Zephyr Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [url=http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bear18.html]Teddy Bear Gun[/url] I cannot believe that someone gave a child a teddy bear with a loaded .22-caliber gun inside. What type of messed-up world do we live in? This is just sick. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Randleman Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 We live in the same messed up world were people give kids candy on halloween that has been tampered with. It's sad really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Lol, it's quite funny actually! LoL. Say the kid acidently pulled the trigger not knowing, that wouldn't have been funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SadClown Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 ^^ There's a reason your parents say not to take things from strangers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XeEmO Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Randleman [/i] [B]We live in the same messed up world were people give kids candy on halloween that has been tampered with. It's sad really. [/B][/QUOTE] Actually, don't they say in Bowling for Columbine that there hasn't been a case of that where the person giving the candy out wasn't related to the kid? I don't know exacly what they said, because it's been a while since I saw the movie, but does anyone else remember that? But back on topic. I don't see where anyone would get the idea to put a gun into a teddy bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crimson Spider Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 People probably do this kind of stuff for a laugh. Ha ha, the kid accidently shot a bear. So desensitized now days that they must do that kind of stuff for sheer entertainment. The woman probably used that gun, and wanted to get rid of it, so she stuck in inside a bear, and gave it to someone. Ingenious, but sick. I would say to do a fingerprint check on the gun, if they already haven't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 I am sure that by now they have run the fingerprints and the gun's ID number through a criminal database. The only problem is the person who had the gun would have to have been fingerprinted before for the that to work, and the ID number may not turn up much of anything useful. Chances are they may have had a sketch artist work with the family to recreat the face, but once again this only works if the person's face is on file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [color=royal blue][size=1][font=century gothic] Hopefully the person who put the gun in the bear had been fingerprinted before. Hope he/she gets caught. That is sick. It still confuses me how people can be like this. I don't understand why they would want to do this? It is horrible. Like Crimson Spider said, "Ingenious, but sick." True.[/color][/size][/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexa Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 That's sick. Some people really have nothing better to do than enjo that sort of stuff. -ignore this attachment- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Im not at all suprised by this, I mean how can I be in the world we live in today. I can only be thankful the gun didn't go off midflight and puncture a hole in a window and crash the plane. Maybe the woman was planing to be on the same flight, and gave the gun/bear to the kid in hopes of getting it on board, then retrieve it from the kid in flight and highjack the plane. >__<; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zephyr Posted July 19, 2003 Author Share Posted July 19, 2003 Frankly, Hybrid, I am not surprised either, that is part of why this disgusts me. I realize that most people have started to slip inth the "I don't give a ****" mentality, but this takes it too far. Luckily the gun never made it onto the aircraft. The airport security managed to find it beforehand. At least the higher level of security is paying off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazuko Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 (edited) ... Edited October 13, 2017 by Kazuko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 That's actually quite funny to me. Or rather, how that mother could have been so stupid to let the child accept the bear. Could you have imagined if it had been a carrier of something like smallpox? Everyone on the plane and a lot of people in the airport would have most likely have gotten it. And by the time anybody would realize it was smallpox, it would have been distributed over a wide amount of people. Reaching epidemical proportions. This world is filled with idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Change Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 Sometimes you just need to stash a .22 somewhere...It is sorrta funny though, and sad, really sad and pathetic... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiroMunkie Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 [size=1]... All I have to say is that those parents are pretty stupid. How could they [i]not[/i] notice the added weight to the bear? I mean, unless the bear was rather large to begin with and the gun was stufed up further in the stuffing, a gun is going to make quite a difference in weight than what would be expected of a teddy bear. I am with Chaos. The world is full of idiots.