Are your children "crocodile-savvy"?

[shereads]

Topic: How far is it wise for a parent to go, to assure that his children will be "croc-savvy"?

Irwin somebody, TV's famous "Crocodile Man," used his infant son as a prop in a crocodile-baiting performance at an Australian zoo this week - holding the baby in one arm while dangling a dead chicken from the other hand, and then "walking" the baby across the grass and dipping its little toes in the croc's pond, to polite audience applause.

"Astonished" "Sickened" and "Infuriated" that anyone would think he had endangered his child, Irwin reasoned,

"In front of that crocodile, I was in complete control."

"Boi croicky, my little daugher Bindi is more crocodile-savvy than any other child in the world."

I can see the importance of this. The children do live in Australia, and there are crocodiles there. Here in the U.S., it's traditional to dangle your child in front of a bison, if you can find one. This makes the surviving children "bison-savvy" and strengthens the gene pool.

Question: What other animals or potential dangers should infants be exposed to by their parents, to make future generations more "savvy"?

Michael Jackson has already suggested "heights," and "Daddy's special room."

 

[Gary Chambers]

Topic: How far is it wise for a parent to go, to assure that his children will be "croc-savvy"?

I can see the importance of this. The children do live in Australia, and there are crocodiles there. Here in the U.S., it's traditional to dangle your child in front of a bison, if you can find one. This makes the surviving children "bison-savvy" and strengthens the gene pool.

Question: What other animals or potential dangers should infants be exposed to by their parents, to make future generations more "savvy"?

Point taken. I saw the crock photo on Yahoo and was even more astounded than seeing Wacko dangle his sprog over the balcony railing. Still I went with the speeding train in the poll because I agree that the video would be a golden memory. "Oh, so you wanted Thomas The Tank Engine for Christmas instead. Come with me, I have just the thing. Grab the Camcorder, honey, this will be a keeper."

I am reminded, however, of the woman in Vancouver a few years ago who was walking across a suspension footbridge when her child fell from her arms to the rocks 100 or more feet below. Miraculously he kid survived, but the mother faced a lengthy legal battle to keep the child. She won in the end I think, because the neuroscientific evidence against her was weak, but I couldn't help thinking how terrible it must be to experience such a near tragedy only to be subjected to a similar potential loss by an uncertain and unclear legal system.

Anybody know someone who writes scripts for sports fishing shows? I've got one: the shark fishing charter boat operator who dangles junior overboard to attract porbeagles. Hey, it's not so bad. Sharks get a bad rap. They don't attack if you're savvy enough to look them in the eye, and the skipper may have already taught his nipper to look everything in the eye and offer a firm handshake. Give a guy a break for heaven's sake. Someone has to compete with the 700 Club for daytime viewers.

Sher, I don't quite know how to say this, but your box is full.

 

[damppanties]

I resent your poll

NO ONE needs to be Jacko-savvy.

Why can't we ignore him? Then he'll just go away.

 

[whispering_surrender]

Don't look at me. My daughter has her own ideas on what dangers she wants to be subjected to. She started asking for a skateboard at 2 years old, and asked again on every gift giving occasion until I gave in at 6 for Christmas.....*sigh* I'm such a softie.....

Whisp

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: I resent your poll

NO ONE needs to be Jacko-savvy.

Why can't we ignore him? Then he'll just go away.

Ignoring MJ won't make him go away. It's very apparent that a lot of parents decided to ignore the first case against him where Mj ponyed up 15 to 20 million in hush money and the child invovled refused to testify afterwards. Does that make him guilty? Not in the least, at the time 15 to 20 million was probably not that huge a payout compared to hi worth and he may have paid it simply to put an end to the closer than he would like scruitiny the case was garnering him. With the new allegations however and his publicly stated policy that a 45 year old man sleeping in the same bed with 12 year old boys is normal you can see we ignore people like MJ at our own peril.

Conversely turning him back into a celebrity when he had basically fallen off the public radar scope isn't helping either. They say in holywood that no publicity is bad publicity. Mj may be the litmus test of that theory.

As for the croc hunter, the man is either a certified nutter or so desperate for fame he will happily risk life and limb. No one raised a significant amount of protest when he used his wife as croc bait. I guess he figured using the little one would get more publicity. Child endangerment grabs headlines, see MJ and the baby dangling incident.

-Colly

-Colly

 

[TheEarl]

Re: Re: I resent your poll

Ignoring MJ won't make him go away. It's very apparent that a lot of parents decided to ignore the first case against him where Mj ponyed up 15 to 20 million in hush money and the child invovled refused to testify afterwards. Does that make him guilty? Not in the least, at the time 15 to 20 million was probably not that huge a payout compared to hi worth and he may have paid it simply to put an end to the closer than he would like scruitiny the case was garnering him.

