Sensible Erection | Your baby too loud, too much upkeep? Sell it on eBay!

Sunday, 25 May 2008

Your baby too loud, too much upkeep? Sell it on eBay!

quote [ A 7-month-old boy was taken in custody by south German authorities after they found out his parents posted and ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro ($1.57), The Associated Press reported. ]

Yeah, it probably was a joke. Those cops have no sense of humor. More in extended.

"The mother had a track record as a reputable eBay seller having sold 174 items and had received positive feedback from buyers." from:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Baby-in-care-after-he.4118435.jp

She's not a very good ad copy writer, is she?

""Offering my nearly new baby for sale, as it has gotten too loud. It is a male baby, nearly 28in (70cm) long and can be used either in a baby carrier or a stroller."

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7418755.stm

[humour] [by maryyugo@2:07amGMT] [+4]

Comments

Todomanna said @ 2:13am GMT on 25th May [Score:1 Insightful]
WELL THEY ARE GERMAN AUTHORITIES, AFTER ALL

There, got the required stereotyping done for the post.

jaxtraw said @ 2:25am GMT on 25th May [Score:2]

nodachi said @ 3:00am GMT on 25th May
That'll cost her, if not in legal bills then in social standing.

Foolish woman, how could she think this would not result in a police visit? Joke or not, there is no way you would get away with it.

just more of the 3 ring circus we know as ebay.

jaxtraw said @ 3:02am GMT on 25th May
how could she think this would not result in a police visit

Maybe she was naive enough to think she lived in a free country. Maybe she thought that in order to draw the ire of the authorities, one actually has to commit a crime.

Amul Muzz said @ 4:39am GMT on 25th May
well, I would rather someone check it out and make sure it is false, rather than hoping its false.

theolypse said @ 9:19am GMT on 25th May
Checking it out need not mean taking her child into custody.

pleaides said @ 9:17pm GMT on 25th May
Surely the populist impulse among politicians and police services would have seemed inevitable. I take the previous points, and agree with them, but woe betide the state organ that doesn't act upon the seemingly negligent behaviour of people who haven't broken any laws. Unpopular opposition politicians will be sure to take up the cudgels and propose legislation, and shrilly decry any who oppose it as 'not caring for the children'.

It's a woeful way to run a parliamentary democracy, but I don't see any other option (other than a well informed and skeptical voting population).

ComposerNate said @ 3:01am GMT on 25th May

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radioelectric said @ 8:50am GMT on 25th May
I'm not too sure of the logic behind this but... thanks? Is this the appropriate response? I'm reading Flowers for Algernon at the moment and it's made me a little self-conscious.

ComposerNate said @ 8:14pm GMT on 25th May
In my profile, I'm hosting a library of SE avatars from when I come across pics which remind me of our SE neighbors.

This one reminded me of you, somehow. Perhaps because you're young (er than me), and more audio engineering and electronica-minded than acoustic instrument-interested when creating music. It seems your passion, being, self-found purpose and quite appropriate to me that you'd be wearing headphones since birth.

How's about that? Do I ken you? Much of the work went into finding the right font.

ComposerNate said @ 8:17pm GMT on 25th May
Also, there's an innocence about you (radioelectric), a gentleness yet stubbornness, which also played into the lightned yet rigid digital font.

radioelectric said @ 5:03am GMT on 26th May
Flattered, then.

I'm a bit 50/50 when it comes to music between electroacoustic techniques and traditional acoustic instruments, you probably got the impression I was more into the tech-sided stuff because that's what I've had to work with for my course.

I've spent a fair bit of today working at Eric Roche's "Acoustic Guitar Bible" which is a mother of a book. One of the first exercises in it is focusing on Merle Travis style picking with an alternating bassline and it took me a while to get the hang of it. I was surprised I was having trouble with it so early but then that's a kind of picking "pattern" I've never tackled before (good job I bought the book).

I might do a bit more acoustic stuff next year where I have free reign over what I do. I'm planning on putting together involving software "reacting" to live instruments. I want to do something exciting and involving, the kind of thing you could take to a school without the kids falling asleep.

Anyway, the headphones are very accurate seeing as most of the music tech half of my studies involves composing and without my trusty Equation RP-21s my houstmate would have long-since killed me.

Anyway, thanks.

ComposerNate said @ 3:16am GMT on 25th May [Score:3 Funny]

britannia said @ 3:32am GMT on 25th May
I can't work out whether living in North Korea is any worse than living in the UK these days?

Baxter_UK said @ 3:59am GMT on 25th May [Score:1 Insightful]
I don't suppose it matters, since this story has nothing to do with either North Korea or the UK.

maryyugo said @ 4:05am GMT on 25th May
move to north korea, if you can survive a year then report back please.

britannia said @ 7:23am GMT on 25th May
Obviously you both missed the reference to a police state

maryyugo said @ 8:20am GMT on 25th May
if so, it was swamped out by the sheer idiocy of comparing the uk to north korea in any way, shape or means.

jaxtraw said @ 9:46am GMT on 25th May
Yeah. The North Koreans love their leader, for a start.

jaxtraw said @ 9:50am GMT on 25th May

I mean look at that. What a fucking cunt.

underdog said @ 12:07pm GMT on 25th May
On the positive side, he has a nice blowjob mouth.

jaxtraw said @ 7:27pm GMT on 25th May
You are very, very sick in the mind.

maryyugo said @ 2:56pm GMT on 25th May
yeah, maybe... on a diet of tree leaves and baked clay, your mind can do strange things.

kang said @ 5:33am GMT on 25th May
$1.57 sounds like a good deal but the shipping cost was probably a dealbreaker.

Tirade said @ 5:43am GMT on 25th May
They probably would have forgetten to poke holes in the box first anyway.

Baxter_UK said @ 5:49am GMT on 25th May
Don't forget to poke holes in the baby, or the damn thing will burst in the microwave.

pleaides said @ 9:22pm GMT on 25th May
*gasp*

edga alunpo said @ 4:11pm GMT on 26th May
Perhaps she got exactly what she wanted and isn't so stupid.

Even if she says its a joke - if she wanted to get rid of her kid she's managed to do it.

Either through the sale on EBAY or the social services taking the kid, she's rid of the kid.

And I say, better than leaving the kid in the trash can, like a lot of young german mothers do.

All this would n't be necessary with reasonable abortion laws. Abortion in germany is not easy.

ComposerNate said @ 6:33pm GMT on 26th May
According to my German girlfriend:

If you get pregnant in Germany and don't wish to have the child, you first go to a doctor, then a social care office where they tell you all about abortion and of course all about whatever help is available from the government if you choose to keep the child. If you decide to abort the pregnancy anyway, you may then go to the hospital and have it done by a doctor. Between the social consultation and hospital there needs to be at least 3 days of waiting.

This should all be done within the first 12 weeks unless the doctors discover the child will be handicapped, in which case an abortion is possible until the 6th month.

FifthSpango said @ 6:52pm GMT on 26th May
That sounded like a nice system, untill you notice the 12 week limit. How back-ward ass is that?

ComposerNate said @ 7:18pm GMT on 26th May
Exceptions are also made in cases of rape or the mother's health.

My girlfriend says 3 months is a long time to notice pregnancy.

edga alunpo said @ 9:12pm GMT on 26th May
Its not just the 12 weeks limit. From what I've heard the social advice comes from a committee which includes the clergy. Apparently it's more social brain washing than advice and that's why young girls don't like it. Most of them have already decided (or have no choice) on abortion.

The other problem is anonymity. If the girl is under 18 the doc has to inform the parents.