[Mr. K]

Nanny state intrusion into everything- idiot teacher think they must report everything to the authorities- and for the most part they are right because they will be in trouble if they don't

no one has any common sense any more, including this mother who is obviously buring herself so deeply her brain is affected

where does she work? with all this time for the tanning booth I wonder- are WE paying for her?

[Puppage]

Yeah, she's lovely.

[TheRhinelander]

I’m wondering if this isn’t one of those pageant moms. Couldn’t she have just sprayed her with than tanning spray?

[KarlInOhio]

No mention of how badly burned the kid was. Was she slightly pink, red and peely, or blistered. I've been all three when I was a kid. The last when I was old enough to have known better.

Also, the mother's picture in the article is frightening. She should have stopped tanning about 40 years ago.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Sometimes parents mean it when they threaten to tan their child’s hide.

[thethirddegree]

The mother looks like something from Planet of the Apes.

[GOPsterinMA]

Life imitating “art”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECzz-p6Ulas

[Buckeye McFrog]

I remember my mom buying a sun lamp and sitting us all in front of it for ten minutes or so on winter evenings to ensure that we all got enough Vitamin D.

Please tell me that the statute of limitations has run out.

[Above My Pay Grade]

I tended to buy the “misunderstanding” story unitl I saw the video of the Mom. She appears to have disfigured herself through excessive tanning. She appears to have extremely, poor judgment when it comes to tanning, so, while it might have been a misunderstanding, it would not suprise me at akk if she put her 5 year old in a tanning booth.

I hope this woman gets the help she needs, because she appears to have a real problem. I am rather disgusted that tanning salons would continue to serve this woman.

[Above My Pay Grade]

>>>Nanny state intrusion into everything- idiot teacher think they must report everything to the authorities- and for the most part they are right because they will be in trouble if they don’t <<<

While I agree that there is a “nanny state teacher” problem, I think the teacher did the right thing in reporting this. I presume the teacher has seen the mother and her horribly disfigured face, apparently the result of extreme over-tannning.

I imgaine the teacher feared that the mother was going to disfigure the little girl the way she has disfigured herself.

[Clara Lou]

The woman is the kind of thing that showed up in my nightmares when I was a kid. Whew!

[GSWarrior]

[Shimmer1]

Ack!!

[GreenHornet]

Also, the poor woman recently had to get rid of her dog. It seems that whenever she walked in the house, the dog would get excited, running towards her screaming; “BACON, BACON, BACON, BACON, BAAAACOOOOOONNN!!!!”

[wardaddy]

This is nuts....

[RichInOC]

Ah, tanning beds. Or as Hannibal Lecter prefers to call them, “‘salamander’ broilers”.

[Coleus]

Added NJ to the Topic's list and she does live in the right town: NUTley.

Tanning booth mom calls arrest for taking daughter, 5, a misunderstanding: ‘It was a sunburn’

[Impy]

Tanning is gross. That mom looks like she’s been deep-fried.