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bye bye sky babyIt’s the Bowers’ Fly Baby!
Happy New Year! Ya furry animal lover you.
Lame Censorship!!!
I gaurantee i am no hacker but i doubt you can keep me from coming back to this site. Its funny how you block out my comments but “allowed” other comments that proceeded to beat my screen name and shoot my screen name and kick my screen names corpse. Are mine too graphic though i follow your rules? No cuss words.
UndeadKairbare just keep the cuss words down and extreme racism and have fun. This is failblog it is about the fail not who is smarter or dumber or funnier or King or Queen of this site. Play nice, crack the good jokes etc..
Too late, I may have slightly emailed Emily.
Problem Solved.
Hang on, what?
I thought the PTB slew you?
That would have been wishful thinking.
They definitely did, (UndeadKaribare, that is) because I emailed Emily about it.
Damn the ease with which emails can change.
Oh, I thought you were referring to someone… else. That would have been wishful thinking indeed!
Play nice, he’s tried to repent for his sins.
Who knows, when he discovers the comma, we might find we like him.
Ah, the comma. A wonderful creature, yet so misunderstood. In fact, on this very site we can see many of them in their natural habitat.
This oaf is complaining that he’s being beaten senseless. Well, I’ve got news for you matey: That’s what happens to trolls.
Ah, the troll. A horrible creature, yet so misunderstood. In fact, on this very site we can see many of them in their natural habitat.
R U drunk?
Nope. Thanks for asking. Perfectly sober.
No. Now stop reminding me before 5PM!
Awwwww, need a tissue?
yes, please! KTHX
Certain words are blocked by the filter. It happens. No, they aren’t cuss words either, but many of those are blocked too.
omg he’s going to peee
Michael Jackson would be proud.
Michael Jackson would be black.
Not since the mid 80s I believe.
At least we know where he got the idea now!
I feel super dizzy just from looking at this!! Careful, baby!
He looks terrified… I wonder how much therapy he had to go through when he grew up.
Holy shit, it took me a minute to even figure out what that was. My brain kept trying to tell me the photograph was on its side.
*shudders*
I’m still have that hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach. How can a parent stick a child in something like this? Accidents happen why push your luck?
I once saw a father “playfully” dangle his infant daughter right in front of a very hungry mountain lion at the zoo. He thought it was HIGH-larious that the puma kept pacing back and forth, back and forth, licking her chops hungrily just staring at his baby. He laughed and laughed…and I just wanted to take her from him–and push him in.
I would sue! The zoo should have signs posted telling visitors not to dangle their children in front of the predators!
Wouldn’t have worked Dragon. Predators won’t eat diseased meat.
Posting signs warning stupid people not to do stupid things doesn’t seem to stop said stupid people.
They may not eat diseased meat, but they might “play” with it for awhile!
Hee!
Then who should I blame for the hot coffee burning my mouth?
Oh for the love of. . .sorry for the repost.
Hee!
Then who should I b1ame for the hot coffee burning my mouth?
Do you really want an answer to that question?
*squeeze*
Nope.
*Squeeze*
Off to book party for the older daughter. TTFN!
At least when there are signs you can point to them to make them feel stupid and/or be certain that they are breaking the rules, which might also help them get dealt with in court.
Why does the phrase “See son, thats called natural selection !” come to mind?
Nah; would give stupid idiots great ideas…
Hey, didn’t think of that, let me try!!
haha yeah no kidding
None at all Fluffy. He’s currently doing time for keeping his kids in outdoor cages.
Uh, I don’t think he grew up.
I thought those were for doves (thats what the birds are called, right?)
Tru parenting fail
Maybe or at the time air-raids where happening all the time so the child is getting fresh air. And this was the alternative.
I hate to say this, but if larger, and structurally sound, that would be pretty fun to play in
Well yeah, but… it’s NOT structurally sound.
The only Sound about it is the screams from below.
