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Poppy-Seed Bagel Triggers Kafka-esque Nightmare - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Good news: State seizes newborn baby after mom eats poppy seed bagel Hot Air
Really, really, really farked up shite. Farking bureaucrats have got to have their own special place waiting for them in Hell.
Hat tip to HA for the Mythbusters link...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqQLgw7Uz4[/ame]
The prison system finds it hard to say goodbye.
Nicole Defontes pulled her life back together in dramatic fashion after serving 4½ years in federal prison for participating in a cocaine deal with her then-boyfriend.
But if it weren't for the work of some determined Miami criminal defense attorneys and for a federal judge who was willing to listen, Defontes would be behind bars, unable to defend herself or present evidence to prove her innocence, and wrongly incarcerated for eating a poppy-seed bagel that produced a false positive on a drug test.
When her case landed before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke on a habeas corpus petition to remove Defontes from the clutches of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, the jurist appointed by President George W. Bush was outraged.
"When this happens in other countries, we call up Amnesty International," Cooke said at a hearing a year ago. "But for the fact of this defendant having resources, she would be in the FDC [federal detention center] supervised release gulag."
Good news: State seizes newborn baby after mom eats poppy seed bagel Hot Air
Via Jacob Sullum of Reason, consider this less a palate cleanser than a public service announcement for the HA faithful. If youre pregnant and happen to live in Pennsylvania, avoid Dunkin Donuts at all costs.
Mort and Rodriguezs daughter was taken by the state a mere day after they returned from the hospital. Despite a test of the child failing to uncover any trace of illicit drugs, a pair of LCCYS caseworkers and two police officers showed up at their door bearing a court order legally entitling them to seize her. And that never would have happened were it not for Jameson Hospitals written policy of subjecting mothers-to-be to urine drug tests and to then report them to the state for testing positive if they exceed an exceptionally low threshold that is far more stringent than the one the federal government applies to its own workers.
As Sullum notes, according to the ACLU complaint filed on the couples behalf, urine tests administered to Mort by her obstetrician during the pregnancy were uniformly negative for drugs. Oh well: The state grabbed the baby anyway and held her for five days.
Really, really, really farked up shite. Farking bureaucrats have got to have their own special place waiting for them in Hell.
Hat tip to HA for the Mythbusters link...
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMqQLgw7Uz4[/ame]