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(Some Guy)		Couple wants to return adopted son who tried to burn down their house , leaving a note "sorry you have to die" (jezebel.com)		186
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Ima10urin8

2009-12-26 11:14:24 AM

Son, this is gonna hurt you alot more than it's going to hurt me.

CougarJeff

2009-12-26 11:18:37 AM

He's defective, get your money back.

basemetal

2009-12-26 11:25:20 AM

The state is going to be taking care of him in a few years anyway, what's a couple of extra years.

Confabulat

2009-12-26 11:30:59 AM

We could just extend the limits of abortion about 12 years.

jehovahs witness protection

2009-12-26 11:52:19 AM

The kid sounds muslim.

ZeroCorpse

2009-12-26 12:07:32 PM

An open letter to the biological mother:

SMART MOVE!

Roook

2009-12-26 12:39:53 PM

The English Major

2009-12-26 12:43:48 PM

Confabulat: We could just extend the limits of abortion about 12 years.

choo

2009-12-26 12:44:13 PM

All Pete wants for Chrimmus is a Repeat!

cryinoutloud

2009-12-26 12:53:33 PM

This was greenied about a week, ago, but eh, it's an interesting story.

My take: Reactive attachment disorder = permanently damaged. He's too old to be fixed. People who put him up for adoption engaged in fraud and are weasels.

St_Francis_P

2009-12-26 12:55:26 PM

leaving a note "sorry you have to die"

On the positive side, he was considerate enough to leave a note.

Roook

2009-12-26 01:44:13 PM

St_Francis_P: leaving a note "sorry you have to die"

On the positive side, he was considerate enough to leave a note.

and he obviously felt bad about what he had to do.

beerrun

2009-12-26 01:57:12 PM

Stanfan114

2009-12-26 02:05:06 PM

His name is Pete! I repeat, his name is Pete!

Honest Bender

2009-12-26 02:05:21 PM

St_Francis_P: leaving a note "sorry you have to die"

On the positive side, he was considerate enough to leave a note.

And he was apologetic.

texdent

2009-12-26 02:06:13 PM

Sounds like the movie The Orphan.

mmagdalene

2009-12-26 02:06:34 PM

cryinoutloud: This was greenied about a week, ago, but eh, it's an interesting story.

My take: Reactive attachment disorder = permanently damaged. He's too old to be fixed. People who put him up for adoption engaged in fraud and are weasels.

What she said.

generaltimmy

2009-12-26 02:06:43 PM

The English Major: Confabulat: We could just extend the limits of abortion about 12 years.

South Park already did ut

UncleStumpy

2009-12-26 02:07:29 PM

Hey has anyone mentioned this was a repeat? Ok cool!

Dungeon Master

2009-12-26 02:08:31 PM

I agree with the parents. If they are afraid for their lives then they should be allowed to NOT take the kid back.

Red Mundus

2009-12-26 02:08:38 PM

Anyone have a link to the previous thread? Would be interested on reading it.

/Have no clue how far back it was.

Mietsko

2009-12-26 02:09:33 PM

What the child is rumored to look like.

Red Mundus

2009-12-26 02:10:23 PM

Bah, never mind. Found it with a lucky search.

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4875463

StrangeEmily

2009-12-26 02:12:29 PM

Hehe... farks christmas present for me was a repeat. No totalfark for me. : )

Onkel Buck

2009-12-26 02:13:02 PM

Mr. Potatoass

2009-12-26 02:13:02 PM

merlinsbeard

2009-12-26 02:13:08 PM

had a friend who had a kid like this and it was his biological child. The kid got abandoned anyway. Moral of the story children-behave yourselves or you will be punished...

Mini Ditka

2009-12-26 02:13:26 PM

I'm a little foggy today, but wasn't it Oklahoma that had the 'drop your unwanted kids off here' program?

/drop the little farker off

skinink

2009-12-26 02:14:14 PM

texdent: Sounds like the movie The Orphan.

Yea, I'm ashamed it took me so long into the movie to figure out the twist at the end. But I like the movie the Bad Seed better. Sure it's an old black and white film but it's really good. The scene where the girl burns the guy up is really evil.

MONSTERTRUCK

2009-12-26 02:14:14 PM

Pic of perp at birth:

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/7069/babyhitler.jpg

Britney Spear's Speculum

2009-12-26 02:16:30 PM

Isn't this a repeat?

