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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
Back in the Gunks for the winter
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 24, 2011 - 04:57pm PT
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I don't know that this really falls under bad parenting, it seems a tad risky, but I don't have kids so I can't really make that call definitively...
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Captain...or Skully
climber
leading the away team, but not in a red shirt!
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Jan 24, 2011 - 04:58pm PT
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I dunno, they look solid to me. Just another redpoint.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:01pm PT
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Now, if that kid were wearing a wing suit ...
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:03pm PT
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I would yell "FAKE!" except that I believe this stuff happens after reading a book of true stories by a ranger in a park where a lot of trash hangs out. One of the stories was about some guy throwing the baby into the car window as the wife speeds away because he is disgusted that the wife would not deal with the kid, or something like that.
It's only bad parenting if you drop them. Kids get thrown around and are in a lot of danger often in their young lives. That throw was probably safer than the car ride there.
Or it's photo-shopped and they were throwing something else in the original.
Dave
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:04pm PT
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This should be a caption contest...
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
BC
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:05pm PT
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That baby has great form.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:05pm PT
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Both "adults" seem to be wearing climbing equipment, which suggests that they may be somewhat better able to judge what they're doing, and be able to do it, than the general public.
The crouched stance of the woman suggests that she has indeed just propelled something moderately heavy.
The photo doesn't seem high enough resolution beyond that, to judge whether the baby was photoshopped in.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:08pm PT
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From the clothes they are wearing I'd say that kid is in college by now.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:09pm PT
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That's good, Jeff - prima facie indication that she won't grow up to be a Republican.
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:13pm PT
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I say it's fake. they both have climbing gear so what do they do with the kid? I thought the dad might be wearing a baby-pack but it doesn't look like one. the pack is just an empty internal frame. I may be wrong....
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:15pm PT
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I say "fake." The guy's right hand seems to be to the left of the kid. His hand also seems to be smaller than should be compared to the baby size. The woman's posture makes it look like she tossed "the child" using a pushing throw rather than a more careful underhand toss. I would likely have tossed the kid with my left hand supporting the belly and use my right hand to propel from the buttocks.
Edit: Plus, the picture is just too perfectly timed. Exactly at the midpoint of the throw? I don't think so.
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:16pm PT
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Now that's good parenting.
The kid has awesome form.
Everyone should fly sometimes .....
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Gene
climber
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:20pm PT
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Both "adults" seem to be wearing climbing equipment, which suggests that they may be somewhat better able to judge what they're doing, and be able to do it, than the general public.
Quote of the year!!!
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:22pm PT
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any stylistic maneuvers normally associated the harlem globetrotters
would be deemed bad parenting indeed because, good form or not
these guys are honkies
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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It does look a little bit like it's been photoshopped. Kind of looks like blended or changed pixels around the baby.
I seem to recall this photo from a few years back, that they were really tossing a rope. Also, the guy is wearing a climbing pack, not a baby pack. I think most people carrying a baby around have some sort of baby container. The whole thing looks staged, no matter what they were tossing.
IF it was a baby toss - nice work! Way to get out with the kid.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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The judge from Berzerkistan was going to give them a 7.0, but raised it to a 9.5 on news that $100,000 had been deposited to her numbered Swiss account.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
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Fake or not, it gives me the creeps to look at it.
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Ricardo Cabeza
climber
All Over.
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:30pm PT
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It's ok, the red bull gives him wings.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:32pm PT
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It was great until the onlookers cheered and he instinctively spiked the kid.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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Jan 24, 2011 - 05:52pm PT
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instinctively spiked the kid... classic
edit... i know those guys. They wrote a book about parenting and climbing in the eighties I think. It was called "Moving Fast and Light in the Mountains with Babies"
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