Throwing babies off roofs...!!!

Favourite quote from the comments at the bottom of the article:

Originally Posted by claire from london

500 years? how do they know what happened 500 years ago! Some of these ritual's are stupid.

Heheheheh, no Claire, we have no way of knowing what happened 500 years ago

What about the child born with 2 faces, poor thing. (Sorry, I saw that on the article before the throwing baby thing )

Originally Posted by blueto

SO do any of the babies miss? doesent say?

I'm sure they wouldn't embark on such a potentially dangerous task without taking full precautions. The article doesn't mention how big the cloth sheet actually is, it's probably massive. I still wouldn't ever consider it however, I'd be more concerned about it acting like a trampoline and bouncing the tot off

[yorkie_chris]

Bit extreme... I'd say if ya can't feed em, don't breed em

[tonyk]

is this a bit like throwing donkeys off churches in spain ?
but there is noone there to catch the poor animal....
how about bull fighting.......ask any spanish person and they say its a fair fight......yea right..
canada baby seals... wow.......i ant going there......

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Bit extreme... I'd say if ya can't feed em, don't breed em

Yeah but in India your children are your pension plan.

..and considering how pensions are going in this country, perhaps they're onto something.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by tonyk

how about bull fighting.......ask any spanish person and they say its a fair fight......yea right..

Watch "once upon a time in mexico" for an amusing bullfight scene

OMG, have just watched the vid next to the article, the speed at which the kids fall! And surprisingly crying their eyes out after

I wonder if they all end up with vertigo or something similar?

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Originally Posted by missyorkie_chris

What about the child born with 2 faces, poor thing. (Sorry, I saw that on the article before the throwing baby thing )



I'm sure they wouldn't embark on such a potentially dangerous task without taking full precautions. The article doesn't mention how big the cloth sheet actually is, it's probably massive. I still wouldn't ever consider it however, I'd be more concerned about it acting like a trampoline and bouncing the tot off

You didnt watch the video then, the 'cloth' was the size of a very small table cloth/ single bed sheet.

[tonyk]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Watch "once upon a time in mexico" for an amusing bullfight scene

i have not see it yet, but do the bull's have sword's and get the humans ****ed....

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Only in your narrow-minded, Westernised, Christian view-point.

Its just like you going out every Friday night and getting drunk to the point of not being able to stand up, that would be equally wrong to those people.

Are they chucking YOUR child off a roof ?

Are they forcing you to chuch YOUR child off a roof ?

All cultures/religions have their own values, and its only the people IN those cultures that should be allowed to change those values.

Thats not to say that were they doing it in THIS country they should be left to it, but their country, their rules, their customs.

PS - This is not a direct dig at you Lily - you just happened to be the last poster that this could be hung on.

I know thats not a direct dig at me.... but people start to wonder why some people don't post there personal opinions on threads like these, because as soon as they do they get shot down as people having a different view to them, I know its a different country and cultural.... but that does not stop me thinking it is wrong! A child is a child and i believe that they are being put in a dangorous situation.

I was in two minds whether to post or not and decided to because i can have my view on what i want!

I know you are allowed your opinion but so do I.