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- Dustinss5, on 06/26/2009, -24/+391that's not neglect. He was 555lbs, I'd say he got plenty of attention and plenty to eat.
- buddyw, on 06/27/2009, -0/+309You so fat, yo mama got arrested for neglect.
- Trollbane, on 06/27/2009, -1/+256"I wash myself with a rag on a stick."
- marmotjmarmot, on 06/27/2009, -2/+242America has got to be one of the few countries in the world where you have fat poor people.
- DavidHorn, on 06/27/2009, -2/+166"14-year-old Alexander Deundray Draper of South Carolina had been on the run with his mother, "
Well, not literally... - cersad, on 06/26/2009, -6/+151Pics or it didn't happen.
- supferrets, on 06/27/2009, -7/+138Neglectful? No, just stupid.
If only you could press charges for stupidity. Our incarceration rate would rise to 90%. - milkmage, on 06/27/2009, -0/+102oh it happend all right.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30877017/ - pathy, on 06/27/2009, -1/+99Good ***** lord. Do NOT blame schools for this.
Do you have any ***** idea how much schools are blamed for already?
Parents should learn to ***** parent their kids. Feed them properly. Get them to exercise while they're at home. Don't expect the god damn school to do everything for you. - davidharpe, on 06/27/2009, -3/+90That's not neglect...that's a space station.
- skyjis6, on 06/27/2009, -11/+91Fines. Start fining parents when you see that their 2 year olds are already 30 pounds overweight. It's a crime to leave your kids in a hot car with the windows up, so it should be a crime if your kids are getting totally avoidable diabetes at 12 and 13 years old. America is ballooning out of control.
- trolleyfan, on 06/26/2009, -0/+75In order for him to get up to 555lb with school food, he'd have to be eating one or two *dozen* of them - "processed" or not.
- nullvector, on 06/27/2009, -0/+74LOL. The USS EnterFries
- ygeoff419, on 06/27/2009, -1/+71snap!
- FearlessFreep, on 06/27/2009, -3/+71Please, no
- aussiejan, on 06/26/2009, -27/+95Nonsense. His BMR - Basal Metabolic Rate (number of calories to sustain his weight if he didn't move a muscle all day) is about 49,000. The average person needs about 2000 calories per day to live. He is getting about 20 times that. He would have to eat all day long to sustain that weight.
Quality of food comes into it a bit if you are a little overweight but if you are over 500 pounds it is sheer quantity.
BTW, it does not cost a lot to eat healthy. I feed my family healthy soups, stews and casseroles for less than it would cost to take them to McDonald's. It's cheap, healthy, easy and usually goes for a couple of meals. Let's stop spreading this idiocy that it's too expensive to eat healthy foods. - inactive, on 06/27/2009, -4/+70that's 250kg in normal units
- Ninh, on 06/27/2009, -6/+70I fear he ate the whole class.
- Trollbane, on 06/27/2009, -1/+63Holy crap, 49000 cal/day!
This ***** uses more energy than a small African republic. It seriously can't be that high, can it? - MattVarney, on 06/27/2009, -0/+60He just looks big in that picture because he's wearing horizontal stripes.
When will people learn? - The_Tate, on 06/27/2009, -1/+60That's not a neck silly, it's his pouch for storing jelly donuts for the winter.
- The_Tate, on 06/27/2009, -2/+61More of a wheeze-filled crawl actually...
- Spamorama, on 06/27/2009, -10/+67On a serious note, I don't understand Momma Piggy's logic. If little piggy is too fat and the sow doesn't have time to cook, why not just let him go hungry instead of buying fast food? I'm sure Wilbur can survive on his blubber reserves for an extra couple of hours.
- toastoncheese, on 06/27/2009, -1/+53BART GET MAMMAS PRYIN STICK!!
- jcaino, on 06/27/2009, -4/+49STOP EATING.
- s14sh3r, on 06/27/2009, -0/+45Oh dear god, he looks like Fat Albert meets Uncle Fester.
- inactive, on 06/27/2009, -1/+43Its 'too damn much' in any unit...
- CaviMike, on 06/27/2009, -0/+42About ***** time. It's not McDonalds ***** fault your kid eats too much, it's YOURS.
- cupholder, on 06/27/2009, -0/+39Someone doesn't understand decimals.
You have a BMR of 4279.35. - For a 555 pound 14 year old @ 5'7''(no clue what his real height is).
That's not relaly much more than eating 2 large pizzas a day. Certainly doable. - WraTH017, on 06/27/2009, -1/+39I disagree on the cost of eating healthy. If anything it's the other way around... Unless you want to tell me a pound of carrots is more expensive than a 12 oz. bag of Doritos. (it's not)
I'm not sure what your definition of eating healthy is, but it shouldn't mean buying all organic cage-free free-range dolphin-safe grass-fed humanely-euthanized crap. I eat healthy and well, and I spend very little on groceries just by avoiding processed foods and other junks. - Import98, on 06/27/2009, -1/+37Picture of mother and son....
http://www2.tbo.com/exposure/full/2009/05/21/2428_ ... - walshgopher, on 06/27/2009, -0/+36Neglect can be defined as to be remiss in the care or treatment of. The mother may be giving him food and attention but she fails to sustain a healthy standard of living for her son by allowing him to become dangerously overweight. He should have some of the blame, but it takes a lifetime of misguided diet abuse to attain such a weight. His unhealthy habits probably began long before he was capable of making his own intelligent diet decisions.
