A man walked into a pawn shop in Florida, put his baby on the counter and, according to police, asked how much he could get for the kid. “This is what I got,” the father, Richard Slocum, said as he placed the infant before the owner of the store in Sarasota, on Florida’s Gulf coast. “He’s barely used, seven and a half months old, what do you think he’s worth?”The father later told officers he had been joking, but the shop owner didn’t see the humor and called the police. “He was pretty serious about it,” Richard Jordan told a local television news channel. “He spun the baby around, and said, ‘Can I pawn this?’“Jordan called the police as soon as Slocum left, saying he was concerned for the child’s wellbeing.

Source: Hindustan Times May 11, 2019 04:30 UTC