Browns Fans Allegedly Left Their Children Home Alone to Go Tailgate

Several Cleveland Browns fans have been accused of leaving their children at home alone to go tailgating before their team's September 21 home game against the Baltimore Ravens. 

Cleveland.com’s Ryllie Danylko (h/t Deadspin’s Samer Kalaf) reports that three parents in Maple Heights, Ohio, have been cited for child endangerment after leaving five children—aged seven to 10—unsupervised at home.

The police responded to a 911 call at the residence after one child called authorities and hung up the phone. Responding officers found the progeny of 28-year-old Rashad Williams Sr., 28-year-old Shauntia Williams and 29-year-old Valerie Norris alone on the premises. The children told police their parents had been gone for several hours and that they had called authorities to settle an argument. 

Danylko reports that the incident ended in three citations for child endangering. One officer also claimed he saw Williams Sr. driving a “large tailgating camper” as he left the Williams’ home. 

To review, three parents allegedly brought their cluster of children to a residence and drove off to tailgate in a spacious camper (clearly not suited for family trips). 

While I can’t know their true intent, I can say this in no way appears to be a Home Alone situation. You don’t remember to pack up the grill and the quinoa and forget the five, tiny human beings tumbling about your living room. 

In any case, these parents are fortunate their children are intact and that they didn’t return home to some kind of juice-centric, Lord of the Flies standoff involving the last Capri Sun and a Darwinian need to cull the weak.

Get a babysitter, people. They’re kids, not livestock. 

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