Vault: Real or Staged? The Worst Parent Video on the Internet

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1:00Scares me to death that some dumbass would find this funny and copy this life-threatening axe. That's the thing I was thinking to the first time I saw it, like, I don't know much about like shaken baby syndrome, but in a case like this, you would think if this is real that that baby couldn't be healthy after this, but there's a baby smiling. Yeah, Katie and I had thought I had not seen this, but ends up that Katie and I did see this, because I wasn't aware that was the same video that we were talking about. The first reaction we had is this can't be real, and the second reaction we had is just dread of what we were about to see, because as the video progresses, it's lasting and lasting and you're thinking, oh my god, and the same thought is how can that baby endure this because it was so irresponsible on this guy's part to even attempt to do this. The baby was smiling or not. It's fun for a second, but it could have had such disastrous results. Now, we still don't know the story of this guy. We don't know if he was a babysitter, if he was an uncle, if he was a father, we don't

2:02know even where the video originates. This email says the video of the man tossing around the baby looks completely fake to me. After I got this email and I got a couple others, I started looking at it a little bit closer and I must have watched it a dozen times over the weekend and I think it's fake also. How? If you watch it really closely, let's let them watch it first and then we can analyze it because then I can bring it up and pause it and all that stuff. Go ahead, Wendy. I do. What concerns me is even if it's a fake and a rice talking about it, I just don't want some, and don't know, to copy this video, I think that this is a thing to do. Most people coming since will tell you absolutely not and based on Wendy and Jen's reaction here soon, you know it's not the right thing to do, but there's always one idiot out there. You guys know, the video is of one guy in front of a camera and he's playing some music and he takes a baby which looks to be eight to ten months. Wait here, let me start it first so they can see. So they can be surprised.

3:02I can't get your computer up in here, can I? I don't think so. Did you just play him? He starts playing this music and then he has an eight to ten month baby that crawls right over to him. Must be the father. Baby crawls over to him that father picks up the baby and just starts swinging him around to the music as though it's like this is some circus act. Oh no, oh no. And it gets progressively worse as the video goes on. I mean we're not just talking about a little toss to the left and toss to the right. We're talking about taking the baby by one arm and swinging him all the way around in a clockwork motion. Oh no, oh no.

4:04One arm. And the baby is just kind of like dangling there as the father is tossing it around all over the place. It doesn't look physically possible to me. No, I mean, yeah, it's just so ridiculous. Oh my god. It just keeps going with it and it gets worse if you use there's like three forty five. Oh, oh my god, no, oh my god, you didn't head turn away. Like I hope that this is fake because that is sick. Look at the theory on the baby or anything. You guys look at it really, really closely. You know how sometimes when you're watching the weather, they'll be like a little bit of an outline, like the weather on TV. I mean where you're watching the news and there's like a little glow around a little glow like right around. Yeah, his head and his shoulders where you can sort of tell that yeah, they're in front

5:05of the green screen. If you look really closely at that, it looks like that might be around the baby. And they have just synced it up via computer to make it look like he's swinging the baby, but he's really not. He's swinging something else. I hope so because this is awful, but it's not funny. Like the thing is even I mean, I hope it's fake, but even being fake, it's just not funny to joke about. Hey, Brandon. Go ahead. Oh my God, I have never seen somebody throw a child by one arm up and do you know how easy it would be to dislocate that baby's arm or him slip out your hand and go through the wall? And, you know, yeah, I'm shocked. I think that's what Katie and I thought is we're shocked that that didn't happen to this baby. And that's why it may be fake because I don't see how baby could endure what he did. And there's nowhere online that has any kind of investigation at all going on. Hey, Olga. Hey, Bert. Just wanted to say hi and love your show. Thank you.

