11-Year-Old Arrested For Putting Razor Blade On Slide

2009_04_slidetamp.jpg This is messed up: A 6-year-old was gashed when sliding down a playground slide in Dutchess County—because a razor blade was placed there! Police arrested an 11-year-old boy for putting the razor there (investigators found the razor "had been inserted into the slide through a hole created from underneath the slide, so that just the edge of the blade stuck up into the slide and would cut anyone sliding down") and apparently the boy had vandalized the Pleasant Valley playground before. The victim, Sean Yambo, required 30 stitches to close up the laceration (it's pretty gory-looking). His father told WCBS 2, "It was horrifying to say the least. Every night we're changing the gauze and what not. The pain, the agony, the screaming," and added, "I feel bad for the other kid who was involved who did it. He's 11, so something is wrong with him, too."

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Wow, this takes me back to middle school. Most of the guys were assholes.

I feel bad for that little boy. I wonder if he would be traumatized by slides now.

this is Jiverly Wong on a microscopic level. Stop that 11 year old before it progresses.

Holy shit that is the most purely evil thing I've read in some time.

It's been rumored for years and years that people would use chewing gum to stick razor blades on water slides. None of those rumors ever were true, as far as I know, but this is a pretty close variation.

that is fucked up! is it too late to abort the little bastard?

Q: Is it too early to have him sterilized?

If that happened to my kid I'd want to kill whoever did it. That 11-year-old needs some serious counseling right away and send child services to his home to check that out too.

Sick. The kid who did this is clearly a sociopath and needs some serious therapy and 24/7 eye over him. He's probably capable of more and just getting started.

The psycho tyke needs electro-shock, leeches and a warm glass of milk.

where's the photo of this monster?
I say the community should sue, he's a known trouble maker and is known in the system.
then slap his parents around a bit.
for you parents out there, watch the playground, you know who the problem kids are. go with your gut feeling.

I wonder how many small animals this junior psycho has tortured and killed.

It's the GTA Generation, y'all. What're you expect? Antisocial, sociopathic behavior is just par for the course for these kids.

This kid is tomorrow's serial killer-in-training. Very, very scary. I wish I new his name and what he looked like.

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