...and the other prisoners have somthin' to toughen up daddy...

DustyButt

Poor Kip, Jr. LaFawnduh should have known better.

beyondthetech2007

Lets get down the business! To defeat the huns!

....Oh my bad wrong thread.

killer_stone

Damaged his son's heart? Seems that 4 years is about 6-16 years too short, IMHO.

Serolf Divad

What a douchebag. What an asshole. He just wrecked a kid's life.

Let's hope the kid turns more mentally stable than this asshole. Just to make sure he doesn't make more children though, castrate the dad with rusty knives.

IrisMR

How much you want to bet this happened in a trailer park? any takers?

Luuey

I can't really think of anything to say other than it should have been more than 4 years jail. He will probably be out in 2.

zenpoet

They should tazer his balls every hour on the hour for the duration of 15 minutes while he's in jail the next 4 years. I hope he gets anal penetrated by all the guys on his cellblock.
Man, an 18 month old that's a little baby what a jerk.
TAZER HIS BALLS !!!!!!!!!

neoqueenx

Last time I checked they don't allow tasers in cage fighting matches...althought that would add a bit more excitement... that and snapping towels on each others butts...

GoatMonkey

I don't know that tasering anyone would make them a better cage fighter.

Don't tase me pa!

Geisrud

training to be a cage fighter...at 18 months?

Wow... this guys a douche. Have fun getting tazered in the ass in prison, after people figure out what your in for.

tamoko

@Luuey:

In a "RED" state.

MickeyMoo

@beyondthetech2007: That's what happens when you try to meet your soul-mate on the internets...

atomx

@chaboud: Because
a) they have more stringent requirements for them using tasers and there's hell to pay if they abuse them (theoretically)
b) they don't tase 18 month olds
c) they use a lower voltage

Not to say that there aren't cops with access to tasers who are rocking the same mental capacity as this sperm donor, but there you have it.

Eliamias

Nice way to ruin a kid's childhood and scar him for life.
4 years in the can it's too light if you ask me.

aec007

I can't get thru this story w/out MC Hammer coming to mind for some reason.

Too bad for the kid though. Why didn't his dad just name him Sue?

w00zzy

Maybe he meant "Crib Fighting".
Dana White is gonna run with this I know it!

ANoel

please Please PLEASE take this man's child away from him when he gets out. Put HIM on a national registry.

pkphy39

He was an ordinary toddler, from an ordinary town. But his dreams would take him further than any cage fighter. ever.

"I'm not like you Dad! I'm not gonna spend my days coloring and hanging out in the sandbox, and then working 9 to 5 for the man. I'm gonna be somebody. I'm gonna be a cage fighter!"

"But you are only 18 months old."

"Oh, you're right".

"The Littlest Cage Fighter" tonight at eight on ABC Family.

suburbancowboy

Yeah, sure, this guy did heart damage to his child by tazing him, which is awful.

So why do we assume that police doing this is:
1. okay?
2. harmless?

chaboud

Aside from the 100,000 volt tazer mentioned, what qualifies this for a Giz post? Sounds more like something I'd see on the 6 o'clock news that I never watch because it's too damn depressing.

surfer88

"DONT TAZ ME BRO..... uh DAD!"

Out2gtcha

What did Einstein write at the bottom of the chalkboard after he discovered his most famous equation?

"Don't Erase Me, Bro"

wbremner

wtf!? What channel is the 18-month-old cage fighting? That sounds way more badass than UFC or any of that "grown-up" sissy fighting.

rainfever

@neoqueenx:
WTF? dude! that was "word for word" what i was thinking!!.that's just freaky...

izim1

this is a shocking story.

mitchel_stevens

Sure you guys are coming down hard on the father now, but when the kid grows up and takes the World Cage Fighting championship belt from Tazey McTaserstein (who just so happens to have the natural ability to generate 100,000 volts from his fingertips) we'll see who gets the last laugh.

kevjohn

@killer_stone: Comment of the year, calling it now.

sisedi

Yeah this guy's a douche.

But hey, maybe he'll be pardoned by the Bush Administration and sent off to Abu Ghraib to refine his psychopathic-skills in torture.

