September 18th, 2009
Child Lesson #1: Taking Turns
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No don’t worry about it, its cool, when they got home they let him cut the grass and cook dinner.
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No don’t worry about it, its cool, when they got home they let him cut the grass and cook dinner.
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Attention Walmart shoppers:
“today’s special: Stuffed animals $1.99 each on aisle 12 or $49.75 each in the claw machine. Take your pick.”
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Christmas Shopping on a budget!
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see first post.
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This is going to be one of those ‘wild child’ kids who the parents let do whatever, isn’t it?
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Whats funny about that? just people using those stupid claw things. aint that just a literal LOL not.
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Unless you’re my husband and you can get a stuffed animal out of the crane game on the first try.
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September 18th, 2009
So they are neglecting their child and playing the claw machine. Both are stupid acts but not really funny. More mullets and black ladies with crazy hair please!
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September 18th, 2009
For once I have to defend these parents. They probably had enough of watching their child wasting money on these machines without a prize. What’s ironic, though, is they obviously never figured out that these machines are rigged so you can’t win the prize!! LMFAO
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They are not “completely ignoring their child” any more than a parent who is watching the stove while their kid messes around with toys on the living room floor is.
As for the claw machine… are we going to post photos of everyone who plays a claw machine, or buys a lottery ticket, or goes to a casino? Seriously…..
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Probably got a gambling problem!!!
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What’s the problem? The parents told the kid they’d wheel him over to the gun department after they grab a stuffed animal for the back dash of their car. And when they let him loose to check out the guns and ammo, he always ignores his parents, so it all evens out in the end.
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The kid in the cart looks pissed.
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It’s not a big deal, unless your my child. I turned my back for a second, and she stood up and flipped out of the cart . Can you say broken jaw??? Seems to me if you were trying to win a toy for your child that you would have included the child in the process.
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This so could have been me. I love those machines. I win about once every four or five times. I give them to little kids that are hanging around.
People need to get a grip here.
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September 18th, 2009
Is it just me… or is the white guy’s reflection a black guy? o_O
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September 18th, 2009
This picture is a better example of (sadly) parents watching their kids at Walmart. There are so many kids that just run the store and the parents are not paying a bit of attention. Yet, if you try to tell the parent that their kid is gonna kill themselves or are running away, you get the attitude of “how dare you!”
I actually had to tell a parent one time (she was standing about 2 feet from her child) that her child was standing on the top edge of the one of those blue children’s carts leaning toward the other checkout.
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At first glance nothing really strikes you as too odd, but the more you think about it the funnier it gets…….parents having fun while child sits, two brown haired parents with blonde child, unattended child, wasting $2 on a 0.25 cent stuffed toy that is sitting on an aisle nearby for $1……….too funny…
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September 18th, 2009
This is one of the lamest posts I’ve ever seen on this site.
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The kid is kind of small to handle the claw machine. I’m pretty sure the parents are getting their baby a toy, not for themselves. Also, the baby doesn’t look bored, he looks interested in the machine, watching what’s going on.
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September 19th, 2009
no maney for PSP )))
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September 19th, 2009
Oh CRAP, it’s Jon and Kate Minus Seven!!! They must still be in the linens section!!
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September 19th, 2009
THEY ARE NOT BAD PARENTS! The kid is a foot away from them! I think they would know if someone came over and tried walking off with their kid. Or if the kid started to squirm to get out. They are within a hand’s reach of their kid. What, do you parents complaining about them out there stare at your child 24/7?!
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September 19th, 2009
Thirty minutes later –
“Dad” – Um Officer he was right here behind us just a second ago
Officer – We reviewed the tapes kid and your son was taken 25 minutes ago by Waldo the security guard over there (He points to the left)
- Camera pans left and there is the kid being held by a “security guard” you know the one that was unable to make it as a police officer because of the psych evaluation
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September 19th, 2009
If you know how to play the claw game you can easily win a prize every time you play. (you can also easily tell when none of the prices are gettable)
The most its ever taken me to get a price is $4.50, and it was only that much because I had to first get the prize on top of it, and then get the claw underneath it to knock it out (it was one of those gorillas in the red overalls, with the plastic ball cap – you know the one too big to be picked up with a claw.
When I was really big into the claw game, I had a good reputation at our local walmart. You see I rarely wanted the prize, I just liked playing, so kids standing near me got free toys.My favorite was the claw game at the arcade though. THey had superhero dolls that were real easy to pick up – i had a crowd of 6 men standing around watching me as I picked up toy after toy, sometimes 2 or 3 at once
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September 19th, 2009
@weathergirl72: Reading your take on it and looking again, I think you are right. I missed the role reversal aspect, and you’re right that it’s the real intention of the caption here.
