A man orders a lemonade at a ballpark for his seven-year-old son. Not realizing it’s “hard” lemonade (i.e., alcoholic), he lets the boy drink it. A security guard spots the bottle in the kid’s hand and without even giving the father a chance to look at the label on the drink has the son whisked off into the state’s custody. Despite the fact that the hospital finds no trace of alcohol in the kid’s blood, it’s two days before the mother can take her son home and a week before the father is allowed to return to his own house.
And people still insist we need the state because the alternative is worse!
