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(Yahoo)   You're a journalist writing about two German adults who steal a cake from a grocery store. Naturally, you'll need to include a photo of a Chinese baby with a "Friday the 13th"-size knife   (news.yahoo.com) divider line
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deanphilo
2006-08-29 12:57:36 PM  
chinese? what?
 
Adman12
2006-08-29 12:57:56 PM  
Mexican baby.
 
I.M.Hungwell
2006-08-29 12:58:02 PM  
yeah why not?
 
ignoramus
2006-08-29 12:58:14 PM  
I'm going to go with "hawaiian toddler". Meh.
 
bonesdilligaf
2006-08-29 12:58:51 PM  
ok the kid looks like chucky
[image from etm.freshegg.com too old to be available]
 
Adman12
2006-08-29 12:58:51 PM  
Love TF caption:

A young boy holds a large knife as he waits for permission to cut into a cake in Mexico City, April 30, 2002. Two men broke into a supermarket depot in Germany and left with just a cake, authorities said on Tuesday. (Henry Romero/Reuters)
 
meshman
2006-08-29 12:59:05 PM  
"A young boy holds a large knife as he waits for permission to cut into... "

Into what? The text just runs off like that.

"In the largest global disaster in recorded history, the US is about to be hit by...."
 
Richard_M_Nixon
2006-08-29 12:59:29 PM  
Did this happen outside a mall, where you can buy cakes made in a mall, by mall employees who are paid by the mall?
 
jay_bones15
2006-08-29 12:59:37 PM  
Samoan?
 
Despairagus
2006-08-29 12:59:46 PM  
Crocodile Dundee is not impressed.

[image from sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au too old to be available]
 
markfarker
2006-08-29 1:00:06 PM  
From tfa:
Police arrested the two men, aged 29 and 41, shortly after the late night break-in and recovered the stolen cake. A search of the men's flat uncovered no more loot.

Why didn't the police pump the men's stomachs? Afraid of what they would find?
 
junkevil
2006-08-29 1:00:19 PM  
i guess the germans were also holding this mexican boy hostage , making him cut and eat the cake. those bastards.
 
Shamasheen
2006-08-29 1:00:40 PM  
Oriental?
 
GodsTumor
2006-08-29 1:00:44 PM  
[image from img177.imageshack.us too old to be available]
Amateurs!
 
baorao
2006-08-29 1:01:01 PM  
I'm gonna go ahead and say the writer isn't reponsible for actually posting the article. So an editor or web guy is responsible for the photo. yeah.
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2006-08-29 1:01:09 PM  
Yeah, Yahoo does that a lot. They take one word from the story and put a picture next to it that has nothing to do with the story. In this case the word was "cake". They could have also chosen "German" and put a picture of Hitler there.
 
I.M.Hungwell
2006-08-29 1:01:22 PM  
It's a bird, it's a plane...

No, Itzehoe!!
 
Adman12
2006-08-29 1:01:49 PM  
submitter: You're a journalist writing about two German adults who steal a cake from a grocery store. Naturally, you'll need to include a photo of a Chinese baby with a "Friday the 13th"-size knife


A pic that's 4 years old, to boot.

Was it really such a bad idea to run this non-story without a pic, if there was no more appropriate stock imagery than this?
 
UberNeuman
2006-08-29 1:02:49 PM  
THE CHINEES ARE STEALIN' ARE MEXCAN BABYES!
 
mercator_psi
2006-08-29 1:02:51 PM  
I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look like a Japanese Chinese Filipino umm, Italian maybe one of those Moorish-type Mexican baby
In an instant, I remembered everything

/might also just be a li'l white kid
 
Hilary T. N. Seuss
2006-08-29 1:03:07 PM  
I think that the kid is Arab, because then the article would reference a Pink Floyd related song. If you immediately know which one, you're as big a Floyd fanatic as I am!
 
Doctor Funkenstein
2006-08-29 1:03:40 PM  
That child is clearly incapable of putting pee-pee in the Coke. Even as a joke. I call shennanigans on this headline.
 
swami-on-rye
2006-08-29 1:04:00 PM  
is there any way to get a story redlit?
 
KiesteredBeetle
2006-08-29 1:04:41 PM  
I think it's a shaved chimpanzee. Lookit them hyuge ears!
 
baxco
2006-08-29 1:05:06 PM  
That should be used in a PS Contest
 
morren
2006-08-29 1:05:57 PM  
I figured it would have something to do with Jews, Nazis, or WWII.... but nooooo. Where has Germany gone?!
 
Jack Kerouac
2006-08-29 1:06:25 PM  
Is that kid from Nanking?
 
BarkingPumpkin
2006-08-29 1:07:23 PM  
[image from img46.imageshack.us too old to be available]

"I see you've played knifey-spooney before."
 
