10:48 AM
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GOVENMENT OFFICIALS WAKE UP!!! These methadone clincis are a JOKE!!! Spend our tax dollars financing REAL treatment programs such as detox centers, 28 day treatment programs and extended treatment facilities. These methadone clinics just trade one addiction for another. It sickens me to be a taxpayer and watch these people come in to the clinics day after day with their babies to get their "fix" HELP PLEASE
Posted by: anonomys on Jan 9, 2009 at 10:25 AM
I think that if she is going to give the baby methadone. Then someone needs to give her a lethal dose and let her see how it feels.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 9, 2009 at 10:00 AM
why wasnt this little boys life looked into before now by social svs or police? from what i am seeing posted,etc.- he shouldve done been going thru the court system. no matter who is to blame, we need to focus on how to prevent this from happening again. losing 1 child is too much, but if we can bring some good out of it, then it is not in vain. i am a recovering addict with children myself, & from what i know- clinic and dr.s aren't 100% to blame...the people who make the bad choices and are not serious about their recovery are.
Posted by: K on Jan 9, 2009 at 08:52 AM
Liquid methadone and Benadryl may look alike, but there's no excuse for mistakenly giving methadone to a child. If the bottle doesn't say "BENADRYL" on the front, it's probably NOT Benadryl. It's idiotic to give a child unknown medicine or medicine from an unmarked bottle. If these two weren't 100% certain that what they gave Cole was Benadryl, then they need to be held accountable for their mistake.
Posted by: Pablo on Jan 9, 2009 at 08:41 AM
Where is the death penalty for crimes like this? Our do-nothing governor and the equally do-nothing legislature is to blame for our lack of punishment for these low life scums.
Posted by: ronda on Jan 9, 2009 at 08:13 AM
I just can't figure why Cole's parents would leave their child with these people, I understand the lack of child care out there, been there, done that, but you still have to have standards. Your child is important enough to be picky and be upfront with your expectations of their care.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 9, 2009 at 08:05 AM
This child should have been in foster care. Ignorant people should not have children..
Posted by: Larry on Jan 9, 2009 at 08:03 AM
Who lets a bunch of druggies take care of their kids? I would bet that they drugged the child so they could set around stoned without the child bothering them. No lower form of life...
Posted by: to the ppl on Jan 9, 2009 at 02:04 AM
to the grandmother that said he was at their house that day i know for a fact that he wasn't at their house that day because i had him here with me
Posted by: Jessica on Jan 9, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Its sad about the boy I know his mommow christina But the couple should be punished for just being plain DUMB.Who gives meds to a child without looking at it I would hate for them to take care of me.proud mother of 2 and 2 brother in laws
Posted by: Tammy on Jan 8, 2009 at 11:01 PM
liquid methadone and benadryl do look alot alike, cant tell the difference. could have been a mistake, ever think about that?
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 8, 2009 at 10:20 PM
poor lil cole :(
Posted by: family friend on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:21 PM
i know both the father & the mother of cole.. the mother constantly droped all 3 kids off for someone to keep, she couldn't handle the so she often spoke.. her husband is a good man & has good morals, he has tried to help the mother in the past with her addictions & there was no hope.. it is so sad that cole has to be the one to suffer of that life style.. drugs are drugs, kids need to be kept clear of them, safe from harm. it starts from home, the mother does drugs the father doesn't.. oscar & theresa should pay for what they done to cole ross... the mother shouldn't blame the father when she has those habbits herself & dannie tried numerous times to get her help.. the father has his daughter. the mother has an older son with another man and now that father has the oldest son.. so the mother should change her life style. it is Oscar & Theresa's fault not the fathers fault.. he made u leave because u cheated & did drugs.. save the sob story.. it was a good show though...
Posted by: christine on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:40 PM
this goes to the mother of 3yr old boy,,,,i have news for you i am the grandparent. I raised that little boy. IT is NOT the mothers fault. Her husband kicked her out with nothing. Wouldnt let her take her kids. What the heck was she suspose to do he threatend her. She has been at my house with her dad ever since thursday before the death. So dont blame the mother if anyone is to blame, blame the father cause he said he couldnt get no rest cause Cole kept him up cause he was sick. There is the blame. Lay off of the mother!
Posted by: Michelle on Jan 8, 2009 at 05:55 PM
Everyone is sad about this whole situation and the tragedy that took this little boy's life, but come on the parents had to know what kind of people the Hyatt's were....they lost all of the children in their care and could not get them back from the system and Teresa's daughter died of a drug overdose too...this family had more pills in their house than a pharmacy....you don't leave your kids with people who have lost their own kids....
Posted by: ARNIE'S DADDY on Jan 8, 2009 at 05:07 PM
OMG THEY USED TO BABYSIT MY KIDS!!! WOW!
Posted by: Finding Normal on Jan 8, 2009 at 04:58 PM
For those who blame the clinics for the Methadone related deaths please go to.. http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/dont-blame-clinics-for.html Yes, this child died from liquid Methadone which comes from clinics but this is a rare occurrence. Last years Top Ten Poisons For Kids Under Five were as follows... 1.Cosmetic/personal care (hand soap, shampoo) 2. Household Cleaners (bleach, ammonia, detergent) 3. Foreign Bodies (silica packets from bags/shoes) 4. Topical diaper rash cream, petroleum jelly 5. Analgesics (ibuprofen, acetaminophen) 6. Pesticides/Rodenticides (bait pellets) 7. Vitamins tablets 8. Cough & Cold(cough syrup, cold medicine) 9. Arts/Crafts (crayons, glue) 10. Antibiotics Something to think about. Who locks up their hand soap? Yet, it is the number one cause of poisonings.
Posted by: Beth Ann on Jan 8, 2009 at 04:53 PM
Prayers go out to the family of this little boy. As for I know them well, how can you be so cruel? How could you say that little baby boy was better off dead? I cant believe WSAZ would post something like that. I bet my comment wont even get posted.
Posted by: to bill on Jan 8, 2009 at 04:49 PM
YOu are miss informed sir, this clinics are private for profit organizations that give out yes pink liquid all over our state and other states to people who are thinking they are recovering when in fact they are only starting another course of destruction and addiction. The legislation does not governor these clinics. They are legalized drug lords and that is all.. Go to one when they are open and sit in the parking lot, people go there with their small children, get high and drive away. IF their employer has a problem with it, then the person gets work's comp covered under the drug laws for employers.. think again no one is governing these clinics...
Posted by: A Mother of a 3 year old Boy on Jan 8, 2009 at 04:24 PM
It is sad that the parents would leave there child with these people. The day that I heard about this was from a friend while the childs was at the hospital all I did was cry and pray that this childs would be ok. I was a mother at age 16 a teenage mother at that and never did I ever leave my child with anyone other than my mother or my family. Now I have a 3 year old and he is my life as both my kids are. What mother and father could leave their child in this bad area with the drugs and thugs. And if the people around knew these people and how bad they were why not call CPS and why wasnt this stop before this happened. Where is Mom and Dad NOW! And if mom had such a bad life why didnt the grandparent step in and and care for this child and this goes for dad to. There are more things to life than Drugs! People that harm a child I hope you have a good eternity because your going to down stairs. These children are gods gift to people to love and care for not to harm.
Posted by: Saul on Jan 8, 2009 at 04:03 PM
Jeez so many uneducated people tearing down methadone clinics. Do you really feel like drugs are immoral and every who does them isn't worth saving? I feel sorry for you. It's not healthy to have so much hate in your heart.
Posted by: shayla on Jan 8, 2009 at 01:42 PM
I think they should be locked away till they die!!!!They had to be on somethin
Posted by: shayla on Jan 8, 2009 at 01:40 PM
that was my uncle!!!
Posted by: Former visitor on Jan 8, 2009 at 01:25 PM
I had the misfortune of going to this womans home at a different location, many years ago and from what I remember, it was filthy. Dirty dishes, trash, clothes, roaches. Nothing on the floor but the bare dirty plywood. I didn't even sit down anywhere, can't imagine leaving my babies there in that mess. As to WHY I was there.. my ex husband knew her from some unsavory dealings.
Posted by: dont understand on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:34 PM
methadone ruins lives. its very simple. ive seen many lives destroyed because of these clinics. once you hit the clinic your life is finished. i hate junkies. anyone who gets mad at this comment, you are too high to understand the morals of a normal society... god bless the poor baby. enjoy life its short.
Posted by: MawMaw Nell on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM
I am the Grandmother of the 3 year old Cole Ross. I loved him dearly. He was the happiest little boy I ever knew. I know that people has their own thoughts on this tragic situation. His Mother that some of you are talking about. Is my Daughter. Don't pass judgement on her or the rest of Cole's family. If you could walk in our shoes, Maybe then you might understand how it feels. And as for the murderer's of my Grandson. They might not get all that they deserve through the justic system now, but on judgement day God will punish them worse than the Hyatt's could ever imagine. Little Cole is safe in the arms of God. Maybe some of you people should keep your opinions to yourself! Because you do not know how it feels.
Posted by: Donna on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:11 PM
why in the world would someone give a baby something with the label off of it! This child died cause of someone elses STUPIDITY! I'm sittin here with tears runnin down my face writing this, cause i have 2 boys I LOVE SO VERY MUCH I would never give them something in a bottle that the printing was off of the bottle. This baby was probably so excited about Santa coming and his life was CUT SHORT, Because of NEGLECT!
Posted by: Bill on Jan 8, 2009 at 11:10 AM
to Lisa at 8:46pm Methadone is governed by the West Virginia State Legislature. They know what they are doing when they allow these clinics to obtain their state methadone dispensing license. Your attorney,your hair dresser, your county clerk or employee are the types of people who benefit from a methadone clinic every day.
Posted by: Can't imagine.... on Jan 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM
I try not to judge, but it's hard sometimes. 1st of all you can not call yourself DRUG FREE if you are still taking a drug! So these clinics get you off one type of drug and put you on another. Its still a drug and alot of people are overdosing. What has happened to the world? How can grown adults, who we tell and teach our kids to listen to and that they will protect you, be so careless with a child? how can you be so gone and heartless that you would want to give a kid drugs? Was it funny to watch a little boy high? did you just want him to sleep so you could get messed up? How you live with yourself? I'm sorry I do blame the parents. Parents who care about their children don't leave their kids with people who are on drugs. It is our jobs as parents to protect our children! We are supposed to make sure they are safe. I have two boys 3 and 2. I can't imagine them going through what this poor little boy did. I'm so sorry little cole.Why are so many people letting drugs take over their ?
