Father bites off baby's fingers to spite his wife

[snopes]

Comment: My wife is currently taking a driving course. The instructor tells
an "eye witness" tale of a drug crazed man who bites off the fingers of his
baby to spite his wife. The course is full of "true stories" regarding everything
from driving while intoxicated to driving while talking on a cell phone.
Basically, the story goes:

While visiting friends or at a party, a man engages in sharing a joint.
The joint reportedly was laced with some other drug. The main returns
home in an agitated state and gets in an argument with his wife. The wife
tries to downplay the argument, but after he won't give up, she goes on a
short walk. When she returns home, the man has bitten off the fingers of
his 6 month old daughter in order to spite his wife.

The instructor claims he heard this case while working as a marshall in a
court. The class is being instructed in Rockville, MD.

This just seems to be too extreme to be true.

[moonfall]

The thread title appears as "Father bites off baby's...". I can't be the only one who was expecting something other than "fingers."

[Floater]

Originally Posted by moonfall

The thread title appears as "Father bites off baby's...". I can't be the only one who was expecting something other than "fingers."

I have to admit you aren't.

[snoozn]

I thought it was going to about this story. So I was expecting something other than fingers. And it does seem like kind of a real life version of this legend.

[TrishDaDish]

Why the heck is this story being told in a driving course? What's the moral? "If your husband does bad weed and bites your infants fingers off, she can't drive when she's older?"

[snopes]

Originally Posted by TrishDaDish

Why the heck is this story being told in a driving course? What's the moral?

"A good wife would stay home and not argue with her husband instead of learning something that might make her less dependent on him."

[Tarquin Farquart]

The joint reportedly was laced with some other drug.

What other drug?

[Eddylizard]

Originally Posted by TrishDaDish

Why the heck is this story being told in a driving course? What's the moral? "If your husband does bad weed and bites your infants fingers off, she can't drive when she's older?"

Probably to make an exaggerated claim that drugs seriously impair your judgement - sort of if drugs can make a man so deranged to bite off a baby's fingers, then just think what the dangers are to yourself and others if you drive under the influemce of drugs, and you'll be running red lights, speeding excessively and mowing down old people on the sidewalk, without even knowing you are doing it.

Or something.

[Starla]

Originally Posted by Eddylizard

Probably to make an exaggerated claim that drugs seriously impair your judgement - sort of if drugs can make a man so deranged to bite off a baby's fingers, then just think what the dangers are to yourself and others if you drive under the influemce of drugs, and you'll be running red lights, speeding excessively and mowing down old people on the sidewalk, without even knowing you are doing it.

Or something.

You think it's just an innocent joint, but didn't you read Go Ask Alice? It could be laced with something.


Also, on a more serious note, if your spouse is extremely upset and/or high to where you feel the need to leave the house for a little bit, you should take the baby with you.

Originally Posted by Starla

Also, on a more serious note, if your spouse is extremely upset and/or high to where you feel the need to leave the house for a little bit, you should take the baby with you.

Totally agree with you there, if my partner was severly upset or indeed high on drugs, i would definitly take my child with me, just to be on the safe side.

[Admiraldinty]

Originally Posted by Tarquin Farquart

What other drug?

Angel Dust would be my guess.

This story is actually believable, as there have several news accounts of similar things happening. One even occured only a few miles from where I live.

Lowell Story

One from New Bedford.

[lynnejanet]

Originally Posted by Starla

You think it's just an innocent joint, but didn't you read Go Ask Alice? It could be laced with something.

This is a legitimate problem in our area, or it was a couple of years ago. A dealer in town (I never heard if they tracked down who it was) was lacing joints with meth and possibly other substances. A couple of kids at one of our elementary schools smoked a couple of joints using an improvised pop-can bong (I have no idea how that works, BTW!) and one of them ended up seizing on the office floor and had to be taken to hospital. Not a FOAF story - straight from both the school secretary, and the officer who attended.

We have a lot of home-grown improvised drug labs in our area, and apparently it's a bit of a crap shoot to know what you're getting.

why would the kids smoke a joint out of a bong? your story would make more sense if they smoked the joints straight up. i'd tell it that way from now on. common sense would leave me to believe that if they did smoke from the bong they would break open the joints and see they were laced -weed is leafy green and meth is crystally white- they could have been smoking salvia but that doesnt make you convulse, just trip balls for a couple of minutes. i have seen people convulse from whippets tho.

This is something similar that happened in a town near me...PcP is a crazy drug...

http://www.news24.com/Content/World/...s_out_sons_eye