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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Yeah, we're live across eight platforms right now, so if
you want to comment a long feel free to do so.
Some people already are and I've got to go ahead
and get into the next one. Sounds good. This story
is called That's My Baby. This isn't actually really old
Reddit post. It's deleted. Yeah, it's been deleted for several years.
But the story is absolutely crazy. So this is called
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That's My Baby. My husband and I were at the
supermarket and our baby was being especially fussy, so we
took the baby on a quick drive, the motion of
which usually calms the baby down. It took only about
ten minutes to settle her down, and I was in
the store, but unsure how much longer i'd be in there.
There's no reception inside, so my husband was the one
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doing this with the baby, so he's the one driving
around trying to get the baby to sleep. Very common
thing to use a car. People do that to get
drive around and get the baby to fall asleep. So
it says he pulled back up into the parking lot
to wait for me. It was an unseasonably nice day,
so he took her in the car seat and he
had the carrier and whatever to set on one of
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the benches outside of the store. He took a business
call and sat down with the baby in the carrier.
A woman well dressed in mid thirties and an average
height approach them. It's not uncommon for people to approach that.
To look at the baby, she is cute. She's got
big rosy cheeks, soft wisp of gold hair, and the
most adorable toothless grin. And she looks even cuter when
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she's taken a nap. But her nap schedule was paramount.
So my husband saw the woman approaching and being prepared
to talk and converse with the baby like people often do.
He was prepared to tell her that she couldn't and
the baby was taking a nap. The lady walked up
and asked if she could hold the baby, And this
is at this point in time, he said, just like
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he would do, the baby's taking a nap. She act
like she was going to walk away for a second,
and this is when things got in and arresting. She
turned back around with nonchalant, great confidence, and before he
even finished the sentence explaining that again that she was
napping and not to be touched, she picked up the
carrier and started walking off. He was in shock for
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that moment, not fully believing someone would be ballsy enough
to do this, something so sinister like this, and plaining daylight.
He said, excuse me, can you put her down? His
panic mounted, but she remained calm the entire time, which
was strange. He was panicking, she was calm. He called
after her a little bit loud, repeating the same thing,
put her down, come back with her. The lady started
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to walk away more briskly than she had approached. He
ran at this point to catch up with her, trying
to grab the carrier out of her hands, finally resulting
to restraining her arms, and the woman starts yelling help.
He's taking my baby. Please call nine poet one help me.
She was kicking him in the shin and pulling a
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pink bottle of pepper spray out of her handbag. Of course,
no one in the parking lot was clocking or realized
what had happened earlier before this interaction, and assumed immediately
that he was a kidnapper. A lone man in a
deadpool T shirt versus a tiny, well dressed woman. Immediately,
a man knocked my husband to the ground and was
holding him down. He could hear bystanders encouraging the woman
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to file at police report and call the police, but
she was doing a very convincing job of acting shaken up,
insisted she just wanted to get home and get away
from there. My husband was in a raw state at panic,
realizing the entire parking lot had banded together to inadvertently
facilitate the kidnapping of our daughter. He was begging and
pleading with them, but nobody would listen. They just kept
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screaming at him. The jig was up and he needed
to remain laying there because the police would be there soon,
and how could he do such a thing like this,
terrorizing a young mother. My husband finally had the idea
to show them family photos on his phone, but too
panicked to think clearly. The way he manifested this was
by shouting, I had pictures the baby on my phone.
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Of course, everybody interpreted this as him having some strange
stalking pictures of the photos of the baby, or something worse. Possibly.
