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precious_lullabies · Guru

Doh! Police recuse

Buffington · Guru

OH those poor people, all the way around. What a way to get publicity! I have had the police called on me 2 times (and for the Apple Valley dolls, which are not as lifelike), and also campus security (at my college) who tried to convince the woman that they knew me, I make dolls, and that was a reborn doll! They knew because I worked for them for 3 years and brought in many babies for them to see.

Of course the woman would have had to make her face one with the glass window (face smooshed in till it was flat) of my vehicle as the only remote peice showing was 1" of the basket the doll was in. And I had everything covered up. I even had stuff on the top of the covered up basket.

I now have one of those bright yellow diamond shaped signs that says: Its a doll, not a baby... doll maker on board! and it hangs in my window!!!!

People are strange sometimes. Good thing they look, but they should LOOK! before they call someone.

precious_lullabies · Guru

the sign sounds like a good idea.

i couldn't help but giggle though... i mean it would have been frightening for ppl not in the know (that it was a doll) but i can't help but find it all quite cute!!!

the owners of the car with the smashed window weren't mad and neither were the poliece so really i find it all a bit of a giggle.

LovesDolls · Guru

I've heard of a few close calls with the window smashing but never it actually happening, before!

To be safe, I travel with my babies either in the trunk or in a bag!

TinyEarthAngels · Guru

its in queensland so my gues is it is vynette from vynettes bassinet im pretty sure she is in gympie hehe must admit i had to have a giggle reborning isnt as popular in aussie as it is in UK and USA so for some ppl this is all a very new expirience I was almost arrested once for carrying a newborn baby in a bag around the shopping centre mistreatment of a minor they call it I had two security guards excourt me to main office and sat there and showed them my latest reborn hehehe I got a few customs from that day :)

precious_lullabies · Guru

no, not many ppl do know about reborns here is Aust do they. Though there have been a few stories i've seen lately but i think this one has been the biggest nation wide expose on what reborns are, or that such life like babies exsist.

TinyEA- oops!! i have had a few ppl look twice when i've been at the post office and suddenly put my baby in a box for postage!!! lol The ladies that work there often ask to see what baby i'm sending off this time that i don't seal the boxes closed till they've had a look-see.

Buffington · Guru

Ya, when you look back at it, it really is something to chuckle about. Silly really.

I got yelled at in walmart because some woman got her knickers in a twist over the fact that I had some "babies" in my car, still not even the reborns, just some Apple Valleys (2 large toddler Chris--toothy grins and even a large pricetag on them). She even went so far as to bring the greeting guy (says hello when you walk in the store). So the police were called and they both got yelled at by the cop. After he went away, they both started yelling at me and swearing & being very vulgar at me.
So I told them "what do you do, go around peeping in peoples cars to see if some little girl left her baby doll in there?" "Did you call the cops on any poor little kids?" So their response was for me to cover my dolls! To which I told them to... well, it's a family forum people so I dare not say what I told them. They walked back into the store, still yelling at me.
I saw the guy after that and when he came toward me I held up my hand in a "stop" motion and told him to get away from me.

Of course here in the US it makes things hard as we have had at least 2 infant/toddler deaths caused by people leaving them in the vehicle and NO ONE calling the police! One mother "forgot" her 6 month old was in the carseat in back of her and went to work. Left the baby there for 8 hours in the heat! Went to the daycare and said I'm here to pick up my baby. Well, they found the baby dead in the back seat still in her carseat. Now HOW can you be sooooo busy that you don't know you didn't drop the kid off at the sitter? And where were all those nosey people that call on our dolls hmmmm? You'd think someone would call!
Then there was the dad that got his kid still in the carseat, put him in the back of the van, then left him there for about 6-8 hours and "forgot" he was back there. Baby again died. And not one person called the cops! Neither one of them did any time for their babies dying, cause "they were already in enough pain". Excuse me??? OHhhhhh it's a double edged sword!

But with me, even when I cover them all up so you can't see them, someone calls someone on me! lol funny creatures us humans!

Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now. sorry.....

shakyhandsme · Senior Member

I had a similar, but more plesant, experience a few months ago. One of the office workers in the English dept. at college was showing one of my babies to a few people when she spotted one of our elder statesmen of the dept. chatting with a young professor, smoking his pipe. When she approached with the baby the old dear took one look and quickly dumped out his pipe and then asked her why the baby didn't have a heavier blanket. It took a minute or two for him and the young professor to realize that the baby was a reborn and not a newborn.

