Numbskull
Robert Peatie from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, was arrested last week for allegedly taking morphine from his mother's intravenous system just after she died. A nurse said that she walked into his mother's room at Cape Cod Hospital and found him standing next to the IV stand, trying to squeeze morphine from the drip bag into his water bottle. He asked for a minute more, and fled when she asked him to leave. Police charged him with larceny of a controlled substance and possession of morphine.

A judge has ordered Peatie held on $2,000 bail after a hearing on Wednesday in Barnstable Superior Court. His next scheduled court date is Feb. 17. I hope the judge shows some leniency. After all, poor Robert has just lost his mother and is feeling very numb.

On a different but very important subject, the cartoon below is being presented in honor of the Yukon Quest, also known as "Toughest Sled Dog Race in the World," which starts today in Fairbanks, Alaska and covers 1000 miles to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory during the depths of Arctic winter.


Click on cartoon for bigger dog
- posted by Woofwoof @ 6:29 AM