@Lynnie: I confess to being snooty, but I doubt my PhD committee agreed that I am none too smart. At the very least I am smarter than your friends, since none of my five kids ever fell out of a shopping cart :-p
@Lynnie, cninja, lovethissite, holly, cookie, becky: Thanks for proving my original point. Aren’t your teenagers embarrassed by still having training wheels on their bikes? Or did you avoid that problem by never actually letting them ride bikes? Or go out of doors without mommy holding their hand? Unless you are all very young, you likely were allowed to play outside when you were a kid. Don’t deprive your kids of the same opportunities to grow and develop independence. And falling out of shopping carts is a red herring here. Shopping carts have seat belts to keep kids from standing up. Use them.
@Holly & cninja: The kid is not going to get grabbed by a stranger. There are 100-130 stranger abductions annually in the US; only 7% (7-9) happen in stores (Source: NISMART). Less than one a month anywhere in the US. The kid is far more likely to die while being driven home.
@Dave: you sound like a nice guy, but don’t give any of the toys to kids when lovethissite or holly are in the store or you’ll be explaining to the cops why your aren’t a pedophile.
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September 19th, 2009
After an hour at the claw machine, I guar-an-freekin-tee these attentive parents go home and either/all: watch tv and text on their cells, play xbox live or world of warcraft while tossing little jimmie his bag of goldfish crackers and juice box and sending him to play in his room.
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September 19th, 2009
They can see their kid, there’s a fucking mirror in the back of those machines. They’re probably trying to get him a toy too. I think it’s hilarious how upset everyone is.
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Mass whatever geek….seriously? You need to give us a “works cited” for your posts? How much time did you spend putting all of that together? Put on your goggles and go back to the lab. I bed your PhD committee would be really impressed at how you are spending your time now.
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September 19th, 2009
@lovethissite: Probably the biggest problem with the internet as it is currently constituted is that much of the information available is of dubious provenance. It’s not my fault that you aren’t interested in knowing when the information you are reading is reliable or not. Judging from your reaction, I imagine you are one of those folks who delight in endlessly re-forwarding alarmist messages that can easily be debunked with 10 seconds research on snopes. As to the time taken, I would say 1-2 minutes with Google, plus another maybe another minute to verify it with the primary source. You might want to check out Google (www.google.com); it’s a big time saver.
The ad hominem attack is about what I would expect though, so maybe we can save a few steps and you can compare me to Hitler now so that I can cite Godwin and we can be done. After all, you seem to be worried about wasting time online and I wouldn’t want to take you away from the new mullets on “People Of Walmart”.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure most of my committee would have viewed fighting ignorance as a noble but Quixotic adventure. I’ll never know, though, since most of them have passed on — I’m not exactly a spring chicken anymore.
And since you are keeping score — this post took 4 minutes, start to finish. I’ll go back to trying to cure cancer now. I’m sure you won’t have missed too much of Dancing With the Stars if you stop reading soon.
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September 19th, 2009
I don’t really see the problem here….they can see the child in the mirrors and the child is only a foot away…..who’s to say that the second after this was snapped they didn’t turn around and get the child out of the buggy???
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September 20th, 2009
Its only a waste of change to let children that young play the claw game. At least this way he might get a toy.
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September 20th, 2009
Right, because if you aren’t interacting with or staring at your spawn non-stop it totally equals child neglect. Does this only count in public? Or you asshats that plop your kids in front of the TV and ignore them all day are also neglectful?
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September 20th, 2009
The kid is RIGHT behind them.
Idiots.
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September 21st, 2009
You would need to see a video of this incident to get the real picture of what was really going on here. For all we know, the lady prolly only turned to see what was going on for a quick moment. As others have suggested, you’d have to be a complete f***tard to accuse them of child neglect.
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September 21st, 2009
So, they’re trying to win a prize for the kid.
The machines are NOT impossible; my dad used to win animals out of them for me all the time when I was about that age.
The kid’s right there, watching them try to win for him! He’s old enough to sit up and pay attention; it’s not like he’s pitching a fit and they’re ignoring him.
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September 21st, 2009
massspecgeek, get over yourself!!! hahahaha! If we are making assumptions about one another from the few sentences that we actually know about each other, then I assume that you have nothing better to do with your life than try to make others feel less to make yourself feel better. You are probably a 15 year old kid with acne. Everything you said was completely ridiculous and had nothing to do with my previous posts or this picture. This is the first time in my life that I have ever posted any sort of comment on any kind of website, and I see now what a brainless waste of time it is. I hope you enjoy yourself “fighting ingnorance.” I’m over it.
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September 21st, 2009
Psh. You really think they’d pump their quarters into the machine and let their KID try to fish out that dogbert plush? THERE IS A SCIENCE TO IT! You can’t put this power in the hands of children.