What's that? It was a state offense? Pardoned by the governor?! Who's a democrat?!! Oh, sucks for you after all, dumbass...

TJ

police missed the vat of toxic chemicals...the cage fighting baby is the cover story. he was really trying to make his own electric super villan.

RedBeard

There is no penalty that could EVER feel like justice here. Twenty years in prison? Not enough for this waste of flesh. Being penetrated so deeply HIS heart muscles are damaged? Nah, just not bad enough. I hope that this poor baby has the opportunity to be placed in a home that loves him and has the resources to heal all of his wounds. Daily, I just shake my head.

CafeRacer1200

4 years in jail doesn't seem long enough to me. However, considering what he's in for, it's probably gonna be a LONG 4 years.

OtterKing

The fact he tasered the poor kid is enough but the reason why is just F*%cked up. Good thing he did't want the kid to grow up and be a fire eater. ASSHOLE!!!

DTownIndy

@Curves: It does to me - you shouldn't need a license to get a dog.

Gravel for President!

sabmodo

HE should be tazered + get put behind bars if you ask me? :E

Bash_

You have to have a license to get a dog, yet any a$$hole can have a kid. Does that scenario seem wrong to anyone else?

Curves

What a complete dickhead. Someone should taser his brain, the volts might kick it in to gear so he knows what hes doing. 4 years is not enough.

SnowLeopard

I think this guy watched 300 too often. I propose that his last moment on earth involve having battery acid funneled down his throat.

Kaiser-Machead

This guy is an idiot. Everyone know you don't start this kind of pain desensitization conditioning until four years old at the earliest. I mean come on, at 18 months he should have been concentrating on developing the child's killer instinct by making him fight for his food. It's just common sense.

baltwade

Sick world.

"He used to just put a belt, a stick, and a wrench on the kitchen table and say, 'Choose.' I used to go with the wrench. Cuz fuck him.

OldSchoolGadgetLover

@Curves: Yes, Parenthood. I highly recommend it.

Brian B

@chaboud: Because it's a better alternative to a suspect getting shot to death.

Brian B

@Brian B: There was a movie?

Curves

I'm plan on raising tough chil'drins as well, but I'm gonna go with the quality time, spiritual/intellectual pursuits with outdoor activities and weight lifting combo route (the girls too...). There's just something about abusing a child and then turning him into an efficient fighting/killing machine that strikes me as, well...idiotic and ultimately *self* destructive (not to mention neddlessly cruel)...just when I'm getting decrepit he'll be reaching his prime...asinine I tell you...

As far as tazers and cops...the majority of the time a taser shot is much less destructive to an adult than a billy club or nightstick upside the head, or a few rounds of 9mm, .40, .357, or .45ACP to the chest or head would be. It also allows the cops to maintain about a 3 - 10 foot distance from a potentially dangerous individual, which is safer than getting within arms reach of a possibly armed and/or deranged assailant. Sure there's a potential for abuse or over-use, but I think it's nice that there's one more hedge for cops before they have to resort to lethal force.

OddManOut

@Curves: I believe the quote is: "You need a license to own a dog, you need a license to drive, heck you need a license to fish, but they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father"

Loved that movie.

Brian B

Kilovolt Peekaboo?

Yeah, I saw them play in a club in Chicago... that was before they got famous...

ideaman2020

4 years isn't nearly enough. Unless they're gonna put him in a psych ward the whole time. That's some bullshit.

robotica

Perhaps getting sent to jail leaving the kid to fend for himself was supposed to be the "toughening up" part.

wjousts

Hey got only 4 years for tazering a 18 month old baby?! WTF?!?!?! That mother fucker needs the death penalty.

dead_red_eyes

AELVER: Make the punishment fit the crime.
18 Month = 100,000V
24 Years = 1,600,000V :)
Shoot seems fair to me ha ha!

gbirrueta

Only 4 Years? Damn.