D66M6D
2006-08-29 1:07:29 PM  
stealing a cake? goddamn, please smite these men almighty smiter!

/drtfa, dgaf
 
savage819
2006-08-29 1:07:47 PM  
wow.
that's some awesome webmastering.
could they not find another stock photo of just a cake?

baby cuts cake in mexico city in 2002 has tons to do with germans stealing cake.
jerks.

and I'm down with baxco's idea.
 
FLYNAVY
2006-08-29 1:07:49 PM  
2 ghey guys stole a lucious cake in Germany, took it to Mexico City where they kidnapped a toddler named Ernesto to cut their stolen cake. Immediately after the photo was taken, Isreali airstrikes set the cake on fire filling the evening sky with dark smoke.

It's a "Reuters story", you have to sorta fill in the blanks or make something up. It's not like it's real news.
 
stardude82
2006-08-29 1:08:11 PM  
If this is Germany, the kid could be Turkish. They are sort of like German equivolent of Mexicans. Maybe the writer adapted the image caption to American culture by calling him a Mexican.

/Stretch maybe?
 
Feel_the_velvet
2006-08-29 1:09:20 PM  
You're a journalist submitter writing about two German adults who steal a cake from a grocery store a headline. Naturally, you'll need to include a photo of a Chinese baby with a "Friday the 13th"-size knife the ethnicity of the baby in the seemingly unrelated picture
 
msappy00
2006-08-29 1:09:22 PM  
Not sure why, but this is the funniest farking thread I've read in a solid month. Thank you, internet!

*trying not to laugh out loud in computer lab, tears welling up in eyes*
 
Regnad Kcin
2006-08-29 1:10:37 PM  
"Sometimes people just come up with crazy ideas," said Hermann Schwichtenberg, a spokesman for police in the northern town of Itzehoe. "Now we've seen everything."

Two guys steal a cake and you've "seen everything"?
 
Bloody William
2006-08-29 1:11:11 PM  
[image from d.yimg.com too old to be available]

biatch better let me into this cake or I'll cut her up instead!
 
Bloody William
2006-08-29 1:11:49 PM  
Two guys steal a cake and you've "seen everything"?

That's nothing. This one time... I saw one guy steal two cakes!
 
Kangaroo_Ralph [OhFark]
2006-08-29 1:12:53 PM  
Why I gotta do it?

[image from img.photobucket.com too old to be available]
 
Fallout Boy
2006-08-29 1:13:23 PM  
Chinese, Mexicans.... they all look the same to Americans: Protentially dangerous minorities.
 
Bloody William
2006-08-29 1:13:58 PM  
[image from nursery-services.com too old to be available]

GIS for Chinese baby.

/Not even kidding
//Okay, three pages in
 
BarkingPumpkin
2006-08-29 1:14:15 PM  
elchip - As frightening as your edited version of that pic is, I believe it would be an added bonus if you included one of those pointy straw hats.

And maybe an "O RRY?"
 
char_boy
2006-08-29 1:14:18 PM  
This just in from the Bush Administration: it was yellow cake.
 
sigdiamond2000
2006-08-29 1:14:19 PM  
I wish these Chinese babies would bother to learn their native language. It's insulting to Mexicans and Americans.

We should also fine companies that use illegal Chinese baby labor. But then I guess the cost of bok choy and that miniature corn would skyrocket.

Damn Zipperbacks.
 
Spazmotic
2006-08-29 1:16:42 PM  
GIS Results

[image from ihaterednecks.com too old to be available]

// Makes me laugh every time i see it.
 
Rapmaster2000
2006-08-29 1:17:53 PM  
Chinese, Mexicans, Germans, what's the difference? They're all foreigners and they hate freedom and even worse they probably hate Foreigner. Everyone knows that Foreigner is way better than foreigners.
 
ggargett
2006-08-29 1:18:32 PM  
"Yo quiero torta"
 
FLYNAVY
2006-08-29 1:18:49 PM  
char_boy :
Yellow cake as in hexavalent chromium or wmd's or betty crocker? Could make a difference as to whether we need to invade or not. U guys go on ahead, I'll work on the exit stratagy. & if it's betty crocker, save me a piece.

looks like yellow cake with coconut frosting but I could have gotten some bad intel.
 
10signs
2006-08-29 1:18:50 PM  
Golf clap for char_boy.
 
A Farewell To A Perfect Score
2006-08-29 1:20:28 PM  
BarkingPumpkin:
And maybe an "O RRY?"


HA!
 
flaminio
2006-08-29 1:23:33 PM  
A young boy holds a large knife as he waits for permission to cut into a cake in Mexico City, April 30, 2002. Two men broke into a supermarket depot in Germany and left with just a cake, authorities said on Tuesday. (Henry Romero/Reuters)

Henry? Perhaps Ric's brother? Would explain a lot...
 
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