oddly enough

oddly enough

Mother, child, both born on leap day

SADDLE RIVER, N.J.

A New Jersey mother born Feb. 29 beat 2 million-to-1 odds when she had her daughter — who also was born on leap day.

Michelle Birnbaum of Saddle River tells The New York Post that she’ll use the occasion to teach her 4-year-old daughter, Rose, about science and the earth’s cycles around the sun.

Birnbaum turned 32 Wednesday but celebrated for only the eighth time on the actual date. It comes once every four years as the result of a system intended to keep the seasons, years, months and days in working order.

Birnbaum went into labor Feb. 28, 2008, but Rose was born the following day.

She told the newspaper she’s delighted to have a “built-in party partner.”

Prank offer of baby lands teen in trouble

CLINTON, Miss.

Police in Mississippi say charges are pending against a Jackson-area teen for pulling a prank on a friend when he advertised a free baby on Craigslist using the friend’s cellphone number on the contact information.

Police Chief Don Byington would not identify the youths involved but told The Clarion-Ledger the posting was “a bad practical joke.”

Byington says the 18-year-old student at Clinton High took a photo of an unknown baby boy and placed the ad on Craigslist to give away — not sell — the baby. He says police interviewed the student Monday.

Prosecutors say the posting of such information can be prosecuted under state law that makes the “posting of messages through electronic media for the purpose of causing injury to another person” a felony.

Associated Press