Mass. Man Accused of Trying to Swap Baby for Beers

[Stuart G]

Source: AP, New York Times

Mass. Man Accused of Trying to Swap Baby for Beers
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 18, 2010

Filed at 8:07 a.m. ET

CHICOPEE, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities say a Massachusetts man offered to give his 3-month-old daughter to a maintenance man outside a gas station convenience store in exchange for a pair of 40-ounce beers.

Chicopee police say 24-year-old Matthew Brace of Northampton made the offer on Monday. The maintenance man called police, who found Brace hiding with the girl behind a trash container.

State child welfare officials took the baby into custody.



Police say Brace was not arrested but will be summoned to court to face a charge of reckless endangerment of a child. A phone number for him could not immediately be found.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/18/us/AP-US-Baby-for-Beer.html

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Really?...Can you make this stuff up???

[wake.up.america]

1. Unreal!!!

[comtec]

2. fucking sad!

he'd probably have demanded a keg if it'd been a boy >_>

I say give him a keg.... dressed up like his lil girl.

He can live with THAT for the rest of his life!

[ejpoeta]

3. that is so sad. i think that man needs himself a rehab program.

kids don't ask to be born.... they don't get to pick their parents.

[Blue_Tires]

4. I first read "...Swap Baby for Bears"

and I was like, HELLS YES!

[Kelvin Mace]

5. Foreign or domestic?

the devil is in the details.... :)

[SOS]

6. End stage alcoholism. nt