♪♫The Hiiiiillls are aliiive with the horrrifying sound of an infant screaaaaamiiiing…♪♫
♪♫With screams they have screamed
For at least twenty minuutes!♪♫
♪ So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye. ♪
♪ I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I die. ♪
And how, exactly, do you know that?
If I were to actually LOOK AT THE PICTURE, and not make an ignorant comment with no thought behind it, I would say it looks QUITE structurally sound.
Also, that kid is NOT going to be afraid of heights.
If you think that box of death is structurally sound, I hope to god that you aren’t an architect.
I can see his point with the metal supports, which would be quite strong in tension, but it does look like the “floor” is just a plank slotted in through a window and screwed in place
*Tips hat*
Pardon me, I didn’t see you gents standing there. I will refresh more often in the future.
The floor looks like Oak.
You walk around on “planks” like that all day in your house… it’s called plywood and it’s the floor system of just about EVERY house and it spans 16-24 inches without any support to hold up multiple full grown people…
and plywood is like half the thickness of those planks, lol
the bottom is not made of planks. Those are not gaps between planks. Look at the third one from the left.
And they’re attached to what by what, exactly?
This needs, at the very least, reinforcing strips of metal between the planks, angle brackets holding the things to the bricks, U-bolts or something as a backup mechanism for holding the planks to the cage (actually, the cage probably shouldn’t be a load-bearing structure under ordinary conditions) and some kind of chain or wire with enough slack not to be stressed but short enough to quickly “catch” it if everything else gives way (think the chains on towing trailers).
Exactly how much do you think that baby weighs? Unless I’m missing context (of a comic book nature), he’s probably not made of lead.
What are you idiots basing these comments on?
You can not even see the floor of this structure.
You can see the metal frame around the bottom.
You can see a blanket laying on the floor of the cage.
But, you can not see any of the floor. You are all just talking out the side of your necks!
The blanket is on a gravity sled which is floating inside the cage so it does not float higher then the cage with the child on it I guess.
Wait a minute…out of the sides OF OUR NECKS?
You must be hanging noodles on my ears.
And how, exactly, do you know that?
How do you know what materials are used and how they are anchored to the building. Can you tell me it is constructed in accordance to any city code? Would you feel comfortable sending your kid there to play based solely on this photo? Why did you attack Fluffy? Is that your baby picture? Do you like the color orange? What is the capital of Seychelles? How is your comment not as ignorant as you claim Fluffy’s to be? How can you be so sure this child will not be afraid of heights?
How can you ask so many awesome questions at once?
Because he is the epitome of awesome.
*squeezes Marius*
hehe.. I should be refreshing more often, too.. *squeezesMarius*
It was pent up from all of that jabbering I did yesterday.
I don’t know the answers to most of the above.
If it’s structurally sound, it might be a decent way to get the kid outside in an otherwise cramped apartment. But it’s a big “if”. If it were bigger, and strong, I would probably sleep in something like that on a warm night.
The capital of Seychelles is Victoria.
And how, exactly, do you know that?
How do you know what materials are used and how they are anchored to the building.
That’s a photo my late father took in the early 1960s, when he worked as a newspaper photographer. The “cage” was a commercial product. It was made of steel, with a pressed steel floor with a wooden lining, and it attached to eyebolts drilled into the masonry around the window or a pair of bars running parallel across the inside of the window. I’m sure there are some more photos in one of his old folios.
Surprisingly enough, it didn’t catch on.
Well.. you ignorant idiot.. if you, too, were to look at the picture, you would see that the floor is made of a single layer of planks, not very supported. If I were to put my child outside the window, I would make it much more supported. Is that you in the picture? Is that why you’re taking such offense to what I said?
I’d say it’s more likely that it’s his kid, and he’s defending his decision to dangle him out the window on a flimsy plank with a loose or bent metal support at the bottom from a window frame that clearly has dry rot.
