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did he died?
No death, but I predict a great settlement coming from this.
That’s not a great way of raising a child!
did the server get fired?
Heard the dad got fired after little Dominic banged mom. Not a great deal either.
Isn’t there a big pile of $hit somewhere for you to be shoveling? I’m assuming as you are absolutely covered in it. Eew. Wait… what are you doing? Oh, just cleaning the poo off of your clothes? OK… uh… wait… NO! DON’T EAT THAT! *Dear God, no… *gasp *the horror
That insult hadn’t a great amount of thought, you should watch for that hidden perversion of yours with poop, son.
Says the person who said that the 15 moth old Dominic was banging his mother…
month** And that is called a typo, noth a spelling error in the way of not knowing how to spell.
not** And another one because of typing too fast.
And before you trolls pipe up with some inane comment, this place was taken over by people like you. We can’t even talk or joke about the fail and have fun with friends without stupid comments like “Did he die?” and other sort of babble.
Sorry about my post. I just hate the anti-AGATT trolls. GRR!
I hate them too
so basically we can’t make a joke like “he was banging his mother” anymore because of people like…………
waitaminute…….. yes Taya, people like you
It’s not great at all…
I hope he made some new best friends.
Obviously he didn’t die and he was after all 15 months old…
15 month olds cant die?? I’m going to throw my 15 month old cousin out the window to test this theory.
I could be wrong, but I think what Taya was saying is that a .10 BAC is unlikely to kill a 15-month-old (compared to, say, a 1-month-old, who likely would have had a more dangerous reaction to the booze).
And obviously he didn’t die, or that would have been in the first paragraph of the story.
Trying to sound smart, even though I’m a drooling idiot… I would venture to guess that the most important thing in regarding danger to the baby/toddler is how well he metabolizes alcohol not the BAC.
it could be a matter or both really.
.10 is considered legally intoxicated in all fifty states. Are you sure you didn’t mean .01?
The article says the baby’s level was .10.
It’s a factor of percentages. 0.10 is a lot less alcohol in a 15-month old than it is in an adult.
Yes, but most adults have some level of alcohol tolerance, and no 15-month-old does. That kid was drunk off his noodle.
I did not say they can’t die, I said he didn’t die to the “classic troll comment” Did he die
In that case… ———————————————————->
it’s “did he died” ya dumbass
YOU LIED.
Did he lied?
the kid probably had the best sleep of his life that night
Yeah, he probably slept like a baby.
What?
Oh.
Not funny.
Yes it was!
And the following morning, he got a special book from the doctor, titled “My First Hangover.”
Yea, but he’s now gonna be sponsored by his teddy bear and start attending AA meetings.
histeddybearisaheroinaddict
You didn’t hear that from me!
still better then if it were a pedobear XD
HERES THE LINK FROM WHEN THIS HAPPENED IN AN APPLEBEES IN CALIFORNIA 2007
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/283439/applebees_serves_margarita_to_a_2year.html
AND HERE IS A LINK FROM WHEN IT HAPPENED AT AN APPLEBEES IN NEW YORK
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/5939518/detail.html
UHHH HOW MANY TIMES DOES THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN….
HOW MANY KIDS OUT THERE ARE BEING SERVED AND PARENTS DONT KNOW?!? ALL OF THESE INCIDENTS THE CHILD WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN SERVED APPLE JUICE.
CAPITAL LETTERS!
MINDIANNA JONES is just being a capitalist.
No, it is being a retarded moron.
Mindianna screams so Mindianna can’t hear the voices! Ahhhhhh!!! Now let’s all shush so we can hear Dominic sing some karaoke!
Either that, or it’s an urban legend that keeps getting picked up and recirculated by news organizations that don’t bother with fact checking. That’s happened before.
Nope, they had the lady on TV so either she’s got a heck of a racket OR it’s 2 unrelated incidents.
And I remember the other one as well.
You never know.
