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Old 05-14-2010, 11:36 AM
 
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Old 05-14-2010, 11:56 AM
 
Location: 38°14′45″N 122°37′53″W
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that's one weird family dynamic. glad it's not my family.
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Old 05-14-2010, 11:59 AM
 
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Stupid is as stupid does. Hey pa that a nifty brand on your arm can I git me one of them. Sure son just like Kwai Chang Kane in them there kung fuey movies.
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Old 05-14-2010, 12:29 PM
 
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It's the most bizarre case I ever heard before. However, if the children consented to being branded then they should leave the man alone. Different strokes for everyone.....
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Old 05-14-2010, 04:08 PM
 
Location: A Yankee in northeast TN
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Kinda strange, but I guess no worse than poking holes in yourself or sticking needles full of permanent ink into your skin.
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Old 05-14-2010, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Australia
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Pity the effects of divorce.
As I read it.
Mom and Dad were retreating and putting up the defensive walls.
Dad gathers the kids and isolates mom and rubs it in with the brand.
Mom calls the cops.
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Old 05-14-2010, 04:34 PM
 
Location: California
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I have heard of people branding themselves before, it's the extreme in the vein of tattooing, like those people who do the extreme piercings all over their face and body. Self experession...expressing your stupidity. I'm OK with that.
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Old 05-14-2010, 05:09 PM
 
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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I have heard of people branding themselves before, it's the extreme in the vein of tattooing, like those people who do the extreme piercings all over their face and body. Self experession...expressing your stupidity. I'm OK with that.
Brand yourself, not your kids. You can brand your kids with a hot iron but if you discipline them with spanking--not even beating, just a spanking--you can go to jail and lose them. WTH is going on here?
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Old 05-14-2010, 05:27 PM
 
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why is this any different that a parent and child getting matching tattoos?
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Old 05-14-2010, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Everybody is going to hurt you, you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for-B Marley
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LOL I wonder how many who defend this branding of children as if they were personal property, cattle, are the same ones who bash parents for using a harness to keep their children safe in public.
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