Well.. you ignorant idiot.. you too are talking out the side of your neck!
you can not see the floor of this cage in this picture. you do not know if it is wood, or solid steel across the bottom. All you can see is the steel angle iron frame around the bottom and a blanket. you do not know if there are wooden planks laid in that angle iron frame or a sheet of steel.
It’s actually a magic carpet. It’s true purpose is to support the apartment building that has had severe structural failures.
No such thing as magic carpet now gravity sled is more like it.
Yeah, tell that to Aladdin, you ignorant bafoon.
There is a similar (in concept) attachment to the side of the (now) Willis Tower. It’s made of some kind of clear material so you can look down from 90 stories above the street. I won’t get in that contraption either. It was built by the lowest bidder.
I’m not very surprised you were cancelled.
Nicely done, Marius!
Or you could keep your baby inside the window and not worry about support at all.
What kind of crazy lamebrained thinking is that? 0.0
*squeeze*
Then what …we would be looking at a empty cage and what would be the fail in that.LOL
am i the only one who realizes that it doesn’t have a roof for rain, and during the winter time it would be really cold?
No problem, he’s got a fuzzy snow suit on.
Looks sound to me, Id let a baby play in it.
How do you know it’s not structurally sound? It’s made to hold an ac unit that is way heavier than a baby. Have you personally inspected it? Would you even know what constitutes structurally sound? no
THIS IS SOOO COOL!
Wow… that baby is gonna be a baller
classy
I wonder if he’s gonna be scared of heights when he grows up
The Birdman of Alcatraz in his formative years.
fun times
See http://www.life.com/image/3136964/in-gallery/25371
for more information about baby cages
thx for that Link
30 dumb inventions? more like 15 awesome inventions imo
No mom, there IS a difference between playpen and baby cage!
Janitor!!! hahaha.. I love that show.
too old
what, the baby or the cage?
You mean “Photoshop FAIL”?
WHY??? Why must you trolls always say this?
Hear! Hear!
SHAME!!! SHAME!!!
*waves order paper in air*
Anybody else think he looks german or british at the least?
Are you dissing Europeans?
Of course not. All I’m saying is Americans are perfect in every way and everything you would ever need or want can be found within the borders of these fifty United States of America… F*ck yeah.
I’m not dissing Europeans at all.
Well, we Brits can take it! Stiff upper lip, what what?
*proceeds to belt out Rule Britannia, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra. And Bill Bailey*
Well, I was born in Sweden so I’m going to stay neutral.
I was originally neutral. Now, ion know which way to lean
No need to be so negative.
Touche!
♪♫doodloodoo♪♫
‘ave a banana!
Irish!
According to the article in the link posted by Chris above (thanks Chris!) these were sold in London. So the kid would indeed be British.
They make those for cats.
I’d like one.
It’s gotta be photoshopped. In any real city, that baby would be covered in pigeon shit.
*Cleans tea off screen*
I’m so glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read Dr. Wu’s comment.
*Gives The Moomin a drink*
*Squeeze*
*Mops up*
♫ are you with me doctor Wu ♩
Lmaoooo…almost made me choke!
Looks like an air-con support unit – those things are good for about 200lbs and the baby cant be more that 20lbs – so, in my engineers head, the little fella is safe enough. But… feel scared! This photo is about so much!
Here is a logical and not panicky liberal man!!! If only the world had more people like us and less wusses. I gaurantee that kid is going to be one tough mofo… Oh and if you don’t like the parents decision to treat their lil b@sTURD like that, then you should support my bill to require liscenses to breed!
Put it to you shortly. Kid is safe. Quit being a panicky liberal!! Support my petition to require licenses to breed!!!
Prerequisites: Must be 18 years or older, must have finished high school, must not be a felon, and must have a budget that allows proper raising of said child.
^ ^
(>..<)
How do you deal with accidental pregnancy, or simply people who break the law?
castration?