From Applebee’s online menu, I see they have a margarita called “Red Apple ‘Rita”. I wonder if that’s how this keeps happening: the bar gets confused because of a waiter’s sloppy handwriting.
But it was in a sippy cup. How confused can a bartender get?
It’s pretty messed up no matter how you slice it.
I’ve worked at Applebees in the past as the bartender. Typically the “bartender” is NOT a bartender, but a server stuck there to save money paying for an actual bartender. In any case, drinks aren’t written down on pads or anything. Once a server takes the order, they head over to a computer POS (point of sale) system to push a few buttons to key in the order.
Once the order is keyed in, the bartender gets a print out at the bar, which lists the types of drinks people want, how much alcohol, and how they want it served. Note: Applebees does not use “sippy cups.” The closest we had to this was a small highball glass. It wasn’t uncommon for us to use those (with a small flag of some sort in it to signify it wasn’t alcohol) for children.
What has likely happened here is this:
The mother ordered apple juice, and the server keyed it in wrong. The bartender never sees the person ordering unless they order from the bar, so the bartender produces the drink as it’s supposed to be. Since all drinks come from the bar anyway (even the soft ones) the server goes to pick them up never knowing that the “apple juice” has been replaced. Parent gets the drink, and pours it into their cup, removing it from the highball glass and the tell (remember the flag I said) that says that it’s alcohol. So the next time the server swings round, they never realize that a child is drinking the alcohol, and just see an empty glass.
I guess the first article confirms my theory that the margarita mix might have been stored in a container similar to that of the apple juice.
There is very damned simple and easy solution : always try what they give your kid to drink. I can’t believe people do NOT do this.
Yeah, after reading this article I definitely will do this with my daughter when she’s old enough to have juices and stuff.
Stop shouting, we’re right here.
It looks like Applebee’s has finally figured out how to get people to eat their food.
Actually, according to the article, even the drunk toddler was smart enough to not eat Applebee’s. Which is even stranger considering that when you’re blasted you usually want to eat cr@ppy food even more.
Oh Contrare!
Young Dominic refused to eat his chow!
Given where he was, can you blame him?
That’s why they (or I?) call it Crapplebee’s. Do people actually eat there? For real? I mean real people that don’t drag their knuckles on the ground and speak in a manner that is intelligible to other humans.
Yeah, I eat there, and to be honest I find your sardonic tone rather offensive. Sure, Applebee’s is not what I would consider “fine dining,” but they also aren’t that expensive. For perhaps slightly more money, they serve food that is substantially better than chain diners like Shari’s or Denny’s, which to be honest completely suck. THOSE are places that I don’t eat because after giving them a first and second try, I realized that they were universally terrible. Applebee’s, however, is not so bad.
I’m a senior in college so I can’t afford 20 bucks a plate every time I want something that I don’t have to cook (and I do cook a lot, mostly Italian dishes…and by that I don’t mean frozen pizza).
Once I have some sort of gainful employment, I can consider restaurants of a higher caliber.
Places *at which* I don’t eat. Fixed.
1. It’s better than McDonald’s and 2. The Applebees in my town is good, the one in the next town is notorious for food poisoning.
tl;dr
This was Applebee’s way to keep the ankle-biter quiet?
Maybe, but did they leave a tipsy for the waitress/waiter?
TROLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
I was sure I had heard this story before… I did a check and this is apparently not the first time this has happened at Applebees…
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=5397058
Seems as though they didn’t keep their promise to change the bottles.
I had to check the links too! Weird or What? Parents for generations have been slipping the little darlings a wee dram to calm them down. Even in the 70′s “Gripe Water” contained a small amount of alcohol. But this smacks of something of a label fail or some other screw up. How can three seperate restaurants serve an alcoholic beverage to a child as apple juice?
The fact that this has happened more than once is cause for people to file a complaint and have the entire Applebee’s chain shut down.
You are a moron.
… says the imbecile.
Madison Heights is a Detroit suburb. Most mothers probably request their kids’ apple juice with a splash of something.