[/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinken Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 I agree with Chaos and the Munkie; this world is FULL of idiots. But, unlike Izual, I don't think it's that funny. Of course, when you think of how they put it in... You can't help but smile. Can you say suppository? :nope: :shifty: But this just goes to show that there's a lot of sick people these days... And I'm one of them. :devil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PersonV01 Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 eh, thats disturbing..... maybe, if someone thought about it in a jackass sorta way, in which the person gave a lil kid a paintball gun teddy and had jonny knoxville run around like an idiot getting shot, then maybe, just MAYBE, i might think it funny and start laughing. but dude, a lil kid with a handgun teddy?! thats just jacked up... -Pv01 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brasil Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 This reminds me of a very old skit on SNL. It stars Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin. Consumer Probe. Jane Curtin was concerned for the safety of the consumer, while Aykroyd played a sleazy businessman who manufactured dangerous playthings and Halloween costumes. One dangerous plaything was called "Teddy Chainsaw Bear." It looked like a normal stuffed animal, but featured a fully operational chainsaw that ripped out of its stomach. While this story is thoroughly disturbing and those at fault should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, I find the irony of a 30 year old skit very enlightening. The writers of SNL are very ahead of their time...rather, were very ahead of their time. I don't find the skits now to be prophetic. But Consumer Probe from the late 70s...dangerous weapons concealed in a teddy bear. This is an interesting interplay of fictional satire vs. reality. Perhaps, to gain a clearer understanding of society today, we should look at shows like SNL. Someone had mentioned a "don't give a ****" attitude. I've found with most comedic sketch writing that I've done, and generally the people I've worked with, that in order to logically view a situation, we must "not give a ****." Most comedy derives from this. A pinnacle of satire, Monty Python's Life Of Brian, would be very offensive to uber-religists--hell, it was banned in a few countries when it was released. It really can only be enjoyed (READ: finding the humor in it) when one learns to let go of their emotions and beliefs. This is not condoning anything that happened in that news report, of course. The world is filled with bitter ironies. The Darwin Awards are perfect examples. There is humor left in the world, but to reference Ghostbusters 2, it's getting really hard to find it. The world is filled with much more hate and disregard for human life, and finding comedy is getting more tedious. Granted, there is comedy in the movies, but we view real life much more than cinema. So many times I turn on the news and see badness. Each week, I think I see 2 or 3 positive stories. I'd say there is a 50:1 bad:good ratio. I know it's unsettling, but, while being unsettling, it provides excellent material for humor, as long as we can step back and appreciate what degenerate level of hypocrisy we as a society have become. Every news report is an example of the bitter irony that society has become. Whether it's a liberal group pushing for a ban on toy guns, or uber-religists praying for the salvation of the Supreme Court after the recent sodomy ruling, pointing fingers at everyone else when we have ourselves to blame, even accusing people of blindly following something when we have had a cover pulled over our eyes. These are bitter ironies. They're not pleasant ironies, and don't give to pleasant satire, but they're necessary ironies. A professor once told me the definition of satire. "It doesn't straight out say what's wrong with society. It holds a mirror up to society, to show them how they act, so they can admit their wrongdoings first." You see, all of these news reports, while very unpleasant, have actually benefited us all, in that those reports are bits of satire. The stories have been broadcasted, mostly with an unbiased presentation, and we've admitted society's wrongs. James Cameron once said, "Sometimes, it's what you don't say that gets people going. Sometimes it's what you don't show that drives people wild." Well, that's exactly what these headlines have done. Mostly, they haven't said anything other than what happened. A reaction has been elicited without anyone else telling us how they feel. I hate to say it, but I'm glad there are still evil news reports, because without them, I'm positive that we would lose touch with who we are and what society really is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaiyanPrincessX Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Alexa [/i] [B]-ignore this attachment- [/B][/QUOTE] Thats spam. The people who did this are disgusting. Stuffing agun in a teddy bear? How low can a person sink? I feel sorry for the boy and his family for having to endure this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spikey Posted July 21, 2003 Share Posted July 21, 2003 Somebody that will do this is pretty sick minded, stupid and just right of the hook brave. It does take guts to do that, and also a high percent of Stupidity. That person has a very sick mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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