But apparently not.
There are some very sick individuals out there.
:eek: :mad: Was the man who did this fully sane, not on drugs, and of average intelligence? 
I cannot imagine someone in full possession of all faculties doing such a thing. Poor little girl! 
How badly must the mother feel too, she trusted the guy. Horrible!
Nobody who abuses kids can be sane.
:eek:
I hope the kid is okay
Heard on the news earlier that they expect her (?) to make a full recovery.
Okay…this is a half-serious, half-enraged question.
Can anyone give me a reason that this man (once his guilt id proven) should not be killed?
Anybody?
Holy crap.
There has got to be either hard drigs or some serious pathology going on there. Nobody who is sane and rational and sober would have such a thought even cross their mind. Either that or he had absolutely no idea how a clothes dryer worked, which would mean he was either legally retarded or it was his first day outside the tribe.
My money’s on pathology and/or drugs. Either way he needs to spend some quality time in gen pop and a release that prohibits contact with … well, anyone, 'cos that’s just totally messed up.
In Folklore, there is a technical term for when people carry out an urban legend: ostension. In fact, being academia, there are many sub-categories for whether they did so by a bizarre coincidence, or deliberately like that guy in Texas who poisoned halloween candy a couple of decades ago.
I hate to post and run, but I won’t have great internet access for the next couple of months. The Urban Legend Reference pages have a good definition on their glossary site ostension & pseudo-ostension (as well as the difference between myth & legend).
At least this child survived. I thought this thread was about the last time someone put a baby in a clothes dryer. http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=30565
Because killing people is wrong. Terrible actions by others do not excuse bad actions from us.
And for the most part I’d agree. But this is someone who needs to be removed from the gene pool chop-chop.
PS: That was in response to the thread title.
As for Dryer Dude, I vote for extreme stupidity + having no idea how a dryer worked. Or a towel, for that matter.
Action does beggar belief that said I’d not totally rule out ‘stupid’ rather than ‘evil’ as the basis for the actions.
Guess kid must have been a tumbler rather than toddler!
Here are some articles about Rebcca “Hope” Wagoner, a Virginia 5-year-old who was placed into a commercial laundromat’s washing machine and killed. There was at the time some doubt about whether her brother or mother should bear responsibility; I do not know how the case turned out.
Washington Post (free, may require registration)
Snopes also has some stories here, including a lot of cat deaths, but the mention of Clinton Weeks led me to Google this.
Sailboat
That’s gotta be some weapons-grade stupidity, then. What adult is so utterly clueless as to how a common household appliance works – even theoretically? And how spongiformed does your brain have to be to make your first response to a spill be to place the entire human in an enclosed space that spits out copious amounts of heat?!
Criminy. “Spill = wet; big white thing = dry” is the kind of base stimulus response you’d expect from a monkey, except even a monkey would realize there was something wrong with the practical application of that picture.
I would consider it a correct action to take. How anybody could support paying taxes to support scum like this while they rot in prison is beyond me.
Just exactly what do you think happens before the senetence of execution is carried out?
Allow me to take a stab at this issue so that this is no longer “beyond” you.
It is more expensive (in nearly every if not all murder trials) to sentence a convict to death rather than sentence that convict “rot in prison.” Death penalty cases are reviewed and scrutinzed many times after the sentencing phase of a trial. Multiple appeals are heard: the # varies among jurisdictions. The whole ongoing process is extremely expensive to the (usually state level) government with all the court costs and attorney fees. Often times such scrutiny overturns death sentences; this is the chief reason that only about 11% of convicts sentenced to death in the US since 1976 have actually been executed.
Besides, rotting in prison is no cake walk. An early painless death by lethal injection is the easier way out IMO.
Some consider the death penalty to be unethical, but I’m not going to into any debates here in the MPSIMS forum. I simply put forth facts to point out that it is not more economical to sentence a person to death in the US with the way the legal systems work here.
The child survived (so far) in this particular case so the death penalty will not be an option in any US jurisdiction. (at least I am not aware of any jurisdictions that consider the death penalty for attempted murder)
Well, actually, that’s not exactly true any more. If you’re just counting the expense of three-hots-and-a-cot, it is, but there’s another expense that’s making this claim into somewhat of an urban legend: medical.
States vary in the amount of expense they go to in medical treatments for inmates. Some have a bare-bones policy, meaning that the inmate is given only the simplest forms of treatment (no transplants or heroic efforts). Other states give inmates state-of-the-art treatments, even including sex changes and transplants. My state is a middle-of-the-road one. Inmates are not given the latest and most expensive treatments, but they are given good care.
Geriatric inmates, like the elderly in the general population, make for an enromous expense. They often can’t be housed in regular prisons because of their frailty, but are housed in what can best be described as prison rest homes, and like all rest homes, they’re expensive to operate. The prison population is aging and costs are skyrocketing. Hubby says that twenty years ago, the state prison system had less than 20 inmates on dialysis. Today they have over 70.
Merely keeping a prison open is a huge expense. The prisons are not given money per inmate, so an increase or decrease in population doesn’t make all that much of a difference, budget-wise. The prison in which my husband works houses 2,800 inmates and has an annual budget of $35 million dollars.
All that I’m saying is that it’s not exactly fair to say that “This man will only cost .20 a day.” You have to look at the whole cost of incarceration.
No, it is not. If I were ever convicted of a capital crime, I would make myself the biggest asshole I could in court, trying intentionally to prod the jury into giving me the death penalty. It’s a hellish fate to grow old and die in a prison.
That first sentance was unclear. I meant, “No, it is not a cake-walk.”