(Yes, Detroit-bashing is the state pastime, at least to people who live elsewhere in the state.)
“…elsewhere in the world.”
There. Fixed it for ya.
“Every country has one city they make fun of. In Russia, we used to make fun of Cleveland.”
– Yakov Smirnoff
No, pretty much just east siders do that. The rest of us bash Youpers and stuck up east siders.
Yes, it must be a pastime for you Youpers and dirty Westerners. Because if you were actually IN the Detroit suburbs, you would know Madison Heights is the rich area, and you have no leg to stand on with regards to bashing that part of town.
Now, you wanna talk Warren…
“I’ll tell you. . . when I’ve had enough. . . Hic. . . mommy. . .”
That server is an idiot. “Hmmm, we’re out of apple juice. Oh well, I’ll just substitute margarita mix instead!” Idiot! =C
Or you could, ya know, read the other links and find out that the juice and alcohol were kept in almost identical containers.
Doesn’t make the server an Ivy Leaguer, there, either. If the containers were that similar, the server should have made damn sure to read the labels carefully.
Call me cynical but $10 says mama slipped the alcohol to her toddler in hopes of suing Applebee’s … no bartender is stupid enough to pour a margarita into a sippy-cup.
you know, i think that theory is more “likely”
However I actually worked at applebees and dated one of the bartenders. It’s VERY possible.
……furthermore, the only juice at applebees is behind the bar—so the drink did come from the bartender.
I wonder if she was using the kid cup to mix drinks and just left it on the counter.
The article says that the child was given the margarita mix. It is possible that the mix was in a container similar to that of the apple juice, and some inattentive boob working behind the bar grabbed the wrong item.
Still, considering the number of people who sabotage food to cash in, I can relate to your cynicism.
According to the various news articles of this and related incidents, Applebee’s keeps their apple juice and alcoholic margarita mix in very similar-looking bottles behind the bar. It was an “honest mistake” which should get at least one person fired.
Finally. A way to keep kids quiet in a restaurant. Wait…..there’s a hole in my theory. Crapplebees doesn’t qualify as a restaurant. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
A business doesn’t have to serve food that you like in order to qualify as a “restaurant” — hell, McDonald’s qualifies, and most of their menu items aren’t even food.
quoted the branch manager as applebees corperate took him ‘out back’
“The cup was sabotaged by a spy from the downtown Chilis! We were set up, I tell you. I’m INNOCEEEEEENT!!”
Splash
I knew it! Those damn people at Chillies.
Pun-isher, it’s “Chili’s” — learn to use the key in between the semicolon and Enter on your keyboard.
rawrrarr, learn to spell; the restaurant’s name has one “L,” no “E,” and an apostrophe.
Wow..how completely unnecessary of you..
Meh, some toddlers just can’t hold their liquor.
As the father of a 17 month old boy, this would scare the crap out of me.
Geez, parents these days. My family laughed when I got hammered at 18 months old. Family gathering, everyone sipping on grasshoppers, everyone giving the little kid a sip of the milkshake concoction and not noticing the others were doing the same…result? Laughter and an early bedtime for me.
Geez, parents these days, not being amused by their kids being put at risk for serious brain & liver damage. What was she thinking?
1st parenting fail… nobody at the table was 21.
2nd parenting fail… reports indicate the mother took the beverage in question and transferred it to a sippy-cup she brought.
how could she not notice it wasn’t apple juice?
sounds like a load of b.s. and that they’re willing to risk their child for a chance at some cash
I’m with you on that, margaritas do not look like urine. Apple juice does.
I imagine that the cup was opaque, and had a lid on it. Thus, you could not see the contents of it.
So “how could they not notice” doesn’t really apply to a beverage you can’t see.
The sippy cup came from Applebee’s, not the mother.
1st posting fail… nobody at the table ordered alcohol, so nobody needed to be 21.
