Police: Couple nurtured virtual child while real baby starved
From Andrew Salmon for CNN
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Police have arrested a South Korean couple whose toddler starved to death while they were raising a virtual child online, authorities said.
The couple fed their 3-month-old daughter once a day between marathon stretches in a local Internet cafe, where they were raising a virtual child in the fantasy role-playing game Prius Online, police told local reporters Friday.
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We brought you a post back in October breaking down some suggested iPhone applications for kids. Well it’s been a few months and in those few months, 6 trillion new applications have been released for the iPhone. Here’s a post that I came across via Lifehacker:
My recommended kid games (from A Whole Lotta Nothing)
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changing diapers is terrible. granted my wife takes care of about 99.9% of the dirty ones in my house, but still…it’s poop, pee and/or both smeared into a disposable packet of goodness.
as much as it might seem like a good idea to rush into potty training, especially if you have a kid who is showing advanced abilities, studies show that you should wait. but not too long…
A new study suggests 27 to 32 months is the ideal window for moving your child out of diapers. Children who were toilet trained after 32 months were more likely to have urge incontinence — daytime wetting and bed-wetting — between ages 4 and 12.
I’ve heard about a method that involves three days and NO diapers, probably some messy pants and some unpleasant laundry, but has success. Well, I know of two cases that worked…we will cover that soon on PoppaBlog.
More on the study mentioned above, here.
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From the “What Not To Do As a Parent” File.
I’m not one to judge, OK OK I am…but seriously? The girl is 18, thinks she is a wolf…has her dead dog’s skull in a jar…and her own bloody animal fridge. I have a daughter…I need to know how to not end up with a wolf girl.
Sarah Rodriguez, also known as Wolfie Blackheart
[following content from mysanantonio.com] Wolfie Blackheart is not an ordinary 18-year-old.
She believes she is a wolf — technically, a werewolf — and so she wears a tail. She also wears a harness in case someone special wants to drag her around.
And last week, she used a pocketknife in her kitchen to decapitate a dog — already dead, according to Wolfie — that had been missing since Jan. 5.
“I severed the head, boiled the head,” Wolfie said. “People make the mistake of hacking the spine, which will fracture the skull.”
She added, “You also have to put (the head) outside for the brains to leak out.”
Before the teenager carted the cranium to the woods, someone held it up and snapped a photograph of it inside her Northwest Side house — a shot that ended up on the Internet.
Within days, the photo had spurred an aggressive animal cruelty investigation by Animal Care Services and the San Antonio Police Department.
It also inspired at least one so-called troll — a savvy, anonymous Internet user — to hack into Wolfie’s personal accounts, engage in amateur sleuthing and issue threats to those deemed responsible for the dog’s fate.
Bearing the brunt of these attacks, Wolfie — born Sarah Rodriguez — says she’s guilty of nothing more than an abiding love for taxidermy.
“I would never kill a canine,” she said. “I am a canine.”
Lisa Rodriguez, Wolfie’s mom, said she supports her daughter’s career goal.
“I say, ‘Don’t sever heads in front of me,’ ” she said. “She usually does it in the woods.”
Wolfie cares lovingly for two huskies in the backyard.
Her room is a cluttered den plastered with posters of anime characters and howling wolves. On a high shelf, she collects heads, including the cleaned skulls of a coyote, ram and wild boar.
When a car ran over Pixie — her “best friend” — Wolfie cut off the chihuahua’s tiny head, cleaned it and placed it in a jar.
“I get requests on cats and stuff,” she said.
Wolfie also has collected more than a dozen swords, including a “two-handled war sword” made of carbon steel and a katana blade from Japan.
She said investigators knocked on her door Friday with a search warrant.
“When they saw her room, they had to call every single cop to her room,” said her mother, who lives in the home. “The spots on the wall, they thought it was blood. It’s catsup. The kids had a fight. They’re teenagers.”
She added, “Wolfie does have a bloody refrigerator, but they’re all dead animals.”
Crime scene investigators swabbed the walls. Authorities confiscated the dog’s head. No one could find the body. [continues]
grrrr, k thx bye, gonna go howl at the moon now.
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Tags: girl, OMG, Sarah Rodriguez, wolf, Wolfie Blackheart, WTF
Yeah it looks funky, but this concept could be a serious time saver. We’ve all been there…3AM and the rug rat wants some formula or momma’s nectar. Only problem is, momma’s out of town and you don’t have warm water ready to mix up some powdered goodness. By the time you get the bottle ready and heat it up, then cool it down because you WILL over heat it…junior has a face full of tears and boogies and has sustained irreparable damage to his ego that will undoubtedly push him into a long term emo-esque stage as a teen. Forget throwing the football in the yard, you’ll be shopping for skinny jeans in the girl’s section…but I digress. The iiamo GO Baby Bottle concept from Karim Rashid not only looks like your feeding your kid with a Dyson or an IKEA lamp but it will warm the contents to room temperature WITHOUT ELECTRICITY or FIRE! Something about salt and chemistry or a voodoo heat spell…the point is, no more fussing with a bottle warmer or microwave or kerosene and a lighter.
Originally saw this on Gizmodo
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