Twins drown while father is gaming

Joystiq ^ | Nov 25, 2005 | James Ransom-Wiley

[SittinYonder]

One report suggests that Kleinmark was playing a Game Boy Advance

Idiot. He could've taken it into the bathroom with the kids.

[No Blue States]

10 months old? No way can you leave babies that young alone anywhere except a playpen. ESPECIALLY a bath tub.

What a shame.

[JOE43270]

10 months. I must be to old fashioned. I would let my kids take a bath without me or their Mom till they were a lot older.

[DTogo]

Poster father for forced sterilization...

[mother22wife21]

Doesn't sound as if it were involuntary to me. Ten years? That's it?!

And so another example of how cheaply we value the lives of children.

Culture of Death? Yes, that sounds about right.

[i_dont_chat]

Changing the subject -- not a commentary on the article -- but the headline.

Is playing video games the same as "gaming?"

I thought gaming was gambling.

[TXBSAFH]

As the father of 4 1/2 month old twin girls. I am deeply saddened and shocked. He should be locked up and nver let out. My girls are never left unattended.

[No Blue States]

Until they can hold their breath under water they cant be left alone in or around it.

Also, I suspect foul play here.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Stupid father. Give the kids a bath, feed them and put them to sleep THEN play your fricking video game.

[doodad]

Heck I did not let my daughter start staying home rather than go to the grocery store until 13.

[No Blue States]

I wonder where the mother was.

Its a good idea to make sure the parents let the other one know who is watching. It reminds me of a hand off in football. You dont let go until the other takes possession. Just so there is never the "I thought you were watching them" possibility.

[TXBSAFH]

Exactly, my daughters go to bed at 8 to 8:30. Then mom and dad get to play.

[No Blue States]

Congrats on your twins!
(Im hoping for a son in July)

[Rebel_Ace]

I think what everyone is leaving out here is that the man *was* working on a new high score, and that certainly counts for something...

[U S Army EOD]

If I am playing Warbirds 2005 and we just turned off the IP and are on the bomb run, the kids are going to have to hold their breaths a little longer.

Actually my kids are grown and gone, but the dogs don't always get in when the are scratching on the door at times like that.

[malachismom]

That is just horrible. He must be a complete idiot. Losing a child is the most horrible thing a person can go through and for him to have no regard in that he left his babies alone suggests something is wrong with him! I hope he gets his in prison.

[jb6]

It's all for the children, just like abortion.

[jb6]

Gaming is also role playing games.