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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:18 PM Original message |
Officials threaten to take 218-pound eight year old boy away from mother |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Why is the kid referring to himself in plural? |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Good point. I wonder if any neighborhood kids have gone missing. |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. LOL. No kidding. |
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theNotoriousP.I.G. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Well, he is equivalent in size to how many average 8 year olds? |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Doubtful it's a medical condition; it says in the story that he eats WAY too much. |
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CottonBear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I saw him on TV shoveling food into his mouth. |
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theNotoriousP.I.G. (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I agree with you 100% |
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Pierre.Suave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I think |
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Shakespeare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. I don't think so.... |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. Allowing children to become obese, esp. morbidly obese, should be a crime. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Agreed |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. mycritters2 meet Rabrrrrrr, Rabrrrrrr meet mycritters2. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. And we're the same religion, too |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 10:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. It is a religion, if you mean Christian. Denomination if you mean UCC. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
11. A 5 foot tall 8 year old is unusual... |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
15. comments and personal perspective... |
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bicentennial_baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:02 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. But the difference being |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. I wonder if he has some form of Prader-Willi syndrome |
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AshevilleGuy (947 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:18 PM Response to Original message |
18. Why didn't they remove him? |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-27-07 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
19. As well they should. The kid's a walking case of diabetes waiting to happen. |
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BlueStorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-28-07 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
21. I have a cousin, D-Man, who is twice as big |
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