Threat, Meant for Baby Hitler's Family, Sent to Wrong Family

The saga of Baby Adolf Hitler Campbell continues! Outrage over a NJ family's, uh, outrage that ShopRite refused to inscribe a cake with "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler"—for 3-year-old Adolf—has sparked more bad ideas. Police say that a death threat was sent to the wrong recipient: Melanie Campbell, not related to Heath and Deborah Campbell (pictured) who did name their son Adolf Hitler, got a letter saying "Your hateful thoughts will cause your death and the deaths of your children. You will not be able to prevent this, you will not know when it will happen, you will not know how it will happen. Your children will die. You will all end up like your Nazi friends: dead." Melanie Campbell, who may have received the letter because her daughter Heather is listed in the phone book as "H. Campbell," said, "My family won't come here for the holidays now." People, fighting ignorance with violence? Time for some 2009 resolutions stat.

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By Jen Chung in News on December 23, 2008 11:24 AM

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r1b2

Oy vey.

Get it? Yiddish! I amuse even myself at times.

S.D.

Jen, Can we get a "Where in the World is Baby Hitler!?!" Thread??

I'm thinking Rio myself...

Eriiique

I feel sorry for the kid

He can never have a normal life after getting that name.

However, threatening death to him and his family is no different than being a Nazi.

Promoting hate.

Snoopy

I really miss BH. Perhaps Spiritof76 might know where he is. They always had an active dialogue going.

Reflect

I saw BH over on 63rd and amsterdam. Also spotted him posting an entry on D list.com's downfall.

MFer

BH is following etiquette. RULE 57 of the Blogger's Manual says the following:

One should never post, comment, or in any way cite one's namesake.

Addendum. One may extend this rule to shared abbreviations or the quite unlikely name-Spoonerism, if only as an fine excuse to keep mum. Most people confuse keeping mum with being interesting.

loganmo

Why are the wacko racists and christianists always so ugly?

turkishjade

Meth is a hell of a drug.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

yes, why threaten a child for his name? sickening. where is baby hitler? no comments from him at all on this story

TKaisen

Why would you want to kill the kid? He didn't name himself.

Snoopy

Our BabyHitler can live where ever he wants, either in his brownstone in Brooklyn Heights or his loft in Tribeca. He's got the money. He's probably on his yacht sailing in the Caribbean for the Holidays to get away from all this bad press.

goofynoodlehead

Well, now we have another person who is just as much of a detriment to furthering the civility of society. I know the person is angry but that is putting oneself just as much at risk of some kind of violent reprisal or harrassment in return as the Campbells put themselves in on a daily basis with the seriously bad judgment they used in naming their children.

CubanB

S.D.-Right on, way to stay on the moral high ground. This is the kind of blind circular thinking, that makes you just shake your head.

I heard BabyHitler is living in a villa on the brazilian riviera.

Spirit of 76

Well, to be devil's advocate, the letter writer was right. They are all going to die and nobody will know when it will happen. That tends to be the inevitable fate for all living things.

Mr Mel

Our Baby Hitler was spotted last week in Argentina where he is working as a waiter.

ides_of_march

Well, there's nothing like threatening the life of an entire family to show one's own moral superiority.

God help the poor child in any case.

S.D.

Back on topic: Threatening violence is just DUMB and emulates the behavior of the NAZIS that they abhor.

mrguy

[Homer receives a death threat letter written in blood]

Homer: Oh my God! Someone's trying to kill me! Oh, wait, it's for Bart.

ed_Extinct

these are exactly the people that should not be breeding. They're defects of society.

NYRefugee

Yes I have been waiting for the elusive BH of our ilk to show himself on this since last week !! What gives?

NYRefugee

See what STUPIDITY & IGNORANCE gets you !! Same as it ever was!!!

S.D.

(sigh)

May I have your attention please?

May I have your attention please?

Will the real BabyHitler please stand up?

I repeat, will the real BabyHitler please stand up?

We're gonna have a problem here..

Jen Chung

@Rob T Firefly—thank you for making me laugh. And yes, I think that community needs to come together for the kid's sake, if not the parents'. I worry about what'll happen when he goes to school!