I guess it was at this point that a man
and I can't really entirely blame him for this, because
considering what he thought my husband was doing. Kicked my
husband as hard as he could in the ribs, which
ended up breaking several ribs. At this point, I was
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coming out of the store and I thought that he
was being robbed by these people. I was yelling for
security so panicked, my chest constricted, I couldn't even get
out of sound. It was then that I realized that
he did not have our baby with him. Then I
looked over and I saw she was being held by
a woman. I was relieved. I thought maybe the woman
intervened to move our daughter out of harm's way while
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my husband was being robbed. She was walking away to
get help. I couldn't find a security guard outside in
the near area, so I ran up to these people
holding that were holding my husband down, and I was waving, waving,
waving my wallet repeatedly at them and tell them take
whatever you want, please take whatever you want, just leave
us alone, please. One of the men holding him down
said something like, lady, we need to wait for the
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police to deal with him. I was so confused. Why
would the muggers have to call the police? I said,
what do you mean, what are you talking about? I
made out someone saying something like he tried to abduct
that woman's child. I didn't understand. I was sure i'd
misheard them. My husband would never hurt a child. We
have four kids. If he was going to commit a crime,
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bringing home another kid would be the last thing he
would do. I kept trying to understand what they were
all saying. There were so many voices coming from everywhere.
Then suddenly it all clicked. I looked around for the
woman who had the baby carrier, and she was already
halfway across the parking lot. I went into a total
ballistic tiger cub mode. Literally leaped out of my heels
and spread it across the parking lot. I'm not a
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UFC fighter or anything. Heck, I've never even taken a
self defense class, so all I could think of doing
was grabbing the lady by her hair and I squeezed
her face with my other hand. It didn't do much.
She was starting to get away even as I grappled
with her. Amazingly, none of the other bystanders had yet
to connect that my husband was telling the truth and
this woman was trying to leave with our baby. I
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yanked on her hair as hard as I could, and
that was enough to make her drop the car put
the carrier down on the ground. I was scared and
surprised that I actually didn't know what to do, so
I threw myself on top of the carrier and covered
the entire thing like a blanket. The woman, at this
point quickly left the area. Not even one person tried
to stop her, even though she was clearly leaving without
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the child she claimed was hers, which would be pretty
damn incriminating if I'd watched all that. Within the next
couple of minutes, the police arrived. After that, they were
still bystanders who claimed that my husband was trying to
kidnap the baby. The police, to my whoror, assumed that
she must have not had bad intentions, and the first
questions they asked me after getting her description of the
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lady was things like maybe you shouldn't press charges on her.
They were still blacing the plame with my husband. Here's
a small sample of what they were saying. Do your
husband and the baby not look? Is there a chance
she thought that he was actually taking the baby and
she was trying to intervene. Could your husband have been
doing something violent? Maybe it made her feel compelled to
take the baby did she seem confused. They spent more
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time verifying that the baby was actually in mine than
concerning themselves with the fact that the baby was not
actually hers. My husband at this point called us brother
who worked in an office with a lot of lawyers,
and we connected with one asap on the scene, who
gave us the priceless advice to get every officer's badge
name and to request copies of the store security tapes
right away, and to escalate the complaint higher up the chain.
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Didn't seem like they were taken as very serious at
this point. The officers finally, after much debate and many
questions on our part and request, we had a reason
to believe that we were being taken serious, and we
headed home. We both just shook and cried until we
had to go get our other kids from school. My
husband is seeding with rage and grappling with the fear
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of helplessness from how little he was able to do
and multiple cracked ribs on top of this from the
man who kicked him. I guess to the officer's credit,
they did asked if we wanted to press charges against
the man, but considering the man was convinced that he
was stopping to kidnap it at that time, and he
even stayed after to talk to the police and apologized
several times. When the truth became clear, my husband declined
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to press charges. Amazingly and frustratingly, there were still people
who stuck around to talk to the police, giving us
dirty looks and still convinced that the husband my husband
was involved with kidnapping. I even heard one man tell
the police they get CPS involved to verify the baby
is actually ours.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Oh lord, that's messed.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Uh. Yeah. After the flea market one last week, I
was like, oh, I gotta I gotta share this one.
That's creepy. So we talked about last week, Right, it's
like a similar scenario ish, very but I don't think
the husband did anything wrong that Like the last week
when we talked about the flea market one, the guy
was not paid attention with his kid, right.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, he was follow of the year of material.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
In this case, the woman just comes up, takes the
kid and just starts heading off.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
That's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah. When I read this one, I was like, dang,
this is a this is a crazy story that You're
right though, that takes like a lot of like, who
just walks in.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
There, that's the crazy person's thing to do.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Or I guess it was outside the store. Who just
walks up outside the store and does that. But I
can see, okay, so obviously I've made a lot of
babies in my day. I can see the situation that
they're talking about. When somebody's like approaching the baby, like
I'm gonna what a cute baby. I'm going to talk
to the baby, you know whatever, maybe even maybe touch
a baby's hair or something like people do, and then
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to just take off with it. That's just it. That's
just crazy, man.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I just I can't even bathom how you could react
in that situation any better than what they did reacting.
