Texan kid imitates Saddam – hangs himself

[Havock]

Originally posted by Dreamer128: Update: THREE KIDS DIE IN SADDAM-LIKE HANGINGS Saturday, January 06, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com Sergio Pelico, a 10-year-old boy from Webster, Texas, hanged himself from a bunk bed last Sunday. On that same day, a 9-year-old Pakistani boy, Mubashar Ali, hanged himself, with help from his 10-year-old sister. And three days later, in the suburbs of Kolkata, India, 15-year-old Moon Moon Karmarkar hanged herself from a ceiling fan. -ABC News (http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=30785)

I see darwins theory is universal.

Originally posted by johnny: Nothing good could have come out of a kid with the name Moon Moon anyway, she would have probably grown up becoming a notorious sex offender or some such.

Or a candidate for UN Secretary General.

[Kakero]

Originally posted by SecretMaster: quote: Originally posted by Bungleau: quote: Originally posted by SecretMaster: I've read this article numerous times and I don't see any adjectives that would even remotely explain the income level of the family. I don't see how it is 'quite clear' that he comes from a poor family. In fact, the actual environment of the family is barely touched upon.

This line:

Investigators learned Sergio was upset because his father, Celso Sontay, got his little brother a Christmas present but didn't get Sergio one.

Leads me to believe (although not know for certain) that he came from a poor family. To have one Christmas present... [/QUOTE]To me that's more of an indication of poor child-parental relations. The way I interpreted it, it made it seem like the father deliberately didn't but his son a Christmas present, but for a non-monetary reason. More like an act out of spite or resentment for his child.

But either way, that is still speculative. I still don't think it is "quite clear" that the family is poor. I still don't even see how one starts to think about those kind of things with a situation like this. [/QUOTE]The one word that come to my mind is "Favouritism". It happens on some family.

Originally posted by Kakero: The one word that come to my mind is "Favouritism". It happens on some family. [/QB]

Yeah, that's the word I was looking for. Mind blanks are terrible things.