Unborn British Child Threatened With Anti-Social Behavior Order

Since he hadn't been born yet, 33-year-old Charlotte Childs was shocked to get a letter from the police threatening to give her son an ASBO and inviting her to discuss how unruly he was. From the article: "Charlotte, who is 36 weeks' pregnant, said: 'The letter said there had been an incident of anti-social behavior and our child was identified. I would love to know how a 36-week-old fetus has managed to go to the park and cause trouble without me noticing.'"

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[sgcarter]

If the police are this bad at tracking the right people down, what difference does it make?

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[Master Moose]

First they came for the foetus' but I was not pregnant.....

Don't blame the precogs

[bill_mcgonigle]

It's the bureaucrats who showed poor taste.

Oh, darn, (-1, Tautology).

Bureaucratic fuck-up

[RockDoctor]

The original version of this story - which I saw and dismissed from consideration a couple of days ago, even if my memory betrayed me - it was pointed out that the ASBO was actually issued to a child of similar family name and the same given name planned for the foetus. So it's a simple "bureaucrat spells name wrong" story.

Is there anything interesting on the telly tonight?

DUMB question!

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[obergfellja]

this story sounds made up, like what you will see in a Tabloid, right next to "I married Big Foot" and Bat boy is son of the Count from Sesame Street.

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[Seumas]

You're right. Mistaken identity. There's no story here, whatsoever. It's not like it also contained something about targeting someone for an incident of anti-social behavior or anything.