2 Boys Die, Mimicking Saddam Hanging

[St.James]

Jap!

What does that mean?

[Norton]

Jelly And Peanuts?

[TreeFitty]

Kids tend to be over-protected these days. How can they be expected to learn there are consequences for certain actions if everything is padded, saftey-edged, etc.? Look at playgrounds. When I was a kid (late 70s -early 80s), playgrounds were wood and metal structures over dirt or gravel. If you did something stupid, you got hurt and/or your parents busted your ass, you learned, and you didn't do it again. Now, parenting for many people consists of lawsuits against those who don't raise and protect their kids for them. Bravo to those of you who take the time to raise your kids, you're doing a great thing.
In this case, regardless of the family's actions or inaction , it's a sad situation and they are suffering.

[Argos]

Another one that was interesting was about VD and the climate. In a nut shell in the warm months people go out and "socialize". So VD would spread accordingly. Then when winter came people stayed home more and thus VD would be kept in check. A warm or late winter either caused or could cause an epidemic of VD due to unabated "socializing" and spreading the disease. (Insert Anthrax as background music here...)

I'm moving to the Bahamas!

[Stinkbug]

I'm moving to the Bahamas!

Keep us posted on the date...we can start charting the spread of VD after you get there... :-)

[5074charvel]

Interesting posts here about natural selection and how people should raise their children. I cannot see what´s so funny about two dead children that weren´t fully capable of undestanding the concept of capital punishment. Maybe some of you guys should spend less time in front of the tv.

[lerxstcat]

What does that mean?

I'd guess it's Slovenian for "Yep"...

[lerxstcat]

Interesting posts here about natural selection and how people should raise their children. I cannot see what´s so funny about two dead children that weren´t fully capable of undestanding the concept of capital punishment. Maybe some of you guys should spend less time in front of the tv.

It's sad that this happened, sure, but children of 9 and 10 years' age should be old enough to have learned not to do this. They should know this on their own, but also their parents should have taught them this before now.

To just ignore that and only say to sympathize for the families, without saying that there was a problem of negligence on the parents' parts, is irresponsible. That's why something like this could well happen again - because no one wants to see the parents' responsibility for not teaching their kids basic survival information.

What, is someone actually going to try and sue a TV network for this? I don't know, but if that happened it would be ridiculous. Parents should be responsible for letting the kids see it, and for explaining to the kids, "You can't do this, you could kill yourself".

[Argos]

You guys seem to be seriously lacking compassion. It's really not the kid's fault that they may or may not have had shitty parents. How would you like it if your little sister or cousin or whomever died from such a preventable and tragic accident and the only response you received was "good, one less idiot in the world"?

They were only young kids.

[toejam]

What, is someone actually going to try and sue a TV network for this? I don't know, but if that happened it would be ridiculous. Parents should be responsible for letting the kids see it, and for explaining to the kids, "You can't do this, you could kill yourself".

Exactly. Just like it was ridiculous when people have tried to sue Ozzy, Judas Priest, Slayer, whoever else, because kids have killed themselves apparently listening to their music. Or in Slayer's case, a bunch of teenage boys raped and killed a teenage girl because they claimed they needed to kill a virgin for satan because of their music. Each one of those cases was thrown out of court. If those kids at their age didn't know that what they were doing was wrong, fuck 'em.

[5074charvel]

It's sad that this happened, sure, but children of 9 and 10 years' age should be old enough to have learned not to do this. They should know this on their own, but also their parents should have taught them this before now.

Well someone might teach his children, not to hang themselves. But than someone gets hanged, it´s in the media and all over the place and the basic opinion is, that it is positive, that it happened. What you have to do then is teach your kids the concept of capital punishment.

Do you have children?

[fett]

There is no question that children are getting mega-doses of violence from the media. However, being born in 1950, I have seen my share of Westerns and war movies and horror movies as a kid. All the blood and guts was on the screen. It didn't even cross my little mind to think anything I saw had anything to do with my life or was applicable to my life experience dealing with people. And my parents didn't give me the time of day when I was growing up. There seems to be a lack of common sense with today's kids. I don't have an answer and that scares me.

[jcm800x]

Darwinism in action. Hopefully others will learn something from this.

[Nazgul]

Jap!

What does that mean?

Jelly And Peanuts?

I'd guess it's Slovenian for "Yep"...

Exactly .

[Special-K]

I'd guess it's Slovenian for "Yep"...

Something like that ... Yep,Jap ...whatever