Quickies: Kids Edition!

• 9 Year Old Boy Stops Pit Bull Attack: "Heredia held the dog in the chokehold until an animal control officer arrived." Kid's got a great future in babysitting.
• Tough Luv: ""You'll find big, ugly, hairy strong men (in jail) who've got faces only a mother could love that will pay a lot of attention to you -- and your anatomy," said Magistrate Brian Maloney."
• But it worked in Sound of Music . . .Three German children aged five, six and seven who said they were fed up with cold weather at home set off on a voyage to Africa but only got as far as the local train station, police said on Monday.
• 6 Year Old Misses Bus, Takes Family Car To School: Lewis said the youth, a resident of Wicomico Church, felt so bad about missing the school bus yesterday morning that he took the keys to the family's 2005 Ford Taurus while his mother was sleeping and drove toward school. (And he almost made it!)