Szin

@Luuey: 10 bucks says it did...

an1m3fr33k

I guess it's a good for him that he chose to tase a baby instead of downloading music illegally. Hell, if he'd have done that he would have to pay $1.5 million. Let's see... tasing a baby gets you 4 years and downloading music is a $1.5 million fine. Wow the world has lost it's mind.

rednecktech

I have always believed that societies that live by "eye-for-an-eye" retribution would wind up with a society that was just, well, blind.
This psycho makes me reconsider that...

ANoel

Why is this story in here? It belongs in "Yahoo Odd News" or something. Oh well....

birdgirl39

Somehow I think this guy read the new Batgirls origin as a "How-To Book"

pokebud

Make the punishment fit the crime.

18 Month = 100,000V

24 Years = 1,600,000V :)

aelver

Wow...as a parent, this really pisses me off!! I'm glad he was stopped. Hopefully, the mother has sense enough to leave this ass-clown so the child can recuperate. Seems like the only thing this moron did to make the child tough is by weakening his heart so he'll have a tough life. I really hope he recovers.

BigDanInTX

I hope this kid does become the greatest cage fighter so he can payback his dad for what he did to him. I am pretty sure he just made up the " I did it to make him tough" thing. He is probably just some sicko dad who likes to abuse little children.

ws6kid

Should've hit the mofo with attempted murder.

Dearhaw

That guy is almost, I said almost, as mad as most of the comments in this thread with their homo-erotic sadistic fantasies.
'Only in america'

Wwhat

@OldSchoolGadgetLover: that reminds me of this:

[austinist.com]

I blame UFC and bad rock music for this. Get a senate hearing now. I'd love to get rid of UFC, let's go back to the good ol days when there was WWF and nascar only. Now everyone thinks they can fight.

Did anyone watch the video? That douchebag was so pissed at the end after the sentencing. I hope he has the same badass attitude after Bubba and Tyrone go to work on his ass.

oo0cyst0oo

@rednecktech: Somethings messed up there.

timerider42

At first I thought it said he was 18 years old and I thought jesus christ. Then when I read it again I realized that he was 18 months old and I thought JESUS CHRIST! What a f***ing dumbass. Thats just gonna make the kid weaker anyway. Now he might not even be able to run if the injuries are bad. The bastard.

Cage-fighting? The father just wants to make up for his own failed dreams of getting the crap kicked out of himself. Well, I guess that dream comes true in prison.

timerider42

Hell yes, all male children should be tazered.

Wait, no? Bad idea?

But seriously, can we just pull out the damned electric chair on this guy. The grown up equivalent.

@rednecktech: I agree, how is attempted murder a less offensive and punishable crime than stealing a song or any (physically) victimless crimes?

gokor

May the inmates trade him for cigarettes!!

whiskey

@chaboud:
I don't think 'we' assume that. There's a reason Taser calls their weapons "less lethal". Being 'harmless' is just a horrible misconception on the part of the public (which seems to have transferred to the police in some cases).

Phoenix96

@Curves:
You don't need a license to get a dog. The dog needs to be licensed, which is a different thing.

Phoenix96

Next step for wife: Divorce + Restraining Order.

gtfo

Some people really, really shouldn't be allowed to have children in the first place.

Jesse in Japan

Only 4 years in prison?

How about 4 minutes in a meat grinder? Problem solved!

It's also so dis-heartening to read about parental abuse and neglect, especially when the reasons/justifications are just so irrational and stupid. :(

Hope the kid grows-up ok and not an asshole like his dad.

Jeff the Riffer

Is "douche-bag" in the dictionary? If not, can we start a petition to make it so with this guys picture next to it?

codykniffen

If you watch the video, the kid supposedly recovered from the heart damage & leg burns it caused, so now he just needs to get over the psychological damage of knowing your dad thought it was a good idea to hit you with 100,000 volts (twice actually) and then went to prison.

Although I think the toughening up/cage fighter story is just bs. He probably made it as some sort of joke to a friend or something to try and downplay what a total douchebag he is. According to the video, he tased the kid after getting into a fight with the mom. That makes it even worse, since he used an 18 month old to vent on.

Add me to the crowd who thinks 4 years isn't any where near long enough.

crash