Completely Bizarre

This morning I looked on CNN.com and saw a very bizarre story that went like this:

KETTERING, Ohio (AP) — A woman rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few
stops along the way — first at a gas station where she delivered the baby
herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.

Debbie Coleman, whose 3- and 4-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat,
pulled over at a gas station just after midnight Tuesday.

“I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a
little, and I looked down and there was the baby’s head,” said station co-owner
Lloyd Goff, who was alerted to the emergency at pump No. 7 by a customer.

Goff said Coleman “threw her leg over the steering wheel, groaned once, and the
rest of the baby came out.

“She caught that baby, put it to her chest, gave me a look, like, ‘I gotta go,’
closed the door, put the van in gear and away she went.”

A customer at the gas station in suburban Dayton tried to give police a heads-
up about Coleman’s situation, but a mix-up involving the license plate number
had them thinking the van was stolen.

As officers went looking for her, Coleman headed for the hospital, naked below
the waist and with the baby boy in her arm. His umbilical cord was still
attached.

“I kept pulling over, making sure (the baby) was all right, breathing,” she
said.

Meanwhile, police had straightened out the license plate issue. But another
caller mistakenly reported someone trying to throw a baby from a van.

Coleman said she noticed several cruisers following her before one cut her off.
With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up.

“I opened the door and said, ‘I just had a baby’ and just let them see
everything,” she said.

Officers sent Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.

Coleman was discharged Wednesday. Her 6-pound, 8-ounce son, Richard Lee Coleman
Jr., r emained in intensive care.

I just feel that this story is like a bad episode of Twilight Zone, or a good episode of Tales From the Crypt, either way it is a very strange story. But does anyone else just feel like its a complete white trash story? This woman has two other kids and the third one slipped right out. Its like good god!

Also wouldn’t the officers have followed her to the hospital making sure that she made it, not just called ahead.

Crazy story.

–Marcos