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Video was posted March 12, 2013.
March 13, 2012 Mother arrested for giving toddler son a ‘smoke on a marijuana bong’
How STUPID can parents be? This stupid!
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Video was posted March 12, 2013.
March 13, 2012 Mother arrested for giving toddler son a ‘smoke on a marijuana bong’
Justinian
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WOW.. so this was a different case. Maybe we should decide what extent of spanking is allowed and promote it. On PARENTS too! Maybe being spanked with a belt is going to infuse more into their minds than jail time. Cause obviously prison time is like a lifetime achievement award in some places.
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I like the judges that make people parade around with a sign saying how stupid they were. Public humiliation would be better than jail time, and cheaper. I think I would rather go to jail then to be embarrassed by public humiliation. We could put them in a cage in the town square or mall for people to walk buy to see the looser...but is that too extreme? Maybe so.
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In a sense, this is already happening. Their names and photos are splattered on the Internet and in the Mainstream Media. You know there's a lot of backlash from that...people calling and emailing them making threats and calling them names. It always happens when someone makes the news for something bad and stupid like this. Today's "cage in the town square" is called the Internet.
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Right...I am watching a 20/20 show, "The Camera Never Lies" and it talks about these vids on You Tube that follow the stupid person or anyone else around for the rest of their lives...but I still want some type of punishment like flogging with bamboo...which might be too barbaric or harsh. Lol
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Baby left with note in locked car while mom goes shopping
A photo of an baby left with a note while strapped in its car seat in a parked car has a lot of people talking but apparently – not local authorities.
The disturbed incident happened in New Zealand where a mother left her baby inside a locked car with a note taped to the newborn saying “My mum’s in doing the shopping, call her if I need anything.”
The note also included the mother’s mobile phone number.
When shocked passersby spotted the unattended newborn, they called the number to get a hold of the mother, but of course not before snapping a photo of the scene.
This photo, which shows a baby strapped in its car seat in a parked car, went viral over the weekend after the passerby who snapped it posted it to Facebook.
The photo which eventually found its way on Facebook, went viral over the weekend with several calls for the mother to be charged for neglect.
However, as of Monday, police were not investigating the case as no complaint was ever made and filed.
New Zealand law says its illegal for a child under the age of 14 to be left alone “for an for an unreasonable time or in unreasonable conditions and could result in a $2,000 fine.”
Baby left with note in locked car while mom goes shopping
A photo of an baby left with a note while strapped in its car seat in a parked car has a lot of people talking but apparently – not local authorities.
The disturbed incident happened in New Zealand where a mother left her baby inside a locked car with a note taped to the newborn saying “My mum’s in doing the shopping, call her if I need anything.”
The note also included the mother’s mobile phone number.
When shocked passersby spotted the unattended newborn, they called the number to get a hold of the mother, but of course not before snapping a photo of the scene.
This photo, which shows a baby strapped in its car seat in a parked car, went viral over the weekend after the passerby who snapped it posted it to Facebook.
The photo which eventually found its way on Facebook, went viral over the weekend with several calls for the mother to be charged for neglect.
However, as of Monday, police were not investigating the case as no complaint was ever made and filed.
New Zealand law says its illegal for a child under the age of 14 to be left alone “for an for an unreasonable time or in unreasonable conditions and could result in a $2,000 fine.”
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i do suppose whats the main threat when you miss-behave in a store? Your parents tell you that if you keep it up you are going to have to go sit in the car, perhaps this mom doesn't take this threat lightly.
Samstwitch
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How STUPID can parents be? Parents give 5-year-old boy a 22 gun for a present (or maybe he was 4 last year)...Boy accidentally shoots 2-year-old sister!
5-year-old boy shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky
BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death in rural southern Kentucky with a rifle he had received as a gift last year, authorities said.
The children's mother was home at the time of the shooting Tuesday afternoon but had stepped out to the front porch for a few minutes and "she heard the gun go off," Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said. He said the rifle was kept in a corner and the family didn't realize a bullet was left inside it.
White told the Lexington Herald-Leader the boy received the .22-caliber rifle as a gift.
"It's a Crickett," White said, referring to a company that specifically makes guns, clothes and books for children. "It's a little rifle for a kid. ... The little boy's used to shooting the little gun."
The shooting, while accidental, highlights a cultural divide in the gun debate. While many suburban and urban areas work to keep guns out of the hands of children, it's not uncommon for youths in rural areas to own guns for target practice and hunting.
"Down in Kentucky where we're from, you know, guns are passed down from generation to generation. You start at a young age with guns for hunting and everything," White said Wednesday. What is more unusual than a child having a gun, he said, is "that a kid would get shot with it."
"Accidents happen with guns. They thought the gun was actually unloaded, and it wasn't," the coroner said.
White said the girl died of a single gunshot wound to the chest area.
In a brief news release, state police said the shooting occurred when the boy was "playing" with the rifle, but did not elaborate. It is not clear whether any charges will be filed, said Kentucky State Police spokesman Trooper Billy Gregory.
"I think it's too early to say whether there will or won't be," Gregory said.
The AP is not identifying the children because of their ages.
The company that made the gun, Milton, Pa.-based Keystone Sporting Arms, produced 60,000 Crickett and Chipmunk rifles in 2008, according to its website. It also makes guns for adults, but most of its products are geared toward children. The smaller guns come in all sorts of colors, including blue and pink.