(seriously, I have won all sorts of crap from those things, it’s an art form)
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September 22nd, 2009
Oh, come on, they’re just trying to win their little boy a toy!
“Here… now go play with this and leave us alone!!”
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September 22nd, 2009
So, this is not a big issue. They are what… a foot away.. ?? I don’t know about all you who think someone will walk away with him, or fall out, or whatever bad things you think will happen.. you are the ones who also think that parents shouldnt shower unless someone is there to watch the kid.
Crazy fools… This picture is lame. And NORMAL!!
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September 22nd, 2009
You know, there’s no skill to those games. They are set to “pay off” and grab a toy every X number of attempts. You can’t be good at claw games, only lucky. My spirit was crushed when I learned this life lesson.
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September 23rd, 2009
Christmas shopping, or engagement ring?
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September 23rd, 2009
What’s so funny about this??
The kid commanded his parents to get him a toy before he pitched a fit, but it’s just a clever ruse as he hopes to get new parents any moment now.
Didn’t everyone do that when they were kids?
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September 24th, 2009
I totaly get this photo. The parents are playing and not the kid!!! I had a friend like this a while ago. She would get ice cream and then wait until it was warm and soupy then give it to the kid!! Let the kid play the game not the freakin’ parents!!!!
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September 25th, 2009
Sadly later that day the mother and father went ice skating and saw a movie, completly forgetting that their son was in Walmart. He remains there to this day in that trolly and even worse, he can’t reach the claw machine…
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September 25th, 2009
i was gunna leave a comment but you all are good ennuf parents to defend your cabbage patch kids when you want to play crane games to get urselfs a doll.
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September 26th, 2009
That’s both funny & sad.
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September 26th, 2009
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September 28th, 2009
i think we all understand that this is a picture of “terrible” parents, ignoring their child. he could crack his skull after all…blah, blah, blah….
this picture is lame, not even funny. the parents are trying to win a toy for their kid…big deal. maybe he is actually one of those children who listen and sit still. i’m quite sure these parents had it under control.
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October 1st, 2009
this is at lake ozark
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October 2nd, 2009
hey fuckers !!! thats me !!!
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October 3rd, 2009
While Mom and Dad are enthralled by the shiny toys in the claw game, nobody noticed as little Timmy was snatched from the cart by the weird Waldo looking man carrying cat food.
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October 5th, 2009
I agree this is not funny really.. I mean the pic was probably taken to make these poor parents look terrible.. the Dad is the one playing maybe Mom over here just moved away from the cart for a sec to point out which toy to try for. Who is to say the person who took this pic didnt wait there behind this couple to catch this. These people look like normal folks out shopping who stopped to play a game. Now they are accused of bad parenting. Atleast they have normal clothes on.
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October 7th, 2009
If you people SHUT your pie holes up for two seconds and look before judging, you can clearly see that the stupid claw machine has a mirror in it. For all the people that belong on a “yellow short bus” that means they can see their kid even if they are turned around!!! HARDY HAR HAR
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October 12th, 2009
Nothing wrong with this one.
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October 14th, 2009
Isn’t this the same child that ends up INSIDE the machine?
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October 24th, 2009
im sooo guilty of this same situation
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October 26th, 2009
Actually, body language (crossed arms), could be saying hurry up and get my toy BITCHES !!!
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November 6th, 2009
there is a mirror in the back of the game, as there is with most of these claw games. this picture would be insignificant even if there wasn’t a mirror, i doubt anyone could move a cart with a kid in it without them hearing it. unless this cart is magically quiet… and spectroscopy nerd… quite being a pompous a-hole
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November 7th, 2009
hey how do you even know if this kid belongs to these people, its a blonde kid and two brunette teenagers
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November 9th, 2009
I didn’t read all these so I dont know if any one else said this but look at the reflection in front of the girl is that a black man in a white shirt??? Im confused on how this is working LOL and yeah they are trying to win something for their baby I guess I dont get the humor in it sorry!
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November 13th, 2009
Maybe next time they’ll leave the kid a loose plastic bag to play with, ooo or maybe an opened bottle of sleeping pills!!! “Shopping is fun with mommy and daddy!!!!”
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December 21st, 2009
Wow, this is just an ORDINARY picture. You’re fucking retarded because you can’t see that. He’s probably winning a stuffed animal for his kid. If you take pictures of ordinary shit and think something is funny or wrong about it than like this, than you obviously belong at wallmart you stupid douche.
February 24th, 2010
hmm, can’t you see the cart is pushed up against a wall? and don’t you think they’d be able to hear if someone tried to take him? be glad they care enough to get him a toy. children can survive 10 minutes w/o a adults eyes directed @ them
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