# RO: Mom kills baby for interrupting Farmville. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 29, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746 "2010-10-29T08:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/1 "2010-10-29T08:15:50Z")
Story found [here](http://www.indyposted.com/121340/mother-kills-baby-for-crying-interrupting-farmville/). > [@](#): > > A mother in Jacksonville, Florida, has pleaded guilty to shaking her baby to death after it wouldn’t stop crying, and interrupted her game of Farmville. > > … > > Tobias said that she shook the baby because his crying was interrupting her Farmville game. Tobias said that the baby may have hit his head on the computer while she was shaking him. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/2 "2010-10-29T08:50:16Z")
Farmville is serious business. ---
**Author:** ![emu2swan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@emu2swan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emu2swan)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/3 "2010-10-29T09:28:21Z")
^ that. Plus she looks like a killer. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/4 "2010-10-29T11:19:01Z")
How far [we have fallen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen#Plot). ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/5 "2010-10-29T11:49:11Z")
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. > [@Sailboat](#): > > How far [we have fallen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Farewell_and_Amen#Plot). What does that have to do with this? ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/6 "2010-10-29T14:17:43Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/7 "2010-10-29T14:27:33Z")
Can she keep tending her farm from jail? Priorities, people! ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/8 "2010-10-29T14:35:21Z")
So what was her Facebook update? ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/9 "2010-10-29T15:21:35Z")
Farmville? Killing a baby for interrupting your game of FARMVILLE??? How utterly pathetic! OTOH, if the game was [Minecraft](http://www.minecraft.net/), that I could understand… > [@Sailboat](#): > > Of course that was fiction. Apparently _this_ is what we get in real life. The _M_A_S_H\* 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.) ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/10 "2010-10-29T15:44:53Z")
I have to assume that if it hadn’t been Farmville, it would have been something else. ---
**Author:** ![Trom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@Trom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trom)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/11 "2010-10-29T15:52:52Z")
She’s a virtual cereal killer. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/12 "2010-10-29T15:53:15Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > 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… 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. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Shake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@Master\_Shake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Shake)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/13 "2010-10-29T16:38:08Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > 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!” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/14 "2010-10-29T16:41:32Z")
Ironic, really, because I shake grownups to death for cluttering my feed with Farmville updates. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/15 "2010-10-29T16:51:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/16 "2010-10-29T16:55:32Z")
> [@Master\_Shake](#): > > I agree, and… \ Damn, that’s a dangerous username / thread topic combo if I’ve ever seen one. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-mom-kills-baby-for-interrupting-farmville/558746/17 "2010-10-29T18:14:44Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > So what was her Facebook update? “Childless.”