Some people should just not have children!

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OK, so my ex and I went out for dinner tonight. We were sitting in the restaurant, when we saw a rather drunk couple with a longneck beer walk by, pushing a pram on the curb outside. As they walked past, the mum would let go of the pram, then catch up with it, and push it off again. They wandered up and back a few times, before sitting down on one of the bus seats. The ex and I were already joking it was probably something that the Department of Community Services should be involved in. Then the mum takes the baby out of the pram and starts mucking around with him. He looks like he's 18 months old. Grabs him by the wrists, and flips him up over her head. on the way down, she lost her grip, and*thud* drops the kid on his head! An accident, to be sure. But audible from within the restaurant! The baby cries, obv iously, but the parents don't seem to be concerned. So the ex goes out to have a look at the child (he's a junior doctor) and pretty much does a neurological exam on the kid on the street. The kid seems ok, as far as can be assessed without equipment. Someone else within the restaurant has called the police by this stage. As the four police cars comr around, the male adult with the mum walks away, leaving the mum to deal with the police. I heard the most ludicrous explanation from the mother about how the accident occurred, and she was having great difficulty giving the police her own details. She'd had a couple of bourbons, half of the longneck, but "I'm not drunk"... Then, as we were walking away, the stupid mother grabbed the kid by the arms, and is swinging him around at shoulder height in circles in front of the police!!!!Someone explain to me why it's illegal for the orvaries to be removed from people like this?!?! *facepalm* The poor kid...