"Mom Arrested for 'Abandoning' Kids in Food Court While She Watched Them from 30 Yards Away."

 Ridiculous. Reason.com: "A woman let her two young children wait in a mall food court while she interviewed for a job a mere 30 yards away. The children never left her sight. This made little difference to the police, who promptly arrested her for child abandonment...

Thankfully, I expect that the tons of media attention will save the mom from losing her hard-fought new job. What’s great is that the whole country seems to have woken up to the idea that “unsupervised for a short time” does not equal, “In such terrible danger that only an awful parent would ever let this happen.”"