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- thehoodie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53When I read the title I thought a real baby was drunk and smoking... I was very disappointed by this article.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45"As Mueller slid down the chute..."
No one but me finds it rather frightening that these babies are being slid down a chute? Might be fun for a drunk adult but I'm not so sure that's safe for a baby. - GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40@coolestkidalive
Huh? Unwanted baby drop-boxes are great, much better than the garbage.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&tab=wn&q=baby+%2Bgarbage&btnG=Search+News - EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23"emergency post boxes for unwanted babies"
***** a' I need a drink. - bioskope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Damnit I thought it would be a story about Stewie having been finally discovered
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18i love the photo caption!
- SeismicShock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13like the article says, better than the trash, or out on the front steps of the hospital
- goeatsmsht, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I just thought it was Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.......
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11What a comically misleading title!
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Doesn't look like there is a chute/slide let alone ROOM for an adult in one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_box
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I own the rights to "Net-Baby" please refrain from using it or pay me royalties. Thank you.
- goeatsmsht, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"emergency post boxes for unwanted babies"
In New York they don't have post boxes (WTF?) for unwanted babies, but any mother who does not want their baby can drop it off at any hospital, police station and many churches, no questions asked. - elcamino, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I find it somewhat disturbing that the news here is the drunk guy. Did I miss something here? Since when could one post babies? When was that on Digg??
Note that I prefer this over garbage containers, this just speaks volumes about the extent of the problem. Hopefully they're spending even more resources on actually dealing with the source, and not just the symptoms. - Disgone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I live in Florida and you can drop any unwanted babies off at a fire department with no questions asked as long as they are under a certain age. I don't think 28 qualifies.
- MYarms, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I don't know whats more disturbing. The fact that the drunk guy climbed into that thing or the fact that Germany has boxes that you can just drop your babies into when you don't want to deal with them anymore.
- noisician, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4and better than abortion (even though i support the right to choose)
there are plenty of parents waiting to adopt children (at least healthy children) - moojuece, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, no wonder the Germans are the master race, they have drop boxes, we have McDonald's dumpsters.
- stonewaljacksn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guarantee his drunk friends threw him in as a joke. I would prob do it it to someone if i was wasted and didnt want to "babysit" a sloppy drunk friend.
- macidiot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4FTA: (accompanied by a photo of a new born) "What Heinrich Mueller did not look like"
great sense of humor. - darkstar949, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From what I understand the biggest reasons are due to children born out of wedlock, born to an underage mother (i.e. younger than 18), or the mother simply cannot support a child for various reasons (i.e. income).
- terribly1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Soon they'll have Net-Baby, where you won't have to visit the store to drop your baby off - you just set up a date online and it gets picked up in the mail!
Only $29.99! - loquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What happens if the kid doesn't have proper postage?
Seriously though, we need something like these boxes around in the U.S. You hear about an abandoned baby or two every season on the news here in Alabama, and many of them end up dead in a dumpster. A deposit box beats the hell out of a dumpster any day of the week. - SqAR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1better having such boxes than having a baby dropped from a tower block:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpanorama%2Fjustiz%2F0%2C1518%2C473545%2C00.html&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 - DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can I adopt him?
- socokoolaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He should have tried the alternative, throwing himself down a well.
- MystikD, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Has anyone wondered what kind of baby drop box can accommodate a full grown man?
- Evic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Here in the US we have something similar in 47 of the states, most commonly referred to as "Safe Surrender." Mothers can leave a newborn (younger than 72 hours) at any hospital, police department, fire station, and in some cases churches, without any legal repercussions.
The only advantage these drop boxes have is the mother doesn't have to actually talk to anyone - she can just drop it off and run, which makes it very James Bond-ish... I can envision a mother sneaking up to the box, looking around for others, then dropping it off and running.
Personally, I don't see how anyone could give up their child. The minute I held my daughter this inexplicable feeling rushed over me, best described as unconditional love. I can hardly leave her with a babysitter much less in a box somewhere. I can only imagine (and from what my wife tells me) that the mothers feel this even more so - there is an intense amount of bonding between the mother and child during the pregnancy months. - Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, I don't know if I'm really for or against these things. I could write or talk for hours and not really get anywhere.
- ophilye, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I am glad that Emergency Unwanted Baby Chutes are good for Germany... I mean, I know in America, we have our fair share of babies being dumped or left somewhere as the mother is too young to care for them.
But between Baby Chutes and finding infants 3 days after their mother abandoned them, having to care for the infant and arrest the mother, there must be a happy a medium?
I'm personally voting for mandatory birth control until age 21. How could this truly be worse than the other 2 options? - Markers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"emergency post boxes for unwanted babies"
I wonder how much the postage is for a baby.... - jkenneth24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems this is an old idea, dating back to medieval Italy. It was a church led initiative, instituted by Pope Innocent III, where something called a "Foundling Wheel" was installed on the sides of churches (one part inside the church, one part outside with a hatch) where mothers can drop off their unwanted babies anonymously and without having to talk to anyone (and instead of leaving them exposed to the elements, or worse, killing them).
Recently, Italy has revived this practice (with a modern twist, instead of churches, they're in hospitals now, with a buzzer that sounds to alert nurses that a baby has been left on the hatch/crib)...
sources:
[foundling wheel] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_hatch
[Italy revives the foundling wheel] http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/15/babywheel_hum.html?category=human&guid=20061215121500 - Shriker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wow. oO;
- nify, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Wonderful! Are you people blind to vote for THIS?
- kmb1794, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Emergency unwanted baby drop boxes? Isn't that what they have wells for?
- sorrow, on 10/12/2007, -26/+25@ rompom -- I'd much rather hear someone wondering if it will blend then someone talking about flying spaghetti monsters.
- The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Germany is the only place I've been thus far where I actually saw a person at a cafe having a beer at some ungodly hour like 8 or 9am.
- alpha94, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The comments on the articles page are great. Digg for the use of "crotch-spawn" in the comments.
- jazbek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1maybe this will make you feel better:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SxRr8zHcmxU - jonpotz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2wow...the description of this article definitely made me LOL.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8""I'd much rather hear someone wondering if it will blend then someone talking about flying spaghetti monsters.""
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You would rather associate an abandoned baby incubator with a blender rather that read about a reference to a flying spaghetti monster?!
Have you ever had a professional assess the level of your psychosis? Seek help. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This is interesting -- but when I was a kid "make a baby" meant to either ***** -- or at least fart.
Q: Could this young man also have farted or shat in the small enclosure, thereby creating a "Dutch Oven" in Genmany!?!?!?
I'M FROM AMERICA AND I WANT TO KNOW!!!! - Bhatch514, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0" My cat's breath smells like cat food " - Ralf Wiggum
(Anagram episode) - john570, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2Been there! Done that!
- Scrappy1850, on 10/12/2007, -18/+5pic or it didnt happen
- Junkey, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2I miss clicked on a google add found some fat bitches with THO.
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -48/+18oh for the love of flying spaghetti monster. please never comment again.
- joosebuck, on 10/12/2007, -69/+10IN SOVIET RUSSIA IT WILL BLEND?
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