# I pit the woman who threw her baby off a 4 story parking structure!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 25, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006 "2011-08-25T04:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/41 "2011-08-25T18:07:05Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > It’s hilarious that an infant was murdered and died in agony over an extended period of time. Yeah, but there is probably a downside to it as well. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/42 "2011-08-25T18:14:50Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Yeah, but there is probably a downside to it as well. Careful now. That’s what caused this science experiment in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/43 "2011-08-25T18:16:02Z")
Thread…so wrong…yet so funny… ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/44 "2011-08-25T18:21:59Z")
On a more serious note, this is why every pediatric exam room at our medical clinic has a notice about the signs of post-partum depression and related problems, with the indication that these are serious conditions that need to be treated as medical emergencies. It is a significant cause of infant death, is my understanding. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/45 "2011-08-25T18:23:11Z")
This is why I never let mine wear a jumper. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/46 "2011-08-25T18:24:00Z")
Ha! Yeah! It’s the comedic details that put it over the top. I mean, the stories are unclear on whether the kid was 1-3 months old or 7 months old, but that’s hardly important. What really makes you crack a smile are the questions. How did he land? Did he smash one side of his ribcage? Did bone shards pierce into his infant lungs and liver? Or did he land on his cute li’l diapered bum and shatter his spine, hips, and legs? Did he shit himself? Do you think he had much time to wallow, mewling in complete agony, in his own shit and blood before somebody came along? And was it the impact itself or the life-ending agony that made him evacuate his bowels? Do you think he (assuming he was 7 months old) wondered where his mother was (y’know, the woman he had trusted and had flashed his first smile at) to comfort him through the pain, pain, and more pain? And the way he died, never knowing anything for 24 hours except unrelenting fear and excruciating pain, while no one could really do a thing to help him, and while his parents totally did not give a shit, and while internet denizens the world over callously laughed at his death? _Hysterical_. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/47 "2011-08-25T18:37:01Z")
Well, _someone_’s not getting an invite to Vlad the Impaler’s laff-a-thon. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/48 "2011-08-25T18:39:56Z")
This really is a tragic waste. That baby could’ve fed a starving family in Africa for days! ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/49 "2011-08-25T18:43:25Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Ha! Yeah! It’s the comedic details that put it over the top. I mean, the stories are unclear on whether the kid was 1-3 months old or 7 months old, but that’s hardly important. What really makes you crack a smile are the questions. How did he land? Did he smash one side of his ribcage? Did bone shards pierce into his infant lungs and liver? Or did he land on his cute li’l diapered bum and shatter his spine, hips, and legs? > > Did he shit himself? Do you think he had much time to wallow, mewling in complete agony, in his own shit and blood before somebody came along? And was it the impact itself or the life-ending agony that made him evacuate his bowels? > > Do you think he (assuming he was 7 months old) wondered where his mother was (y’know, the woman he had trusted and had flashed his first smile at) to comfort him through the pain, pain, and more pain? > > And the way he died, never knowing anything for 24 hours except unrelenting fear and excruciating pain, while no one could really do a thing to help him, and while his parents totally did not give a shit, and while internet denizens the world over callously laughed at his death? > > _Hysterical_. Yep, throwing babies off buildings is definitely a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Soliloquy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/50 "2011-08-25T18:45:54Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Ha! Yeah! It’s the comedic details that put it over the top. I mean, the stories are unclear on whether the kid was 1-3 months old or 7 months old, but that’s hardly important. What really makes you crack a smile are the questions. How did he land? Did he smash one side of his ribcage? Did bone shards pierce into his infant lungs and liver? Or did he land on his cute li’l diapered bum and shatter his spine, hips, and legs? > > Did he shit himself? Do you think he had much time to wallow, mewling in complete agony, in his own shit and blood before somebody came along? And was it the impact itself or the life-ending agony that made him evacuate his bowels? > > Do you think he (assuming he was 7 months old) wondered where his mother was (y’know, the woman he had trusted and had flashed his first smile at) to comfort him through the pain, pain, and more pain? > > And the way he died, never knowing anything for 24 hours except unrelenting fear and excruciating pain, while no one could really do a thing to help him, and while his parents totally did not give a shit, and while internet denizens the world over callously laughed at his death? > > _Hysterical_. People laugh at things because it’s easier than internalizing pain every time something terrible happens. I’m sure explaining this to you is going to do zero good. Personally, I find this thread hilariously wrong. I love it. I’ve probably been a hell of a lot closer to real live dead babies than you ever have. The babies and the mothers that killed them, both. Yup, pun intended. ---
