Auraseer - You’re right. Maybe we are all jumping to conclusions that the baby was actually killed by the microwave. The article didn’t say.
God, I hope that this baby died painlessly and was only hidden in the oven.
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Coffee, chocolate, men . . . Some things are just better rich.
I’m sure a big part of the horror is the mental image of someone popping a human infant into a microwave with all the regard one would pay a bag of popcorn or a mini-pizza.
Plus, when I was in school, no tale of a baby or dog in a microwave was complete without the subject either exploding or being consumed in the end.
It is just so horrible to contemplate anything remotely like this happening in real life. And to imagine the father (if he’s as innocent as the story makes him sound) searching frantically for his child, oblivious to the microwave humming away in the kitchen, and the guilty party most likely right there in the house not saying anything! How horrifying!
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
It doesn’t stop being an urban legend if someone tries it, as The Man tells us.
The folks at Snopes must be having a hard time; they have to document this fo rthe urban legends page. I remember how broken up the writer was talking about the Halloween of 1982 for the Halloween candy poisoning legend.
Damn it. Damn it I will not cry in the school computer lounge.
Excuse me I have to put my fist through a wall in rage.
Yes. That’s it. I mean, I get upset when my 2-year-old falls down & skins her knees. The thought of what must have happened to that baby physically, whether it was alive or not when it was placed in the microwave, is beyond the scope of my imagination. I am going to assume that the fact that I can’t imagine it is a defense mechanism, and be very, very glad that there are just some things that my brain cannot comprehend.
Its hard to say this without coming off like a jaded, cynical asshole but even if the child was killed in the microwave it is just as bad as any other deliberate child murder. Is it more sensationalistic? Absolutely. Am I outraged? You bet. But the thought that “gee, the killer only stuffed the kid in the microwave AFTER they killed him/her makes it more tolerable” doesn’t fly by me. I think the killer should be used for medical research regardless of how they did it.
And the forum this was posted to is very inappropriate.
IMHO Threemae, the revulsion expressed here is not as much directed at the death of an infant, but at the thought of the circumstances.
This appears to be murder of one’s own child - a relative newborn (4 weeks IIRC) - helpless and absolutely at the mercy of people who would normally be expected to provide love and protection. This is sub-human behavior.
However this child died, the circumstances are abhorent.
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Yes, it’s horrifying alright and makes you wonder if there’s any hope for humanity. I just read about it in the Washington Post, and it also reported that the baby had burns consistent with those you’d receive from microwaves. What got me was at the end of the article, it reported that authorities wouldn’t say if it was “suspicious” or if foul play was involved and they’re still investigating. They don’t know if foul play was involved?
A number of deaths of military personnel can be attributed to microwave radiation from unshielded radar sets. This was particularly common in WW2 , when the idea that an invisible force could kill you seemed pretty strange. For the record, these personnel (mostly Navy techs) were found at their worksites, near the opened shielding of the running radar sets, with tools in hand. Allegedly, these individuals went unconscious after a very brief exposure.
The child, therefore, probably didn’t suffer; at least not for long.
How did Man get so dark inside? Alas, Man has always had an infinte capacity for evil. As one cop put it-“There is no bottom to human evil.”
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We have met the enemy, and He is Us.–Walt Kelly
Mojo–I’m sure the choice of venue was NOT intended as a joke, OK? It just happens to be a place where people can scream and yell “FUCK” with some impunity.
However . . . three people were murdered a couple nights ago in my town. One of them was a child. No microwave, no headlines, no sobbing from anyone but their family.
I hope nobody here is just now realizing that the world is a shitty place.
-andros-
“Listen Children Eternal Father Eternally One!” Exceptions? None!
-Doc Bronner
Thanks andros…
Y’know, I would have given anything for aflame like this:
You dumb bitch, that never happened, just a U.L., and people wouldnt really do that, etc.
I bet the police are worried someone will try to lynch the killer…thats why they wont say who they suspect or anything…this made the headlines in Bumfuck Nowhere Canada…there must be pretty high exposuer…a la Jon Benet Ramsay.
Wanna bet they fuck this up too?
I cant stop hearing the baby crying in the microwave. I can almost see it in my head.
Something like this cant be explained, or understood.Not by me anyway.
sorry I made you cry Prarie Rose
tracer said:
Wrong…most microwaves are tuned to a frequency of 2.45 GHz, which isn’t anywhere near the resonant frequency of water–a good thing too, because if it WAS then all of the energy would be absorbed in the outermost shell of the food, turning it to a crisp long before the insides receive any heat.
This isn’t going to make anyone feel better, but it’s a common myth that microwave ovens cook things from the insides out. They don’t–instead, the energy is absorbed by the outer layers of the food, which transfers the heat inwards.
One of the measurements of electromagnetic waves is “penetration depth,” which is how far into a material the wave penetrates. In the case of meat, the penetration depth at microwave frequencies is about 2 cm (I’m going from memory, so don’t quote me on this). What this mean is that the outer 2 cm layer gets all the energy, and transfers it towards the center in the form of thermal energy.
In other words, if it wasn’t already dead, that baby most likely did suffer before the heat penetrated deep enough to cause brain death.
I hope beyond words that the killer was using it to destroy evidence rather than as the tool for murder.
And now for something completely insensitive…
Says kelli – “…if a parent wants to get rib of a baby…”
Don’t forget to slather on the B-B-Q sauce.
Hmm… Do kids plump when you cook 'em?
What’s for dinner? “Pete” loaf?
Was the George Foreman grill broken?
My baloney has a first name, its P-E-T-E-Y;
My baloney has a secnd name…
His sister’s for desert. She died in the freezer.
Baby – the other white meat.
Now if mom had just used a nice raisin stuffing too…
“Infant under glass”?
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Boy, have I got some issues.
Sometimes you gotta laugh.
Or else you end up crying all the time.
And an article in the Washington Post posits that “the killer” may have been in a state of epileptic seizure and didn’t know what was happening at all.
When this goes to trial, it’ll be watched more closely than the OJ fiasco, if such a thing’s possible.
Kelli, I don’t believe it, I won’t believe it, I can’t believe it. I’m in denial mode.
The very thought of it fills me with revulsion.
Can a human being be capable of such a deed? It boggles the mind.
It also severely tests my stand against capital punishment.
Here in Canada, a couple was charged with the murder of their infant a couple of years ago. The means of death was suffocation.
The details were nothing less than horrifying. It turned out that these people didn’t really want the new baby, so they would gather the entire family around every night(two other young children, I think) and play a game of ‘blue baby’. This game involved putting a plastic bag on the baby’s head until it turned blue in the face, then spinning it on the floor like a game of spin-the-bottle. The baby died during one of many episodes of this ‘game’.
There are many sick people in the world.
ChiefScott:
You’re going straight to hell.
Yer pal,
Satan
Save me a room w/a view.
Until a few moments ago, I was arguing with my son about his homework.
Oh, he’s still gonna do it. But he probably won’t understand the hugging he’s gonna get afterwards.