On December 31 2011 15:01 freeloader625 wrote:
I don't understand why TL general forums are always tragic ass news about people getting hurt or dying horrific deaths. WTF is wrong with you people? Can't you post happier stuff?

I agree with this. I don't see why people post these sorts of things.

roronoe

Canada1527 Posts

January 01 2012 00:57 GMT

#242

On December 31 2011 21:36 HereBeDragons wrote:

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Yes, I agree that there appears to be more to this than the media tell, but unfortunately the truth doesn't sell quite as good as the a spiced up story.

Yeah, maybe the stairs were on fire and it wasn't reasonable for him to try to go up stairs to save his children. So easy for people to pass judgement without really knowing what happened.

Witten

United States2094 Posts

January 01 2012 02:09 GMT

#243

On December 31 2011 14:55 Frumpysnoo wrote:
He probably just chickened out.

User was temp banned for this post.

I laughed. Honestly it's a crime this guy got banned, but all the horrible unfunny puns that followed it didn't result in bans.

On topic though, that sucks. What sucks the most is that he blamed his other children, in public, for the world to see.

nalgene

Canada2153 Posts

January 01 2012 02:16 GMT

#244

On January 01 2012 11:09 Witten wrote:

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He's a mere mortal, not a psychic or magician... he cannot save them all...

Maybe the path got blocked at some point while the others could have helped at an earlier point in time?

He's not powerful like this person ( early 20th century )
apparently that story is in a few places...

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Crowley once remarked concerning Bennett’s powers: Bennett had constructed a magical wand out of glass, which he carried with him. As it so happened, Crowley and Bennett were walking along one day and came across a group of theosophists who were ridiculing the use of wands. “Allan promptly produced his and blasted one of them. It took fourteen hours to restore the incredulous individual to the use of his mind and his muscles."

ooni

Australia1498 Posts

January 01 2012 02:17 GMT

#245

On January 01 2012 07:20 Assault_1 wrote:

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agree'd, I give props to china for allowing only 1 kid
wish every other country would do the same (1-2 max)

South Korea has doing that for past 2 generations by choice (I don't know if I know anyone in my generation with more than 3 kids), now South Korea is in a crisis where the young can no longer support the elderly (thus the Nestea producing joke during GSL), population growth is a problem but undergrowth is a bigger issue.

Well regarding this issue, it's a fickle. I am pretty sure the man didn't save the chicken because he loved the chicken more. He probably saved the chicken because that was his only income and he needed to feed his family. Morally, I still think it is wrong, only because it would not be impossible to find another source of income.

fuzzy_panda

New Zealand1681 Posts

January 01 2012 03:38 GMT

#246

It is very possible that due to the amount of kids he has, he honestly thought the older kids would have taken care of the younger ones. That's how it generally works in large households. It is also very possible that he needed those roosters to make an income. Sensationalist news i think

Maxd11

United States680 Posts

January 01 2012 03:49 GMT

#247

Wow I really don't know what to make of this. I'm sure the guy thought that his kids would somehow make it out alive and that the chickens were the only ones in danger. Also if he couldn't make it up to where his kids were without being extremely likely to die I can understand saving the chickens instead of just getting himself out and not saving anything.

Praetorial

United States4241 Posts

January 01 2012 03:51 GMT

#248

On December 31 2011 14:58 gogogadgetflow wrote:
Some people are just cocks

On December 31 2011 15:00 whatusername wrote:
Looks like he isn't getting laid anytime soon.

Absolutely tasteless. I can't believe that people are still making chicken jokes about this-seriously guys.]

This is horrible.

gameguard

Korea (South)2132 Posts

January 01 2012 03:58 GMT

#249

if you ask me, this guy didnt logically weigh the different sides. Chicken was probably the first thing that came to his mind and he just went for it. I mean... this guy has 13 kids for fucks sake. I somehow doubt he has enough intelligence to shrewdly calculate that cock fighting will save more children in the long run. In fact, does the article mention if the cock fighting is his primary source of income? I find it hard to believe that its common for random people with a chicken to live off of cock fighting. Its more like a hobby.

GwSC

United States1997 Posts

January 01 2012 05:48 GMT

#250

This reminds me of that guy in season 1 of The Shield

Deleted User 183001

2939 Posts

January 01 2012 06:23 GMT

#251

Sad death for those children. May they rest in peace. But what is he doing with 13 children? :/. I don't want to be taken as some eugenicist, but I'm not going to lie, that's way too many. Not only that, but when you're poor, you're not going to be able to support many kids. However, when you're poor and do have a lot of kids to support, you're really, really screwing over yourself and most especially your kids. :S

Cr4zyH0r5e

Peru1308 Posts

January 01 2012 06:35 GMT

#252

I was hoping this would be a troll...
I stopped reading after page 2 because of all the troll posts, Does anyone know how old the kids that were supposed to look after the deceased were?

empty.bottle

685 Posts

January 01 2012 06:36 GMT

#253

On January 01 2012 11:09 Witten wrote:

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you should read the whole thread, there are a lot of post like that, some even funnier.

whatusername

Canada1181 Posts

January 01 2012 06:45 GMT

#254

On January 01 2012 12:58 gameguard wrote:
if you ask me, this guy didnt logically weigh the different sides. Chicken was probably the first thing that came to his mind and he just went for it. I mean... this guy has 13 kids for fucks sake. I somehow doubt he has enough intelligence to shrewdly calculate that cock fighting will save more children in the long run. In fact, does the article mention if the cock fighting is his primary source of income? I find it hard to believe that its common for random people with a chicken to live off of cock fighting. Its more like a hobby.

Cockfighting is really big in the Philippines and its entirely possible for people to make a living off of it.

kafkaesque

Germany2006 Posts

January 05 2012 15:00 GMT

#255

This is so horrid, not just the incident but TL's tasteless reaction (puns when two children burned to death? really?).

I really hope the family finds the strength to coop with this tragedy.