Dad Who Burned Kids in Dryer: Thought They Could Have a Good Time Without Money

A Kansas man is on trial this week on charges he put his girlfriend's 2 year old daughter and 3 year old son in a hot clothes dryer to show them they could have a good time without much money.

An hour later, the dryer had become hot and the boy had second-degree burns.

Is this recession taking a toll on Americans?


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[edit on 6-3-2008 by Master_Wii]

I feel bad for the kids injuries, but that has got to be some of the funniest stuff I've heard in a while.

Now we need an amusement park that only has household appliances in place of rides....wait, I think that my redneck neighbor may already be working on that idea based on the 3 fridges, 2 laundry machines and a whole lotta other similar crap sittin in his front yard.

Just gotta talk to him about entry fees...hmmm

Originally posted by Master_Wii
Is this recession taking a toll on Americans?

Only if it's costing some people their brains.

My girlfriend in highschool, who was really small, took a ride in a friends dryer. Got a nice knot on her head for her troubles. Yes, alcohol was involved.

i wonder if he realized there was a "fluff - no heat" mode on most dryers?

They just don't make a pill for stupid.

How in the world could anyone rationally think that putting two kids in a clothes dryer woould be a good idea is beyond all comprehension. Down right negligent is what it is.

Fun means ... maybe 45 seconds at most. He left them in there for AN HOUR - that's not fun that's torture.

Fortunately, for society, they were his girlfriends kids... meaning: he hasn't reproduced (I hope).

[edit on 3/7/08 by Angry Danish]

reply to post by Master_Wii

A Kansas man is on trial this week on charges he put his girlfriend's 2 year old daughter and 3 year old son in a hot clothes dryer to show them they could have a good time without much money.

Forgive me, but 2 and 3 year-olds needing money to have a good time? Whatever happened to mud wrestling over a chicken bone?

Or cardboard boxes. That was the best fun growing up! Kept us busy for weeks. Or fort building with blankets, digging in the mud in the backyard, there are so many ways to have fun with no money. My family has a story of my grandmother killing the family cat accidently by turning the dryer on with clothes and the cat! Needless to say, my mom and her sisters were quite tramatized by this. That's the first thing i though of when i read the headline. How stupid can you be?

[edit on 7-3-2008 by octoberbug]

Originally posted by scientist
i wonder if he realized there was a "fluff - no heat" mode on most dryers?

That's what I'm saying! LOL who doesn't know about the fluff setting?

Either he suffers from extreme form of idiocy, or he should probably be charged for attempted murder.

Living things have a tendency to fight for survival. I'm sure an hour in the dryer would produce some severe reactions. Yes, even from 2-3 year olds.

Well....

Um....

I guess all I can say is that... at least he didn't drown them in the washer.

I don't like to make assumptions on what people were thinking when they make a mistake. I was not their and this could have seemed vary logical at the time.

This was not stupid.

This was not...

This was.

No.

Was he drinking at the time?

OMW! I haven't laughed this much in years! Don't get me wrong, I feel terribly sorry for the two children but the stupidity of what he did combined with the posts in this thread just cracked me up!!!
jsobecky and octoberbug - kids don't play like that any more. If it isn't a "name brand" (e.g. Barbie, Ninjaturtles, Spiderman, whatever) it isn't good enough. A friend of mine bought her 2 year old trainers the other day...NIKEs at a ridiculous price. The child will only be able to wear them for a month or two and then will have outgrown them. Its the parents who instill this sense of "keeping up with the Joneses" into their children and then they complain endlessly because the kids cost them so much!
What is this world coming to!?!

The part about doing it to show them they could have fun without money, sounds like a lawyers defence rather than an acurate statement to me .....but who knows?

I think he' a prime case for castration and lobotomy. It's not funny it's stupid and he's a fool.
Regards

Originally posted by DwnitsDwn
The part about doing it to show them they could have fun without money, sounds like a lawyers defence rather than an acurate statement to me .....but who knows?

Haha. That's exactly what I thought. He was more likely abusing his girlfriend's children, IMO.

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That's got my vote. Sumbtch put em in there because they were either misbehaving or acting like annoying little toddlers. They all do it. The money defense is the lawyers way to appeal to the prols on the jury who I am sure are already suffering from recession and their own lack of cerebral capability.

The thought of being tried by a jury of common American citizens scares the crud out of me.

Lamest excuse for attempted murder I have ever seen. An hour? an HOUR?

Umm so hide an go seek, tag, rolling a crumpled piece of paper is too much effort now?

well i guess if he needed a hour to watch "free" internet Adult entertainment then the Dryer was the only choice?!?!?!?!?.....

so now his free fun turned into costly torture....... Quite the opposite of his intentions im sure.....

Originally posted by seenitall
Either he suffers from extreme form of idiocy, or he should probably be charged for attempted murder.

Living things have a tendency to fight for survival. I'm sure an hour in the dryer would produce some severe reactions. Yes, even from 2-3 year olds.

What I got from reading it was.. yes they were playing for about an hour... But they were using short spins, each time it did not get up to heat properly, but each time still it was warmed up - each turn it warmed up quicker.

Either that or he has a useless tumble dryer that takes an hour to get up to heat. And yhea kids that age have a lot of fight in them - I was nursing a beauty of a black eye from my niece, she was laid on her back and booted me with her trainer... Of course one of us found it very amusing . Besides I reckon a kid would of passed out after more than a couple of mins.