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Fort Lauderdale man accused of child abuse after trying to remove son's cast with saw
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^ | July 18, 2011 | Danielle A. Alvarez

Posted on 07/18/2011 6:48:12 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: Pearls Before Swine
I wonder how much trouble a parent gets in now for tying a loose tooth to a door knob? My parents would have been given the electric chair-just for washing my mouth out with soap.
21 posted on 07/18/2011 7:18:57 PM PDT by funfan
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To: ConservativeStatement

Fort Leftyville they mean,I have fun everyday shouting, the Idiot rats down around here.


22 posted on 07/18/2011 7:20:11 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: funfan
My parents would have been given the electric chair-just for washing my mouth out with soap.


23 posted on 07/18/2011 7:20:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BykrBayb

My sister cut one off too early with tin snips, it itched so bad. The doctor had a fit but had to put an inflated air cast on her ankle. That worked. And when it came time to take it off, there came into the room the sibilant hiss one hears when a tire runs over a nail. Casts can itch something fierce.


24 posted on 07/18/2011 7:26:23 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: funfan

What kind of father uses a 10” circular saw to cut a cast off a kid’s hand? That’s not like tying a loose tooth to a door knob. It’s more like tying a mouth full of teeth to a car door. Or washing a kid’s mouth out with bleach instead of soap.


25 posted on 07/18/2011 7:27:34 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Candor7

How long did it take with the tin snips?


26 posted on 07/18/2011 7:30:35 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

I’m sure he stopped sawing when the kid started screaming and the blood started spraying!


27 posted on 07/18/2011 7:30:47 PM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: Dogbert41

I’m sure. Any good Dad would. ; )


28 posted on 07/18/2011 7:32:35 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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I didn't read the whole article so I was unaware it was a circular saw that is absurd. I just had a picture in my mind of the dad using a hack saw or something like that. Poor kid must have been scared.
29 posted on 07/18/2011 7:34:09 PM PDT by funfan
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A pair of tin snips....

Ha!!

I was going crazy...it was hot, the whole thing stunk to high heaven..and itched.

I CUT IT OFF!!! LOL!!!

I still walked around on crutches for a couple weeks...but better than that stinking pile of plaster!!

30 posted on 07/18/2011 7:39:17 PM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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Tin snips take too long. You should have used what the good Daddy in this article used. Much faster. LOL


31 posted on 07/18/2011 7:41:07 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

I was young and dumb..........


32 posted on 07/18/2011 7:48:10 PM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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To: funfan

Some dads are good at do-it-yourself projects, and some should be sent to prison just for trying. A dad who can remove a cast (safely) is good. But not all men are like your dad.


33 posted on 07/18/2011 7:48:20 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: ConservativeStatement

When I was in 3rd grade I cut my own cast off using a hack saw and a butcher knife. It took quite a while. Opening that cast was not like opening a Christmas present. That was one of the grossest things I have ever seen or smelled (I had the cast on during the summer and as I fractured the plaster of Paris on the elbow and hand (and got it filthy) my dad kept putting on more layers of gauze and plaster). By the end of the summer it weighed considerably more than at the beginning.


34 posted on 07/18/2011 7:49:23 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Osage Orange

Maybe, but not dumb enough to use a 10” circular saw.


35 posted on 07/18/2011 7:50:12 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: funfan

I wish someone had done something to my parents after they indulged in such depraved and sadistic behavior. Sorry for you that you seem to think it’s ok.


36 posted on 07/18/2011 7:57:09 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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Yeah, I broke my wrist when I was 14 or 15 and ended up removing my cast myself while hiding in the basement. Pretty gross. Huge blisters and skin covered in stinky slime.


37 posted on 07/18/2011 8:01:43 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: kabumpo

what the hel is wrong with you?


38 posted on 07/18/2011 8:02:49 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre

Nothing, apart from finding it perturbing that you seem to think that putting soap in a child’s mouth as punishment is no big deal.


39 posted on 07/18/2011 8:08:06 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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I never had soap put in my mouth. Nor did I put soap in my kids’ mouths.

However, I don’t believe it could physically harm a child so I would not put it into the category of child abuse.

If your parent did it to you for no good reason, I’d say that’s abusive, but the problem then is not the soap but the fact that you were punished for nothing.


40 posted on 07/18/2011 8:15:55 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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