SPENCER, Iowa. - A northwest Iowa man accused of leaving two children in his car, while he picked wild asparagus along a busy highway south of Spencer, has been charged with child endangerment. The Clay County sheriff's office says the man was arrested Wednesday night after a passer-by spotted the children.

Authorities say the man's 5-year-old niece was outside the car crying when the passer-by stopped to help. The man's 2-year-old son was asleep in the back seat.

Chief Deputy Duane Bates said the man was in a ditch about a half mile from the car. He didn't have any wild asparagus when the deptuty found him.

After searching his vehicle, Bates says deputies found marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The man, who also was charged with drug possession, was released from the county jail, after posting bond.


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Mmmm now that's a dish for kings : pot and asparagus. I so jealous.

LMAO!

What a low life!!!! Not much else needs to be said except that I would love to have about 15 minutes alone with him.

I gotta go..get some uh... asparagus.

Why couldn't he buy the asparagus in the market?

I hope when he gets out jail, I hope he never does that again.

I don't think he was really looking for asparagus sweetie......

What a deadbeat dad..... What if his niece had tried to cross the busy highway to find her uncle ?? These stories never fail to amaze and infuriate me.....

Agreed.

He should've left the kids at home.

But maybe he wanted to share his delicious asperaguses! See, he was thinking of the kids...

Asparagus has always been a problem, not only will it make you do things like this but it will also drive you to rape and pillage at will, they call it 'Asparagus Madness'.

Okay. Maybe I'm thinking something else or prouncing the word wrong.

=/

Asparagus is a gateway drug.


Idiot.

I blame the parents.

They should have known that stoned, impulsive wild asparagus harvesting is one of the long list of reasons not to leave your kids with their under-financed uncle.

If they had just sprung for daycare this would have been avoided entirely...

Actually, I think anyone who thinks pot is a gateway drug is a effing idiot.

People have their own fu**ing MINDS to make their own fu**ing CHOICES. You can not blame it on a drug, any substance or a person/peer pressure (unless someone physically forces you to take the drug, but unless you are an idiot, I don't think anyone can force you take smoke pot).

By the logic of "gateway drug", one must also think that booze is a gateway substance. Of course, I know people whio smoke pot and hate booze. And I also know people who smoke pot and despise all other drugs.

And there is no actual physical evidence that pot is addicting. I suppose it would depend on the person, and how easily and pitifully they give into cravings. But it's all a mental thing. People who claim to have addictions to pot make me sick. They have no control.

Addictions in general make me sick. People have to go above their body, become masters of their mind. If they give into addictions, it is weakness. Ultimately, you make your choices, and no one or outside influence should sway you, as long as you make the right decision.

(I also think humans have a weird, sick obsession with eating meat, something like an addiction, but I won't get into it now)

Suuuuuuuuuuuure you do.

Sorry for not knowing the heck it is.

I was never told of it.

>_>

yes wouldnt we all,only thing is he probably whoop yall,lol.I wonder if he really was looking for asparagus? anyway that will stay on his record for the rest of his life,wonder what his kids will ask him what he was doing when they get older.