Posted by: Drug Court on Jan 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Well clean for 6 years, your not really clean if you have been going to a Methadone Clinic for 6 years you are addicted to Methadone. According to board of pharmacy you should only be in a Methadone program for 18months. Why are you still on it?
Posted by: Lisa on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:55 AM
Clean for 6 years, I do know the rules and I also no that my sister overdosed on Methadone that was given to her by a patient at a clinic that brought her medication home in her "LITTLE LOCK BOX". I also know they keep them one dose just in case they get drug tested. Im glad you are doing great and you can ride your Harley but there is alot of people dead because of Methadone. What about the innocent people that are killed in wrecks from patients leaving the clinics, if people need this drug to get clean then they should drive to the clinic daily and get the medication and have a supervised driver to drive them home...Im not fighting to close your dealers sorry your clinics, Im fighting for regulations for your clinics.
Posted by: Cindy on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:53 AM
Maybe the State Trooper was speaking the truth and maybe he is human being with feeling who just had to deal with a dead 3 year old. Meth clinics are a place to receive drugs legally.. It is hurting socieity and should by shut down.. end of story.. It does not get anyone off drugs just gets you addicted to another more powerful one that you get legally. There are no information sharing so you can get meth at the hgtn, charleston and pburg clincs and no one knows any better so a druggie can be really high all the time.
Posted by: MeAgain on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Liquid Methadone can be pink and does look like benadryl.
Posted by: HEARTBROKEN on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:35 AM
THIS IS THE SADDEST STORY I'VE EVER HEARD.....I HOPE THESE PEOPLE DON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS....I AGREE METHADONE CLINIC ARE NOT GOOD..SO YOU PEOPLE KEEP TELLING YOURSELF IF IT WASN'T FOR METHADONE YOU WOULD BE DEAD. YOU WILL BE IT JUST PROLONGS DEATH. BUT THE SAD THING IS YOU ARE KILLING INNOCENT CHILDREN AND ANYONE ELSE THAT GETS IN YOUR WAY...IT'S SICKENING, I LOST MY BEST FRIEND TO A METHADONE OVERDOSE AND IT WAS ACCIDENTAL. HE DIDN'T REALIZE JUST HOW POWERFUL IT WAS....SO PLEASE EVERYONE NEEDS TO WRITE LETERS AND MAKE PHONE CALLS TO OUR LEGIS.....CLOSE THESE CLINICS DOWN.....WE MEET THESE PEOPLE EVERYDAY ON THE HIGHWAY DRIVING AND FALLING ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL. IT HAS TO STOP.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:18 AM
Who are these people to this little boy? I'm wondering why he was spending the night with them. I'm sorry for the loss of this child. It's bad enough when a child dies from an illness, but for it to be completely preventable it's even harder to understand.
Posted by: insane! on Jan 8, 2009 at 09:11 AM
Who in the world carries Benedryl OR methane in their car? These people knew what they were doing. Why would you give a kid some medicine without reading the bottle? Gimme a break.
Posted by: wow on Jan 8, 2009 at 08:30 AM
Oh My Gosh..were these people complete idiots? I do not give my pets medicine out of unlabeled bottles. What were they thinking..they just found it in the car and "thought" it was cold medicine. Some people should not be allowed to reproduce, that is for certain. God Bless this poor little boy who will never get the chance to grow up.
Posted by: Bob on Jan 8, 2009 at 07:58 AM
Wow, can you possibly get in lower in life. All you posters that want to legalize drugs, read this story over and over......
Posted by: FedUp on Jan 8, 2009 at 07:49 AM
YOU KNOW I AM SO SICK & TIRED OF YOU IGNORANT IDIOTS WHO CONSTANTLY KEEP BRINGING UP THE METHADONE CLINIC. YOU HAVE NO IDEA THAT IS WHERE IT CAME FROM, DO YOU NOT THINK OR REALIZE THAT CVS OR ANY DRUG STORE IN AMERICA CARRIES METHADONE, DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT IS ALSO USED & PRESCRIBED AS A "PAIN KILLER" AND TO THE IDIOT WHO KNOWS ABOUT SO MANY ACCIDENTS OF PEOPLE DRIVING HOME FROM THE CLINIC...BUDDY IF YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THEY JUST PULLED OUT OF THE PARKING LOT AT THE CLINIC...YOU TOO MUST HAVE BEEN THERE! GET A LIFE AND "STOP" BLAMING THE CLINIC FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!GOD BLESS THE LITTLE BOY AND MAY HE BE SEATED NEXT TO JESUS WHERE THERE IS NO MORE SUFFERING!
Posted by: the grandparents(wilson's) on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:44 AM
I have posted like 8 comments on this and none of them have been posted. WHY? I just want people to know that, that precious baby was so full of life. He gave happiness to everyone he seen. He was loved by so many, way too many to mention. Please continue to pray for our family during this tough time. It was tough enough when he passed away but now we know the reason makes it even tougher.
Posted by: punish drug related crimes on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:41 AM
Has it been anounced that this was liquid methodone from a clinic? Methodone also comes in pills and is dispensed by physicians for various pain disorders. It sounds like these people knew their way around the drug world and were probably aware of what they were doing. They should be punished to the full extent. There has to be stiffer penalties for all drug related crimes. Drug dealers are all guilty of attempted murder. Get them OFF the streets for good. They are lazy, tax dollar sucking strains on society who are at the heart of nearly ALL the crimes that are committed in the Ohio and West Virginia area.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:39 AM
A change of venue is a great idea! Taking the trial out of Lincoln county, one of the most corrupt judicial systems in the state, would be the best thing that could happen. The combined IQ of a jury in Hamlin wouldn't equal one jurist's anywhere else!
Posted by: cry baby on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:16 AM
these two look high now!once a junkie always a junkie! god bless the baby.
Posted by: annomous on Jan 8, 2009 at 06:12 AM
its past time to clean up welfare!!!it encourages this kind of behavior!!!these children are a check for their lifestyle!!!their safety and well being is the last thing on their minds!!!they dont have to work so they believe they are the victims!!!if the parents are not prosecuted as well ,and they probably wont be,they willbe portrayed as victims as well!what parent who loves their child leaves him with people like that,only people who are just like them!these things dont happen in a vaccumn!!!its time for laws to put into affect to put low lifes to work and then they wont have all that free time to get bored and addicted!theyll be to tired to go get their drugs after a hard day,week,month,years at work like decent people!!!!
Posted by: Finding Normal on Jan 8, 2009 at 05:22 AM
For those of you who blame the clinics everytime something like this happens.Please go to... http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/dont-blame-clinics-for.htm
Posted by: THE SHORT FAMILY on Jan 8, 2009 at 05:17 AM
WE DO KNOW THE GRANDMOTHER OF COLE AND KNOW THAT THIS CHILD WAS DEARLY LOVED AND BEING PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST A SON OURSELVES UNDERSTAND THE PAIN OF LOSING A CHILD AND IT IS SOMETHING YOU NEVER RECOVER FROM WE SINCERLY HOPE JUSTICE IS SERVED THESE PEOPLE SHOULD BE LOCKED UP AND THE KEY THROWN AWAY ANYONE WHO TAKES THE LIFE OF A CHILD SHOULD NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN. THIS LITTLE BOY WILL NEVER GROW UP AND NEVER HAVE A FAMILY OF HIS OWN BECAUSE OF THEIR STUPITY OH AND SHE SAYS SHE THOUGHT IT WAS BENADRYL WELL ISN'T LIQUID BENADRYL PINK I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT METHADONE BUT,IT'S PROBABLY NOT PINK AND DEFINATLY NOT FOR A CHILD.SHE IS ABOUT AS DUMB AS SHE LOOKS! AND IF OUR COURTS BELEIVE THAT GOD FORSAKEN STORY SHE IS GIVIN THEN WE WILL LOOSE ANY RESPECT FOR THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUDGES IN LINCOLN COUNTY.WE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO HAVE OUR SON BACK AND TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE COULD TAKE A CHILDS LIFE IS UNBEARABLE THEY BETTER PUT THEM IN JAIL IN MY OPIONION THEY WILL BE SAFEST THERE
Posted by: Mad at the Trooper on Jan 8, 2009 at 02:34 AM
"State Police have a different story, maintaining that the Hyatts knew exactly what they were doing and that they didn't call immediately call for help." Making a statement like this makes me feel that this State Police Trooper B.M. Greenlee wants to be the Judge and Jury on this matter. As far as I see it, the Trooper's comments that were aired quallifies this case for a major change of venue. Let an untainted jury (if your can seat one now) hear this case but then maybe the Hyatts will pleed out.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 8, 2009 at 01:55 AM
BIGGIE CANT YOU SEE
Posted by: clean for 6 years in ohio on Jan 8, 2009 at 01:36 AM
it is very sad that this poor child was given this dose of methadone. i feel very sorry for the family. but do not put down the clinics & everyone that goes. i would have been dead from an overdose by now if it wasn't for the methadone clinic. and talking about people taking home the medication in "lock boxes" and then selling or trading the drug for other drugs. well you obviously don't know the rules & regulations of the clinic. granted there are the few that do abuse it, but there is drug test given, and they happen at any time. you have to really walk the line to get any take homes. the clinics are there to help people have a more productive life. if they chose to abuse it, they don't stay for long. my husband & i have been in the clinic for almost 6 years now, and have not done another drug since the day we started. we run our own business, have many harley davidsons. if we was doing anything else, we wouldn't have these accomplishments. know all the facts before you judge. thanks
Posted by: heartbreaking and devestated on Jan 7, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I cant amagine this happening the way they are telling it..come on now who in there right mind would give a child something they find in there car that they have never seen before and give it to a child? Thats crazy I would give a stranger something If I didnt know the content's or wasnt sure of the content's And further more I wouldnt dare give someone elses child medication at all. I would contact the parent's and alert them that there baby was haveing some signs of a cold.And tell them to come pick up there baby as soon as possible.So they can then seek medical treatment how ever they may think is nessesary.If these people had done this little Cole would still be with us.RIP Cole you will have no more pain or worries you are now in HEAVEN..GOD BESS YOU
Posted by: Curious in Ky on Jan 7, 2009 at 09:17 PM
I am a mother of 3 beautiful girls and do feel for the family of this child, but there are a few things that are really bothering me about this story. I am with ANGIE who wonders what the bottle said. I do know that methadone in the liquid form resembles a lot of different cold medicines and i wonder if It was truly in a cold medicine bottle, because if it was and the correct dosage was given "according to one of these bottles" that alone is enough to make a toddler overdose. But I also agree that you should always double check what you give a child especially one that is not yours. My other thought is why is everyone being so hard just on the people that gave the child the "medicine".... OBVIOUSLY the parents/guardians of this child entrusted these people to care for this child in the first place maybe they should have also known better. The situation however it turns out is truly tragic and all I can do is pray for everyone involved and leave it to GOD to punish all those responsible
Posted by: ohio on Jan 7, 2009 at 09:16 PM
hope these 2 get life in prison.
