[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Anyone that believes in socialized medicine should think about paying this guys medical bills. [/quote]
I did get another call and he’s already trying to find out how he can file a Worker’s Comp claim since he is now saying it wasn’t the grit in his gut, but the weight of the box he was lifting that caused the damage to his intestines, and that it all happened at work.
gotta love some folks
This story is highly disturbing.
Are people really that stupid? This guy sounds borderline retarded.
[quote]Christine wrote:
This story is highly disturbing.
Are people really that stupid? This guy sounds borderline retarded.[/quote]
what is sad is the longer I live the more I find that some people really are this stupid.
Remember when there was all those parents putting their kids in the trunks of their cars with lights and books while the parents were in bars drinking? They said they wanted to keep their kids safe but they wanted to go out and they didn’t have a babysitter.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Christine wrote:
This story is highly disturbing.
Are people really that stupid? This guy sounds borderline retarded.
what is sad is the longer I live the more I find that some people really are this stupid.
Remember when there was all those parents putting their kids in the trunks of their cars with lights and books while the parents were in bars drinking? They said they wanted to keep their kids safe but they wanted to go out and they didn’t have a babysitter.
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No. There was more than one person who thought this was a bright idea?
[quote]Christine wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
Christine wrote:
This story is highly disturbing.
Are people really that stupid? This guy sounds borderline retarded.
what is sad is the longer I live the more I find that some people really are this stupid.
Remember when there was all those parents putting their kids in the trunks of their cars with lights and books while the parents were in bars drinking? They said they wanted to keep their kids safe but they wanted to go out and they didn’t have a babysitter.
No. There was more than one person who thought this was a bright idea?
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It was about 3 years ago and there was a rash of these stories. I remember one mom was celebrating her birthday, another couple were celebrating their anniversary, and another mom said she wasn’t going to have her kid ruin another Friday night for her.
really warmed the heart
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
It was about 3 years ago and there was a rash of these stories.
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It still goes on all the time…damn liberal media just won’t report on it as they think it’s fine.
Here is one of the trunk stories that happened near me:
Car’s trunk holds some truths for us all to see
People were stunned at the story: Mother allegedly locks 7-year-old son in trunk of her car while she celebrates her birthday in an Ocean Beach bar.
Child psychologists found it, sadly, all too familiar.
“We are a very narcissistic society,” says Denise Golden, a clinical psychologist who works with abused and neglected children and their families. “It’s all about ‘I need to have this,’ the car, the career, whatever, at the expense of the most vulnerable. This is what I see consistently in many of the families I work with.”
It was karaoke night at Winston’s Beach Club in Ocean Beach, said Jesse Egan, bartending the night Sara Powell was arrested.
Powell, who turned 27 Sunday, told police she was planning to meet friends at the bar and couldn’t find a baby sitter, so she put her son, a sleeping bag and a pillow in the trunk of the 1985 Volvo and told him to go to sleep.
Police asked the karaoke host to make an announcement summoning Powell outside. Egan says he went to the door and was astonished to see a child crawl out when Powell opened the trunk of her car.
“She was drinking Greyhounds (vodka and grapefruit), but she wasn’t hammered by any means,” Egan says. “She never got up to sing, but her boyfriend, who wore dreadlocks and drank several Supermans (bourbon, pineapple juice and Coke), sang a couple of Bob Marley songs.”
The boyfriend, Jake Faria, was taken into custody Thursday and is expected to appear in court Monday.
“He was singing these songs about peace and freedom,” Egan says. “I couldn’t believe he’d be doing that with a kid locked in their car trunk outside.”
Those who work with families have no trouble believing it.
“I have been on the radio taking calls from America and Canada for almost three decades,” says Dr. Laura Schlessinger. “I have seen the decline in concern, responsibility and sacrifice ‘for the sake of children’ over this time, and it is frightening.”
Schlessinger says, “The trunk story is unusual. The unusual gets the attention.”
But she, and others, worry about what she calls the “usual and accepted” ways that parents put their needs ahead of what is best for their children.
“The message we give to our children,” Golden says, "is, ‘I’ll take care of you when I’m OK with everything else I need in my life.’
“When you have children, it stops being about you.”