**Author:** ![Soliloquy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Soliloquy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soliloquy)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/51 "2011-08-25T18:46:59Z")
> [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#): > > This really is a tragic waste. That baby could’ve fed a starving family in Africa for days! So you’re saying she should have microwaved the baby instead? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/52 "2011-08-25T18:48:04Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Ha! Yeah! It’s the comedic details that put it over the top. I mean, the stories are unclear on whether the kid was 1-3 months old or 7 months old, but that’s hardly important. What really makes you crack a smile are the questions. How did he land? Did he smash one side of his ribcage? Did bone shards pierce into his infant lungs and liver? Or did he land on his cute li’l diapered bum and shatter his spine, hips, and legs? > > Did he shit himself? Do you think he had much time to wallow, mewling in complete agony, in his own shit and blood before somebody came along? And was it the impact itself or the life-ending agony that made him evacuate his bowels? > > Do you think he (assuming he was 7 months old) wondered where his mother was (y’know, the woman he had trusted and had flashed his first smile at) to comfort him through the pain, pain, and more pain? > > And the way he died, never knowing anything for 24 hours except unrelenting fear and excruciating pain, while no one could really do a thing to help him, and while his parents totally did not give a shit, and while internet denizens the world over callously laughed at his death? > > _Hysterical_. I had never before considered that this might be a bad thing. Thank you for helping me realize that. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/53 "2011-08-25T18:49:06Z")
> [@Mtgman](#): > > Pfffphhtt, she could at least have found a car park that overlooked a lake or stream. Tosser. > > Enjoy, > Steven I don’t think she _tossed_, so much as chucked him over. The underhand throw gives better clearance over the railing. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/54 "2011-08-25T18:49:09Z")
> [@Soliloquy](#): > > People laugh at things because it’s easier than internalizing pain every time something terrible happens. I’m sure explaining this to you is going to do zero good. > > Personally, I find this thread hilariously wrong. I love it. > > I’ve probably been a hell of a lot closer to real live dead babies than you ever have. The babies and the mothers that killed them, both. > > Yup, pun intended. What? I’m agreeing with you. Collapsed infant lungs, filled with blood, are absolute comedy gold. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/55 "2011-08-25T18:49:34Z")
OK, wait a minute. I’m a little confused. Is throwing babies off of buildings a good thing or a bad thing? This thread makes it really unclear. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/56 "2011-08-25T18:50:10Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > I had never before considered that this might be a bad thing. Thank you for helping me realize that. Who says? I think it’s wonderful. The comedy just oozes out of every ruptured pore. ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/57 "2011-08-25T18:50:55Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > OK, wait a minute. I’m a little confused. Is throwing babies off of buildings a good thing or a bad thing? This thread makes it really unclear. Bad. You are supposed to feed them to Starving Africans. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/58 "2011-08-25T18:51:47Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > OK, wait a minute. I’m a little confused. Is throwing babies off of buildings a good thing or a bad thing? This thread makes it really unclear. Well, the amount of suffering incurred by the victim is obviously quite important, as well as the lack of empathy of the reading audience. In this case, hoo boy, GOLd. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/59 "2011-08-25T18:52:02Z")
> [@Soliloquy](#): > > So you’re saying she should have microwaved the baby instead? Good grief, no – microwaving babies IS JUST WRONG! What kind of sadistic monster are you?!? Slow roasted on a spit, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006/60 "2011-08-25T18:52:02Z")
> [@miss\_elizabeth](#): > > Bad. You are supposed to feed them to Starving Africans. Ah. Baby food. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-woman-who-threw-her-baby-off-a-4-story-parking-structure/594006.md?page=4)