Great Moments In Journalism: Drunk Four-Year-Old Boy Steals Presents

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by Glenn Davis | 1:52 pm, December 17th, 2009

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kurr9p-mom We may have a winner for “laugh to keep from crying” story of the year. Local news anchor Kim Chapman called the story possibly as strange as any she’d ever reported, and it’s easy to see why: a four-year-old Tennessee boy was found wearing a girl’s dress with a partially-consumed beer in hand. But wait – there’s more.If that’s not weird enough, the dress was actually one of several Christmas presents the boy stole from a neighbor’s unlocked house in the middle of the night – after escaping from his own house, of course.

But the boy’s motivation for doing all this is the real gut punch. According to his mother, April Wright:

“He wants to get in trouble so he can go to jail because that’s where his daddy is.”

Not exactly the stuff of A Christmas Carol. Here’s the full video:

Christmas, cross-dressing, local news, Prison, sad attempts to reconnect with absent parents, theft, Underage drinking

http://www.twitter.com/kgotkin Kevin Gotkin

How did you even find this video?
Glenn Davis

I honestly don’t even know how we first got our hands on this.
TfT

Other great moments on journalism of interest:

Chris Matthews call for a change in the Constitution to make the Senate more democratic (laugh riot).

Harry Smith listens as Algore reads his climategate poem (love-in).

Sarah Palin’s hat makes news; Russia’s claim that Brit scientists falsified/manipulated their climate data doesn’t.
Nachi

Cute. But at least this fine Murcuhn family is headed in SOME direction!! The dress is fine. It’s only the amount of booze consumed that’s worrisome. These are our future leaders. Be patient.