Pat C.

LovesDolls · Guru

I had a doll in a meeting at school and the presenter saw him and started talking quietly! LOL. I don't think he believed it was a doll until he touched it, even though it is my yawning baby!

Heather M · Senior Member

I have had some problems with this too. When I am carrying one of my dolls, people get on my case for not carrying it right. My family has already warned me about leaving them in cars, but so far it hasn't been a problem. There aren't many people where I live and people don't generally nose around other people's vehicles.

tianakaesha · Veteran Member

I had to laugh at this, as I was in queensland when it happened AND I picked up a doll for the first time (borrowed from a friend)... it was a bit funny! I just laughed about it...

TinyEarthAngels · Guru

Buffington wrote:

Ya, when you look back at it, it really is something to chuckle about. Silly really.

I got yelled at in walmart because some woman got her knickers in a twist over the fact that I had some "babies" in my car, still not even the reborns, just some Apple Valleys (2 large toddler Chris--toothy grins and even a large pricetag on them). She even went so far as to bring the greeting guy (says hello when you walk in the store). So the police were called and they both got yelled at by the cop. After he went away, they both started yelling at me and swearing & being very vulgar at me.
So I told them "what do you do, go around peeping in peoples cars to see if some little girl left her baby doll in there?" "Did you call the cops on any poor little kids?" So their response was for me to cover my dolls! To which I told them to... well, it's a family forum people so I dare not say what I told them. They walked back into the store, still yelling at me.
I saw the guy after that and when he came toward me I held up my hand in a "stop" motion and told him to get away from me.

Of course here in the US it makes things hard as we have had at least 2 infant/toddler deaths caused by people leaving them in the vehicle and NO ONE calling the police! One mother "forgot" her 6 month old was in the carseat in back of her and went to work. Left the baby there for 8 hours in the heat! Went to the daycare and said I'm here to pick up my baby. Well, they found the baby dead in the back seat still in her carseat. Now HOW can you be sooooo busy that you don't know you didn't drop the kid off at the sitter? And where were all those nosey people that call on our dolls hmmmm? You'd think someone would call!
Then there was the dad that got his kid still in the carseat, put him in the back of the van, then left him there for about 6-8 hours and "forgot" he was back there. Baby again died. And not one person called the cops! Neither one of them did any time for their babies dying, cause "they were already in enough pain". Excuse me??? OHhhhhh it's a double edged sword!

But with me, even when I cover them all up so you can't see them, someone calls someone on me! lol funny creatures us humans!

Sorry, I'll get off my soapbox now. sorry.....

Gosh that is really sad buffington those ppl leaving them bubs like that cry

I would glady put a sticker on my car stating i have a reborn inside but we just dont have them available in aussie not that ive seen, only one i can find is baby on board (cough cough) which i have cause to me they are my babies hehehe

Buffington · Guru

I made mine on a website called Vista Print. That's were I get my business cards too. I'll get you the link, tomorrow :)

TinyEarthAngels · Guru

wow great thanks! ((hugs))

Mo · Senior Member

Oh Well When I Made My First Baby, I Got My Sister To Actually Buy One! She Loves It!

Im Always Afraid Of Taking It Outside, Just Incase That Happened!! :)

bandycoote · Veteran Member

Wow what a story! Although I don't think reborns are all that well-known here in the US either (at least not in Washington State)! I've had two experiences just recently... I just went to visit my little sis in Spokane, WA (about an hours flight from Seattle), and was carrying my newest baby Ariella. When I had to go through Security, my husband who was not going with me was watching me go down the line & said I better put my reborn in the plastic tub with my purse and shoes, and so I did! The lady behind me said she nearly had a heart attack as it went onto the belt and through the x-ray! She had never seen a reborn!

And the week before... I left my twins(in my avatar) in the car as I went into the grocery store (just blocks from my house). I had a bit of shopping to do so I was in there about 20 minutes when I heard over the loudspeaker "will the owner of a 1997 Subaru outback pls come to the cust. service desk". When I got there, there were two agents from Child protective services there... They had a cop outside using something to unlock my car thinking I'd left real babies in the car. Didn't make the news I'm glad to say, but they were really really upset with me all round! I won't be doing that again any time soon (lol)!