Occubaby is born!

Call it kismet. Last year police officers fenced in a peaceful young woman and pepper sprayed her in the face at an Occupy protest. She fell in love with the medic who came to her aid. On September 28 the couple had a baby: Tegan Kathleen Grodt!

Occubaby is born!

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Antinous / Moderator

Oh, I thought that it said octobaby. Mildly disappointed.
http://www.facebook.com/postelwait Cameron Postelwait

i’m glad occupy created something.
- wrybread
  
  Yeah, I’m glad Occupy did *something* other than change the whole national discourse to the point that even Newt Gingrich was echoing them for awhile.
  
  Harumph.
unicornrainbow

glad they waited a whole 3 months before they decided to have a baby,
- http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
  
  Deciding doesn’t always come into it, but even if they did decide what does it matter? I know a couple that got married 4 weeks after meeting and are still together 40 years later. I know people that decided to have kids at 15 that are great parents.
  
  I don’t advise either course of action for many people; but knowing as much as you do about the couple in question I don’t think you’re in a position to judge fairly.
- Boundegar
  
  How dare those dirty hippies reproduce? Now they’re probably going to expect health care and decent jobs.
  - Mantissa128
    
    People are still having sex and nothing seems to stop them.
http://www.facebook.com/elistonberg Eli Stonberg

Ocubyebaby
LikesTurtles

Glad they knew better than to name the baby Alex P. Keaton.
http://blog.benchatterton.com/ Ben Chatterton

Does that mean the mother is Occumom? This is getting confusing.
winkybb

I am mildly concerned by my inability to celebrate a new human on the planet. Even if it has a funky story behind it.
@unicornrainbow – yes they got busy pretty quickly didn’t they?
http://ryansingel.net Ryan Singel

Now if the baby was born immune to pepper spray…
- travtastic
  
  You really need to stop telling everyone about The Plan.
orangedesperado

Short notice unplanned pregnancy = true love ?
http://twitter.com/smknghrtdesigns SmokingHeartDesigns

Occubaby-B-Gone
Boundegar

I so hope this video makes it into the family’s multimedia scrapbook. “See Tegan? This is how mommy and daddy met!”
Nicky G

Is this video of the Golden Dawn-allied police in Greece? Oh wait, wrong post.
http://www.facebook.com/tomsissons Thomas Sissons

It’s old news (like, Methuselah old) that the police don’t really care about hurting people at protests but I still can’t help being saddened at them standing by doing nothing as a woman screams on her knees in pain.