YouPeopleAreCrazy

2009-12-26 02:17:01 PM

But, with so many adoptive parents fighting to be recognized as their child's "real" parents, creating a law that makes adoption less permanent isn't the answer.

Similarly, the state lying about the kids initial condition is not the answer either.

cryinoutloud

2009-12-26 02:18:17 PM

skinink: texdent: Sounds like the movie The Orphan.

Yea, I'm ashamed it took me so long into the movie to figure out the twist at the end. But I like the movie the Bad Seed better. Sure it's an old black and white film but it's really good. The scene where the girl burns the guy up is really evil.

The book scared the crap out of me when I read it when I was young. I didn't know about the movie until years later (it was a Broadway show before that.)

Book also had a better ending--the wife tried to kill herself and daughter. The wife died, the daughter lived. At the end of the book, the husband is telling the daughter how much he adores her, and how happy he is that she's alive. Mom, of course, was evil, because she tried to kill her own daughter.

To this day, when I see evil little sh*ts, I think, "the bad seed."

dantanner

2009-12-26 02:19:44 PM

Can't they drop the little bastard off in Nebraska?

Jebus Slaves

2009-12-26 02:20:21 PM

My adoptive parents would have loved this option when I got all teenagery on them.

I probably would have loved it too.

pheed

2009-12-26 02:21:04 PM

This exact same thing happened to some friends of mine. They adopted a boy at 9 years of age and the kid was severely damaged goods. I don't know all the details, but I think he might have ended up officially back in the state's custody. He tried to burn their house down, he would find creative ways of avoiding the toilet, would bite, kick, scratch, scream abuse and was generally a terror. I know he also used to run away and shack up with some very scary people involved in drugs. Amazingly enough, I think he might have turned out OK. I know he gained a bunch of weight, got married and had a kid of his own. I haven't seen him in years though, so who knows?

JonnyBGoode

2009-12-26 02:21:21 PM

You know who else had an unwanted child...

us.movies1.yimg.com

specialk111

2009-12-26 02:22:18 PM

siromega

2009-12-26 02:23:04 PM

Lobotomy is the only answer...

dogette

2009-12-26 02:23:07 PM

Favorite movie as a kid.

lastrow.files.wordpress.com

RY28

2009-12-26 02:23:08 PM

In before the mods send this one back !

Curious

2009-12-26 02:24:17 PM

there is a documentary running on msnbc right now where the parents let the state take the child. harsh perhaps but taking the kid back into the home doesn't sound to safe for the adoptive parents.

i know a couple that planned to adopt a problem kid but, like this kid, he just had too many problems. they opted out of the adoption.

and yeah the state will low ball the problems.

fotbr

2009-12-26 02:24:56 PM

Perhaps a tragic boating accident is in his future. IIRC there's a pretty good sized lake in Oklahoma. Of course, the parents wouldn't have any idea how the boy ended up tangled up in the anchor chain when the boat caught fire, they'd just know they couldn't get to him.

ihatedumbpeople

2009-12-26 02:26:19 PM

Bummer...kid never should have been adopted to begin with. He didn't develop those issues from the time he left to the time he arrived at his new house...State lied, give him back.

It's really sad some people are like that, but the kid needs to be institutionalized. He's a threat to society and would only end up killing someone if he were let loose.

LesserEvil

2009-12-26 02:26:26 PM

I was channel surfing a while back, and they had one of those two-way interviews, where the anchor sits in the middle between two sides.

Anyway, one person was a woman from a parent's rights organization or something, the other was Director of Health and Human Services of Oklahoma - a guy who should know EVERYTHING about this case, since it's his decision that was in dispute.

So.... when it comes time for the director to talk, he goes on about how these people get assistance and so forth, but then admits he knows NOTHING about this particular situation. WTF? The kid tried to KILL his adoptive parents, and he knows nothing about it? Did it even occur to him, before going on national TV, to I dunno, maybe REVIEW THE FACTS? Of course, he should have done this before deciding the parents needed to keep their potential killer, too.

charkocu

2009-12-26 02:27:41 PM

SCARY tag for her?

Loucifer

2009-12-26 02:28:49 PM

Caveat emptor.

The English Major

2009-12-26 02:29:37 PM

siromega: LOLbotomy is the only answer...

Call it that; the kids'll think it's cute.

flaEsq

2009-12-26 02:30:51 PM

The original headline was terrific. Put it back please

WeenerGord

2009-12-26 02:32:05 PM

It's like deja vu all over again.

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