Posted by: WSAZ FAN on Jan 7, 2009 at 09:02 PM
These people are idiots! Yes, mistakes happen, but not at the expense of a life, especially of a child. Why would one leave this drug in a place so accessible? And more importantly, why was this child with these people? I don't trust my children to ANYONE except their grandmothers, one of whom is deceased. Crazy people will give their kids to anyone!
Posted by: Lisa on Jan 7, 2009 at 08:46 PM
George your so called clinics are killing people. WV leads the nation in Methadone overdoses, don't try and feed us your bull crap about it helping anyone. All Methadone does is trade one addiction for another, then they drive home on a medication that says dont drive or operate heavy machinery which ends in them wrecking and killing innocent people. Not to mention the ones that take it home in the so called lock boxes only to sale the drug or trade it for the drug of their choice, so exactly who is methadone helping. I think the people of WV need to lobby legislature for changes in the Methadone clinics.
Posted by: *BRANCHLAND* on Jan 7, 2009 at 08:45 PM
I KNOW THIS FAMILY & I AGREE THAT THEY AREN'T ALL THERE...i HAVE A 4 YR. OLD LITTLE GIRL THAT I'D NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS LEAVE WITH THEM,NOT EVEN LONG ENOUGH TO GO TO THE END OF THE ROAD...I DON'T KNOW THIS CHILD OR HIS FAMILY BUT I'M VERY SORRY FOR THEM HAVING TO GO THROUGH THIS SORTOF OF THING,IT'S SOMETHING I DON'T THINK I COULD EVER IMAGINE...IF ANYONE KNEW THESE PEOPLE THEY'D HONESTLY SPEAK THE TRUTH THAT THE WOMAN LAYS ON XANAXS AND THE HUSBAND ISN'T MUCH BETTER...IT'S HARD NOW DAYS TO TRUST ANYONE WITH YOUR CHILD...I TRUST MY MOTHER & A FEW OF MY VERY CLOSE FRIENDS WITH HER,NO ONE ELSE...DRUGS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE AROUND MY CHILD AND I FEEL THAT'S THE WAY EVERYONE SHOULD BE...THERE'S ALWAYS PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT OF THESE PEOPLE'S PLACE BUYING DRUGS AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ALL SORTS OF DRUGS ARE ACTUALLY DONE IN THE HOME WHERE KIDS COULD GET AHOLD OF THEM...ENOUGH SAID...THIS IS A VERY SAD STORY & ONCE AGAIN I WANT TO SAY I FEEL VERY SORRY FOR THE FAMILY OF THE CHILD...R.I.P.COLE
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 08:42 PM
You never give a child something you just find in your car...I always doubel check any thing I give my kids and ask the docter first its not that hard to pick up the phone call the docter and talk to the nurse who then can tell you what you can give and how much.
Posted by: Emily on Jan 7, 2009 at 08:10 PM
I do not know what methadone looks like, but how in the world can you mistake a childs cold medicine with a bottle of methadone? BTW I agree with Christina
Posted by: anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 08:02 PM
how sad RIP cole
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 07:35 PM
hey out there in judicial country,there has got to be someone somewhere that can and will make a difference in these meth cases from now on,these people on meth usually stay on meth,this is why they need to leave the meth at the clinics,I will pray for more stringent laws.This story is almost unbearable.
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 07:19 PM
My thoughts are: where was this childs mother while this all happened and obviously the father who was taking care of him to begin with let his own son go stay with someone like this in the first place. This is what happens when the mother and father have more concern for themselves than their children. I don't care who you are you just leave your kids. Looks what happens in result. This happens why to much anymore and May God watch over these little children whom cant defend for themselves. I know the parents are not responsible for what happened but they should have knew more about who they leave they're children with. By my understanding these children roam the neighborhood quiet often and no one to watch over them. YOU DON'T LET CHILDREN AT THE AGE OF 3 & 6 JUST ROAM THE AROUND WITHOUT SUPERVISION. WAKE UP!!! Now ask yourself was it worth what you was doing at that time to leave your child with someone else.
Posted by: Citizen on Jan 7, 2009 at 07:13 PM
It is tragic that this has happened to a little boy. These people are obviously incompetent and the child should have never been left in their care. If you know someone well enough you should be able to judge if this person should watch your child…. I also question the competency of this child’s parents. Lincoln County is a place where everyone knows your business…..so I’m wondering the parents’ connection to this particular family and who had the bright idea to let this family baby-sit their precious child. We are only able to see a small portion of this story here, but it definitely shows that either these babysitters are certifiably stupid or they truly did not care about the welfare of this child
Posted by: coni on Jan 7, 2009 at 06:22 PM
This is a sad situation,What is wrong with this world today is we took GOD out of everything,We took God from our schools, We took God out of christmas we are not allowed to pray out loud because we might affend someone that might hear us. I can not believe that anyone would give a child medication that is not labled or especially if they do not know what is in the bottle, the news says mrs. hyatt said the kids was coming down with a cold you dont just give medication because the child might be comeing down with a cold. The whole situation is scary.
Posted by: anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 06:10 PM
I live in the neighborhood were all this took place. This is a trailer park full of thugs and drugs.The police are there every day for something.Know one there watches tere kids they all play in the road. Thank GOD for looking out for these kids because know one else there is. The parents of the little boy own the trailer park and are just as bad as the ones arrested. I think theres more to it and it will all come out in the end. THANK GOD HE IS A PLACE WHERE HE IS BEING WATCHED AND TAKEN VERY WELL CARE OF AND DOESN'T HAVE A WORRY IN THE WORLD.
Posted by: OH AND.. on Jan 7, 2009 at 06:10 PM
YOU GUYS CAN BE REST ASSURED THAT NOT ALOT WILL BE DONE WITH THESE PEOPLE, ITS HARD TO GET ONES THAT ARE ON GOV. CHECKS EVERY MONTH TO PAY FOR A CRIME, WHEN THEY HAVE PAST 'ISSUES', THEY SEEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT. GOD BLESS THE WVSP FOR THEIR HARD WORK ON THIS!!!
Posted by: huntington on Jan 7, 2009 at 06:05 PM
There isnt enough room for the comments going thru my head. God bless this child!! Prayers are with the family. Not only do you need to double check medications, but need to double check babysitters!
Posted by: MARILYN on Jan 7, 2009 at 05:44 PM
THE 3 YEAR OLD BOY DID' NT HAVE TO DIE THEY DON'T NEED AND BOND THEY NEED LIFE IN PRISON
Posted by: Earthmother on Jan 7, 2009 at 05:20 PM
Methadone "treatment": legally substituting a "legal" drug for an "illegal" one. OR substituting one "legal" drug for ANOTHER "legal" drug. I personally know of 3 people who have died from methadone overdose. About the same number of people I know who have died from morphine overdose. Yet they use methadone as an acceptable substitute to keep people OFF of morphine...Well, nobody EVER died from a marijuana overdose.
Posted by: JC on Jan 7, 2009 at 05:14 PM
Methadone...and people say that these clinics are regulated and needed? What is it going to take to close these drug dealer clinics down?
Posted by: Linda on Jan 7, 2009 at 04:46 PM
This truly saddens me and affects all of those who try to advocate for kids to be in safe environments....away from these type of dysfunctional people...I hope justice is served for this little boy.
Posted by: Randy on Jan 7, 2009 at 04:33 PM
This was no accident because these people have been warned before about having drugs around children, they were warned and told over and over, why was this child left with people like that???
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 04:23 PM
George. The people that these clinics "help" are reckless with little to no regard for their fellow man. I have seen so many accidents were the driver had just left the meth clinic. People dead. People injured. These methadone clinics are a plague on society. They attract people to the community who usually end up not quitting, steal and commit a number of other offenses.
Posted by: Stephanie on Jan 7, 2009 at 04:01 PM
As a mother of two small children .. Everyone knows you double check what you give a child .. I hope they get the worst that can possibly be given to them .. for taking away a small childs life .. RIP COLE
Posted by: George on Jan 7, 2009 at 03:54 PM
STIGMA AA and NA, just like methadone clinics, have people who go to work, raise families and they always welcome some using newcomers or returnees at their locations. Still, methadone clinics get the public outcry. The stigma article online at methadonetoday.org/dole_nys.htm mentions the problems that the discovers’ of methadone maintenance faced and the stigma including that from NA and AA. Also online: “Regarding Methadone and Other Drug Replacement Programs” (NA's feelings about methadone) na.org/bulletins/bull29.htm NA_Groups_and_Medication_Sep07. Also, JAMA — “Methadone Maintenance Four Decades Later Thousands of Lives Saved But Stigma” at http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/19/2303. And a positive article about methadone maintenance working at mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n1127/a07.html?343. And, it need to be known that most of the deaths come from Pain Patient diversion. People still single out the clinics that help so many addicts.
Posted by: to Christina on Jan 7, 2009 at 03:52 PM
Yes BUT Christina...it's true, ACCIDENTS happen BUT you yourself sound like the rest of us...you check & double check what you give your children or any child you don't just grab something out of the back of a car or off a shelf without being sure what kind of med it IS and just give it to a child...i can tell that by your post YOU are cautious. These people were NOT! May not have been intentional..these days though with people killing their OWN kids who knows what people will do? BUT if it really was a "mistake or accident", it was a STUPID one and they should at least be chg'd with manslaughter! They killed a baby! Being "sorry" won't bring that child back. You can't just grab up anything handy & poke down a baby or child's throat!
