'Baby Shaker' IPhone Game Sparks Outrage

Apple Inc. pulled a 99-cent iPhone game called "Baby Shaker" from its iTunes store Wednesday after its premise _ quiet a crying baby with a vigorous shake _ prompted outrage. (April 23)

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[matanuskatundra2]

whoOoOoo cares big deal.. its a good way to take out your aggression towards

babies without actually hurting any! im sure we've all wanted to silence

a crying baby at one point or another.

[wonderbread93]

America:

Pro torture,

anti-baby shaking iPhone App.

[darrenshanrawks2]

People only care because its a baby.

If it were shaking a picture of a middle aged man we would all be like "yeah cool"

[playthefield21]

LMFAO! My friend just got this app and it's fucking hilarious!

[VAJayz]

Rofl, the ad on the bottom featured 2 little kids saying "we're going to disneyland!"

[tcr6v1]

Wanna shake a baby till it dies?

Theres an app for that!!!

[rpbaur]

Games get released that have detailed violence, blood, and dying.

But little red x's over a little sketched up baby is inappropriate?

[deezvids]

right on!

[MRNIIK]

Only in America would this cause uproar.

It's made for the purpose trolling the iStore by a bunch of smartasses. How is this making news?

Parents and childrens rights groups??

It is not worth giving attention to or the outrage. Get over it.

Look at it, hardly any effort went into making it. The graphic of the baby when it's dead is not even different to the alive one, just with X's over it's eyes. It's like making a news story about someone spray-painting the word "fuck" in a public area.

[MiaEZ]

Woe to the man that harms the very least of these (children) Its better for him to have a block of cement tied around his neck and flung into the sea ....

[tofandaniel]

it`s basically the same thing like killing humans in shooter games .. only here there are babies .. but from my point of view o lot worse ..

to be more exact i`ve been playng shooter games for a few years now and "killed" thounsads of "humans" but when i first saw the app i was terrified .. it`s like i just killed my baby ..

the psihological efect it has on you it`s a lot stronger than any game .. it`s defenitly not real but it sure seems to be .. or something like that :)