Infant doused with pepper spray in feud in Idaho Wal-Mart

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002262698_webinfant04.html

The Associated Press

PONDERAY, Idaho — A woman was arrested on a child endangerment charge after an infant was doused with pepper spray in a feud between two families in a Wal-Mart, police said.

The 2-month-old baby was recovering after being sprayed Monday with the oleoresin capsicum solution, which is derived from chili peppers, police Chief Mike Hutter said.

Lorlie M. Gantenbein, 36, was charged yesterday with felony injury to a child. Bail was set at $5,000.

The altercation apparently started earlier at a gas station, but both groups met later at the discount store, Hutter said.

[SouthernDem2004]

1. Cayenne pepper family. It can cause chemical burns.

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3. The rest of the story explains the feud

But it sounds like the sort of argument that would culminate at a Wal-Mart.

[quaoar]

6. Correction

The linked story doesn't go into the feud. But this excerpt from the AOL story does:

Gantenbein said she bought the spray for her daughter as tensions rose between the two families after the Gantenbeins rented property to the baby's family and then evicted them. The feud escalated when her daughter began dating the baby's father, she added.

According to police, Gantenbein's daughter sprayed the infant's grandmother and aunt, one of whom was holding the child. Gantenbein then took the canister and sprayed the baby, authorities said. The juvenile was cited with two counts of battery.

In the phone interview, Gantenbein said the baby's aunt grabbed her daughter by the arm, prompting the daughter to use the pepper spray. When the grandmother reached toward Gantenbein's daughter, the girl sprayed her too, Gantenbein said.

"The grandmother ran through the fog with the baby," she said. "It didn't get hit in the face."

However, the baby's mother, Christina Clayburn, told Spokane, Wash.'s KHQ-TV that Gantenbein "was yelling, 'Get the baby! Get the baby!' ... Then she took the Mace out of her daughter's hand and sprayed it directly into my daughter's face."

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What no tasers? n/t

[SouthernDem2004]

5. Didn't read the story, did you? :)

[blogbear]

2. I don't know that a child endangerment charge is enough and why do

people need to be carrying pepper spray in Walmart anyway?

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7. Here, you'd do it to spray a mugger in the Walmart parking lot. n/t

[Gregorian]

4. Self deleted stupid post.

I stuped a bit too low for my own tastes, this time.

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8. locking

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