Kids...

[Guest papacita]

LINZ, Austria (Reuters) - A four-year-old Austrian boy was so disgusted by his grandmother's plum dumplings that he dialed emergency services for help, Austrian state television ORF said on Tuesday.

 

When the startled policeman on the other end of the line in Linz, Upper Austria, asked the young caller what he thought the police should do, the boy was clueless, the report said.

 

The officer pleaded with the boy to give grandmother's plum dumplings (Zwetschkenknoedel) another chance. He agreed and hung up.

[Guest bob_barron]

Plum dumplings are kinda nasty.

 

So I see the kids point

[Guest Vern Gagne]

What are plum dumplings?

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

What are plum dumplings?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

At least the officer handled it in the correct way. If it was the in US or Canada, they might have arrested Grandma.

[Guest danielisthor]

At least the officer handled it in the correct way. If it was the in US or Canada, they might have arrested Grandma.

the kid would be sitting in protective services and the entire family would be up on child endangerment charges.

[Guest Olympic Slam]

"the kid would be sitting in protective services and the entire family would be up on child endangerment charges. "

 

Don't forget sensitivity training. When in doubt, send someone to sensitivity training for "reprogramming."

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

Christ, when I started reading it I was really expecting to read that the kid was so fed up w/ the dumplings that he killed poor ol' granny. Nice to see a story about plum dumplings that doesn't end in bloodshed for once.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

It's always the dumplings...

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"A four-year-old Austrian boy was so disgusted by his grandmother's plum dumplings that he dialed emergency services for help, Austrian state television ORF said on Tuesday."

 

Damn, I know Europe is known as the Nanny State, but calling Big Brother because you don't like granny's cooking? Yeesh...

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Christ, when I started reading it I was really expecting to read that the kid was so fed up w/ the dumplings that he killed poor ol' granny. Nice to see a story about plum dumplings that doesn't end in bloodshed for once.

That's what I was thinking too.

[Guest Ken]

If I have to ever eat Tuna Casserole again, you WILL be reading a story about relatives deaths.

[Guest HecateRose]

Hey, atleast the 4 yr old's family knows he knows how to get ahold of some in case of emergency, at least they did something right there

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Tuna casserole OWNZ~!

[Guest Samurai_Goat]

All I know is, when I was 4, my grandma gave me things like hot dogs, nutty bars, and bits of bologna and cheese and crackers shaped in little happy faces. Of course, that's partially because no one in my family dares to give me budding. Isn't that right, sis?

[Guest HecateRose]

Don't make me tell the pudding story here, you may never live it down (though is funny in hind sight . . . no wait, it was funny then too)

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"All I know is, when I was 4, my grandma gave me things like hot dogs, nutty bars, and bits of bologna and cheese and crackers shaped in little happy faces."

 

Whenever my grandma made me something I didn't like I just put it in a napkin, left the table and threw it away outside in the trash. I didn't need the services of 9-1-1...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

My grandma is an AMAZING cook. Of course, she also had to cook for nine kids, a husband, and farmhands for years and years. No one on the planet makes better biscuits and gravy, I mean, those things are the stuff dreams are made of. I can't imagine not liking a grandma's cooking.