I mean, like you know they were this was like
a nightmare scenario. It was so crazy that it kind
of shuts down all your ability to process information. It's like, nobody,
this is this nuts. Nobody's gonna be that nuts. Just
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walk up and pick up a kid and go.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They even talked about how and everybody's commented, long live
hey Tory, Hey everybody else. We got things, will go
ahead and throw them up here. This woman is insane.
Someone said, nightmare situation. Someone said, then someone else comments,
at least they got the baby back. Yeah, so I
could really feel for the husband because you'd be in
a panic state at that point in time, and you'd
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be like, I've got photos, and it wouldn't come across
like genuine.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's best messed up.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
I think, though, there's a chance you might side with
the woman if you didn't know.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I mean, it happens a lot of times where
like you know, you got there's a one random guy
acting a little crazy, and then you got to put
together for one there assume yeah, he's the one that's crazy,
because the idea that someone is that nuts but they'll
just walk up, calmly, pick up the carrier and start
walking off with it is in you wouldn't You wouldn't
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be able to believe that someone could do that, but
apparently they can.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
You wouldn't be able to believe it. You could almost
picture this plane out in front of you. Oh absolutely, yeah,
we were holding the guy down. Call the police, Call
the police, and while meanwhile she's just kind of sneaking
off across the parking lot with the carrier.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I gotta tell you, I don't care how relieved I
would be afterwards, I was still press charge and it's
that guy that kicked me.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Wow, what do you think you listening out there? Like,
would you press charge against the guy that thought he
was doing right? Luke wid Yeah, I mean it truly
did get several broken ribs. That would be terrible. But
can you see, I guess better way word? Can you
feel the emotions that must have been going through this
man as he went home? Yeah, A feeling of hopelessness, right,
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we's men, we's tough. Yeah, all jokes aside, that would
be a terrible feeling, like, hey, this is my job
to be the protector.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Yeah, and yeah, that's crazy that I honestly didn't expect
that story. That story is nuts, just thinking like I
keep coming back too, you know what. Right, So when
she came out the store, that scene had to be
something that you could never dream of happening. You see
these people surrounding your husband and you don't know what's
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going on there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You think that he's just being robbed, right, and you
see this lady off in the distance kind of walking
away with the baby, like, and you got to like
figure out what's going You have to process information very
quickly here.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, and that's too much. That's too much for people
to process. And so that's why it was like she
took a second before she even realized what was happening.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
You know, this happened much faster than you know, we
all laid it all out to by phone.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, oh man, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, we got a lot of people listening live. One
looks like Twitter is the most people on YouTube. We
got people on every platform right now. Somebody said, now,
I would say keep the woman there too, just in case. Well,
the thing is so, I think what happened was this
lady may never went in the store. Who knows, right,
could just walk up from outside. I assume this altercation
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took place somewhere on the mid to the end of
the parking lot. She just kind of sneaks off. Nobody
at this point was probably understanding what was going on.
I'm sure it was confusing for every everybody involved.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Yeah. Yeah, a lot of people, Yeah, trying to process
all that. Yeah, I know, each other. Probably there's probably
more altercations that we don't even know about afterwards, like oh,
where'd she go?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
You know, it's like, yeah, tell you what it makes
me want to do.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Most of these stories make me do that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, that's a scary story. That's scarier than the flea
market one. Yeah that was maybe it's defense and it
can't even process anything, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, that's definitely worse.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Everybody banned against the guy. That'd be so terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
It's just the worst. That's so crazy.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well, I was excited for you to hear that one.
The look of disgust on your face was there, and
you'd press charges.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
So yeah, screw that guy.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
You going to hell. You're pressing charges.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Jeff Townsend media sees you good night, and the question
is do I stay here? Will you be back? Are
you gonna come back?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Will you be back? Are you coming back?