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Mark Frauenfelder at 3:14 pm Tue, Oct 9, 2012

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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.