Posted by: Hope on Jan 7, 2009 at 03:08 PM
Why would you just up and give a 3 year baby medicine out of the back seat when you were just thinking it was cold medicine, that is irresponsible, crazy, neglect. Now you and your husband have to live the rest of your life know that you OD a innocent little child. How could anyone do that. I will pray for you guys, and also Cole's family. Their is nothing else to say. HOW SAD.
Posted by: anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 03:04 PM
The bottles that methadone comes in from the Methodone Clinics can in NO way be mistaken for some other type of medication. The bottles are required to be in locked bags and not left lying around. Something is very suspicious about this "story".
Posted by: BONNIE on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:53 PM
I DO NOT KNOW THIS FAMILY BUT MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO GET PEACE OF MIND IN THIS SITUATION AND THAT IS TO LOOK TO GOD FOR COMFORT. HE IS THE GREAT HEALER AND HE CAN HEAL YOUR PAIN FOR YOUR SON. I HAVE THREE SONS AND THEE GRANDSONS AND I KNOW IF OD WERE TO TAKE OE O THE FROM ME HE OULD BE THE ONLY NE WHO COULD COMFORT ME AND HEAL MY PAIN. GOD IS THE ANSWER. MAY GO BLESS AND COMFORT YOU IN THIS HOUR OF TRIAL AND PAIN.
Posted by: JoshG on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:52 PM
IN RESPONSE TO THIS WRECKLESS COMMENT FROM ?Christina?>>>"People need to wake up and realize that our Jesus is trying to get our attention with things JUST like this. Our world is falling apart more and more ever day and what do we do??? Nothing. Get right with God - He's coming back. Are you ready? Amen." It is hard for me to believe God was okay with this child dying. Furthermore, God is coming back, huh??? The question is: ARE U Ready???? Sick, Sick and more sick these statements would be made due to the death of a helpless infant. These kind of crazy comments has everything to do with why I don't go to church! I don't want the world to end tomorrow, but it is obvious some nuts do!! The world is falling apart because of people like your wonderful president who by no doubt in my mind needs enrolled in special ed.
Posted by: yea on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:50 PM
You find something in the back of your car, right beside the antifreeze, brake fluid and 10W-40. I thought they was all cold medicine.
Posted by: Mom of a three year old on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:35 PM
I don't know about the rest of you people, but my three year old doesn't take pills of any kind. She still gets liquid forms of medication and only the recommened dosage, and the bottles are clearly marked of what they are. How stupid do are these people.
Posted by: Angie on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:31 PM
I knew this little boy!! I'm a mother of 3!! We used to live by Cole's mawmaw and pawpaw!! Cole came over to play with my kids!! I'm glad they found out what happen!! But it's to sad to find out how!! I will continue to pray for the family! As the pain they still feel! R-I-P Cole! I wonder though what the bottle said though!!
Posted by: amy on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:27 PM
so, is methadone a liquid? Just wondering.
Posted by: Ann on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:27 PM
Why would anyone leave a child with the sort of poeple who would even have access to methadone?
Posted by: Anonymous on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:26 PM
Heart breaking
Posted by: SaraH on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:04 PM
If you didn't know what it was you shouldnt have gave it to the kid because now you have to live with this for the rest of your life
Posted by: Christina on Jan 7, 2009 at 01:04 PM
I pray for the whole situation. People like to get on these stories and talk about "How could they", "What were they thinking", etc. but you know I was thinking the other day that things JUST happen sometimes. Sometimes people aren't meaning harm of any kind and this type of thing happens. I don't know this family but I do know that accidents do happen. It scares me so much when giving meds to my own children. I read the labels over and over again. Because I am scared of over-dosing my children, even just on Tylenol. You can never tell what just a tad bit too much medicine will do to your child. I am so sad for that child, but that baby is in Heaven now and he will be very well taken care of by a wonderful Lord and God. People need to wake up and realize that our Jesus is trying to get our attention with things JUST like this. Our world is falling apart more and more ever day and what do we do??? Nothing. Get right with God - He's coming back. Are you ready? Amen.
Posted by: Insanity! on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Giving a little child "something" from a bottle in the back of a car? YOU CAN NOT BE SERIOUS! This is dreadful, awful stuff. Meth is an evil plague that's killing too many people.
Posted by: Lisa on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM
How many people have to die before these Methadone Clinics shut down. WV leads the nation in Methadone overdoses leave the methadone at the methadone clinics dont bring it home...
Posted by: Cynthia on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM
What kind of person is going to give a child a medication if they're not 100% certain what's in the bottle? And after it's been laying in their car? Something doesn't add up here. I feel so sorry for Cole's family. This was so totally unnecessary. I do know that he's in Heaven and that at least should give his family some comfort.
Posted by: Fallon on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Why in the world would you give a child medicine like that? Meds that you dont know what it is....I loved that child dearly! He was my little buddy. I hope these people live with this the rest of their life because my friends (the parents and family) are going to have to deal with this loss for the rest of their lives. I hope those people get everything they deserve! Cole-bugg im always going to miss you baby! My mind is just blown on how STUPID you could be to give a child thats not even yours meds out of the back of a car?? Why would you do that!! They must have really been cracked out. I Hope you Love Jail people!
Posted by: Proud Mom of 2 on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM
How Sad. Enough said.
Posted by: mom of two in ky on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:19 PM
was it in a tylenol bottle? if so did the parents of the boy give it to her ? these stories breaks my heart.why would any one give a child something that was not clearly labled?
Posted by: jayna on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:01 PM
why would you give a child a medication that you THOUGHT was cold meds that had been laying in the back of your car? what a bunch of junk. the poor baby, may God's love continually be w/ it in heaven!
Posted by: Me on Jan 7, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Ok who is dumb enough to give child medicine without 1. looking at the recommended dosage? 2. Why was there Methodone in her car? 3. Ummm there is no excuse or playing dumb on this one. It is common sense. You really don't have to be smart to look at a bottle for dosage or anything. I am absolutely amazed how irresponsible!!! My prayers are with the parents of the child that was lost...
Posted by: Bill on Jan 7, 2009 at 11:47 AM
You can not reach into your back seat and give a child a dose of medicine.I can only guess that someone was hording their methadone and placing it in a bottle of cherry cold medicine....This is sooo irresponsible and illegal.
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  • Posted By: Eve: Has anyone had people soliciting at their homes for "Cabell County schools"? Had a female come to the house this morning (on the July 4 holiday) from "University of Georgia" on behalf of Cabell County to talk to local parents. She had no list of student names and made the assumption that we had kids by the toys/bikes in our yard. She had a notebook with "local parents" names that she had talked with, but I didn't recognize any of the names. She asked about the neighborhood and if any other kids lived there. I didn't disclose any info except that lots of kids live in the area. Didn't let her in the house. Just suspicious because of the holiday and local home robberies. Called Huntington Police to inform them. Wanted to post to get more info out to other families. Have a safe holiday and if anyone else has similar info, please call the Huntington Police Dept. @ 696-4470.
  • Posted By: : To By?? Sounds to me like your doing some bashing too. Let's keep our feelings about each other to ourselves.
  • Posted By: : Seems to me the more than one person has too much time on their hands. I don't understand why people get on here and bash each other's comments. Why don't you all get jobs. WOW, don't think I will return to this section of the webpage anymore.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello working people of WV this is Big Earl and people there is nothing wrong with eating good wholesome foods like bacon sausage eggs lard flour and the like all these PETA types are ganging up on our good food like you cant go to a baseball game now and get a hotdog without a PETA nut bothering you boo hooing about the poor little pig that turned out as a hotdog. Now my favorite restaurant in the world Kentucky Fired Chicken has thrown in twith these nuts and is grilling chicken now. Chicken was never meant to be grilled only fried regular or extra crispy. So people I say get busy we have work to do they is two states in front of us we in WV have to reclaim our top spot as best fed in the whole country go down to the foodland or kroger and get a cube of regular mountain dew a sack of Lays chips and some good ball park big red smokeys with a big bowl of chili and have a grill out tomorrow to celebrate the fourth of July in style and may I say God bless the USA and coal miners too.
  • Posted By: food for thought: Yes I am a Christian. I do need to understand the book of Revelation more and the end time prophecy. Like most I have the concept of it. Just to make it short, government dependence(happening more than ever) and is almost being forced for the citizens of this country to rely on. Cap and trade?(sign of the mark of the beast?)I don't know. I am ready. You that believe in science is fine, I do too. I do not go as far as to believe every report they give out. I pose this question. if you are so worried about global warming that means you don't like heat or burning:correct? Hmmm, think on this of what in Revelation I do understand. The lake of fire is where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched. Eternity is forever, on this Earth we are just passing through.
  • Posted By: to why: no ,hetrosexuals wont go to hell any slower than gays.adultry fornication,stealing lying murder etc,are all sins.every one sins,it just that you cant say you want to be a christian,and keep on with bad habits or not want to change and expect god to say thats all right.life is a struggle for all of us.we are expected to repent and try our hardest to do whats right.god respects that.you are not in any more danger than any other sinner.i know that homosexuality is a sin but so is adultry.would we tell an adulter that its all right to keep on hurting their marriage and spouse and thats alright,no.i would rather live beside an honest caring,productive gay person than a dishonest evil selfish nosy buissybody any day.we are only responsible for our own sins and actions.you sound stressed,lighten up.but homosexuality is a sin,like adultry and fornication,nobody gets a free pass.
  • Posted By: Patty: Good points, Htiek, but the status quo with coal mining, which is a dirty business, no matter how it is marketed, i.e., "clean coal" (coal is dirty, period), will remain till the resources are depleted, the land and environment of the coal fields are destroyed, which is pretty much the case at present.
  • Posted By: bonn: One more thing and I really will stop. Why does the weather cycle? I do not know everything-no one does. But everything has its purpose. Sometimes, more cold is called for. If we don't have hard winters snakes and mosquitoes thrive, for one. Mosquitoes are a large part of fish diet. And snakes keep rodents in check. But too much cold hurts other things that call for warmer temps. Quail is one thing that comes to mind that suffer in the frigid temps. We just don't understand all of the workings of these things. But it is all to keep a balance-many times in things we ourselves have killed off, such as bear and wolves. Even if we don't like some species, they all serve a purpose and nature helps keep that balance. Our world really was wonderfully made. With all the changes in temperature, we still have seasons. You can know it will be cold in winter and hot in summer. The excesses serve a purpose we sometimes can not see. Strive to learn of all of her wonders, not follow blindly.
