Behold, the french monkey baby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N_ivaTe588&feature=related"]YouTube- Woman gives birth to bizarre monkey like baby Now give me a nickle and fuck off!
Thanx man! My brain is now locked in a feedback loop! I am going to sue You, your Dog, and your damn Mailbox too!! Where's my bat....where is my fucking bat....
I hope it is.. for everyone's sake as well as it's own... no surgery is going to fix that shit. It would be intensely suffering for it's entire life. And I'm usually one of those yahoos that says life is always worth living. But this? No. There's got to be a line somewhere...
Is that music really necessary? And looking at the 'upcoming news' - gee, I thought the Americans were exploitative bastards. P.S. If anyone wants an explanation, as I did: http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=6745
Back in the 1930s the parents could have made a fortune by displaying their child in a traveling circus as one of the human oddities (or freaks) Hotwater
Explanation: Harlequin-type ichthyosis (also Harlequin ichthyosis, ichthyosis congenita, Ichthyosis fetalis, keratosis diffusa fetalis, and Harlequin fetus, a skin disease, is the most severe form of congenital ichthyosis, characterized by a thickening of the keratin layer in fetal human skin. In sufferers of the disease, the skin contains massive, diamond-shaped scales, and tends to have a reddish color. In addition, the eyes, ears, mouth, and other appendages may be abnormally contracted. The scaly keratin greatly limits the child's movement. Because the skin is cracked where normal skin would fold, it is easily pregnable by bacteria and other contaminants, resulting in serious risk of fatal infection. Sufferers are known as harlequin fetuses, harlequin babies, or simply harlequins. More... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_type_ichthyosis
There's no way that baby would still be alive. I guess it was the result of a DNA malfunction. The Halloween music was a corny addition.
You know, that was the first thing I thought of, and I actually saw a doc they did on the only kids that ever survived it, but this kid looks like something else to me. I'm no doctor, but the skin didn't seem the same, nor did the eyes. I know harlequins' eyes usually protrude, but not enough to make them look like Syd the sloth. Maccabyrd is right. It's anencephaly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anencephaly
Harlequin diseases are really sad, I saw a discovery channel documentary named "too much skin" about that disease and some girls in Europe who suffer it. I believe many of you have seen the famous picture of Judy who is, I believe, the oldest Harlequin alive at the moment, since the excessive amount of skin growth (20 times faster than normal I believe) makes them unable to breathe and they die as babies.. but if parents DO fight it, they can live. Having a child with this disease is something I strongly admire, it must be VERY hard.. and even worse, being born with that disease is not only hard but painful since you have to violently scrub your entire body everyday to eliminate the extra skin... you need to keep the skin moisturized otherwise it "breaks" and hurts like hell. Poor people, seriously.