Suckin' on a Crack Pipe Outside the Tastee Freeze? Small Town Missouri Kindergartener Allegedly Brings Mama's Pipe & Meth to School Show & Tell!

I know the small town of Sweet Springs, Missouri. Have driven through it many times on Interstate 70 in the western half of the Show-Me State. They used to have a Taste Freeze there, just like the John Cougar Mellencamp song. Today the Tastee Freeze and its chili dogs are all gone, and Jack and Diane have apparently grown up in not such a good way...

It was show-and-tell day recently at the Sweet Springs Elementary School. Is there a more time-honored American grade school tradition than that? Little Billy brings in a turtle he found. Little Hector brings his pet rock. Fatty Four Eyes totes in an Easy-Bake cake she made. And Junior Doe whips out Mama's crack pipe and methamphetamine. Then...now wait a damn minute!

Cops in Sweet Springs say one of the kindergarteners at the school "shocked" the ol' Teach recently when Mama's pipe and meth were presented by Junior at show-and-tell. I would assume that most of the other little shits were largely oblivious to what the hell this stuff was, but obviously that's largely missing the point.

The meth reportedly had a street value of nearly four grand. I can only imagine how something like this might've gone down:

"I don't what to tell ya, Junior. I gots nothing for ya to take to that there show-and-tell. I know you already took your little skid steer toy last time. Wait! I got it. Take this here pipe. Tell 'em you use it to blow bubbles out the trailer window. And keep this bag on ya, too. I likes to keep this stuff all together. Don't you lose any of this, boy!"

Regardless, after the toddler showed up at school with the paraphernalia, cops went after and busted the little tike's 32-year-old Mama, Michelle Marie Cheatham. She's charged with possession of a controlled substance and child endangerment "in the first degree." (BTW, the law actually considers there to be "minor" ways to endanger a child, i.e. something less than in the first degree? That's a new one.)

Now the only show-and-tell for Mama may have to come during visitor hours at the local hoosegow if she's found guilty. Best advice for her: Let the Bible belt come down to save your soul or something. 'Cause don't think they got any shady trees or Bobby brooks down there at the joint. Now rock on.



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