Story found here.
That’s pretty fucked up, to say the least. I’m not much of a recreational outrage-type person, but this one disgusted even me.
Farmville is serious business.
^ that. Plus she looks like a killer.
How far we have fallen.
Hundreds of babies are shaken to death every year in America. As far as I can see, this case is only noted because the woman specified what she was doing when the baby’s cries became too much for her to deal with. The killers usually don’t give out that detail, but I assume most of the other cases are equally banal.
What does that have to do with this?
In the plot summary, enemy soldiers are patrolling and a baby is killed to keep it quiet only to save the lives of all the other refugees – a terrible choice to have to make, but the stakes were high.
Of course that was fiction. Apparently this is what we get in real life.
Can she keep tending her farm from jail?
Priorities, people!
So what was her Facebook update?
Farmville? Killing a baby for interrupting your game of FARMVILLE??? How utterly pathetic!
OTOH, if the game was Minecraft, that I could understand…
The MASH* episode is fiction, but it’s based on a real-life incident. (A group of people escaping East Berlin, I think…extremely tragic, but for the greater good.)
I have to assume that if it hadn’t been Farmville, it would have been something else.
She’s a virtual cereal killer.
Yeah, that’s exactly the first thing that came to my mind. Jesus, I don’t have kids, but even I know that something sort of mindless like a dumb computer game is one of the few things mothers of new babies can do to relax for a brief moment.
I mean, it sounds just as horrible to say “Mother shakes baby to death for interrupting her nap.” But when you’re running on three hours sleep a week, that nap might have been all you had left.
Not that I’m condoning shaking babies OR killing them in any way. But I understand how utterly frustrating it can be to listen to a baby wail for hours on end despite any and every thing you try to do to help or console it. And that’s without having ever experienced the utter hell that must be post-partum depression, which may or may not have factored in.
Sorry, not seeing the RO here, not for the Farmville part at least. The dead-shaken-baby part is always a tragedy, no matter what the details. But the details on this one are insignificant.
I agree, and I think the details on pretty much any one are insignificant. Would it somehow be more justifiable if the baby had interrupted her while she was building a desk, or writing a term paper for online grad school, or anything else more “important” than Farmville? Be outraged if you must, because certainly babies deserve better, but what really gets me angry is when the idiots come out and say “Farmville makes people kill babies!”
Ironic, really, because I shake grownups to death for cluttering my feed with Farmville updates.
I’m outraged about this, mostly because Farmville is so goddamn boring. Click 400 times. Wait eight hours. Click 400 times. Hooray! Now you have enough money to…click 400 more times. But first you have to prepare the soil by clicking 400 times.
Yes, I can see how that would be compelling enough to make you want to kill someone.
Damn, that’s a dangerous username / thread topic combo if I’ve ever seen one.
“Childless.”