I believe this comment and commenter are some of the most compelling endorsements of license-to-breed requirements I’ve ever seen.
By jove, I do believe you’ve got it!
You’re scared for him? That child is probably 75 years old now.
The picture looks fake.
I know! It has absolutely no color whatsoever.
Never heard of black & white film huh?
Oh, probably never even heard of film either.
Go shoot some more pics with your Iphone.
I’m going to guess you never heard of sarcasm.
Juses effing christ.
What is with all these humo(u)r impaired trolls today??
*gathers applications for yet another Humo(u)r 101 course*
Was that a rhetorical question?
Why, do you think it was?
Should I have?
Do you think this is a game?
Is there a reason I should think otherwise?
Is this even going anywhere?
Where would it go?
And on what, a smutbus?
Does it need to go anywhere?
Why, would you ride it?
Are you two finished horsing around?
When have we ever finished that?
Shouldn’t we be punning in the corridors?
Why not?
josef fritzel as got nothing on this kids folks
The kid should be in playing on his game system instead of enjoying the sunshine.
Hitler: The Young Years. Now available on DVD
The storks methods have really gotten shoddy.
I think that’s the return bin GS.
Wait! You mean… You can RETURN ‘em? That could clear up the family court child-support dockets!
What a brilliant idea! Every home should have one, complete with a quick-release mechanism in case the little bastards won’t shut up!
♪ .. when the bough breaks,
the baby will fall… ♪
Surely this is a high – tensile, special reinforced plank WIN?
Maybe I’m Captain Obvious, but this is super ‘shopped.
Yeah, would anyone really do this?
if i seen hit id lob a snow ball @ him
LOL nice one hjhj. *5 eags throws snowball at hjhj*
I think it’s acrophobic…
I don’t know if I’d want to hang my airconditioner in that cage, and that’s what it looks like it was made for. I certainly wouldn’t want to hang a human in it.
There! Now we’re back on topic!
What kind of person doesn’t rate this as a five star fail?
I wouldn’t want to be their child.
be a good baby or momy will remove the counterweight.
This is an old Soviet picture. It was very common in the CCCP to do this. (How do I know? I’m Hungarian/Ukranian and my grandparents probably did this for my family.) Spaces are small in the old bloc and instead of balconies, some families did this. An old motto from those days was “The sun is good for your body and soul. It makes being a Soviet stronger.”
Attention, trolls! This __ ^^^__is an effective comment! It demonstrates personal knowledge of the situation, humor and a little background information. There are no simple-minded insults or attempts to disrupt the rest of the comments to be found. By the way, thanks for the info, Yentaleh!
*gives Yentaleh an A+*
In Soviet Union, air conditioner hangs YOU out the window.
Precisely! Those are hardly “flimsy” planks, first of all, they are probably thicker than the ones on the floor of my 100 year old home. AND this child would be far more at risk not getting enough vitamin D than it would be enjoying a pretty day in this box. Because it doesn’t have Fisher Price stamped on the side of it, people have to get all uppity? It’s attitudes like this that have taken all the fun out of childhood anyhow.
its not real its art, still that the put it inside is disturbing.
Looks like the Michael Jackson model.
No, that Austrian dad, Fritzl, designed it.
I think this is a cage for a water cooler window unit from back in the 30′s or 40′s. My great uncle live in an apt in Arizona in the 40′s and I remeber seeing one of these in the background of some pictures. The floor in the one I saw was wire, like the walls. It looks to me like someone put their child in it and went to another window to snap the picture as a joke maybe. Weird.
liberal?
Conservative?
FAIL? Hmmmmm. Everything’s relative. This could so be a Win.
My neighbors have something similar built. The main difference being a lower fence and no top. But their kids are a bit older.
this is like Basketball Adoption
The source is Black and WTF.
My grandmother gave me an old babycare manual from the early 1900′s, and it included instructions for building one of these cages. It was thought that fresh air was vitally important to a baby’s health and growth, and mothers were advised to leave their babies outside for 8-10 hours a day. This was the solution provided for city dwellers. Yeesh.
