Woman Gives Birth In Olive Garden Restaurant

[matcom]

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BOULDER, Colo. -- It wasn't your typical order to go. An employee at an Olive Garden in Boulder had a baby in one of the restaurant's bathrooms.

Co-workers say the pregnant woman had locked herself inside the restroom for nearly three hours.

An employee called police as soon as managers became aware that the woman was locked in the bathroom.

Steve Coe, a spokesman for the Italian food chain, said while the circumstances may be a bit unusual, their concern is with the mother and her new son. Both are said to be doing well.

Police say the woman speaks Spanish and authorities are having a little trouble learning why she didn't seek medical help.

http://www.wftv.com/food/3984248/detail.html

[ElectroPrincess]

1. I guess that brings a whole new meaning to the motto:

"When you're here, you're family." Aye? :P

[blondeatlast]

5. HAH! nt

[KurtNYC]

21. Yeah, I thought that was a mafia thing

"don't ever take sides against the family"

When you're here, you're family...so duck when they open up the 'violin cases'.

[demnan]

2. Maybe she can't afford to take time off

so was hoping to go back to work after the birth!

[DS1]

3. It's a damn good thing she didn't show up with a party of eleven, those

18% gratuity fees are a fucking nightmare once you hit twelve :7

[Champ]

4. I neglected to post this yesturday - Amusing article

My best shot? Too bad, the only thing I have to go on is their tagline "When you're here, were family" but I can't think of a good line.

[ElectroPrincess]

6. No worries buddy ...

I think your little avatar of the SDSU Scum ohh Sun Devil is amusing as hell. BTW I'm an SDSU Graduate - Dec 81. <blush>

[propagandafreegal]

7. I see a movie coming out of this..........nm

[rbnyc]

8. During my 9th month...

...I really watched where I would eat, shop, spend my time, so that I wouldn't accidentally end up giving birth someplace tacky!

Not that I'd be caught dead in an Olive Garden anyway.

;-)

[obreaslan]

9. Heck of a way to skip out on the check.

Birth and Dash! Typical. :evilgrin:

[GingerSnaps]

10. I wonder if they gave her the "Larry" chair

:evilgrin:

[flordehinojos]

11. "police say the woman speaks Spanish and .... authorities are

having a little trouble learnign why she didn't seek medical help."

Maybe the woman is an illegal alien (undocumented foreigner), afraid to be found out and sent back to her country of origin. Maybe she needed a social security number to give to the emergency room or medical clinic as proof of her being here legally in this country, or a green card, neither one of which she may have had... maybeshe was afraid of the border patrol ... so many maybes..maybe she was hoping that as the mother of a new Amerian citizen border patrol would not send her back...maybe she was smuggled in by some underground railroad... so many maybes.

[mondo joe]

12. If you're afraid to be found out, giving birth in a restaurant is not

If you're afraid to be found out, giving birth in a restaurant is not the best idea.

[Bridget Burke]

13. Yes, but babies tend to come on their own schedule.

They really don't care about your appointment calendar.

[mondo joe]

17. When you lock yourself in a bathroom for 3 hours it's your schedule

I'm pretty familiar with how babies show up.

But they tend to give you a bit of warning - in this case enough to lock yourself in a bathroom for three hours.

[flordehinojos]

14. Right,

but maybe she didn't PLAN to give birth in a RESTAURANT, maybe she just couldn't HELP the fact that that is when the baby decided to make his presence known to the world...you know, water breakings and birth pains happen not when you plan for them, they happen just when they happen.

[mondo joe]

18. Thank you for listing the early alert systems

Water breaking, contractions - these are all the ways your baby and body have of telling you : THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN PRETTY DAMN SOON - YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET WHEREVER YOU WOULD LIKETO ACTUALLY DELIVER A BABY

[flordehinojos]

20. SOMETIMES EARLY ALERT SYSTEMS AND BABY GETTING BORN ARE QUITE TOGETHER IN

THEIR HAPPENING... AND, IF THE WOMAN WAS SCARED .... I BECAUSE SHE WAS AN UNDOCUMENTED ALIEN, I CAN CERTAINLY SEE WHY SHE RAN INTO THE BATHROOM...SHE CERTAINLY SEEMS NOT TO HAVE HAD THE MINDSET OF WHITE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA!!!!!!!!!! AND, CAN YOU BLAME HER? NO. PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO RUN A SCHOOL FOR TEACHING UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR EARLY ALERT SYSTEMS IN WHITE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA!

[mondo joe]

23. If you are an undocumented alien it's even dumber to lock yourself

If you are an undocumented alien it's even dumber to lock yourself in the bathroom of a restaurant to give birth.

And I don't know what you have against latinos that you think only "white middle class america" would know better.

[flordehinojos]

24. from your point of view it is dumber, if you are an undocumented alien, to

lock yourself in the bathroom of a restaurant to give birth. ... from the point of view of the undocumented alien it may be just about the only SAFE PLACE at their reach!

I don't have anything against latinos nor against undocumented alines. However, white middle class America has come up with several propositions, in the colorado and new mexico areas to round them up and send them back. just a fact.

[mondo joe]

26. The point was if you are an illegal alien and don't want to be CAUGHT

The point was if you are an illegal alien and don't want to be CAUGHT you might choose a less HIGH PROFILE location to give birth.

You don't have to be white or middle class to know that.

[flordehinojos]

30. can you suggest where the woman might have gone? We are both making lots

of assumptions about the lady in the story. If we keep it up we can use our dialogue to write an entire, if not novel, short story at least. If she was in a restaurant, i wonder if she had other people with her, and if she did, what were they doing?

It is also true that undocumented aliens live in INCREASING FEAR in this country. There is a wind of white supremacy turning the halls of power in this country.

Some people paint themselves against a wall. She may have done that. I believe she may have felt that was the safest place for her to be, dumb as it may have been on her part.

PEACE.

[mondo joe]

31. Suggestion for a better delivery site: home; a manger

If she's an illegal trying to avoid notice almost anywhere would be better. Like where she's living for example.

[flordehinojos]

32. despite the fact that maybe home was not the place where she wanted to

lead the authorities to? I guess I am trying to play devil's advocate.

[mondo joe]

33. Why would the authorities find her at HOME?

Your entire starting point was that she might have wanted to avoid notice of the authorities.

Fine.

If you want to avoid notice would you just discreetly go home or lock yourself in a restaurant bathroom for three hours?

[Zuni]

19. It's better than giving birth outside of the INS office

now that would be just asking to be found out

--Could you picture an illegal going to INS to have a baby on it's front steps?--

[Zuni]

15. I guess the baby wanted to get in on the unlimited salad and breadsticks

:wtf:

[pdx_prog]

16. Mmmmm...placenta Marsala

Bleecchhh....wouldn't catch me dead in an Olive Garden...their salads are always good and fresh though...:)

[Danmel]

22. Did she name him Oliver?

Sorry, I couldn't resist

[Bouncy Ball]

25. The strangest thing about that whole article ISN'T the giving birth

but that in the entire police department in Boulder, Colorado they don't have one person able to speak and understand Spanish.

THAT'S weird.

[fluffernutter]

27. exactly what i was gonna say!

[spotbird]

28. Si. nt

[Radical Activist]

29. Does that baby come with bread sticks?

[Bleacher Creature]

34. Congrats on making the Freepers Top Ten List!!

I'm jealous.