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Too Far? South African Man Allegedly Paid Child to Pose as Dead Prey

JOHANNESBURG (The Blaze/AP) — A South African man is under fire after an image posted on Facebook surfaced showing him with a hunting rifle and a big grin kneeling in a classic hunter’s pose over his “prey” – what appears to be the lifeless body of a black boy. The picture launched a policed investigation and apparently the man admitted it was all a prank — in 2007.

Facebook Racist Publishes Picture of Young Boy as Prey

The picture was first published on the front page of South Africa’s Sunday Times along with a police plea for the man in the picture or anyone who recognizes him to help their investigation. Further digging led police to a similar investigation in 2007, in which the picture was probed and the man fessed up to it being a hoax. The Times reports:

Hawks spokesman Colonel McIntosh Polela said yesterday that Western Cape police contacted him yesterday morning after reading a Sunday Times report which stated that the photograph featured on the profile of a Facebook user who called himself “Eugene Terrorblanche”.

“I was told that the photograph came to light in 2007 and that it was investigated. The man was taken in for questioning.

“He told police that the child was alive and that he paid the child to pose.”

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“I got the impression that the man told the police that the child was alive. I don’t know how far the police went to find out if the child was indeed alive. I will have to read the report,” he said.

Still, it’s not completely clear if the picture is authentic, or whether it has been digitally manipulated. Also unknown is the fate of the child.

The Sunday Times quotes officials saying anyone party to the production and posting of the photograph could be charged under several laws including the Children’s Act, the Films and Publications Act and the Criminal Procedure Act.

“If this is the same picture that was reported on earlier as being doctored, it is comforting to know that the child was not physically harmed,” Ray Hartley, editor of the Sunday Times, told the Times (they’re sister publications). “The fact remains that a very sick individual has this picture posted on his Facebook profile in 2011 along with a string of extremely racist remarks.”

The photo has also led to racial concerns. The man in the photo has been dubbed the “Facebook racist” and the national director of public prosecutions, Menzi Simelane, tweeted: “Race crime legislation is needed in SA.”

“Whether or not the picture is genuine, it represents a scene of extreme violence perpetrated against a child by a man,” DA leader Helen Zille told the Times. “The intention is to evoke racial hatred and polarization.”

(H/T: Gawker)

Comments (155)

  • Stempy
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:59am

    Hollywood does it everyday and we pay big money to see stuff like this!

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    • robert
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:22am

      There‘s something that just isn’t right here. As they say, something is wrong with this picture.

      I can’t think of one legitimate reason why this kneeling man would want to pose over something as dastardly as that, probably knowing full well it would be viewed universally with outrage.

      Something just isn’t right here. This is the kind of photo his enemies would want to pass around. It seems more than bizarre he would do so himself.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:54am

      Disturbing and so wrong. However, if this were sent to a museum or art gallery, it would be ART. Sick!
      I’m still thinking of the images of Jesus used for what “they” called art, and that was allowed. SICKO’S.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59am

      I agree- Hollywood does this every day. Does not make it right though. And- personally, its been in recent months that I have stopped feeding the appetite for shock TV and images on the big screen. I don’t watch anything anymore.

      Also believe that if this is legitimate (not photo shopped) – the guy deserves to be investigated. It’s a natural course of action.

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    • Sleazy Hippo
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:14am

      Many people will find this hilariously amusing. It brings back the days when a godly man with firearms could do as he felt was best to husband his crops, livestock, property and land in the name of our Lord.

      Sleazy Hippo  
    • OU812BTW
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:28am

      Creepy picture! But not why you think. Look at the void between the mans legs and the top of the child’s back. It looks like the image of a Red Fox with the ears being at the man’s crouch and the mans right leg being the back of the fox sitting on the child. Look just above the child’s head to see the bushy tail of the fox. Although the face of the fox is transparent you can see what appears to be a black snout of the fox. Sometimes in pictures it is what is seen that is not there that really tells the story.