2nd posting fail… there are no reports that indicate the mother brought the sippy-cup with her, or that she had any direct contact with the beverage before she noticed how oddly her son was behaving.
bold bold bold
this is me writing in bold
let there be bold
Man, I’d be pretty angry if someone did that to my son. Being that drunk at that age does damage to the brain.
Drinking any alcohol at all at any age does damage to the brain. That amount of alcohol at that age carries the risk of severe-to-fatal brain and liver damage.
Parents have become so overprotective toward their kids that its becoming dangerous. He was rushed to hospital where the doctor no doubt said ‘Yes, he’s a bit drunk, let him sleep for a while and he will be fine’. OMG, HE’S A BIT DRUNK, END OF THE WORLD, LETS SUE EVERYTHING. Today’s children will grow up needing therapy if someone so much as gives them a hard stare.
No doubt Mom owns an SUV, because it makes her feel like she’s protecting her kids. An SUV with raised rear visibility so that she might reverse over them in it.
Are you aware that if the parents didn’t taste the juice and the kid ended up drinking all of it that he would have died from alcohol poisoning?!?
^This.
It’s not really an overreaction. I’d be worrying too and I don’t even like kids usually.
Can you show any evidence to support that? I can’t find any on the internet.
The original news article says that the kid’s BAC was 0.10 from a couple of sips — yeah, a 15-month-old could have died from the amount of alcohol he ingested before it was caught, let alone if it went any further. True, the doctor said he’d be fine — after a thorough examination to determine whether there were any serious problems; this is not an endorsement for the sale of alcohol to toddlers.
Can you show any evidence to support your claim that the mother owns an SUV or is planning on backing over any children, you misanthropic mule?
If the kid was 15 years old and got a bit drunk I might think it was an overreaction. 15 MONTHS.. No, it’s not an overreaction. If someone served alcohol to my son (who is 5), I wouldn’t even bother holding my husband back from beating them senseless. Seriously, how is being pissed off at your 15 month old child being given alcohol in a kids cup being overprotective?
Your response to me say this is an overreaction is to say you would let your husband beat somebody up for it. Not exactly proving me wrong is it. The fact that this makes you angry doesn’t affect whether its actually dangerous or not, is there any risk in this case?
No, her reaction doesn’t prove you wrong — but you are, in fact, wrong. It’s very dangerous, the kid could have died, and it wasn’t an overreaction.
Lots of things could happen, doesn’t mean its a good idea to become hysterical if anything does. I didn’t claim there was no risk to infants from consuming alcohol.
There was no danger in this case and yet Zobiana was all for letting her husband turn violent anyway. Though it wouldn’t have made any difference to the child’s health. The reaction is out of proportion with the threat to the child. Modern parents paranoia goes beyond the actual risk and sometimes this is detrimental to their children.
Something tells me that The Great Satsumo’s mother let him drink a little too much alcohol when he was a baby…
Do you have a point that relates to the subject? Because insults are the refuge of someone who lost the argument.
I am so pissed after reading this and he isn’t even my kid. I would go completely insane if that happened to my kid. So long Applebee’s, I’ll never eat there!!!!!
To be fair, it was the fault of a retarded waitress, not the establishment.
If by “retarded” you mean “careless, but just as intelligent as Jojo”…
Waiting for someone to blame it on Fox…
Waiting for Fox to blame it on Democrats and Liberals…
What’s with all the bold?
Mom FAIL.
Restaurant FAIL, mom got kid to hospital as soon as she was aware of the mistake that someone else had made without her knowledge or participation.
For the record, I blame Pun-isher for the bold thing. There was apparently an unclosed tag in their last post.
So I heard you like personal responsibility.. Since when does a margarita smell, taste, or look like apple juice? I find it funny that the kid can’t tell the difference between apple juice and a margarita. Maybe the parents give him “apple juice” at home so he didn’t make a funny face from drinking it. Have you ever given a kid alcohol? (a sip.. not saying here buddy have a six pack). If you have then you’ll see them make a funny face or say that it tastes funny.
