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Natural selection at it's finest...yes, it's sad, but I can't stop laughing...
March 12, 2008 at
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A 10-year-old Washington state boy died Monday of injuries he suffered Saturday when he buried his head in a sandbox during a play date while mimicking a favorite cartoon character.
Come on...30 years old....
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/MindMood...328&
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The mimicry involved Codey's playmates burying him head-first in a one-foot-deep sandbox, Joshua Quantrille told ABC News' Seattle affiliate KOMO-TV. Quantrille, 30, is Codey Porter's half-brother and his three sons were among the boys playing in the sand box Saturday with Codey.Quantrille said the other children initially thought Codey, buried from his head to the top of his chest, was joking when he started to thrash around. By the time they got help, the boy had already stopped breathing. Adults at the house tried unsuccessfully to administer CPR before emergency medical personnel arrived. |
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/MindMood...328&
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1) This will not make the darwin awards. The kid is not eligible as he WAS only a kid. They have an age limit.
2) Have any of you actually seen the naruto cartoons? What the kid did was not "stupid" or "dumb" for a 10 year old. He sees a cartoon character pull his head right out of the sand without any effort. What experience do you assume he has that would make him aware that it is much harder to pull your head out then it appears? There are lots of things that appear much easier then they really are, a 10 year old does not have the experience to know the difference.
3) Anyone who thinks this is funny is one sick person and should not be allowed to mingle with the general population. What else would they think is funny? killing puppies? strangling old ladies? just completely repulsive in every sense of the word and worthy of being permanently added to my ignore list.
1) This will not make the darwin awards. The kid is not eligible as he WAS only a kid. They have an age limit.
2) Have any of you actually seen the naruto cartoons? What the kid did was not "stupid" or "dumb" for a 10 year old. He sees a cartoon character pull his head right out of the sand without any effort. What experience do you assume he has that would make him aware that it is much harder to pull your head out then it appears? There are lots of things that appear much easier then they really are, a 10 year old does not have the experience to know the difference.
3) Anyone who thinks this is funny is one sick person and should not be allowed to mingle with the general population. What else would they think is funny? killing puppies? strangling old ladies? just completely repulsive in every sense of the word and worthy of being permanently added to my ignore list.
i'm sure every kid knows of ostriches hiding their head in sand to hide from enemies. doesn't make them run out and try it.
btw.. speaking of ostriches don't you think its pretty bad a bird with a brain the size of a peanut knows enough not to kill itself burying its head v the kid?
1) This will not make the darwin awards. The kid is not eligible as he WAS only a kid. They have an age limit.
2) Have any of you actually seen the naruto cartoons? What the kid did was not "stupid" or "dumb" for a 10 year old. He sees a cartoon character pull his head right out of the sand without any effort. What experience do you assume he has that would make him aware that it is much harder to pull your head out then it appears? There are lots of things that appear much easier then they really are, a 10 year old does not have the experience to know the difference.3) Anyone who thinks this is funny is one sick person and should not be allowed to mingle with the general population. What else would they think is funny? killing puppies? strangling old ladies? just completely repulsive in every sense of the word and worthy of being permanently added to my ignore list.
my mother used this example when i wanted something badly: if you see kids jump from the room of the building, are you going to doit? (well there are dumbasses who do follow others, ya when they doit i'll laugh my ass off as well), obviously my answer is no...
same as those idiots who are in a cult. remmber that cult in the 90's who drank cyanide casue some comet was coming to earth. do you really want those wackjobs procreating?
killing puppies? if nessesary yes, there are times when it's nessesary to kill them. sad, sure, but if its needed i dont see a problem. why would you murder old ladies?
i never said that sick people should be killed or removed from general population. you will find that most sick people are pretty decently behaved human beings.
However:
By 10 years old the need to breathe is common sense. Any kid who has ever swam or even dunked their head in the bathtub knows that no air is a bad thing.
I agree with the point being made here that what the kid did was stupid. If by 10 years old your child doesn't know better than to bury his head in the sand, how do you even protect a kid like that from themself? The kid was definitely old enough to know better. BUT I also agree that it wasn't funny in the least.
Stupid yes, funny no. I think somewhere in this thread stupid came to mean funny and that's not the case.
However:
By 10 years old the need to breathe is common sense. Any kid who has ever swam or even dunked their head in the bathtub knows that no air is a bad thing.
I agree with the point being made here that what the kid did was stupid. If by 10 years old your child doesn't know better than to bury his head in the sand, how do you even protect a kid like that from themself? The kid was definitely old enough to know better. BUT I also agree that it wasn't funny in the least.
Stupid yes, funny no. I think somewhere in this thread stupid came to mean funny and that's not the case.
i'm sure every kid knows of ostriches hiding their head in sand to hide from enemies. doesn't make them run out and try it.
btw.. speaking of ostriches don't you think its pretty bad a bird with a brain the size of a peanut knows enough not to kill itself burying its head v the kid?
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i'm sure every kid knows of ostriches hiding their head in sand to hide from enemies. doesn't make them run out and try it.
btw.. speaking of ostriches don't you think its pretty bad a bird with a brain the size of a peanut knows enough not to kill itself burying its head v the kid?
Not the point of this thread at all....but ostriches don't really do that. Only in cartoons.
I don't think it's funny...but I'm just kind of floored that a ten year old would do that. Sure kids do dumb things, but that doesn't even sound fun...just strange. Feel bad for his family, how do you deal with the loss of a child + family being involved in the death + all the questions one would inevitably ask themself about how could I have stopped it, why didn't he know better, etc, etc. Those half-nephews (would that be their relation?) are going to be dealing with this trauma for years (maybe their whole lives).
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