april fools is a great day

[indy007]

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KETTERING, Ohio Mar 31, 2005 — A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way first at a gas station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.

Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over at a gas station just after midnight Tuesday.

"I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a little, and I looked down and there was the baby's head," said station co-owner Lloyd Goff, who was alerted to the emergency at pump No. 7 by a customer.

Goff said Coleman "threw her leg over the steering wheel, groaned once, and the rest of the baby came out.

"She caught that baby, put it to her chest, gave me a look, like, 'I gotta go,' closed the door, put the van in gear and away she went."

A customer at the gas station in suburban Dayton tried to give police a heads-up about Coleman's situation, but a mix-up involving the license plate number had them thinking the van was stolen.

As officers went looking for her, Coleman headed for the hospital, naked below the waist and with the baby boy in her arm. His umbilical cord was still attached.

"I kept pulling over, making sure (the baby) was all right, breathing," she said.

Meanwhile, police had straightened out the license plate issue. But another caller mistakenly reported someone trying to throw a baby from a van.

Coleman said she noticed several cruisers following her before one cut her off. With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up.

"I opened the door and said, 'I just had a baby' and just let them see everything," she said.

Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.

Coleman was discharged Wednesday. Her 6-pound, 8-ounce son, Richard Lee Coleman Jr., remained in intensive care.

[ASTAC]

This one was the best..though I cannot find the whole story anymore...but it was funny as hell...here's what I could find.

Another Griffiths' stunt involving Mount Trashmore wasn't received so well. On April 1, 1992, Griffiths and then partner, Henry ``The Bull'' Del Toro, pulled off a modern classic April Fool's caper. Like the Orson Welles' 1939 Mars Invasion spoof, the radio duo used a mock news report, complete with phony seismic information from the University of Virginia and on-air calls from ``experts'' (who in reality were Griffiths' friends). Though they thought they were giving obvious clues by naming fictitious evacuation highways the jokesters convinced hundreds of gullible residents that the hill was about to explode from a gas buildup inside.In the days following the event, numerous radio employees were temporarily suspended from the airwaves without pay. It seems the FCC was not amused when local ``911'' lines were deluged with calls from concerned citizens.The disc jockeys and citizens were unaware that the methane gas the decaying matter inside the hills actually generates is harmlessly vented by three inconspicuous hollow flagpoles planted along the ridge of the hills

[capt. apathy]

Originally posted by indy007
Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.

the police encounter a woman who'd just finished labor, while caring for 2 pre-school aged children, and trying to provide post-natal care to a newborn while driving, and they send her on her way.

interesting course of action, I supose a ride was out of the question.  could have been worse I supose.  they could have given her a ticket for driving while distracted (or whatever the hell they are calling the cel-phone tickets).