The company's slogan is "my first rifle" and its website has a "Kids Corner" section where pictures of young boys and girls are displayed, most of them showing the children at shooting ranges and on bird and deer hunts. The smaller rifles are sold with a mount to use at a shooting range.
"The goal of KSA is to instill gun safety in the minds of youth shooters and encourage them to gain the knowledge and respect that hunting and shooting activities require and deserve," the website said.
No one at the company answered the phone Wednesday.
According to its website, Bill McNeal and his son Steve McNeal decided to make guns for young shooters in the mid-1990s and opened Keystone in 1996 with just four employees, producing 4,000 rifles that year. It now employs about 70 people.
Burkesville sits amid rolling hills near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line along the Cumberland River, in the Appalachia region. The small city is about 90 miles northeast of Nashville, Tenn.
It is home to a Mennonite community that gained attention in 2010 when nine of its members were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer.
5-year-old boy shoots 2-year-old sister in Kentucky
BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death in rural southern Kentucky with a rifle he had received as a gift last year, authorities said.
The children's mother was home at the time of the shooting Tuesday afternoon but had stepped out to the front porch for a few minutes and "she heard the gun go off," Cumberland County Coroner Gary White said. He said the rifle was kept in a corner and the family didn't realize a bullet was left inside it.
White told the Lexington Herald-Leader the boy received the .22-caliber rifle as a gift.
"It's a Crickett," White said, referring to a company that specifically makes guns, clothes and books for children. "It's a little rifle for a kid. ... The little boy's used to shooting the little gun."
The shooting, while accidental, highlights a cultural divide in the gun debate. While many suburban and urban areas work to keep guns out of the hands of children, it's not uncommon for youths in rural areas to own guns for target practice and hunting.
"Down in Kentucky where we're from, you know, guns are passed down from generation to generation. You start at a young age with guns for hunting and everything," White said Wednesday. What is more unusual than a child having a gun, he said, is "that a kid would get shot with it."
"Accidents happen with guns. They thought the gun was actually unloaded, and it wasn't," the coroner said.
White said the girl died of a single gunshot wound to the chest area.
In a brief news release, state police said the shooting occurred when the boy was "playing" with the rifle, but did not elaborate. It is not clear whether any charges will be filed, said Kentucky State Police spokesman Trooper Billy Gregory.
"I think it's too early to say whether there will or won't be," Gregory said.
The AP is not identifying the children because of their ages.
The company that made the gun, Milton, Pa.-based Keystone Sporting Arms, produced 60,000 Crickett and Chipmunk rifles in 2008, according to its website. It also makes guns for adults, but most of its products are geared toward children. The smaller guns come in all sorts of colors, including blue and pink.
The company's slogan is "my first rifle" and its website has a "Kids Corner" section where pictures of young boys and girls are displayed, most of them showing the children at shooting ranges and on bird and deer hunts. The smaller rifles are sold with a mount to use at a shooting range.
"The goal of KSA is to instill gun safety in the minds of youth shooters and encourage them to gain the knowledge and respect that hunting and shooting activities require and deserve," the website said.
No one at the company answered the phone Wednesday.
According to its website, Bill McNeal and his son Steve McNeal decided to make guns for young shooters in the mid-1990s and opened Keystone in 1996 with just four employees, producing 4,000 rifles that year. It now employs about 70 people.
Burkesville sits amid rolling hills near the Tennessee-Kentucky state line along the Cumberland River, in the Appalachia region. The small city is about 90 miles northeast of Nashville, Tenn.
It is home to a Mennonite community that gained attention in 2010 when nine of its members were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer.
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How STUPID can parents be? THIS STUPID!
Zip-tied 4-year-old: Two arrested for child abuse
North Carolina authorities are accusing a couple of using zip ties to bind their 4-year-old daughter's wrists and ankles to a baby gate.
Raleigh police say 26-year-old Gerald Thomas Swinehart and 28-year-old Marlaine Victoria Coffey are accused of tying the child to a gate with plastic zip ties of a type normally used by electricians. They also say Swinehart pushed or kicked the girl so hard her lower teeth broke through her lower lip.
Arrest warrants say the abuse occurred earlier this year. The child was taken into the custody of social services on March 31.
Swinehart is charged with two counts of intentional child abuse inflicting serious physical injury and is being held under $100,000 bond. Coffey faces one count and is being held under $50,000 bond. It's not known if they have attorneys.
Zip-tied 4-year-old: Two arrested for child abuse
North Carolina authorities are accusing a couple of using zip ties to bind their 4-year-old daughter's wrists and ankles to a baby gate.
Raleigh police say 26-year-old Gerald Thomas Swinehart and 28-year-old Marlaine Victoria Coffey are accused of tying the child to a gate with plastic zip ties of a type normally used by electricians. They also say Swinehart pushed or kicked the girl so hard her lower teeth broke through her lower lip.
Arrest warrants say the abuse occurred earlier this year. The child was taken into the custody of social services on March 31.
Swinehart is charged with two counts of intentional child abuse inflicting serious physical injury and is being held under $100,000 bond. Coffey faces one count and is being held under $50,000 bond. It's not known if they have attorneys.
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An accident-waiting-to-happen??!