LOL @ people saying this story convinced them to stop going to Applebee’s. I stopped going to McDonald’s because I got burned by coffee and there was nothing on the cup that said it was hot.
I worked at McDonald’s and people want to sue so bad that they’ll try anything. A lady ordered a filet o fish with tartar sauce, ketchup, mustard, and extra mayo. She ate it and then threw up all over the inside of her car. She came back and told the store owner that McDonald’s needs to pay for her car to be detailed (the car was so dirty inside to the point that I wondered why the puke in the car bothered her.or she will sue. End result, McDonald’s paid for her car to be detailed because lawyer fees cost more than a $99 detail at the car wash. I personally made sandwiches myself and given them out only to have someone make an outrageous complaint: “There’s two dead flies in this sandwich.” Before I go on all day about attempts people made to sue McDonald’s I’ll share my personal favorite: Guy at the drive-thru is waiting on his coffee. I bring him the coffee and he says fill it to the edge and give it to him without a lid… he actually complained about me to the manager because I wouldn’t give him the world’s easiest opportunity to sue.
I worked at a restaurant called Brown Derby Roadhouse (you’re basic steak and burger joint). I’ve seen customers complain that their food tastes bad after eating 75% of what’s on their plate so they demand the meal to be free. If it was so bad why eat practically your whole freaking meal?!
I have no idea if people posting here from other countries realize how Americans love frivolous lawsuits against big name companies but basically there’s a lot of people who think of every opportunity to sue a company because they don’t want to work for a living. Obviously people love to only hear one side of the story and usually go along with the “victim” if the party being accused is a business, without hearing the details or actually questioning the other person’s motives.
Usually people that file lawsuits for stupid things like this are either lazy or they are a lawyer. I got an email for a class action lawsuit against EA Sports where the guy was suing the game company because their football games are too expensive compared to competing companies. Really?
My mind is still boggled on how the parents cannot tell the difference between a magarita and apple juice and how the kid didn’t give any signs to indicate how it tasted funny. Wow a 15 month old who bumps into things or babbles to inanimate objects? That is REALLY unusual lol -_-
How is the kid supposed to tell the parents he has margarita mix at 15 months? You obviously don’t have kids. Applebee’s deserves to to be sued for that mistake!
You sure like talking.
I have a 16 month old and no, she wouldnt say or do anything.. Most kids drink a variety of juices and lets be real, some have a tang taste kind of like light alcohol. ALthough my kids get chocolate milk..hmmmm maybe i should start checking to see if its a mudslide lol
Jeez, people before you go off on your conspiracy, stupid parents, stupid waitress/waiters, READ the articles.
The apple juice is kept behind the bar.
Kept in the same kind of container as margarita mix, etc.
Poured by the managers, filling in at the bar.
Served in cups with lids.
Oh, wait, you don’t read, you just rant.
lulbold
Fox News: Your source for hard-hitting journalism, like about toddlers who accidentally got served alcohol. Ohes noes.
Im from Michigan, and this dosent suprise me.
well they gotta start at some point in life..
No, they don’t.
There is nothing funny about this story.
Sofa Spud, you seriously need to re-evaluate your sense of humor. O.O was making a joke. Lighten up dude.
nice to know applebees margaritas have “a little” alcohol
It was just the margarita mix. I’m sure that if had actually been a margarita that they were making, they would have added more alcohol. But the person behind the bar thought they were pouring apple juice.
Michigan is the place to be!
this comment is not a comment.
So the kid got a little drunk. It was an accident, and no-one got hurt. It’s not the end of the frigging world. Can America please get over it’s pants-wetting phobia of the demon drink now?
El Daniel Rios esta bien mekote apoko nooo!?? :O
Since when does Margarita Mix have alcohol in it?
And seriously, the kid is fine, why is everyone freaking out over this? Kids get drunk by licking hand sanitizer from their hands (hand sanitizer contains ethyl alcohol).
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