From Alaska we hear that:
Two Anchorage men who told investigators they were horsing around with a “redneck flamethrower” set a 5-year-old boy’s head on fire and have been charged with felony assault and reckless endangerment…“It was described to the troopers as an accident,” troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said. “I mean a child, two guys, can of Quick Start, Bic lighter: How could this not go wrong?”
According to a troopers’ affidavit filed in court, Miller told investigators he’s been trying to toughen the boy up and the best way to do it is to “scare the s--t out of them when they don’t see it coming.”

That reminds me of the time I heard the manhole cover being slid off the storm sewer outside my house, and when I went to the door, I saw a man lowering a little boy into the sewer by his ankles. "Well, his ball rolled in there," the man said.
He wouldn't pull the kid out until I threatened to call the cops.
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on November 20, 2009 10:50 PM