Debbie Mandel, stress management expert and author, points out: "There are licenses for fishing, selling real estate, driving, etc., however, there is no licensing to become a parent.
“Many people have unplanned pregnancies, or fantasies about what it is like to raise a child. When reality hits, they are unprepared, short-fused and disappointed about the encroachment to their personal activities. So they continue to pursue their creature comforts ignoring the creature they brought into the world.”
Schlessinger says she sees that manifested in many ways:
"Casual (and often unnecessary) divorces, parents moving away from their children, and worse, remarrying and establishing new families with new children with their ‘original children’ becoming ‘visitors,’ have produced callers to my program who are as young as 5, damaged by this parental neglect and abandonment.
“It is a travesty to children,” Schlessinger adds, “to have a ‘parent’ think that what they want is more important than what a child needs.”
Golden says that Powell, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of child abuse and false imprisonment, loves her child enough not to leave him alone, but is not able to make good decisions about how to adequately care for him. And she’s at the far end of a broad spectrum.
“She is getting close to the extreme,” Golden says. “And yes, probably 98 percent of parents would never do anything like that. But we do it in little ways and justify it in different ways.”
She and others cited latchkey kids, kids who are the last ones left at school, kids who are parked for prolonged periods in front of the TV, kids who are frequently home alone while their parents go out to dinner, the theater, to movies.
“It isn’t a matter of poverty,” says Golden. “It happens to rich people. It just looks better. They don’t lock their kids in trunks, but maybe they travel for long periods of time and leave their children alone, with food in the fridge. Neglect of children goes on in many different forms.”
There is no “bright line” in the law about what age and under what circumstances children may be left alone, says Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Dort.
“The law says a parent or guardian cannot put a child in a situation where he could face any kind of harm,” says Dort, who specializes in cases involving child abuse and domestic violence.
“Basically, it’s left up to the discretion of the parents about what is appropriate . . . clearly leaving a 7-year-old locked in the trunk of a Volvo is not it,” he says. “Leaving kids in cars even for a minute is simply a bad idea . . . the car can be stolen, someone can crash into it, there can be problems with heat.”
But when to leave kids alone at home is a trickier question, the prosecutor said.
“Some 13-or 15-year-olds are mature as 20-year-olds and there’s no problem,” he said. Other youngsters act much younger than their age. “It comes down to what parents feel comfortable with.”
And the psychologists say, what is best for the child.
Mandel, a married mother of three who runs stress-management workshops in the New York City area, says: “Children suffer emotionally and into adulthood of abandonment. They feel insecure and lack empowerment. After all, if your parents abandon you and don’t boost your self-esteem, the rest of the world surely won’t.”
Golden says it’s a situation where the parents’ needs collide with the child’s needs.
“The child is viewed almost not as a human being, but as a possession,” she says. "Maturity is putting off things you want to be immediately gratified for a greater goal, and that greater goal is taking care of your children.
Police said the boy’s first words to his mother when the trunk was opened and he saw her with three officers were, “I didn’t tell them anything.”
“That to me was the saddest thing,” says Golden. "It was a child protecting the mother, not the mother protecting the child. He thought (being locked in the trunk) was weird but went along with it because it was mom . . . He already has the understanding, ‘It’s not about me, it’s about my mother.’
“The child feels no worth, not important to anyone,” Golden says. "And we wonder why we have gangs and teenage girls who want to have babies?
“Parents need to look at themselves and how they fulfill their responsibilities to the emotional needs of their children.” Golden says. “How many times do we look at our children as an inconvenience? We’re all guilty of it at some level. There are no perfect parents. But we can do a helluva lot better with our kids.”
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
Christine wrote:
This story is highly disturbing.
Are people really that stupid? This guy sounds borderline retarded.
what is sad is the longer I live the more I find that some people really are this stupid.
Remember when there was all those parents putting their kids in the trunks of their cars with lights and books while the parents were in bars drinking? They said they wanted to keep their kids safe but they wanted to go out and they didn’t have a babysitter.
What is even sadder is that we as a society feel compelled to help these people. Whatever happened to survival of the fittest? The weak and stupid should be allowed to perish so that we as a species will evolve into an intelligent and stronger being. I’m not saying we should line them all up and shoot them but maybe just allow nature to take it’s course every now and again.
