Oh, the horrible irony: Chuck Talley of High Ridge, Missouri,
raced through his burning house at 5 am Wednesday to grab his little
girls (ages five and two) after handing his two-month old to wife
Jessica, then got all of them safely out the door while the house was
consumed by the fire. Not long afterward, Chuck was arrested and
jailed for
possession of a weapon, a sawed-off shotgun belonging to Jessica's
father. (And for possession of some drug paraphernalia, but who's
counting? The man saved his family, for crying out loud!)
I'm
thinking that the High Ridge authorities could have cut the man a little
slack, you know? After all, his house was destroyed (not to
mention that whatever drugs he might have had probably also went up in
flames). And he saved his little girls! Not many dads get
the opportunity to do that. Chuck was released not long afterward,
but still.