  • Posted By: bonn: I would like to apologize if I have been short and critical. I really am sorry. It is no excuse, but I have a very sick child who may be dying and I get so upset at the state of our world. I do have to quit reading these comments. But I hope I have caused a few people at least to think with their own common sense instead of blindly following whatever. Some theories may be correct. But many ARE for monetary purposes. We each were given a mind to think with. Question everything before taking it as it appears. And be sure and thank a veteran for the freedom we celebrate this weekend. Too many have died to protect it to just give it up willingly. And whether or not you are religious, lets try to love one another. Love can fix so many things! Try to keep our world clean, But that doesn't have to bankrupt us. We can all do our part in whatever ways we can. The old saying "Give a hoot, don't pollute" should not have gone out of style. And use your wikipedia to read "Ice Age" to see cycling.
  • Posted By: Follow up on cap and rape: CNSNews.com) – The 1,400-page cap-and-trade legislation pushed through by House Democrats contains a new federal policy that residential, commercial, and government buildings be retrofitted to increase energy efficiency, leaving it up to the states to figure out exactly how to do that. This means that homeowners, for example, could be required to retrofit their homes to meet federal “green” guidelines in order to sell their homes, if the cap-and-trade bill becomes law. The bill, which now goes to the Senate, directs the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a national policy for residential and commercial buildings. The purpose of such a strategy – known as the Retrofit for Energy and Environmental Performance (REEP) – would be to “facilitate” the retrofitting of existing buildings nationwide.In other words all your appliances-heating-stove -fridge-windows-would have to meet green standards before we sell SOCAILISM HAS ARRIVED YESWEDID
  • Posted By: ANOTHER YES WE CAN: First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well. In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for the poor and many middle-class families, but those who still refuse to sign up would face fines of more than $1,000. The details were unveiled Thursday in a health care overhaul bill supported by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.SOCAILISM IS HERE The Congressional Budget Office estimated the fines would raise around $36 billion over 10 years. Senate aides said the penalties would be modeled on the approach taken by Massachusetts, which now imposes a fine of about $1,000 a year on individuals who refuse to get coverage. Under the federal legislation, families would pay higher penalties than individuals
  • Posted By: bonn: Good grief! The brain washing has gone so far it will never get better. Some of this way of thinking makes me physically ill in my stomach. All of one mind! Mindless devotion to whatever is contrary to common sense and whatever theory is being passed around. Most families have both parents working, some two jobs, just to make it now. Soon you won't even be able to work enough to carry your family, the government and the ones who won't work. Then you will be disposable and they will start killing you off because you can't give them enough money. But you will blindly keep following. It is easy to see how Hitler took control and how it is being set up for the antichrist to take control. I quit. I will never read another comment. And Kris, did that nut not know the sky has always appeared blue? Hahaha Goodbye. I know you will reply, but I won't be reading it. Never again. Either you believe God or the scientists. I choose God. And freedom!
  • Posted By: cap and trade: world net daily has an informative article on home ownership and all buildings in u.s.it is about total government control of everyone.you will have to answer to the gov.or else.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To Pearl: Thanks for the comment. I try to be an adult and make the usual comments and complaints, But how would you feel if every time you wrote something, Someone would respond back with their own opinions and say that you are wrong! Just the other day I wrote how my child was injured at Camden Park! Of course RoaneCo. had to write something and attack me about my decision to get angry about the situation. Yes, I agree that I should just turn the other cheek but I was raised to stand up for myself!! Why I'm a target I'll never know but I think that I have a right just like everyone else on here and to say my opinion on things whether people agree or not.
  • Posted By: Why?: EVERYONE SINS! Why is being gay the worst sin that sends you "straight" to HELL? Heterosexuals can do all the "sining" they want and still go to heaven but LGBT can't.
  • Posted By: Justme: Coal mining has been around for years and years. I'm sick of all these nuts that are griping about mining. You nuts are always griping. Maybe you need to get a life. If your so against it.. Then turn your lights out. And stop using the power. Move on, and stop taking jobs away from our miner's.
  • Posted By: Htiek: What always amazes me about people in WV is their slavish devotion to coal mining even though it is killing the planet, costs more jobs than it creates, poisons the water, destroys the mountains, scars the land, kills the snail darter, and other horrible things. Things are all so backwards in this country why dont we switch over to something that lasts and is free like the sun and wind? Even if the president said that stuff and I doubt he did and even if he did you are misquoting him or taking him out of context he is right if there is one sure way to get people to stop turning their air conditioners down to 76 it is to raise the price, just like gasoline. People we can learn to ride bikes and walk again, just like they did in the old days, that will help give us exercise and decrease the obesity rate in WV. Food is another area, the slop that people eat like MacDonalds, trans fats, regular soft drinks, anybody with half a brain knows the intelligent thing to do is tax regular soda pop.
  • Posted By: Gandalf: A tea party? Oh my! I must relay this information to my friend Alice and the Mad Hatter. Door Mouse and Rabbit too. They will be thrilled! Oh my bad, must have picked out the wrong book today. Ta Ta!
  • Posted By: Pearl: Roane Co why dont you and Jane pursue your romance elsewhere the yell is for complaints.
  • Posted By: Kris: Just throwing this out there. I'm sitting on my couch wearing sweat pants and short sleeve shirt. I'm thinking about shuting my windows and turning on my heat. Shouldn't I be turning on the air conditioner instead? It's the 2nd of July. Not saying it's global warming but it doesn't seem right. Haven't heard of any heat warning anywhere is the US so far this summer. Great for us but doesn't feel right.
  • Posted By: Kris: Hi Bonn, it is true that these cycles do occur over time. Scientists have taken core samples from the earth and the ice to show these cycles. However, none of the samples show such a dramatic change in such a short period of time. I am a smoker and I will admit that my second hand smoke can and probably will effect the lungs of a non-smoker. The tons of carbon monoxide and other pollutants that we release into our atmosphere HAS TO have an effect on our atmosphere. True story: there was a scientist that day after day after day couldn't figure out why the sky was so blue and clear. Then it struck him, there hadn't been ANY planes in the air for three days. That was 911. What you put out, is what you get back. If you put love out, you will get love back. If you put out negativity, you will get negativity back. For every action, there is a reaction whether it's good or bad. It's in our hands to do our best not to cause an adverse impact to our planet. Peace to ALL!
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello again good working coal mining people of WV this is the coal miners friend Big Earl with news of yet another hippie plot to stick there big noses further into our business now some of these people in Congress has throwed in with the tree huggers they are trying to make it so you cannot sell your house without some nut from the hippie EPA coming in and inspecting it to make sure you are green enough to suit there tastes. This so called cap and trade bill that these busy body do gooders are pushing on us will destroy our jobs and run up the electric bills so that everybody will have to live like the Waltons with 27 people under one roof just to keep warm. Now the average hippie longhair don’t care noway because they would have us all living in mud huts riding mules wearing sandals and weaving baskets to load down with califlowers and arougalas tofu and alfalfa to take up on some worthless mountaintop as an offering to there windmill god instead of having nice homes, cars, a job and cool air in the summer and heat in the winter ALL THANKS TO THE COAL MINER. Anything to bother people attracts these hippies like flies to a cowpie.
  • Posted By: to hteik: hteik has 2 comment .the global warming one was hillarous.it was june 30.he must not have gotten the same public education i did,he was taught that we had satellites in colonial time.but then again he think algoe is really smart,he doesnt know al didn,t really invent the innernet.i think fox news and conservative talk radio would do him a world of good,he,d be shocked at what he doesn,t know.
  • Posted By: Amy: Hey Keith, I must have missed that interview because I was busy clinging to my guns and religion. No, really, I did see it. It's kind of strange how people become so shocked when this stuff is introduced in the House of Reps. Obama outlined every plan he intended to get pushed through and a lot of people just didn't listen. Next time I hope people vote for the best candidate not the best slogan. Yes we can....bankrupt the nation!
  • Posted By: Patriot1: Tea Party: There will be a tea party in Grayson, Ky on July 4th. It will be held at the City Park from 4:00-6:30PM
  • Posted By: Dave: The seat belt law is no law. Its nothing but a deliberate attempt to extort money off the American people,use communist law and control the populace. THE PEOPLE HAVE NEVER VOTED ON IT, BUT THEY ARE TRYING TO GET YOU BELIEVE THAT IT WILL SAVE LIVES. TELL THEM TO GIVE YOU THE FIGURES ON ACCIDENTAL OPERATIONS.And if that doesn't satisfy you then why are we allowing our young brave soldiers to be killed,and for whom? WHY AREN'T THESE NEWSPAPERS BRINGING THIS INFORMATION TO THE PEOPLE? Because the nations 96% are owned and controled by the WEALTHIEST.
  • Posted By: bonn: I was trying to make a point. Perhaps not in the best way. I get so discouraged seeing what is happening around us. One group of scientists call for us to spread soot on all the snow up north to absorb heat to counter the coming ice age. Another (more popular) group calls for painting our roofs white to reflect the heat that is melting our ice caps. Which group is right? Neither. Our earth is doing exactly as it has been doing all along. Cycling naturally. Did it plan it all on its own? Hardly. But no one wants to hear that. It reminds me of "chicken little" yelling "the sky is falling". Only this is not so funny-this is control. And what is even sadder is-people seem to WANT to be controlled. This earth will continue as always until one preplanned day it all comes to a screeching halt. Then a new earth will be created. I will not be caught off guard. I read The Book. I know where I will be. Do you? And do you really enjoy giving those schemers your money that much? I hope one day...
  • Posted By: Keith: A few questions for the Yell audience: Does anyone remember when Obama gave that interview in SanFran Cisco and said that he would not prevent the construction of a coal fired plant, but his policies would bankrupt anybody that tried to build one? That policy was cap and trade. I heard O say that energy prices, under his administration, would "necessairly skyrocket." Is this the hope and change you guys voted for? How will you afford your electric and gas service under this man who cares so much for the poor? Obama said once that he was not bothered that the price of gas had risen so high, just that it happened so fast. How does everyone feel about the gas price? Obama raked John Pablo McCain over the coals for suggesting health care benefits be taxed as income, now he is going to do the same thing to pay for "free" care to illegal aliens, deadbeats, etc...but union workers will be exempt from this tax. How does that make you feel if you work for a living and are not in a union? H&C
  • Posted By: Amy: Hteik, "all is well" because people like us! Give me a break. If all were well, we would not have the largest unemployment rate in 26 years. The stimulus package would prevent it from going above 8%, remember? How is Iran not our business but Honduras is? The people of Honduras have a Constitution very similar to ours and we should support the people not an extremist who is trying to take over their country. The 22nd Amendment does a great service for our nation. IF it would be reversed that would be O.K too. At the rate Obama is going W. could beat him in 2012. At least I would sleep better at night.