- wbgo, on 06/27/2009, -1/+34Eat healthy, blah, blah, blah.
It's not a matter of what you eat, but rather how much.
Unless he's drinking melted butter, his main problem is eating 5 times more than he should, not a lack of salads. - inactive, on 06/27/2009, -1/+33A wild Snorlax appears! Use Ultra Balls!
- kanojo1969, on 06/27/2009, -4/+36All first-world countries have this problem. Usually the worse a food is for you, the cheaper it gets. We have developed argiculture, primarily corn produciton, to the point of chronic oversupply so making stuff based on corn (and that's about 90% of food products made in the U.S.) is both bad for you and ridiculously cheap.
I think that it's fair to charge parents with neglect, it really doesn't matter what form it takes, only that it's serious enough. You can charge a parent with neglect if the kid's bedroom is under the house with the rats. A 14-year-old with no compulsive eating disease, who weighs in at 555lbs is a very sick kid, I think the mother needs to be accountable.
Anyway, reading the article, it sounds like this is the last resort, that the welfare and heathcare people have tried a ton of other stuff and it's been no use.
I don't want to be an internet psychologist but I bet there some serious co-dependency going on here, and Mom is definitely using her supply of fatty treats as leverage in the relationships. Even if it's not deliberate, she would defnitely know what she's doing.
If a 14 year-old had a serious heroin addiction, and it was found that the Mother was the dealer, she's be in jail in a flash. - Caergrim, on 06/27/2009, -0/+31He accidentally the whole thing.
- Po0py, on 06/27/2009, -4/+33Parents can be *****. Absolute *****. So with that in mind, I do think that this is one of the few examples of when a government should intervene. My mother works in a Nursery here in England. She can tell stories. Many, many stories. Thay actually have a "watch list" on the children they consider to be vulnerable and hand it over to the social services. Not that much is done about it therafter. There are so many parents out there who are completely incapable of looking after their children. Junky parents. Selfish parents. Parents who are just thick and know as much about children as they do about contraception. And most of these people would have had ***** parents also. It's an endless, vicious cycle. So, yes. We should definatly intervene.
- MemorabIename, on 06/27/2009, -2/+30No, it can't be that high. Assuming the kid to be a couple inches under six feet, his BMR would be ~4,320. In other words, he's eating a bit over double of what's normal.
So what in the hell are you on about, lady? For a 14 year old boy at 5'10" to have a BMR of 49,000, he would have to weigh ~7750 lbs. - appleofdischord, on 06/27/2009, -1/+29Those foods are more expensive in *time*.
McDonald's just requires going through the drivethrough on your way home. Making soups actually takes some time and effort.
That said, it probably takes a bit of time to unload 49,000 calories of McDonald's from your car. - Spamorama, on 06/27/2009, -2/+30Yes it is. Missing a meal or two isn't starving your child though. Especially when he's 555 freaking pounds!
- Mothrog, on 06/27/2009, -0/+27"Time spent cooking is not paid time."
Because everyone spends every waking moment working. - KSUdesigner, on 06/27/2009, -2/+27Good health and extended life aren't enough in return for losing a bunch of weight? Pretty sad to see people wanting to get paid in order to lose weight. Sounds like something straight out of Idiocracy.
- rdoger6424, on 06/27/2009, -0/+25It's an increasing trend. It's becoming more of a problem in Mexico now, and the WHO says that obesity is becoming a worldwide epidemic.
- headzoo, on 06/27/2009, -8/+32The mother complains that she has to work 3 jobs, and she can't ensure he's eating correctly. Instead she says she has to get fast food. But lets take a look at the facts.
There are about 1,500 calories in a large McDonald's meal. He would need to eat 20 of those a day to maintain his body weight. A large meal costs about $6. That's $120. Factor in kegs of soda, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, and snacks, and she's spending $140 a day on food. It's probably much less than that, but it's no doubt a large daily food budget.
So it's no ***** wonder the mother has to work 3 jobs. The neglect isn't a result of all the hours she works. All the hours she works is to maintain the neglect. If that makes sense.
If she spend ~$10 a day on food like most people, she could probably drop a job or two. - inactive, on 06/27/2009, -1/+23btw that's about as heavy as two newborn baby elephants. ;D
- rikwakefield, on 06/27/2009, -0/+22The WHO should stick to what they know best.... rock music.
- emailowndme, on 06/27/2009, -1/+23Fine, but only if you reward really smart criminals.
- ShingoEX, on 06/27/2009, -1/+22lol..."starve".
Yeah, right. - phyx726, on 06/27/2009, -2/+22Ok, I'm fat and I laughed at that one hahaha
- rahsut, on 06/27/2009, -1/+20i say we charge her with criminal endangerment of a child. she has caused him to almost definitely get diabetes in the future, not to mention heart disease and a whole bunch of other stuff
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