There's a first time for everything... even at age 93

[samhexum]

For her 93rd birthday, a Maine woman got “arrested” — and got a kick out of it.

 

Anne Dumont good-humoredly arranged with the Augusta Police Department to “gently arrest” her mother, Simone, who loves watching the TV show, “Cops,” WBTV reported.

 

“She goes on about how the police have the worse job and what they have to deal with, and she wondered what it was like to be arrested and sit in the back seat,” Dumont posted to Facebook.

 

Dumont’s mother told her the surprise gift on July 7 “made my life.”

 

“She happily got to see the inside of the police car. Front and back and also pushed the siren button until it whaled. A momentous event,” Simone’s daughter wrote on Facebook.

 

Simone now refers to the patrol car’s owner, Officer Paul Doody, as “her cop,” WABC reported, and she even got an authentic Augusta police junior officer decal as a present.

 

The Augusta Police Department wrote on Facebook that it was “very proud to have been invited” to be a part of the birthday celebration.

 

[Kenny]

Uh... Is this a Make a Wish Foundation thing gone horribly wrong?

[Epigonos]

What a welcome relief from all the police horror stories. Totally charming! Lovely post -- thanks much samhexum.

[Kenny]

Would have been so much better if the cop Tased her.

[samhexum]

What a welcome relief from all the police horror stories. Totally charming!

 

Cop breastfeeds malnourished baby while on duty at hospital

(COVER YOUR EYES!!!)

 

 

 

A police officer in Argentina is being praised on social media after photos of her breastfeeding a malnourished baby went viral.

 

Officer Celeste Jaqueline Ayala was working guard duty at the Sor Maria Ludovica children’s hospital in Buenos Aires when a neglected baby was brought in.

 

Ayala immediately asked to hold the baby, who hospital staff said was “smelly and dirty,” and began to nurse him, Mirror reported.

 

Witness Marcos Heredia took a photo of the compassionate act and posted it on Facebook, where it amassed over 154K likes.

 

“I want to make public this great gesture of love that you had today with that little baby,” read Heredia’s post, loosely translated from Spanish. “Who without knowing you didn’t hesitate and for a moment you fulfilled how if you were her mother. You don’t care about filth and smell … things like that don’t [happen] every day.”

 

Ayala said she did not think twice about helping the baby in need.

 

“I noticed that he was hungry, as he was putting his hand into his mouth, so I asked to hug him and breastfeed him,” she said to Cronica. “It was a sad moment, it broke my soul seeing him like this, society should be sensitive to the issues affecting children, it cannot keep happening.”

 

Now, Ayala’s kind-hearted move has prompted tons of praise on social media and a Twitter campaign using her name as a hashtag.

 

The Bomberos Voluntarios Berisso fire brigade where Ayala volunteers paid their own tribute to the selfless woman.

 

“We want to congratulate the voluntary firefighting cadet Celeste Ayala who yesterday in her job as police officer whilst she was on guard duty at the hospital, breastfed a young child who arrived crying. Actions like these fill us with pride and obligate us to redouble the effort, the work and the solidarity with our community,” the brigade wrote, the Mirror reported.

 

According to the Mirror, the baby was the youngest of six brought in by a struggling single mother.

[samhexum]

Would have been so much better if the cop Tased her.

 

Maybe if she had wondered what it was like to be BLACK and arrested her daughter would've arranged it.

[+ Avalon]

For her 93rd birthday, a Maine woman got “arrested” — and got a kick out of it.

 

Anne Dumont good-humoredly arranged with the Augusta Police Department to “gently arrest” her mother, Simone, who loves watching the TV show, “Cops,” WBTV reported.

 

“She goes on about how the police have the worse job and what they have to deal with, and she wondered what it was like to be arrested and sit in the back seat,” Dumont posted to Facebook.

 

Dumont’s mother told her the surprise gift on July 7 “made my life.”

 

“She happily got to see the inside of the police car. Front and back and also pushed the siren button until it whaled. A momentous event,” Simone’s daughter wrote on Facebook.

 

Simone now refers to the patrol car’s owner, Officer Paul Doody, as “her cop,” WABC reported, and she even got an authentic Augusta police junior officer decal as a present.

 

The Augusta Police Department wrote on Facebook that it was “very proud to have been invited” to be a part of the birthday celebration.

 

 

That was a sweet story! Thank-you for sharing it.

 

I'm glad that at age 93 she still has her knees.

[+ sync]

I hope no-one ever thinks to surprise me that way.