this should make you all appreciate your mums
about 7 years ago, a young couple moved in to the flat above mine. they seemed quite nice, if a tad slobbish. the bloke had severe burn scarring all over one side of his face and neck and, i was to find out later, most of his body. as i still didn't know them very well, i didn't like to ask how he got them.
time passed and we became friends. we spent a lot of time together, talking about anything and everything. one day, the bloke(i won't name him) told me he was adopted. then he told me why.
at the age of 6 months, his parents decided that 3 children was quite enough and they didn't want their fourth any more. however, they did want money and decided on an insurance job, so they decided to kill 2 birds with one stone, quite literally. they put their infant son into his cot, locked the door, removed the doorknob, then took themselves and their other children out into the garden, setting fire to the house on their way out. they tried to burn their own child to death.
fortunately, emergency services arrived in time to save him. eventually, he was adopted by the fireman who had rescued him. due to some legal snafoo or other, his parents were never convicted. it took his new parents over 2 years of constant care, attention and hospital treatments, not to mention a giant shitload of love, to get the lad into something approximating good health.
if ever your mum or dad are annoying you, remember this and thank whichever god you worship that you didn't have his parents.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 20:32, 7 replies)

I hope the other kids got put into care too.

( girlinthehole, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 9:07, closed)

they didn't
but as they grew older, they gradually realised what their parents were and disassociated themselves.
all except the oldest lad, who has turned into dad 2.0
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 11:40, closed)

Jesus...
Erm, I don't know how to respond to that. Something similar happened quite recently I think, bloke tried to get a bigger council house so set fire to it when his family were still inside.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Sat 13 Feb 2010, 14:54, closed)

fortunately
he's got quite a decent sense of humour about the whole thing
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 16:27, closed)

Fucking hell.
Some people should just not be parents.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 15 Feb 2010, 0:07, closed)

That's rather an understatement.
not parents shot
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Mon 15 Feb 2010, 11:21, closed)

Good grief.
that makes me sad. I heard about this awful case recently too: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6561617/

Children should be able to trust their own parents, at the very least.
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Wed 17 Feb 2010, 16:43, closed)