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:14am

      Fakebook , not Facebook

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    • Strait Talk Express
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:15am

      In a free enterprise system, if the “hunter” paid the dead child for posing, it should pass the Supreme Court test as legal commerce. I think Hustler magazine has done similar photos paying naked women to pose as prey.

      I think there is a TEA Party market for this photo, just like porn.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:34am

      Robert you have a great point considering the atmosphere that currently exists in SA and that being one that is very hostile/dangerous to Whites. This man and his socalled Hoax piture will be used as an excuse to further discriminate against Whites there and even kill them more than they have been.

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    • t00nces2
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:43am

      Too bad he wasn’t a Palistinian holding up the head of a dead Iraeli child, he would be celebrated and on his way to his 72 virgins.

      Seriously, nobody got hurt. Was it a dumb idea? Yes. I don’t really see the problem getting worked into this type of lather. Get a sense of humor, people.

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    • BMWmech
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:05pm

      I agree. If it was Matt Damon doing the same the thing in a movie he would make millions. I think its funny.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 2:42pm

      .
      In bad taste, yes, sick, no.
      Heck, he paid the kid.
      Is it any worse than the “Madonna with elephant dung”
      that hung in the Met?
      Is it any worse than a crucifix in a jar of urine?
      He should claim he’s an artist, and the NEA will give him a grant.

      Sick is when he really shoots the kid.

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    • bioengineer
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:19pm

      I thought it was Beck posing with a muslim boy… he did make a trip to South Africa after all…

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    • kropptj
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:54pm

      Yes it is sick, shocking and reprehensible, but if the story is true then the kid made a buck. Nothing wrong with that, the man has the right to be stupid.

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    • southernloyalty
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:08pm

      This is just a joke, sick or not. The sad thing is that because of this the racist Black African government will probably one way or the other have this man executed for it. They‘ll most likely deal with him the same way they’ve dealt with many white farmers, and let some goon squad kill him and get off free of any charges. Remember when white kills black, its evil, hate, horrible. When black kills white, its justified, liberating, natural. The sick and twisted world we live in. Just think, a perfect world without any of this is one where multiculturalism and diversity doesn’t exist.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:55pm

      Hmm….maybe it was just a dart gun and he was tagging South African flashmob members for study and tracking purposes?

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    • Favored93
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:11pm

      No kidding … Hollywood does this almost DAILY and no one freaks out. This looks to me as though it was just a gag pic. something to just say haha about on his face book page. people need to relax!!!!
      This PC crap has to stop people are getting hurt because of stuff like this. A gag pic could land you in JAIL!!! What ever happened to JUSTICE VS. WITCH HUNT for PC breakers? Justice says no crime no time PC crap says we (the PC police) are judge jury and executioner!
      IT’S A DAM,N GAG!!!

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    • Black Manta
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 5:12pm

      Well al I can say is this how the devil will be kneeling over his soul if he doesn’t get right with Jesus our Lord and savior…

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    • brnm8brn
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 10:17pm

      you would think a white person would know better, this is so wrong

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  • Gary Fishaholic
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:56am

    Stupid sick and all of the above.

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    • Favored93
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:15pm

      Playful,silly and no big deal!
      The kid earned a little bit of money and the guy got a pic to remember from hit trip to Africa.
      RELAX!

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  • Vasbyt
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:54am

    I would like to know why THE BLAZE felt it neccessary to post this picture and article just a few days after so many people commented negativeley on Glenn’s stance against the whites in South Africa. Is this a slap in the face for all of us who slammed you Glenn? What does this picture help besides inflaming hatred. You know the ignorant will take this very far. I had a black customer ( in the USA)when the riots in England were goin on, and she said to me that ” it‘s crazy how the English police shot this poor black man’s head right off his body before he could even get out of the car”, and she supported all that the riotors were doing just because someone told her some stupid story and she went with her emotions instead of logic. What do you think the average black American is going to be talking about when they hear about this picture that “THE BLAZE” has given truth to? Who is to say that some poor white boy in America is not going to be killed in an act of revenge for the non victem in South Africa? Think before you post something you blazing idiots, or wait maybe you did and that is what you want!

