Urban Legend true: Woman accidentally nukes baby.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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http://www.bergen.com/morenews/baby26200009262.htm

Just found this on my hometown paper. Wanted to share. Can anyone re-confirm?

Tripler

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I saw this on one of the local stations last night (WRAL or WTVD in Raleigh/Durham.). They showed footage of the woman in court. Some searching turned up a few references from when the incident took place in '99. This is a link to the Washington Post article.

Sad. Disturbing.

Shaky Jake

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I was afraid someone could confirm this one.

A tragedy . . .
Tripler

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Oww. Sounds like a terrible, terrible way to die.

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A thread started by kellibelli almost a year ago to the day discussed this case when it first came to light.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=4512

I’m not trying to rain out this thread, only to direct newer posters or other interested parties to the previous discussion, if desired.

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Oh, God.

Somebody remind me that if I see a link to a thread like this, I should ** NOT ** check it out.

I feel ill.

I think the world was a better place when this was merely a UL.

I have to go lie down now.

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I lived in New Kent County when this occured. Its a small community (about 13,000 people, so you can imagine the effect this terrible tragedy had. The deputy that responded to the call and found the child has had a very, very rough time of it. So sad all the way around.

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That is absolutely horrible! That poor baby. WTF is wrong with people today?

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I can’t confirm the story, but I can understand how it happened.
I had a friend who suffered from epilepsy. I witnessed two of his grand mal siezures. They were pretty scary in themselves (especially the first one I saw, because I didn’t know he had epilepsy), but after the seizures, he was completely out of it for almost an hour. Concious, but absolutely delusional or delerious or whatever. As in, he didn’t know where he was or what he was supposed to be doing.
One of them happened while we were golfing. After his seizure he insisted he wanted to keep going, but he was swinging at the ball off the tee, with his putter, toward the road - walking into the woods for no reason - chasing other people’s balls. We just kept close tabs on him and kept him out of trouble while he came back to his wits.

So in conclusion - epelepsy can really mess with your senses.