'...somewhere along the line though it was a bad idea.'

Thought :)

vee-media

@Xavoc:

I figure February 2009!

Kingteddybear

@marc_wtih_a_c: I'm curious about when the day will come in which one cannot actually buy anything without having some sort of implanted biometric chip available.

Xavoc

I'm wondering why this idea never caught on with the broader body-mod crowd. Why get painful tattoos when you can brand yourself with ironic hipster logos or "tribal" swirls with the safety and precision of intense UV light?

I Think We're Property

nah, just come in a week later to do either a dna test, or blood type test (the former taking much longer, but more definitive). Or just do a blood type test at home (hey, that's not a bad idea).

jkr2

You mean they aren't installing RFID tags in babies yet? Slackers...

marc_wtih_a_c

Sun Lamp?
What happened to the old effective tattoo? :P

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

hows bout something like this for all of mankind not just babies bums

beekerstudios

What if the parents what the kid to be branded with a skull and cross bones instead?

Emiat

@MagnoliaBoy: ...as in Henna....

MagnoliaBoy

Cool, I want one. Better not show this to Madonna though...

MagnoliaBoy

Wonder how many of those kids came back with skin cancer 25 years later?

When my kids were born, circa 30 years ago, they attached matching bands to my wrist and the kidlet's ankle before they let us out of the delivery room, and those bands had to match up when kidlet was brought into the room for feeding et al.

infmom

How could you be heartless enough to want to bring this back?!!! It would really complicate my black-market baby business.

GeekyNerdGuy

They have made this a lot more high tech now. Mom, dad and baby have bracelets that ID them as a specific family unit, which are attached in the delivery room and if any babies leave the floor at all, alarms go off triggering a lock down. Too many people trying to steal babies. Sad but true.

Curves

whoops, i took a look at the image again, its like a sunburn

Con Seannery

so is it branding them, or just tanning/sunburning it on so they can keep track of whose kid until it leaves

Con Seannery

@infmom: Well, at least if they did get skin cancer, it would be skin cancer of the butt cheek. If you're going to lop anything off, may as well be that.

I Think We're Property

I think all babies should be branded/marked with their weight, blood volume, grade, status etc. This'll help with quality control.

Examples:
Male, 6.5lb, 295.1mL, Grade B, Certified for release
Male, 3lb, 1.362mL, Grade C, Release pending approval

Impetuous_Vigor

An application that is just crying out for laser markers!

crenquis

So thats why I have that scar on my ass that says Bar X Ranch!

Uncle Remus

The baby must be a girl and is crying because she just figured out that she will grow up to look like Mom and not that nurse hotty.

GadgetPlay

@GadgetPlay: Cold man, cold.

But I just looked at the ad again after your comment, I thought that was the dad at first....

Roivas

@GadgetPlay: No, that's a boy. Back in the days when people thought searing kids was a good idea, no one valued the girls enough to worry about anyone snatching them. Only the boys were worth branding.

Goodnightbabytron

It were just the free range babies that got branded what fer Baby Rustlers came to raid the baby ranch. baby.

feckineejit

I want it to read:
M-A-X P-O-W-E-R-!-! and if theres room add some pirate flags!

bpapa9013

@Curves: Correct, and you and the baby stay in the same room at all times(barring medical complications), so it would be hard to "switch" babies today.

Suijin

i'm fan of the 'scalple held in hands causes recognizable wound on babies' method

RedBeard

I think that the "mom" is J. Edgar Hoover in drag... Must have been part of his surveillance program.

crenquis