    Not a real story at all!!!

    Vasbyt  
    • 2ndAkeepsmefree
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:12am

      Thankfully this picture is fake. But why don’t you show the very real pictures of the little white children brutally murdered and in some cases raped and mutilated on a relatively regular basis in the home/farm invasions that are going on in SA today? the Boer farmers have been targeted for eradication with the silent blessing of the Zuma “government”. Did we forget what happened in Zimbabwe? Well it’s starting to happen in SA now with not a peep from the media, the UN, or any human rights organizations. Hey Glenn why don’t you show those pictures?

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    • billybe123
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:20am

      Keep it up Blaze! You showing the Truth! Sometimes its not Nice, but its the Truth. Good Job. Live with the Truth @vasbyt. Get your head out of the Sand.

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    • Mathew Manhorne
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:41am

      Anyone who really knows anything about South Africa knows that the country has been in a downward spiral for years.Crime in the country is out of control. Most of the South African whites have left because of that and the fact that the farmers are targeted and murdered and the SA government refuses to protect them….I know several South Africans that have left that I am friends with and they found the Glenn’s ignorance of the reality of SA amusing…

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    • Applehead
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:55am

      It’s a sick, vile, disgusting picture!!!! But this one picture by an individual POS that can lead to many bad race relations and violence!!! This is exactly like the mainstream media Glenn that you have taken the image of!!! They take the fringe and use it to manipulate the masses!!! Please leave the sensationalism out of Africa and help the people who are being ruthlessly slaughtered!!! The Jews that have deep pockets and have MASSIVE influence on our government, enough to get us to fight their wars surely can get our government to put together a coalition to protect the victims of this genocide!!! The Jews have gone through the holocaust and should be 1st in line financially and yelling from the roof tops to drum up support to make sure this doesn’t happen to any other people again!!! You have the power to influence your Jewish friends to help another group of Gods children from being murdered!!! You should have talked about this at your Restoring Freedom Rally in Israel!!!!! Americans and Christian Charities are always the 1st and give the vast if not pretty much all the financial and on the ground leg work to feed and cloth the world!!!! It’s time for our Jewish friends to step up that are so vocal about their holocaust!!!!!!!

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    • JustMel71
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 10:06am

      It took me a whole 10 seconds to google a very interesting link to the other half of South Africa’s tragedy that I hope The Blaze (the truth has no agenda) will follow up on.

      http://www.honestmediatoday.com/genocide_white_farmers.htm

      Nelson Mandela sings about killing BHULU (whites)

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOXqFQw2hc&feature=player_embedded

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    • 2ndAkeepsmefree
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:05am

      Read into the Cannibal’s Pot by Ilana Mercer who is a SA Jew and daughter of a prominent Rabbi who was very active in the anti-aparthied movement. She is now a conervative journalist telling the real story of what is happening in SA today. It’s scary…

      http://www.amazon.com/Into-Cannibals-Pot-Lessons-Post-Apartheid/dp/0982773439

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    • Seabee79
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 11:26am

      Vasbyt
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:54am

      Do us a fave shoot yourself in the head.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:46pm

      Vasbyt, I wouldn’t pick on The Blaze for covering this story. Huffpo has it too, and it’s naturally a big story in SA.

      Seabee79, why be so hard on Vasbyt? Go back a few days, and you’ll find that he provided us with a good summary of South African history, giving due attention to the achievements of the Afrikaners, a people who have a lot in common with Glenn’s heroes the Israelis.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 6:30pm

      Applehead: So you expect the the Jewish community to speak out against atrocities directed towards other communities other than theirs and Africans? Are you kidding me? They travel around the world in order to prevent any group of people the right of declaring their history if might interfere with or rival their Holocaust story.

