Emanuel Lawrence faces charges of aggravated manslaughter after a pot-fueled gaming binge caused him to fall asleep ... on his daughter. In a night of activity that police are calling "irresponsible," Lawrence smoked marijuana and played his Xbox 360 until 6am before crashing on a small girl's head.
The unemployed Lawrence was watching the kids while their mother worked a day job and went to night school. Forty-five minutes after falling asleep, he received a call asking him to feed his daughter Jaidyn. He did so in a sleepy state, then put the infant back in his own queen sized bed and fell asleep again.
When Lawrence awoke, he discovered he'd slept on the girl and suffocated her. He then had the genius idea of covering up the death by moving the baby back to the crib where it should have been sleeping in the first place, hoping to make it look like cot death out of "fear of being arrested." He was arrested.
I know this isn't supposed to be funny but ... no, forget it.
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7:00 AM on 12.03.2009
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its really sad....really. now you see what drugs do.
They should do that.
I probably deserve to go to hell for that...
But what? If you even think this is remotely funny then you seriously need some help. Maybe take a rest from being a journo and putting out sad stories like this in such a trashy fashion.
The fuck? Why is there advertising in the comments. Also, there is something funny yet sick about an advert posted with this article.
Back to the story: I find hilarious in an ironic sort of way that the paranoids will see this as a win. Here we have two harmless scapegoats, pot and video games, and here we have a dead baby. Awesome.
But a dude fell asleep on a baby.
The media loves an easy scapegoat.
I now feel bad as my little boy is due in 4 weeks and i've practiced holding a baby and a controller already....
Also xbox killed his baby! A PS3 would never kill a baby.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/mother-smothers-baby-on-plane-20091202-k67e.html
"A PS3 would never kill a baby."
It would if it toppled over on it.
Just spawn annyoing as fuck batshit insane fanboys.
Did I say that?
I laughed really hard when I saw this and started one of the backpack vacuum guys that walks around here in the morning.
Agreed.
Interestingly though, the Miami Herald article linked to above tended to attract more naysayers on the pot than anything to do with games.
In this light, I call "alarmist!" on behalf of JimS!
Or do you mean all of the guys on this site recently who tend to agree with even my most antagonistic anti-MS comments?
Either way, i fucking love it! It's gone from me being the one and only person in a thread sticking up for the big ol' box of blu-ray, to me getting a fair bit of back up from a few clued up toid members, I put it down to all the Weebols finally graduating up from the bog standard console to the elite console.
I love Dtoid, I used to read PS3fanboy but that got merged into Joystiq and I got banned for making Jew jokes, MS related Jew jokes none the less. But the toid has a far better sense of humour. Here i can anger the Weebols all day long and chuckle as I sit here at work getting paid to watch them rant and rave.
I was on PSN last night on my glorious PS3 getting my Modern Warfare 2 on when I was put in a lobby with both n****rkiller and numba1n****r.
Truly an enlightened and intellectual bunch we are.
I love how people take a "most of...." and come back, with arguments about "this one time...."
It's like the whole, "most women are not bad drivers, but most bad drivers are women" or the similar one about terrorists and Muzzies (banhammer dodge) doesn't mean that all women are bad drivers, it allows for you to find the odd good woman driver, but that doesn't change the GENERAL opinion.
To say ALL the asshats are on LIVE would be ridiculous, but to say MOST of the Asshats are on LIVE, personally I agree entirely, from my experience.
Shit mr Fiat, please don't chase me around the toid arguing about old comments, if i care what you think about an old comment, i'll go back and look.
Also - you're just playing the wrong game, of course the dickheads are going to be playing MW2! It's the fucking most mainstream, testosterone filled, high school hyped, teenage peer pressured game released recently, before i stopped playing it I started calling it "Call of MUTEy," was an endless job muting all the asshats.
I would say most agree that there is there no discernible difference in the "fanboy" basis, regardless of system.
And, why would you type "Did I just say that?" You typed it out; clearly, you said it, had time to edit it, and remove such a pointless statement. Redundancy and idiocy at it's best. Typical woman.
....Did I just say that?
Sony makes mistakes, Jim calls it like it is. Same for MS and Nintendo.
So what are you defending and why? Are you defending the PS3 from fellow community members? Do you get some sort of hard-on when you see people get upset over your comments? And why do you automatically assume that because somebody dislikes a feature of the PS3 or a game that they must then also be an "xbot" or whatever you call them?
Before you even go there, I play my Xbox more than any other console I own. Get back on topic.
From the flippant headline to the frankly astonishingly tasteless final remark, this piece exhibited a complete lack of sensitivity.
A modicum of tact rather than a need to uphold the sites reputation for quirky witticism would have been more appropriate.
I'm like the God of the fanboys.
Seriously though, i didn't appreciate the tone of this article either, being a parent-to-be, a gamer and a stoner, I can assure you that my sons wellbeing will be number fucking one on my priority list.
Also, what the fuck is funny about this story Jim. Oh sorry I forgot it was the internet. LOL
Guys, nerd raging all over the comments about Jim's injustice about being so uncaring to dead babbys isn't going to bring that baby back so