Sometimes I wish I'd had a nanny state growing up; maybe I would've had more than cereal for dinner those first couple of years.

But it seems this third-grader in Ohio had the opposite problem, because after tilting the bathroom scale near 220, the authorities stepped in and placed him in foster care.

Now before we look at the sides fighting in the playground over this let me just ask this: what if he weighed 20 pounds instead? Would that make a difference?

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