Teen Charged After YouTube Baby Launch

[Gio Takahashi]

LEESBURG, GA -- A south Georgia teenager is charged with child cruelty after an online video showed a young man launching a baby several feet across a room.

The video posted on YouTube shows the teenage boy putting a baby on one side of a large, inflatable pillow on the floor.

The boy then jumps on the pillow and the baby flies several feet across the room before landing on the floor and crying. http://www.neowin.net/forum/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif

The 16-year-old Lee County boy was arrested Tuesday after a school teacher saw the video and called the sheriff's office. The boy's name was not released because of his age.

The boy was charged with a felony count of cruelty to children as well as a misdemeanor count of the same charge.

The video has been removed from YouTube.

source (http://www.cbs46.com/news/16767134/detail.html)

[RonDo]

These people are so stupid, putting evidence on the web for the world to see. Also gio, you may want to edit the thread title "Youube".

[Gio Takahashi]

I think you're just seeing things!

[The Moody Ronin]

Damage, SP, no offense, but I'm not surprised that something like this happened in Leesburg, GA...

The boy then jumps on the pillow and the baby flies several feet across the room before landing on the floor and crying.

Brain. Dead. Idiot...

edit: Actually, I take that back. I may not like GA, but it can't be blamed for stupidity of this magnitude.

[Bloodcinder]

My uncle did that to my mother. He called it the moon launch. Didn't have YouTube back then, though.

[Seegtease]

I heard about this awhile ago. I want to know how he obtained a generic baby. It didn't say anything about a relation.

[The Moody Ronin]

Babies 'R Us (http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=2255957) of course...

[Charlie]

If I find out who he is, and I ever meet him, he fucking dies. End of story. You'd have to be a REAL. FUCKING. HEARTLESS. BRAINLESS. IDIOT to even CONSIDER doing that to a BABY! Could've fucking killed it, or gave it brain damage, or something..

[Killer_Man_]

Oh yes, lets commit anther sin by murdering/hurting someone. -.-;

He who has no sin, cast the first stone.

Sorry, I am not trying to flame you but every time I see you post in something like this. You seem to go off the deep end on people should die/be maimed.

They will get their just desserts once they die.

[Detrevni]

Haha.

Baby cannon.

As fun is it is to hurl helpless infants across the room.. I think I'm gonna have to frown on this one. :(

[DAMAGE]

Damage, SP, no offense, but I'm not surprised that something like this happened in Leesburg, GA...
Columbus =/= Leesburg kthx bye.

[Z]

Oy :\

That's definitely sad to hear but at least the guy's stupidity is what got him arrested. I'd hate for him to go unpunished.

[The Moody Ronin]

Columbus =/= Leesburg kthx bye.

GA = GA no matter if you're in Brunswick or Fitzgerald.

*shudder* ...GA...

[Bloodcinder]

Georgia is pretty sucky. I can't stand the Caucasus Mountains.