I'd like to say, despite my carefully considered opinion that Jacko is no longer playing with a full deck, that I think he was hard done by with the first accusation. The kid accuses him, Jacko shoves money at him in an effort to try and get him to shut up and stop the bad publicity and the kid's parent's say "Look, he must have done somethin wrong, he's trying to pay us to keep quiet." The accusation may have been true, it may have been false, but public opinion on Jacko was swayed by some very specious reasoning.

The Earl

 

[damppanties]

Re: Re: I resent your poll

Ignoring MJ won't make him go away.

Then let's just hit him on the head. Very hard.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: Re: Re: I resent your poll

I'd like to say, despite my carefully considered opinion that Jacko is no longer playing with a full deck, that I think he was hard done by with the first accusation. The kid accuses him, Jacko shoves money at him in an effort to try and get him to shut up and stop the bad publicity and the kid's parent's say "Look, he must have done somethin wrong, he's trying to pay us to keep quiet." The accusation may have been true, it may have been false, but public opinion on Jacko was swayed by some very specious reasoning.

The Earl

Earl,

Thats why I was careful to note that paying hush money didn't neccessarily mean he was guilty of anything. Public figures are walking atm's in the minds of some litigation happy people. He is defintely approaching the outer limits of wierd and his public statements onthe subject are he kind of thing no sane PR man would ever let his client utter, but being strange and being a pedophile are not the same theing and equating one to the other isn't right.

-Colly

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Re: Re: Re: I resent your poll

Then let's just hit him on the head. Very hard.

Surely you jest? Mj's head is art. think of all the ppor plastic suregons who would be devastated if you damaged their work! We are all artists here and should respect each other's work no mater what the medium

-Colly

 

[shereads]

Re: Re: Re: I resent your poll

The Earl is right, of course. Paying off a lawsuit to avoid a long and inevitably embarrassing public humiliation doesn't mean someone is guilty, any more than "pleading the fifth" is supposed to be interpreted in the legal system as a sign of someone's guilt.

The payment didn't mean he was guilty. But the descriptions of his, um, jacko, in its happy state, were apparently accurate.

But I digresss.

I meant to take exception with the assertion that we should hit MJ over the head. I think he should simply be dangled in front of something toothy.

 

[raphy]

Re: Re: Re: Re: I resent your poll

I meant to take exception with the assertion that we should hit MJ over the head. I think he should simply be dangled in front of something toothy.

Maybe he knows to look 'em in the eye as well....?

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Savvy - is that another word for "traumatized"?

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmmm

We don't get many crocc's over here, but our lass is quite competent at feeding the cat, so I suppose that'll have to do.

As for my children being Jacko savvy, I wouldn't let my fucking kids near him in the first place to find out.

Guilty of kiddie porking or not, he's certainly a weird bastard. Effects of a domineering parent I understand.

 

[MaxSebastian]

I think it's quite clear Steve Irwin's been smoking far too much "croc-savvy".

And Jacko, well, he done not smoked enough.


Ayup.

 

[gauchecritic]

I attempted an experiment akin to this and regularly dangled my eldest and second (as then unborn) son in front of 'The Clash', The Jam', 'The Undertones' etc and now they just will not put down their guitars. Let this be a warning.

Gauche

 

[Linbido]

Re: I resent your poll

NO ONE needs to be Jacko-savvy.

Why can't we ignore him? Then he'll just go away.

I've tried that for ten years now. Didn't work.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Don't look at me. My daughter has her own ideas on what dangers she wants to be subjected to. She started asking for a skateboard at 2 years old, and asked again on every gift giving occasion until I gave in at 6 for Christmas.....*sigh* I'm such a softie.....

Whisp

You have KIDS???


Svenskaflicka
Momentarily back on this planet

 

[lewdandlicentious]

??????

Svenskaflicka,
Momentarily back on this planet

Wow, way to go Svennie,

RESULT!!!!

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Lewd... you DO know that I don't approve of being called "Sven", right?

That goes for ALL forms of the name. If typing Svenskaflicka is just to tiresome, shorten it to SF. OK?


(Whow! De-caf DOES work!)

 

[destinie21]

Prehaps we can expose our kids to Jessica Simpson and make them idiot savvy.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

OR it will rub off on them.

I'm not taking any chances.

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Hmmmmmm

"Lewd... you DO know that I don't approve of being called "Sven", right?"

Ah-ha!!

My only excuse is that......

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Now you're warned.

Don't do it again.

 

[destinie21]

Now you're warned.

Don't do it again.

That sounded really cool

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm a fair person.