Let's have a really messed up story to reinstall our collective faith in humanity, shall we? It's being reported that a 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of beating up his six-year-old son ... because he performed badly in a videogame. I guess even watching videogames can turn people into violent psychopaths now.
Terry Taulbee allegedly beat the boy on his lower back and arse hard enough to leave handprints, with the child's mother claiming Taulbee "became upset when the boy didn’t play well in a video game." That game is unspecified, as is the reason why a man could get so upset over something so stupid. Mind you, looking at a picture of Taulbee, it's hardly surprising. He looks like the kind of f*cking idiot who thinks beating kids up is fine.
Maybe we can use this as evidence that parents are bad for kids. There's definitely more proof of them screwing their kids up than videogames.
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10:40 AM on 04.21.2009 | 
I have to stop talking about killing small children.
I think i'd stop playing games.
wow...
Beating up kids IS fine. Just for better reasons like this.
Like when your kid eats all the God damn oreos after you told him LAST WEEK you were saving them for a rainy day, that's a good reason to crack his skull open like an egg on a bowl.
Anywho, NOT COOL.
You gave me hope! I wish that happens some day to me, the cherry on the cake would be if I could hear it from the headset! I would tea bag him while listening him getting spanked to a bloody pulp.
You dont deserve your nickname
When you're hitting a kid hard enough in the butt *and* back that it leaves handprints that remain visible long enough for the authorities to see them, I'd call that pretty damn harsh. You need to do more than just spank a kid to leave a mark, let alone one that stays there that long.
Seriously, this is a sick story, of a sick bastard, who deserves a special place in hell for hurting his child.