Yup.
That’s one fat baby.
“Lose weight, junior… or fall to your death.”
This photo was shown at Superinteressante’s last issue. Superinteressante’s is a brazilian magazine.
I’m reposting this from chris above. It was 1937 and in a tenement in London. The reason (not given) is to get babies into sunlight so they can make Vitamin D and not develop rickets, and to give them fresh air so they wouldn’t, theoretically, develop tuberculosis. http://www.life.com/image/3136964/in-gallery/25371
Someone does their research!
So… are we guessing the window is open or closed…?
That are two different babies obviously. Supposedly in London in the ’30s.
lmao.. Cuz you know, thats totally safe in every way. lol
# Baby in the cage upon the window edge,
If the cage breaks she falls down the ledge!
{Wow, what a B&W classic!}
Perhaps the following happens:
- A storm damages the cage;
- Snipers can shoot through the cage;
- Thieves can break in can steal the cage;
- Parasites can hurt her, or;
- Smoke can fill in and she has nowhere to escape!
If the cage falls, it is total carnage!
Because snipers do like to target babies in “sky cages”?
really? Snipers? That something you worry about on a day to day basis?
Don’t they make those to catch raccoons too? Anyway, being in it is probably perfectly safe, but leaning against that wire which is probably an emergency exit is where the fail will be.
The last known photograph of the Lindbergh Baby.
I remember seeing something like this in James Lileks’ book “Mommy Knows Worst”, that apparently different companies sold these window boxes you could mount and place your baby in, so that he’d be outdoors without actually being outdoors. Lileks had said in the book that sales had dropped after the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Thats where superman played when he was young.
So THAT’s what people are talking about when they describe the supposed “cruelty” involved in producing veal….yummy..Meat!
A room with a view, I wouldn’t complain.
Hmm, my kid likes to throw his pacifiers out of his crib to make us get them for him.
The kid in this pic is never getting his/her pacifiers back.
Teh real fail here is that the little black kitten could slip between the bars and plunge to her death. Some body think of the kittehs!
For 60 years Tasha wondered why she was so afraid of tall buildings. Then she uncovered the family photos when her mother passed away.
OMG!!!! – What have they been feeding that kid!?!?! He’s HUGE! I can’t believe they have the ceiling of the playpen so low. He can’t even stand up to move around and get some exercise. That’s atrocious! Give the kid some room to lose some weight. At least they got the “Fresh Air” thing handled.
i think my did the same thin to my sister and me.
the michael jacksom model…eric clapton could’ve used one of these.
This pic is a WIN
Disagreed. This is an awesome product. Were they ever any reported deaths? None that I know of. Baby needs fresh air? You got it!
Product of diseased minds.
We need the ban hammer for his parents to be banned
Like a few others have said, it was thought by some that it was healthier to keep a small child out in the fresh air. You see these boxes in very old photos sometimes; they were not for air conditioners. I’m not sure if anyone actually got killed from being out in one.
THis is not fail! this is GENIUS!
actually that was an invention to keep babys know as a baby cage,its in ”30 of the stupidest inventions” on some site i havent been to yet
yep
http://www.life.com/image/3136964/in-gallery/25371
that is so scary why would do that????
RAID
Shooped!
Actually that looks rather well-constructed.
I think it’s quite capable of safely supporting the child’s weight.
Now if you had a large dog as well, that might be a problem.
( picture from a different angle on “Life” websites 30 most ridiculous inventions)Baby Cage, 1937
The cages were distributed to members of the Chelsea Baby Club in London who have no gardens, or qualms about putting a child in a box dangling over a busy street
looks like a very sick, twisted, sadistic, adjective_with_negative_connotation 42 not found, zoo exibit
Michael Jackson would be proud.
ohh admin kinq
That’s a fat baby