  • Posted By: Just Me: Wow Jane Doe, give it a rest. I really don't think God would be please with this going on and on and on...healthy banter is fine, but this is not healthy banter. Christians absolutely can and do get angry, it's what they do with that anger that counts. It doesn't matter where, when, or even IF you go to church...what matters is that you have accepted Christ into your heart and asked for forgiveness of your sins. God didn't save us to judge others, he saved us to lead others to him. I've said many times...what if the person you just yelled at, told off, or whatever showed up at your church on Sunday? Would you be proud of your behavior?
  • Posted By: Sophie: Roane County is a beautiful place. The country roads snake along past fields, farms and old homes we wish could talk. Looneyville is indeed named after the Looney family, so is Gandeeville. My father was from Roane Co. & graduated from Walton High School in the 40's. He told me tales of his school days, friends, boyish pranks, old cars and the fun they had at the 4-H camp. Spencer was a big place to them. Roane Co. gave us many war veterans and kept distant family & friends together with the annual "Roane County Reunion". I don't even know if they still have it, but we used to go. I remember seeing Sen. Robert Byrd play his fiddle there. The Black Walnut Festival in October(?) is a good time to visit Spencer. They usually have a parade, arts & crafts and a museum. You can enjoy a slice of Americana, along with a slice of homemade pie.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: The great Dale Carnegie once said "You never win an argument".Most of you know he wrote" How to Win Friends and Influence People'.Some of you should put this on your Christmas List.I think I will dust it off and revisit this old classic.
  • Posted By: cap and trade: welcome to ''before tax and tax'bill going thru the powers that be.look at your electric bills this monthe there is an enviornmental tax at 2.2cents for every kilowatt you use.can we even imagine what our electric bill will be,not to mention every thing we consume,food water ,every necessity that cant be done without.we in easternky have good reps.in washington,every one in surrounding states should put your so called reps a lot of pressure to defeat this tax and tax bill that is being pushed by a few people to make them richer and control every aspects of productive peoples lives.look at your gasbill also,you will see only a very small portion for gas but the rest in fees and taxes.look at your phone bill you will see a 100percent markup in taxes and fees.its time to put pressure on politicans to protect the citizens and not the lobiest.
  • Posted By: justanotherfly: sounds like jane doe is looking for an easy way out ie a lawsuit
  • Posted By: to bonn: i couldn,t have said it better myself.some things have to be explained like you are talking to a 5year old.but like some 5year olds that are stubborn and spoiled rotten they dont listen.wait till the cost of every thing sky rockets and they will be the first to rant and rave that nobody told them.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To my biggest fan, RoaneCo: Ummm! It's sounds to me like you have a lot of anger. You have to pick on everyone's comments! I think I speak for everyone when I say (Get a Job)!! Cause you obviously have none! You have all this free time on your hands! Why don't you spend this free time helping others instead of puttin them down! You know..WSAZ has job postings...Maybe you could find one on there!!!!I'm not a negative person. Maybe I'm just like everyone else that has a job and three kids and a lot of things to do! I get stressed out, I know that goes way over your head,You don't get stressed. But because you go to church doesn't mean you can't get angry about stuff!!LOL My father-in-law is a Deacon at my church and even he has a temper!! Look out craveontruth! Looks like RoaneCo. has found someone else to pick on!Good Luck!! Have a perfect day ( I know you will)!!
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Yes Craveontruth, there is a place named Looneyville.(no Jane Doe that isn't where I live) It is on Rt.36, nothing there but the Looneyville Post Office, and I am not joking. There is also a Lefthand Post Office on Rt.36, always wondered why there wasn't a Righthand also. Our County seat is located in Spencer, (middle of nowhere) which for years was only known for its State Mental Institution. (no Jane Doe this isn't my Alma mater) It was closed years ago and now a Wal-Mart is on that location. I guess the only other thing to speak of would be the Black Walnut Festival which is held in Spencer every October.
  • Posted By: bonn, the simpleton: Don't we have a smart earth? She formed herself from a dust cloud, they say and planted herself just the right distance from the sun to support the life she would create. She also filled her insides with molten heat to maintain the right temps and if that builds too much she decides to blow some out holes (volcanoes) to keep from exploding. She makes her own rain, knowing whether she needs a gentle soaking rain for her plants, or a gully washer to cleanse the filth. It pours down the mountains, into the rivers and out into the ocean which she just happened to fill with salt (her natural sanitizer). And she knows if she doesn't have ice she will over heat, but too much and she will freeze, killing her life she so carefully made. So she melts some, then as it heats up, she freezes more. All just coincidental happenings? She is brilliant! But not so smart as the humans who are making a fortune controlling the other dumb humans by convincing them THEY are causing her to do these things!!!
  • Posted By: passing by the yell: I met someone from Looneyville once. It's named that after a person's last name from what I was told.
  • Posted By: Hteik: Well it is nice to see that the war in Iraq is ending under President Obama. Who would have thought, it seems the world is backwards right now, huh? Obama gets elected, the world understands our good will, and all is well. Just like history, Republicans start wars, Democrats finish them. Hate to say we told you so but we told you so, I just get fuzzy inside thinking about all the people that love us now that hated us because of that old Bush. Another thing too, leave this Iran thing alone, that is none of our business. I dont recall anybody from Iran coming over here to help us in 1776 so why should we stick our nose in their business? When you get a strong leader like in Honduras, a good strong leader with a military background, everybody goes nuts because the guy takes things over well I support him and Obama. In fact, some people are so needed we better start now to get rid of the 22nd Amendment, it was only put in by jealous radical extremist crazy Republicans to hurt FDR.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: I don't think I have ever been to Roan County.Nothing against the good people of that neck of the woods.I did enjoy looking it up on wikipedia.Is there really a Looneyville there? If there is then I must visit!Who's with me?
  • Posted By: food for thought: 2-10 years for almost killing a child? Where are our priorities? I know they are nestled in the mountains or wait lying deep in the ocean waiting for anoother person to adopt them and claim rights to the next whale that is proclaimed Shammu or Willy. Get real people lets protest these laws that allow some cook to wanna kill his child and only have to pay his debt of 2 - 10 years. Oh and Kris your right our God won't kill a 1 yr old or a 100 yr old just do to it. He would do it for his glory and maybe take them from being around a half heartened sadistic person that would do this to a child. Oh i love the lights and the A/C and my car, but most of all I love my GOD "Jehovah God" whom i think first and foremost for all I have, then i thank a coal miner and an AEP worker and a so on and so on.
  • Posted By: Kimberly: Raising the WV Toll price? I see a lot of arguments coming from this. Where is all of this money going to? Mansion might be a good governer, but when it comes to things like this, it needs fixed. WV roads are awful and I know after all of these years, surely the toll money has added up to more than enough to fix these roads!!! What an awful awful idea!!
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Bonn, people like you are the very reason I have stated that I respect ones right of freedom of religion. Although I have different views, I have no issues with anyone going to church and trying to live according to their interpretation of the bible. I think that is wonderful. I also thank you Bonn for being open minded and seeing the point I was trying make. And for Anonymous on Jul 1, 2009 at 03:11 PM, no Craveontruth and I are not the same person. We do agree on some issues, and disagree on others. And when we do disagree (speaking for myself of course) we do it without anger. Also, for Bob... sorry, it isn't working. I have a two year old that comes up with better jabs than you. But I respect your right to try.
  • Posted By: Sophie: Just a few comments on current Yells: Big Earl - I just can't read you anymore because it's the same things over & over. Yeah, we're with you - there are a bunch on weed-o's coming around these days trying to shut us down for the sake of some owl...We get it. We all hate it. Roane Co/Jane -It appears Roane has been very hurt in their lifetime by family conflict involving belief. Many people get hurt because of superstition & misinterpretation and overzealousness. It has been this way since time began. I hope Roane can someday get past the hurt & retoric to work out his/her own salvation. Simple belief in Jesus Christ is where it starts, the rest as I put it, is just "gravy". Jane: I'm sorry your child was hurt. This indeed must be reported. I got hurt @ CP one time too on "The Whip". It beat me so hard against the side I had a major bruise on my hip. I strained my arms trying to keep from slamming into the side. A fun thing was not so fun. No rides for me, anymore. Not there.
  • Posted By: : I think RoaneCo. and Craveontruth is the exact same person? Who's with me?
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Hello good people of WV this is Big Earl and I for one am sick and tired of all these out of state know it all nosey people bothering us if it is not these smelly hippies trying to run our jobs off or rename the WVU mascot now they are calling the good citizens of WV fat. Well people I am here to tell you that this bunch at the so called CSPI and no you hippies I don’t mean the TV show calling us fat should look in the mirror they look like something off night of the living dead pasty faced scarecrows and beanpoles and what is so great about that. WV has some of the best staple foods anywhere in the world I have eaten paotatoes beans meat flour and corn meal all my life cooked in lard and I am not one bit worse off for it and can mine coal with anybody. People all the good foods we eat are natural growed in the garden or on the farm so it should even make a tofu eating hippie type happy. I am more bothered that two states beat us out in the race for the top so I tip my hat to the people of the great states of Alabama home of the best country music band ever and Mississippi but people of WV get busy we have to reclaim our title to best fed in the USA I recommend the Kentucky Fried Chicken with gravy and biscuits as a good place to start our comeback.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Actually Jane Doe, growing up I did attend church and read the bible. Being subjected to religion for many years I would not consider myself "confused" or uneducated. If one looks at organized religion with an open mind it isn't hard to see who is confused. For example, you have one bible yet there are numerous religious groups ( methodists, baptists etc...) that believe their interpretation is the only correct interpretation. This is understandable because the bible itself is very contradictive. In my opinion the the bible and organized religion is nothing more than a tool created to control the masses. Yet this tool has pitted man against man, brother against brother, state against state and country against country, not to mention the wars, death and destruction it has caused. I have witnessed in my lifetime many family fueds, broken marriages and busted churches at the hands of organized religion. I have heard the words of hate spoken by christians. I am not confused.