Gotta go… it’s time for my earthworm protein drink. I hear it’s what all the Chinese powerlifters are drinking.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
It was karaoke night at Winston’s Beach Club in Ocean Beach, [/quote]
C’mon…cut her some slack…it was karaoke night ffs !
[quote]“She was drinking Greyhounds (vodka and grapefruit), but she wasn’t hammered by any means,” Egan says. “She never got up to sing, but her boyfriend, who wore dreadlocks and drank several Supermans (bourbon, pineapple juice and Coke), sang a couple of Bob Marley songs.”
The boyfriend, Jake Faria, was taken into custody Thursday and is expected to appear in court Monday.
“He was singing these songs about peace and freedom,” Egan says. “I couldn’t believe he’d be doing that with a kid locked in their car trunk outside.”[/quote]
Doesn’t surprise me a bit that this story came out of OB.
He probably read it on the bodybuilding.com forums as a fast and easy way to get shredded.
[quote]pookie wrote:
AngryVader wrote:
Wow! That’s one of your coworkers? He’s amazingly stupid.
The bird grit is not the worst part.
He’s refuses to go work out with OctoberGirl. AFTER BEING INVITED!
Now that, my friends, is the super-strength extra-dumb special kind of stupid.
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No fat dude wants to be shown up by a chick…even if she is hot and promised to show him how to squat properly.
[quote]sen say wrote:
OctoberGirl wrote:
It was karaoke night at Winston’s Beach Club in Ocean Beach,
C’mon…cut her some slack…it was karaoke night ffs ![/quote]
Ahahahahahaahaha I knew all those years of watching Top Gun would pay off.
Berlin-Take my breath away
Watching every motion
In my foolish lover’s game
On this endless ocean
Finally lovers know no shame
Turning and returning
To some secret place inside
Watching in slow motion
As you turn around and say
Take my breath away
Take my breath away
Watching I keep waiting
Still anticipating love
Never hesitating
To become the fated ones
Turning and returning
To some secret place to hide
Watching in slow motion
As you turn to me and say
Take my breath away
Take my breath away
Through the hourglass I saw you
In time you slipped away
When the mirror crashed I called you
And turned to hear you say
If only for today
I am unafraid
Take my breath away
Take my breath away
Watching every motion
In this foolish lover’s game
Haunted by the notion
Somewhere there’s a love in flames
Turning and returning
To some secret place inside
Watching in slow motion
As you turn my way and say
Take my breath away
Take my breath away
For you peeps not in the know:
[quote]GhorigTheBeefy wrote:
Ahahahahahaahaha I knew all those years of watching Top Gun would pay off.
Berlin-Take my breath away
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Oh that hurts…I ended up sitting next to the hottest girl in High School at that movie through a drunken fluke…I think I even held her hand…believe me…I was not the lay-dees man I am today, but something about that homo-erotic volley ball scene made the women melt…
[quote]sen say wrote:
something about that homo-erotic volley ball scene made the women melt…[/quote]
Almost as good as the soft core porn they show on Oxygen eh? Reason I watched the movie so much was because I wanted to be a fighter pilot really bad.
Anywho, the main things we should of learned are:
Don’t eat bird grit
Make sure to shoot breathing holes in trunk after the kids are in
[quote]GhorigTheBeefy wrote:
Almost as good as the soft core porn they show on Oxygen eh? [/quote]
Soft core porn makes She Say want to fuck in tandem with the movie…as long as Orpah isn’t getting her ass slammed on film I got no problem with Oxygne showing faux fucking.
Update on the mental giant.
Apparently besides the blockage in the intestine the grit affected his kidneys and his urinary tract.
I know it was his bad decision, but I feel bad for the guy. A very nice man who did something stupid.
So he will be having dialysis if he hasn’t already and I have no idea what they do for sediment in the urinary tract. I was unaware you could get sediment in the urinary tract but I wonder if this is like kidney stones.
and what do you bet he puts on even more weight and is even more unhappy once he gets out of the hospital
I dont think you understand what a Darwin Award is babe.