Posted on 09/01/2010 7:50:39 PM PDT by DemforBush
One nit to pick: That’s not burning someone, it’s scalding them.
Did the girl not think she'd be going away for a long time for this, that no one would figure out it was her?
The stupidity of criminals like this is breathtaking.
“Did the girl not think she’d be going away for a long time for this, that no one would figure out it was her?”
That’s what I always say to something like this. Aside from the horrible nature of the crime, did the pinheads think they were going to get away with it?
I know they say “crime of passion;” maybe they need to start saying “crime of stupid.”
High on something or inebriated, possibly.
Thermal injury via a scald is medically considered a burn, and it’s a particularly ghastly kind. Let’s not even go into what it feels like at the time and for weeks afterward — it’s a horror to see, as the cooked skin will simply fall off. There’s a reason that consumers are urged to keep children away from coffee urns and to keep the handles of pans on the stove pointed inward especially when small children are around.
cute couple. sick twisted b*stards
Good thing your parents didn’t feel that way??
“This is why I didn’t have kids. I don’t trust the little bstrds”.
This is why I am happy you didn’t have kids. This is an anomaly. No paper writes stories about kids helping their parents, standing up for their parents etc... Just a thought
An old girlfriend had scars from an early childhood accident involving boiling water. More like melting than burning.
This was a very cruel and damaging act.
Hey, I’m not saying you shouldn’t have. I’m just glad I didn’t.
In normal parlance, it’s scalding, but if medically, it’s in the burn category, I guess the headline is technically correct. I think scalding would have been more accurate, and convey what happened better to someone scanning the headlines. I didn’t comment on the ghastliness of this kind of injury, nor comment to minimize it, just to point out the imprecision of the use of language by what pass for editors in this day and age.
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