If you are interested that Spinelli article is worth a read. Not much really to add to it and not much to debate. As someone who had a severe postpartum depression you may find her distinction between the fairly common event of mothers with postpartum depression having intrusive thoughts about harming their babies, and the delusional thoughts that those with psychosis have, to be of particular interest.
AClockworkMelon, sorry but I am not understanding. Why is the story “ridiculous” to you? I understand annoyance with the RO of the op, as if anyone would defend killing a baby. And even a dead baby joke or two to mock the RO. But the story being ridiculous? I don’t get that.
WHAT??? She threw the bathwater off the parking lot as well? Oh no, I, just…words fail me. Who could do such a thing? This is just terrible, I don’t know what to say. That poor bathwater.
I’m not bothered by generic dead baby jokes. I was bothered by the ones that seem specific to this situation–jokes about this particular dead baby. Somehow there’s a significant difference in my mind.
And I have to concur that “it’s how we cope” is bullshit. I totally agree that that can be true in the aftermath of something that really is shocking to the system–specific humor is a coping mechanism. But some of the comments here seemed to be more about showing off one’s wit and sardonic detachment than anything else. It’s using a specific, terrible tragedy as a springboard for a parlor trick, and I think that’s in poor taste in a way that just telling dead baby jokes at a party is not.
What I wanna know is – WTF is the point of putting a helmet on a baby if it doesn’t protect it from a fall?
That mother deserves compensation for her loss because of a defective helmet. So does the pedophile who was waiting on the ground. The only one who came out ahead was the necrophilic pedophile at the coroner’s office. Lucky bastard!
First I do agree with you that there is no need to put a helmet on a baby before throwing it off a 4th floor parking ramp. Parents have gotten WAY too overprotective.
BUT
Once the helmet is put on, it has a job to do, and this one failed. IMO, the 4th floor is a pretty low release point for a baby. I will grant that maybe she tossed it in upward arc so the effective release point was higher, but still…
It would depend on what the helmet was designed for. For example, a motorcycle helmet, which is designed for a single high velocity impact, would be more appropriate than a hockey helmet, which is designed for multiple low velocity impacts.
Government funded parenting classes should teach parents to identify and use the appropriate helmet when throwing their babies.
This deserves some sort of web award for sickest, most-twisted, hillariously inapropriate post. Taken out of context and just copy-pasta’d on some other forum somewhere would just totally make my day.
If the baby was wearing a motorcycle helmet the mom would have strapped it to a bike and ran it into a bridge abutment. If the baby was wearing a hockey helmet she would have clubbed it with a stick. The baby MUST have been wearing a parking ramp helmet. THINK before you post, people!
