The sign said “Junior Wash $2.95," so while doing laundry at his local laundromat, a Washington man decided to be a funny guy and put his baby inside the washing machine. Only when he closed the door, it locked, and the machine turned on ... with his baby inside the machine.
Horrifying footage shows the baby spinning around in the machine and being bounced around as the parents helplessly try to get him out. For at least a full minute, the baby is in there. You can't tell if water is pouring in or not, but the things that could have happened to this child are unimaginable. Watch the video after the jump, but be warned -- it's pretty disturbing.
It actually looks more like a dryer to me, but either way, it's horrific to watch, and that kid could have died. Fortunately they were able to get an employee to free the baby, and somehow he's okay. According to Real Talk NY, he came out of it with only minor bruises. How is beyond me, but thank goodness.
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It doesn't appear the father meant to harm the child, but common sense would dictate that you don't stick your kid in an industrial machine. It's not known if he will face criminal charges, and unless there's a charge for stupidity, I don't know that he should be for what appears to be just serious misjudgment. However, if ever there was a case to be made that people should have to have a license to procreate, this incident should definitely be added to the evidence.
Do cases like this make you think parents should need licenses before having children? Do you think the man should be charged criminally?
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When I was younger, and more naive, I thought people should have a license to reproduce. Then I really thought about it. I wonder if all of you who are in favor of that would be granted one.....If you really, really think about that a bit more, I think you'd find that that isn't as brilliant of an idea as you think it is.
This guy obviously has a low IQ and I hope is very remorseful.
It's a WASHING MACHINE not a toy for a BABY! WOW it blows my mind on how people have zero common sense. Grow a f ing brain idiots.
He should definitely be charged with Endangering the Welfare of a Child, which he clearly did. The fact that he is stupid and didn't have the intent to harm his child does not excuse the fact that a crime was committed! I'd be surprised if there wasn't some sort of investigation into their parenting skills.
I think there should definitely be a charge brought against him for child endangerment. Unless there has been other incidents he shouldn't lose his kids or anything but it should be on record just in case there would happen to be too many more of these accidents in the future. As for the commentor who said he should be put on a sex offendor list, what in the world are you talking about?! Why would he be on a sex offendor list when nothing about this is sexual?! He's a parent who was trying to be funny and is obviously not too bright, not a sexual predator. As someone said earlier, if he had pretended like he was doing it to get a laugh out of the mom it would have been totally different but he had a really dumb moment and I'm sure he has beat himself up over the fact that he could have lost his child, I did watch the video and as soon as the door shut (stupid moment) he tried everything he could to get the door open and finally ran, really ran, to get help and they shut it off and got it open then they ran out (I would assume to the hospital since the article said doctors said the baby will be ok just bruised up a little). It was a bad decision and while there should be a punishment I still believe that he is a caring father and should not lose his kid over it unless there seems to be a pattern of bad decisions that endanger the child.