      Don’t hold your breath since it was Marxist Jews which led to the overthrow of White SA to begin with the aid of their kinsmen in the American Media.. You think they give a damn about the slaugther of Whites around the world? Seriously?

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    • Ms. Gray
      Posted on September 10, 2011 at 8:47pm

      You know what I find amazing, the guilt so many white people have. Has it ever occurred to any of you that some black people as well as white people are outrage about this picture because their is a grown man, with a gun, standing over the body of what it appears to be a dead child he murdered??? I think I am more offended about that then anything. For many, this has nothing to do with race. Please stop spreading ignorance and hate.

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  • Thighmaster
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:49am

    ..so the kid gets a few bucks to buy some food and medicine. Maybe he should have held out and got sickly skinny and he could have been put in front of a camera to make us feel bad about our “wealth”. Funny, I looked at the picture and I didn’t see anything racist about it. Now if there was racist language in his post that’s different. Me thinks it‘s the gun that get’s the response. If they had posed in the library with the candlestick holder it might have been different. Whoa! We have games where people get killed and we have to guess whodunnit? What’s next? Murder mystery theatres?

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:39pm

      This would be a great photo op for our Border Patrol, and it’s coming, just like the race riots, if Obungo goes down in 2012

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  • Llewsilverhand
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:38am

    Ok, one can take a pic of a cross in a glass of urine and call it an expression of art. One can shred a Bible and call it freedom of expression. One can burn the American flag and call it free speech. One can legalize sodomy and call it social justice of equality. But don’t you dare offend one race by making a joke picture. Especially if you’re of the majority race. That’s just not PC.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:58am

      I agree, but this pic was still disturbing. Perhaps, though, the lefties will equate this with some sort of “art” such as the examples you described and defend it. Oh wait, it shows a black kid on the ground, not a white one with a leering black guy over him. Never mind. They will just denounce this as racist instead of distasteful like it really is. Can’t let a PC “crisis” go to waste…..

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  • countryfirst
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:35am

    Cemerius, some comparisons polar bears are white on the outside with black skin, our POTUS is apparently white on the inside with black skin.

    Polar bears dream of killing seals for survival, and our POTUS dreams of killing America because it feels good.

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  • Carolina Infidel
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:31am

    Would there be any conversation if it were a little white boy?

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    • Llewsilverhand
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:53am

      No, if it were that way,,,, it’d be a joke.

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    • Ron_WA
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:03am

      Yes. He’d still be an idiot & it would still be sick.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 12:48pm

      Yes, especially if the “hunter” was black.

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:46pm

      Nope, not even a wet back.

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    • Carolina Infidel
      Posted on August 30, 2011 at 7:38am

      That was kind of the point. This should be a human tragedy that goes beyond race but it seems to so many that it is more important to be a color than a human.

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  • Carolina Infidel
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:30am

    It is not a crime to be a dueche bag.

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  • christos
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:22am

    ……Disturbing that man should be in jail.

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    • randy
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:53am

      Why?

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    • christos
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:12am

      ……If you need to ask why maybe only you have that answer,,Ta Ta

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    • Da Kingfish
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:59pm

      Why don‘t you tell that to Gadaffy’s Son’s nanny, what they did to her because she wouldn’t beat the child, then you can say how horrible this is, you have no concept between pretend and reality. I guarantee you it will be much much worse when it breaks out on the streets of the US for real.

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  • huck555
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:22am

    Not funny in the slightest.

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    • OUTRIDER WRITER
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:49am

      Well stated Huck555.

      Something is serious wrong with a man who gets his rocks off doing a stunt like this.

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  • Charles
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:19am

    The only reason this is getting any attention at all is because its a white guy and the little boy who is playing dead is black. If it were the other way around and anyone was trying to call attention to it they would be told to shut up and sit down.

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  • Ookspay
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:15am

    Sick yeah, stupid yeah… So what, does this mean Hollywood can’t imitate death any more? I sure hope so.

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  • JJ0369
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:15am

    I have seen worse.

