Adventures in DCS-land

Today I've learned a few valuable lessons...
1.) Kids are mean as hell
2.) Kids are smarter than we give them credit for
3.) Kids are manipulative brats
4.) Kids can outsmart police officers
5.) If you are looking for a runaway... you will always look in the wrong places.
6.) It might take more than one bar of soap to clean out the mouth of the kid that was sitting in my cubicle earlier.
7.) It looks really bad when a child manages to run away 3 times in one day.
8.) My job sucks sometimes.
9.) I should never have kids, because I'd probably beat them to death if they acted like the one that was in here today.
10.) Some Kids do not draw the line at prostitution.

Today, Amanda and I were on transportation. We had one job, and that job was to keep this 16 year old girl inside the building while our placement specialist looked for a foster home. This child had been picked up and taken to Juvi this morning after running away for the 19th time since coming into states custody. We picked her up, brought her to the office, took her to get lunch, came back, and all hell broke loose. Needless to say, we were not successful in thrwarting her attempts to run, and she got away. She was picked up by the police, brought back her, ran again... picked up by the police AGAIN, and managed to run again. The manipulative little brat told the police officer she was "hot" and naseated, so he rolled down the window a little. Well, apparently he rolled it down too much because next thing he knew, the little brat had managed to get her arm out the window, open the door from the outside, and proceeded to haul ass out of the cruiser. The officer then proceeded to throw the car into park and chase her by foot. Needless to say, this child is now sitting at Juvenile for the rest of the night for evading arrest. Ugh! Seriously, I had no idea kids could be so crazy. Man, I love me job!

Oh, and the best part... this child had originally run from Johnson City, where she had to take a bus to get back to Maryville. We asked her how she paid for the bus tickets for her friend and herself. Her answer: "oh, the girl I was with f***ed some guy for 2 bus tickets." Wow...