"It's for the children..."
Posted on 01/04/2007 11:01:47 PM PST by Dallas59
Two boys in the US and Pakistan have accidentally hanged themselves while apparently mimicking Saddam Hussein's execution.
In two separate incidents, ten-year-old Sergio Pelico was found dead in Houston, Texas having tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed.
Meanwhile, nine-year-old Mubashar Ali was hanged from a ceiling fan while playing with his ten-year-old sister in Pakistan.
Police said the death in America appeared to be accidental and that Sergio, described by relatives as a happy child who was very curious, had been "experimenting".
The day before, he had watched the news of Saddam's execution on TV with an uncle and asked why he was killed.
Another uncle, Julio Gustavo, said: "His uncle told him it was because Saddam was real bad. He said 'OK' and that was it. I don't think he thought it was real. They showed them putting the noose around his neck and everything. Why show that on TV?"
California-based clinical psychologist Edward Bischof believes the boy might have copied behaviour he found interesting or exciting on TV.
He said: "I would think maybe this kid is trying something that he thinks fun to act out without having the emotional and psychological maturity to think the thing through before he acts on it.
"Saddam Hussein was (shown) standing there with a noose around his neck probably a dozen times in an hour. This is a real case where TV appears to be a stimulant."
Mubashar Ali was helped by his ten-year-old sister, who tied a rope to a ceiling fan and his neck.
Their father said the children had been watching the footage of the execution on TV.
Suicidal Youths Turn to Hanging Instead of Guns
06/10/2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1151306/posts
Excerpt:
A new report finds that suicidal young people are less likely to use firearms to take their own lives, but the survey finds little comfort in the trend because they are turning to more readily available methods.
In the last decade, suffocation -- notably hanging -- has overtaken firearms as the most common way for adolescents to kill themselves, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
lol. boys being boys. amazing any of us survived the idocies of our yoots.
Even from his grave, he kills innocents...
spit
Don't worry, Nancy Pelosi will introduce a bill to ban "ROPE" very soon.
ALL kidding aside but, 'You Sir' speak the Gospel Truth.
To young to die. To stupid to live.
by next years Darwin Awards, they will not have the buzz!
"It's for the children..."
Two young to die. Two stupid to live... or
Too young to die. Too stupid to live.
R.I.P.
I know what firecrackers feel like when they explode...just plain luck I still have five fingers and toes!
This, actually, IS George Bush's fault! (Causation speaking)
Thank God the spelling police are here! Where were you last week when the neighbor kids stole my dictionary?
"described by relatives as a happy child who was very curious, had been "experimenting".
better that he's dead now, instead of waiting until he would have become a teenager and then we would have been saying "he was only experimenting with drugs" after his arrest for robbery/burglary/assault etc.......
(saves us taxpayers in the future)
LOL. I know what you mean.
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