Smoking toddler video leads to arrest Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A woman was arrested in Virginia Beach, Va., after she posted a video on the Internet of a 2-year-old child attempting to smoke a cigarette.
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Posted: 8 months ago by topofall:
Some people are just born stupid!
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Posted: 8 months ago by larknet:
It has been awhile since I have said this...

Did they revoke her parenting license, oh, thats right, we don't have those!

More proof we need them.
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Posted: 8 months ago by capriccio:
I bet they were trying to recreate Will Ferrell's Landlord skit featuring his baby daughter.
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Posted: 8 months ago by imnotyoo:
« larknet : It has been awhile since I have said this...

Did they revoke her parenting license, oh, thats right, we don't have those!

More proof we need them.
At first, the idea of a parenting license sounds like a nice idea, but after thinking about it for a bit, the idea scares me.

If a person or group of people, be it the government or a knitting group, gets in an authoritative position as to where they could legally deny parenthood to others, then that person or group has the potential to deny parenthood to people of ethnic origins of which they detest or those of religions whose views differ from their own. In this situation, there is the potential to erase entire groups of people from our planet. And then, if a person deemed unfit by the authoritative group does have a child, what happens to the child? Is the child taken from its birth parents and put into the foster care system and put on an endless list to be adopted? Maybe eventually they would go as far as to kill the "illegal" child, claiming that if the parents weren't fit to have children, then their child must have the same traits and thus would be bad for society.
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Posted: 8 months ago by muppet:
why? why would you even do something like that? and then RECORD it? AND THEN POST IT ON THE f**kING INTERNET?!

why?!

retards, the lot of 'em.
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Posted: 8 months ago by 2manyusernames:
I'm confused.

They weren't actually having her smoke a cigarette. It was a joke. It was for a video. Nothing happened, it was all "movie magic" make-believe.

Look at all the stuff older children do in movies/television shows. Those aren't real either. You might see some kid doing drugs, getting drunk, getting raped, or whatever. None of it is real. When some movie director has his 12-year old actress curse, drink, and con people, he isn't considered to be contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

If you take a picture of your 2-year old standing on the driver's car seat holding onto the steering wheel, you wouldn't be guilty of letting a minor drive.

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor? No, she wasn't. The baby wasn't really smoking.

Having the baby speak profanity? So what, there is no law against saying 's**t'.

No one was harmed, no one was hurt in any way.

"Apparently someone didn't keep quiet when it came to the welfare of a toddler."
bulls**t. The kid wasn't being harmed was he?

He was only "trying" to smoke wasn't he? In other words, pretending to.
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Posted: 8 months ago by Nicky666:
« 2manyusernames : I'm confused.

They weren't actually having her smoke a cigarette. It was a joke. It was for a video. Nothing happened, it was all "movie magic" make-believe.
very true...you can't arrest someone for bad taste (not in the last place because there's just not enough jails for that kind of sh*t)

imnotyou...I really enjoyed your reasoning, you should write a book
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Posted: 8 months ago by bunnysutra:
Wow. I'm really glad no one found the pic of my step kids dangling from the cliff by a tree root... I might have gone to jail -- and they were in absolutely no danger. It was as 2many said - magic. :)
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Posted: 8 months ago by ol1inch:
« Nicky666 : very true...you can't arrest someone for bad taste
Or can you? Alot of things are becoming more 'police state like' post 9/11.

A 10 year old kid arrested in school in front of all the other kids for having a steak knife at school? OK, take the knife away from her, slap her parents for being stupid, but arrest the child?

Same here. Slap the silly twit of a mother for posting this on the internet. Because, really, who gives a s**t about your kid smoking (albeit 'movie magic') anyway? But arrest the mom?

If we start arresting people for being stupid, there won't be many of us left on the outside.
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Posted: 8 months ago by coldbladed:
I do dumb stuff all the time, thankfully its rare that actual harm comes of it. Now I'm not so sure that that is good enough. We're arresting people for the harm that might have been? Like..:

"If you had allowed the kid to inhale from a lit cig there would have been harm!"

"But the point was not to actually allow that to happen you see, it was pretend."

"Oh well that doesn't matter, we're arresting you for what might have been"

"Ohshi...!"
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Posted: 8 months ago by pocksucket:
« imnotyoo : A partial summary of Eugenics
See Eugenics
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Posted: 8 months ago by imnotyoo:
« Nicky666 :imnotyou...I really enjoyed your reasoning, you should write a book
Thanks, but there are already plenty of movies of that nature, such as Equilibrium or V for Vendetta.
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