  • Posted By: To Fat Earl: You're losing! Ha,Ha!
  • Posted By: Kris: God does not control the weather!If so then he would be responsible for killing hundreds of innocent people every year in America alone! If that's your God, you can have it! My GOD is loving and compassionate. He would never take the life of a one year old nor a hundred year old just because he felt like creating a tornado that day or a hurricane the next. Get a brain and use it simpletons!
  • Posted By: bonn: To Jane Doe: I am afraid RoaneCo's common sense is more attractive than your comments. Read your last post at 8:58 and see if it shows the Light you are suppose to give. We are suppose to control our anger. Yes, we are forgiven, but it is not a license to keep repeating our faults. It is mercy so we can improve. Viciousness does not become a child of God. RoaneCo., may God forgive us for driving you and others away from Him with our failure to shine the Light of Love. And Jane Doe, I am the one you called ignorant just because I was showing compassion (another expectation of a Christian). It is scary about your child. But that person was not attacking your child, nor joking about it, only disapproving of your outburst. Not very attractive in anyone, especially one called to set an example for others to follow. If you must get angry, use it to accomplish something good. Christians are hated enough WITHOUT cause. Love is the answer.
  • Posted By: Bob: I think we might need to contact someone in state govt.about inspecting our amusement parks to many in the public simply dont care if kids get hurt this could have been something really really bad but I guess there is always a few who would crack jokes at anything even a child getting injured.
  • Posted By: cap and trade bill: you wont hear on liberal obama mania news reports whats in the cap and tax bill.only conservate talk radio and conservative news are telling the contents of this country destroying bill.liberal dont want you to be informed,it would be to dangerous for their so called news networks.did you know that,as i somewhat understand it,that every house in the country will have to be at gov.standards before it can be sold,they will be allowed to change therules in mid stream if they want.even if you dont like conservative news,remember only a well informed person can try to stop tyranny.look for facts,have you heard 1 liberal news tell you whats in this bill thats detrimental to this country and freedom.i challenge wsaz to look up whats in this bill and report accuratly whats in it.i dont think thats going to happen.
  • Posted By: food for thought: AMEN Bonn I could never have said it any better, being a Boone county coal miner and all. We do no get a very well reputation anyway.
  • Posted By: Craveontruth: RoaneCo.can hurt but often the truth does hurt.I support RoaneCo.To Jane Doe,I believe RoaneCo.does know quite a bit about Christianity and is not confused at all.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: Thank you everyone for your support!!You know RoaneCo. Nobody is perfect, That goes for Christians too! Are we allowed to get mad??Yes! But are we forgiven everyday? Yes!Obviously you don't know much about Christianity! That's why you critize so much!!You're confused!! We are not perfect! I guess you are!!
  • Posted By: VOTE NO ON CAP AND TRADE: I know its a repost but i think its Worthy 'Liberty Or Tyranny?' House Passes Cap-And-Trade Republicans Warn Bill Gives Federal Government 'Virtual Control' Over 'Every Aspect Of The Lives Of The American People. Thank the Dumbocratic controled house as it will raise the average consumers power bill $175.00 This on top of the energy companies already asking for an inctrase will put such a burden on the American people that only the wealthy will survive.Please write or call our Senators they are the only life line we have left and ask them to VOTE NO on cap and trade. Republicans were overwhelmingly against the measure, arguing it would destroy jobs in the midst of a recession while burdening consumers with a new tax in the form of higher energy costs.And there was plenty to work on in a House-passed measure that pointed toward higher electricity bills for the middle class.Budget Office and the other from the Environmental Protection Agency — that suggested average increases would be $175.00 a year.
  • Posted By: cap and trade survey: against cap and tax,85percent.people who work and are productive.15percent for cap and tax,,,people who work for government or live off the fat of the land and dont mind other people being taxed into poverty....
  • Posted By: : If new drivers would slow down and actually pay attention to what they are doing, then maybe WV would'nt have these new laws for teenage drivers. Personally myself I believe that all states should have this law. It would make the roads a little safer to drive on.
  • Posted By: bonn: About global warming- our temperature is (and always has been) constantly changing. GOD controls it. Anyone who thinks we can are puffing themselves up bigger than we are.Are we suppose to believe we are responsible for the Ice Age thawing that is suppose to have happened way back when as well? How did that happen? Certainly not carbon emissions. Use some common sense and realize people are using this to line their pockets and gain support for their pet projects. I know- you don't want to hear this, but it is not realistic. Don't let America be controlled with this, PLEASE!! Let us remain free!
  • Posted By: Bob: Dont worry Jane Doe I have notice RoaneCOs posts are generally always on the rude side I am sorry to hear about your daughter.
  • Posted By: Just wondering: the 3 people that was killed on alt rt 10. 2 being st. joe's students. Did they ever release the cause of the accident?
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: I do care about the safety of our children Anonymous on Jun 30, 2009 at 09:01 AM, no matter where they are or what they are doing. Our children are our future. What I don't care for is someone like Jane Doe on here week after week preaching her little sermons all the while calling people ignorant and showing her hostility toward others. It has always amazed me how most christians will belittle someone else but the minute you catch them being unchristian like they always come up with the old "we christians ain't perfect". Well I know they are not, but by golly they are the first to judge everyone else. These hyporcitical self proclaimed christians are one of the reasons I turned away from organized religion years ago. I just don't agree with these people shoving religion on everyone else. I respect Jane Does right to religion and I would even fight for her to keep that right, but she, like so many others need to keep their religion in their church and their home.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Well hello again good working coal mining families in WV this is Big Earl and I for one am very disappointed that this cap and trade bill got passed into law the other day no thanks to our good representatives from WV. People all I can say is get a woodpile and a bunch of cow chips because your electric is going to get real expensive real quick. These hippies has run up to Washington DC and boo hooed to them tree huggers and longhairs in the EPA until they got even worse done to our jobs but then again what do you expect from a bunch that has a leaf from a dope plant on there sign like the EPA does if you don’t believe me look on this very website I seen a picture of it. Birds of a feather flock together that’s why the good working people were kept out and not allowed to talk at that hearing and the hippies let in. People these hippies has slandered our great state and coal miners first they bring in professor moonbeam from NASA to insult us then he tucks his tail and runs back to NASA and wont debate Mr. DB then they attack our state university mascot the WV mountaineer. Well people I Big Earl have a solution to this lets call WV the “Ivory Soap State,” make our mascot a bathtub that’s a sure fire way to get rid of these smelly hippies and longhairs and keep them out forever.
  • Posted By: ME: We christians are most always judged by our actions and that is to be expected since we are not perfect in any way. We all make mistakes every day,we get angry,we say things we shouldn't and act out our frustrations sometimes to those closest to us and our friends. We try to do better and ask forgiveness when we do stumble from our christian path. Actions speak louder than words at times, good or bad. Yes we adults act like children at times and children try to act like adults all too soon. We never know who we are influenceing with our actions and words so we need to always try to act,say and do what is right. As long as we are on this earth we will stumble but we should strive to be the best we can be and treat people with love and respect no matter how we are treated. I have turned the cheek many times and been slapped alot and will keep on doing it as long as I breath. My time will come soon enough to be judged as to the way I have lived and treated people.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: I love people on the Yell!!! They give me a chance to laugh everyday. Thanks guys!!
  • Posted By: just looking: UMMMM do you people think that christians are perfect??? Do you think we dont get angry?? Only one person is perfect and that is Jesus Christ...And if a christian says they are perfect, then they arnt a very good christian. We all have faults. Alot of you people cant wait to get up and look at the faults of others and criticize what they believe in....
  • Posted By: Patriot1: Tea Party. There will be a "Tea Party" July 4th from 4:00-6:30 PM at the City Park in Grayson,Ky
  • Posted By: Donna: Please! enough of Michael Jackson. He died, now he will appear before God and face his punishment for his sins against children. He was a morally bankrupt person who the media has presented as an icon. It's no wonder children are so messed up today,too much TV and not enough parenting. You too, are responsible for making him appear as a person to be looked up to. He and others in entertainment and sports are not what the children need, they need moral examples to look up to, please stop the glorification of immoral and indecent individuals.
  • Posted By: food for thought: To those of you telling me to watch out for Fox news, please go back and read carefully what I said about the media and the government. I thank each of you for your information. I am not out to attack anyone whether acclaimed or the average joe. I just know what I have read from reports and from different sites. This information is what our scientists, meteorologists and so forth use in reference to report the records of weather and temperatures. Again thank each of you, and at last Fox news was the channel the fine people at our local (American made) dealership had channeled on the tube, personally I just watch WSAZ, at the local level.
  • Posted By: : Roane Co., why are you not concerned about the safety of small children at amusement parks?
  • Posted By: Htiek: Right on Kris you tell em about Fox News. Everyone that watches knows that the dependable networks are ABF, Anyone But Fox. I am just like everyone else in the know, they lie all the time but please dont press me to cite anything specific as I am having coffee right now. I am new to your side, so pardon me if I get something confused. Those photographs of the ice caps are proof positive as far as I am concerned, these flat earth types that dont believe global warming should compare them to the satellite picutres from the colonial period and over the years since for comparison purposes. I once heard the hottest year on record was in the 1930s but what does that prove. And before one of you know it alls talks about Al Gore riding everywhere in a private plane and having such a huge house and running a company that profits from selling carbon credits, some people in life earn their special privileges simply by showing up and enlightening the rest of us, so there.
  • Posted By: polar ice caps: the weather is always changing.sometime it freezes sometimes it melts,thats gods doings,not mans.wasnt it the great mind of ted danson many years ago that explaind that in 15 or 20 years that the oceans were going to raise so many feet that it would destroy and overflo inward to apolipicate level.i guess the people that live on these coast lines dont know they are under water.we americans are so silly.let me explain what a great creator said,it rains but the oceans are never full.ice melts but the oceans never overflo.i think i,ll believe him instead of a.gore or ted danzen.p.b.s last week on a travel show,,i think,,,,the guide said the glacier there had been melting 150years.that was certainly before the industrial revolution.as for fox,world net daily,newsmax,etc.the liberal press has lost it monolopy on liberal so called news.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: After you finish showing your true colors, go back and read my post again Jane Doe. Better yet let me cut and paste it for you. "I do hope your little girl is ok. I have children of my own, I know how precious they are." And just for the record, I would never "make fun" of a child, but don't think for one second that I won't point out an adult being hypocritical. Are you not the same Jane Doe that three weeks ago was preaching about God, then in the same breath calling someone "IGNORANT"? So let me say it one more time, I hope your little girl is ok. As for you, thank you for proving once again how kind, loving, patient and understanding some of you fine christians can be.
