All those moose babies who lost their parents to car crashes have to live somewhere.
Probably every state still does - they just call them “group homes” now.
I thought that the current process was to get such children into foster families as soon as possible.
It is - but there are never enough foster homes especially for older kids.
It’s not an “extremely common” example, but there was an episode of Doc Martin in which a couple was harvesting roadkill with the inevitable health risks that entails. IIRC, the good doctor reported them to the authorities when he learned of it.
In some novels of Carl Hiaasen there’s a hermit (“Skink”) who lives on roadkill. I don’t know if anything like this has ever been dramatized, but it would make one hell of a show!
I haven’t read the whole thread. But every time I see this thing on TV I mean to come here and post. Meanwhile the thread has grown to hundreds of posts. Maybe someone has already mentioned it.
Running after and calling out the name of a person who is walking, running, or even driving a car away from the shouter.
“Bob! Come back! Don’t leave me!” <runs after Bob>
“Mary Lou, you come back here right now!” <runs after Mary Lou who is driving away>
“Don’t you walk away from me, Joe!” <Joe keeps right on walking>
Hint: they never stop and they never look back. They may or may not ever come back.
There’s also the person walking off while the car or building behind them blows up. Somehow they seem to know that they don’t need to hit the ground to avoid flying material and have no interest in seeing the explosion.
Last time I was there they did. Of course, that was 30 years ago. But I’m pretty sure they just started sending the meat to food banks or other public service agencies. Otherwise anybody with a beater truck would be moose hunting on Spenard Blvd. each winter.
This was a fairly common lesson in the 1990s. Nowadays, some places use a Baby Think It Over, programmed to cry at random times, and yes, the teacher can tell if it was neglected in any way, and I can always tell when it’s BTIO weekend because teenagers will be carrying dolls around with them.
Is this the character that was a former governer of the state? Or am I confused?
Sounds like the neighbor didn’t like him either!
In Iowa and Illinois, it can vary from county to county and even town to town. One town in my area even allows bow hunting in a large city park, during a very restricted time period, which I realize is not the same as legally using roadkill.
Andy Samberg and pals did an SNL skit “Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions”. Ever since then, I yell at characters:
And there was a film I just saw where afterwards, they discovered that a major character was a ways away, but had been killed when he got hit with a chunk of the exploding car.
So follow my lead, young padawan. Take shelter or hit the dirt, but then swivel so you’ve got a good view of the awesomeness.
Hi ! I did that in 10th grade for my Parenting class. We had raw eggs that we had to care for. Mine was named Julian, after a character in a VC Andrews novel.
In my school, the project lasted for several weeks. Didn’t they start rotting?
Dunno. I didn’t break mine. 
They probably did, though.
No such discussion is complete without a Buffy link.
In fact, they backfired, as the people who used them realized that they could in fact handle parenting. As such, it didn’t reduce the incidence of teenaged pregnancies, as it was intended to do.
Yep, the only Governor of Florida who ever resigned the office.
When my daughter was in high school 15 years ago, they had robotic babies that had varying degrees of issues. Hers was a preemie with drugs in its system. It cried non-stop. My daughter eventually took the batteries out but the baby told on her. She had to spend 2 days at a real daycare to make up for it.
She’s never wanted kids.
In Oklahoma, the warden will ask you if you want the meat and tag it for you so you can take it to a processor. If you don’t want it, the coyotes will take it.
I’ve hit 4 deer.