6:05I want to tell you guys that in the background, the music he's actually throwing his baby around to is Russian. That's a Russian song. So I'm thinking maybe he's in Russia and probably most likely in Russia. What? What you guys see? What? It almost looks as though like, if it's real, this baby comes from like a family of acrobats in a circus and they're like sort of training him early for what he'll be doing as an adult. But it's not just the joint thing. It's like his joints or her joint. I'm not sure what I'm not sure what gender the baby is in it. But the brain, you know, because they're just, it's just so disturbing. There it is. God, it's messed up. And that's disturbing. Don't you think it can't be real though? No baby. Our parts of it. Yeah. There are parts of it that don't seem real. Like where? I know. Like I have really watched it a lot. Like when he's got it in front of the TV, there's just an angle there that just doesn't look natural. Doesn't look natural.

7:07Hey, Jim, you're on Q100. Hey guys, I'm telling you, I don't, I don't think it's fake. I've followed the video and I saw it and held on different, on television stations. And after they saw it, that doctor talked about the damage that could have happened to the baby. I don't think it's fake. That baby crawled right over to that man. Yeah. He's been swinging that baby around like that for a long, long time. That wasn't just the one time thing that maybe I could do that to that baby. You're watching it again. Swinging that baby around since it was a, a baby baby, I mean, I'm telling you. And that child rugged it. But that was very, very, very, very horrible. Well, of course the child loves it. But by the time the child gets into sixth grade and care, six years old and can't pick up a crann because it's shoulders destroyed. Were you watching it again, Melissa? Yeah, I went ahead it up over here next to it. I hadn't seen it since last week and had my hands up on my mouth because it just, it just hurts me. It hurts me and it makes me angry at him. Katie and I were just, you know, and Katie and I, and I'll admit it. I told this to bird off here last week as Katie and I made a sexist remark when we saw

8:10it because we were like, if this is the dad, you know, we're like the mother would never have done this. Oh, God. It's so disturbing. Which is a sexist comment, you know, because there's a lot of abusive mothers too. So, but that was our first reaction. Thank you, Jennifer. You're on Q100. Hey, Bart Show. Love y'all. I'll see you every morning. Thank you. Um, I watched the video and in the beginning, I had to watch it a couple times. I was like, okay, this is not so bad, but then when I watched it like this, well, not so bad, but in the beginning, when it was first swing, because I know my parents used to throw me up by that, like that, but by the armpits, it wasn't like, by the hands, you know? And the more I watched it, I was like, this is ridiculous, like the previous color. That baby knew exactly what was going to happen, because it crawled over there, like he was expecting it. And I just felt really, really bad. The more it progressed, I'm like, this is not normal. But at the same time, with the music that's playing in the background, you can see where the baby has his mouth open, and you can't tell whether he's laughing or crying.

9:11At the end, he's like laughing, but there's some parts where it looks like he's actually with his mouth open and crying. Even if it's not this country, I mean, there are other laws and, you know, there's police and there are defaxes, quote unquote, all over the world, so I can't believe this hasn't been investigated. Hey, Kristi, good morning, you're on Q100. Yeah, I was calling about the swinging baby, I actually heard that they were a family of acrobat. How'd you hear that? Well, this guy who showed it to me, he told me that they found out that they were a family of acrobat. So I don't know if there's just something that they know what they're doing. I mean, I'm not defending it at all, maybe, I don't know, or maybe just, he just needs some education. I thought very well, could have been the mom videocaping it. It looks like the camera is still, though, like it doesn't look like there's anybody in the room with them. It does look like the camera is set up on a tripod or something.

10:12I'm going to choose to believe it's fake, because I don't know how any father could think that that was okay with this kid. I'm in tape it. I can't find anything on the, although the original, I guess, hosting site or wherever the video is says up there, if anyone knows who this person is, please contact us so we can contact the authorities. So they're still looking. The virtue. This dog salon, operational excellence. Thanks to genius, from global payments, scheduling, personalized, checkouts, instant, absolutely genius, big league reliability for any business, that's genius. Greenlight helps kids learn about money the way most of us never did, by actually using it. It's a debit card and money app that teaches kids to earn, save, and spend in real life, not just swipe and hope for the best. Learning happens naturally in the moment. Kids can set limits, see spending in real time, and guide better habits along the way,

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