  • Posted By: Kris: This respectfully goes out to "food for thought" for what they said about fox news and global warming.FOX has great movies and tv shows but their view when it comes to the "news" is so far on the "right" way of thinking that it totally obscures reality in their opions of the subject at hand. They'll twist their views to make sure that it is opposite of "liberals" or people on the "left" and how they feel about the subject.Asf or global warming, we have actual time lapsed pictures of the polar caps melting at an alarming rate. You can actually see it happening. If things are cooling down, then why are the polar caps and icebergs melting at an alarming rate? The evidence is right in front of our faces. I sure do hope you're right because if I am, our planet is doomed. Sincerely, Kris
  • Posted By: Jethro: WHATS WRONG WITH YOU ALL UPDATE THE YELL!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP!!!!!!
  • Posted By: Keith: Never thought I'd sit around and miss Bush...well the wrecking ball has appointed a racist to the supreme court, one that is inept and incompetent too. Did you notice her latest ruling was overturned today? The economy is not getting better, those of you out of work have my sympathy because this clown is not doing anything to make it better. He never held a real job, never ran a business, just a rabble rouser and agitator. How do you feel about cap and trade energy tax? All over a phony problem that doesnt even exist; WV will wither away to nothing but hey we can all get jobs in the windmill factory, cant we? How do you feel about having your health benefits taxed to pay for Obamacare? How's the hope and change working out for everyone? What do you think card check is going to do the economy? Check out an article about Obama the African Colonialist on the American Thinker Website, dated June 25th. It explains him to a "T." Obama is a wrecking ball, and he's gonna roll over everyone.
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Well hello again good working coal miners of WV this is Big Earl and people I have come to the conclusion that we need some friends in Washington DC that has got some clout. Some people up there has got big names but nobody apparently listens to, that is if they show up at all in court to help you out, those who are sick are excepted. Then there are some people in Charleston who should be in Washington who shall remain unnamed because nobody in Gov. Joes office asked me to say that. But remember who had that bunch from FEMA down here handing out checks before two weeks after the flood water hit and figure out who has clout. You people that went up for the hearing last week should be thanked but the good people never got to say a word but these hippies did, they are apparently now running around the creek with microscopes looking for fish that cant be seen with the eye, something called a microbe, now they are blaming the coal miner for killing off this worthless animal and I sincerely hope Captain D or old Long John will never put some slop like that on my plate when I want good seafood. If you dont see it it cant be of no good use anyway, sort of like a certain US senator with a big rich name who was nowhere to be seen last week.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: To RoaneCo. How dare you critize my comment. This isn't just some fun arguement!! My child is hurt! Do you think that's funny? Do me a favor, Next time I write about my kids, Don't comment! I hope you don't have any kids because you don't see the harm and worry in my comment, You just want to fight and make fun of someone!! This is really serious!! I don't see the humor!!!
  • Posted By: Big Earl: Did any of you people see those PETA nuts on the TV 3 news last night boo hooing about having to tie there dogs up hello again working people of WV this is Big Earl and I don’t know about you but I always thought it was rude and inconsiderate and just being a bad neighbor to let your dogs run wild all over the neighborhood digging up peoples backyards rooting around in garbage cans and doing there business all over the place. Have any of you people in Huntington ever lost a chicken to a wild dog. Even these back to nature types and hippies up here in Boone County tie up there dog to guard there dope patches but they don’t have no sense anyway if they aint going to Washington DC to try and rook us out of our jobs by carrying signs and yelling about some invisible fish that is no good to anybody they are screaming about the coal miner killing polar bears and other animals that don’t even live here. Apparently this bunch had the bright idea to go down to the park on Sunday down in Huntington when people was out with there families trying to walk around and enjoy things and they chained themselves to trees with real dog chains trying to get people to sign a protest petition to of all people a mayor named Wolf now I don’t know about you but that mayor better forget the beware of dog sign he needs to put a beware of the PETA nut sign up in that park.
  • Posted By: The Seeker: @food for thought: It is indeed important to check facts, and it heartens me to see that you're of the type that actively seeks them (even thought I fall on the side of the debate that believes in climate change, as it has solid science behind it). However, I caution you on taking anything from FOX news at face value. This is an organization that in 2000 won a case in Florida appeals court in which the court ruled that FOX has no obligation to tell the truth to it's viewers, and can misinform the public under the first amendment. This is also an organization that has been proven to have an agenda, and frames every bit of it's coverage to favor one political party over the other. My advice is to seek out less obviously biased news sources, especially in cases such as global warming, which is an issue that transcends political parties and affects every being on the planet.
  • Posted By: Hugh: Hey WVa. Checkin out the YELL. Kind of quiet today. Enjoyed my visit there. Met John Henry at the Big Ben Tunnel,saw the big bridge. Stood at Hawk's Nest and viewed the scenery. If I wasn't so old and crippled, I'd bungee jump from the New River Gorge Bridge. Have folks who live in the Talcott area and some around Hinton. Well won't take much of your time today. Just wanted to check in.
  • Posted By: what is foor for thought?: foor?? for thought, you do know Bush made those he commissioned to study it alter their reports when he found out it supported global warming, don't you? Anyone who just sees pictures of the ice caps 30 years ago and now would have to be mentally handicapped not to know there's global warming, the only thing that's possible to debate is the cause of it. Wonder why Fox didn't mention the Bush fiasco? Well I don't really wonder.
  • Posted By: more p.c at wsaz: gays in usa sounds like it was written by a gay person,so it was printed.it was,nt written by a gay person.it was a second thought,after i commented on other sins,such as adultry,but plainly written by a heterosexual person.it was not printed because im straight and not gay.so goes our country and freedom.
  • Posted By: Lou Ann: Ive had a similar bad experience at camden park several years ago. Havent went back since. The pricing is just another deterrent to doing business locally. I love this area but am very discouraged by the lack of pride in our appearance in several of our towns, the prices of doing business, the attitude towards the customer , the lack of merchandise. I could go on. We definately are not tourist friendly in the great ohio valley area.
  • Posted By: foor for thought: Looks like my comment on June 24th may be right. I have done some reading about this Global warming fad the government is putting on. I was sitting in a local car dealership and FOX news was reporting on the government sitting or "burying" studies by two of the highest ranking EPA officials contradicting this myth. Some of the comments from their studies proves the Global temperature if anything has decreased. Although, you should be skeptical about anything the media reports especially when it involves the government these are facts that have been recorded over time. I ask how come when these bozos as Dr. Hansen whom is from NASA(which has done innumerable amounts of damage to our air with their testing) never mention facts as these when trying to prove things they are claiming is a fact. People we in America have became lazy in seeking the truth, I am not disputing anything these scientists and the government tells us, but as we learned in elementary school check facts of both sides.
  • Posted By: gays in u.s.a.: another reflection on gays.if you think god doesn,t care about you because you,re gay ,he must love you more than you can comprehend,if not you could have been born ina muslim country.islam has no homosexuals ,they are not rehabilitate,just beheaded.as a loving and compassionate god says"GO AND SIN NO MORE".that doesnt mean just you it means all of us.yes god allows you to choose,he must really care.
  • Posted By: City of Milton: I'm glad that the City of Milton has so much money to spend and that they spend it wisely. Every time I drive through town on a nice day it never fails that someone is washing their personal vehicle at the VFD. Good to see that they budget personal car washes into the city budget. I think I'll stop in there today and see if I can wash my car as well...should be a nice day!
  • Posted By: Valorie: About four weeks ago, I sent a letter to Camden Park with a friendly suggestion to open the park to the casual visitor again. As of today, I still haven't had a response from them. There used to be a small fee for admission to anyone who just wanted to visit. Once inside the park, a visitor could buy a corn dog or pay to play a few games or ride a few rides. Now people have to pay a full admission price for all day rides, even when they don't plan to stay all day. A lot of people are grandparents who just want to watch their grandchildren ride for an hour or two. Some are young parents with small children who tire easily. As empty nesters, my husband and I would like to drop by to get a bite to eat, play some games or just walk around. Everyone I have spoken to said they would visit Camden Park a whole lot more if they didn't have to pay the full admission price. I challenge everyone to contact Camden Park and ask them to give the people a choice!
  • Posted By: to gay question: god is not a cruel and unfair god.we all have our faults.is homosuxality a bigger sin than adultry,pornography,lying,stealing, and the list goes on.the clue to these behaviors is wanting to make our lives better.we cant blame anyone but ourselves for what we do.if anyone doesnt change its what they want to do.but as long as it doesnt affect me thats between you and god.but it is wrong,just as cheating on your spouse is sin.would we tell the adulterer that its not sin and not to try being a better person,i think not.celibacy would be better than the same old behavior.these have been struggle since creation.
  • Posted By: RoaneCo.: Losing your religion Jane Doe? What happened to "turn the other cheek"? I do hope your little girl is ok. I have children of my own, I know how precious they are. But next time you read of someone else being "furious" or commenting on their personal issues, maybe you should keep your bible quotes to yourself.
  • Posted By: Jane Doe: I recently went with my church and my family to Camden Park this past weekend. Me and my 6 year old daughter rode the Spider, We thought it was going to be lots of fun, we were wrong! It was a nightmare! It went on for 10 minutes and was going way too fast! My daughter was terrified and was screaming! I was furious when the man that helped us off asked if she was okay and I said what do you think and he laughed!! I have rode this ride for many years and loved it, But this time I could tell it was different! But then it gets worse, A friend of mine that stayed at the park longer than us informed me that after we left, The spider closed down and said they had crossed wires and the ride was malfunctioning!!! My daughter can't hardly walk today and has a four inch bruise down her back! I'm taking her to the doctor in the morning. If there is something seriously wrong, I will be speaking to the owner and this situation will be takin care of!!!!!
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