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  • TripleG
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:01am

    “Race crime legislation is needed in SA.”

    Why don’t they just call it what it will be (same as in the US): “Crimes against non-whites by the evil white man”. I sick of the double standard.

    At some point whites will be a minority… when that happens watch how fast they change the use of the term.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:58am

    And this guy thought this was funny because….? Someone needs to give the gene pool a serious shock treatment.

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  • TheValley
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:44am

    Where are all the libs calling for an end to the white race? If this were an artist, it would be dismissed as artistic license, no one was hurt, and it was staged, get over it. “He who does not offend, can not tell the truth”~ Thomas Paine

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:41am

    Fueling the fires of “ racism” again.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:09am

      I thought it was an ad for Planned Parenthood…..only with PP the kid would really be dead

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    • searching for the Truth
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:35am

      I have an interesting little story, an antidote so to speak. Its depicts the frustrating struggle the Israelis have to endure: A young Israeli is strolling through a small town, and he hears a woman screaming to the top of her lungs, ” Help, please help me!” The young man runs to the woman in distress,and finds the woman trapped in a tall building engulfed in flames. Peering out of the building from a window above, the woman yelled to the young man, ” Find me a rope or a ladder. ‘ please get me out of here before I die.’ ” The young Israeli hurriedly runs from building to building gathering up whatever he could find ; then , rushes back to the woman so anxiously awaiting. He places a ladder on the eave of the building, and the woman replies, ” It’s not long enough!” So he throws up a rope, which the woman immediately throws back saying, ” It’s too short!” Desperate, the young man breaks down a door, and runs up the burning stairs,collapsing behind him. Finding the woman, he grabs her by her hands carefully lowering her to the ladder; thereby ,she climbs down to safety. Finding himself in the same predicament, he calls out to the woman, “Throw me the rope!” The woman dusts herself off ,casually walks away exclaiming, ” You got yourself into that mess – you get yourself out.”

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  • ConservativeChristianB1954
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:40am

    This was disgusting and morally wrong. I don’t care if he did pay the child. It was WRONG!!
    No wonder we still have racial problems in the world. That one photo will be used to spew more hate from all sides in race issues.

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    • chazman
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:43am

      … this photograph is the direct result of global warming!

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    • cemerius
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:57am

      Yeah I believe Polar bears are white too…..Stop Global Warming cause it is racists against bears!!!

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:38am

      Yeah, but underneath all that Polar Bear’s white hair is black skin.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:08am

      dang next thing I am going to hear is that the Polar bears are the “missing link”…then we would have to stop them from drinking coke!! oh yeah unless they have a “tan” then they can drink pepsi!!!

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:40am

    Zzzzzzzzz yet another dummy story

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 8:25am

      It served its intended purpose. Just read the comments.

      The Blaze – The National Inquirer of the internet. Attracting bored, self-righteous housewives in unappreciated numbers…

      If Beck ever looked at his creation he would be ashamed…

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  • A MERICAN
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:39am

    “The intention is to evoke racial hatred and polarization.”

    really…..I think they have PLENTY of that in South Africa already.
    not sayin it’s the smartest thing he coulda done tho.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:58am

      No, but our American “media” thoguht it would be nice to bring some real “racism” to the party to find some way to make this guy part of the Tea Party movement!

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  • Meyvn
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:29am

    Looks like a real dumb@ss and his actions prove such.

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  • RightUnite
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:27am

    Well, I guess he was acting stupidly….

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    • cemerius
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 9:07am

      ha ha ha to find humour in such a dark story!!

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  • rangerp
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:26am

    What an idiot. I saw a young dumb Army Lieutenant do a similar thing down in Haiti back in the 90s. His Army career did not last long.

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:25am

    I am sure the Dems will link him to the Tea Party. What a moron.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:41am

      You are right, I bet they will find a way to say that Sarah Palin told him to do it.

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  • Tickdog
    Posted on August 29, 2011 at 7:25am

    Yawn….

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