Tyson Sucks.. But This is a Tragedy....

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Tyson Sucks.. But This is a Tragedy....
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Tue, 05-26-2009 - 12:38pm

nevertheless.  And a safety issue I never thought of...


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6440870.html


PHOENIX — The near-fatal strangulation of boxer Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter appears to be a “tragic accident,” police say.


Exodus Tyson was on life support today after apparently accidentally hanging herself on a cord dangling from a treadmill in her modest central Phoenix home.


“Somehow she was playing on this treadmill, and there’s a cord that hangs under the console — it’s kind of a loop,” police Sgt. Andy Hill said. “Either she slipped or put her head in the loop, but it acted like a noose, and she was obviously unable to get herself off of it.”


Exodus’ 7-year-old brother found her Monday and told their mother, who was in another room. She took Exodus off the cord, called 911 and tried to revive her.


Responding officers and firefighters performed CPR on Exodus as they rushed her to a nearby hospital, where she was in “extremely critical condition” and on life support, Hill said.


Hill said former heavyweight champion Tyson, 42, had been in Las Vegas but flew to Phoenix immediately after learning of the accident.


“The Tyson family would like to extend our deepest and most heartfelt thanks for all your prayers and support, and we ask that we be allowed our privacy at this difficult time,” the boxer said in a statement.


Brief footage from local TV station KTVK showed Tyson arriving at the hospital in a white button-up and black pants, and looking around with a frown before going inside.


Hill said everything in the investigation pointed to a “tragic accident,” adding that calls involving children is an officer’s most difficult duty.


“Those are the things that stay with you in your career,” he said. “We always hope for a miracle — not to have the worst happen to a child.”


Neighbors said they were surprised and saddened when they heard what had happened.


“It’s terrible,” said Abby St. Jermain, who grew up in the neighborhood and is house-sitting for her parents down the street. “The kids are so sweet. We always see them riding their bikes, playing. They’ve just been wonderful people.”


Dinka Radic, who lives across the street, described Exodus as smart and sweet.


“The little girl, she says ‘You got chocolate in your house?’” Radic said. “I say ‘Yes,’ and she says, ‘OK, give me some.’”


When she gives the girl the chocolate, Radic said “she just kisses me on my knees. Kiss, kiss, kiss. Very nice.”

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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 2:56pm

I'm not expecting any replies, much less daily.

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Registered: 02-05-2009
Sun, 05-31-2009 - 3:05pm

That's one reason I hate the internet at times-people are way to bold on here, and would never be this bold in person.


And yet many of us are just that bold in person.

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Registered: 02-11-2009
Sun, 05-31-2009 - 6:36pm

It's very interesting how you dissect my words and use them just to find a reason to reply. The topic of this post is about a child who died, yes. I just simply had an issue with the title of the post, and here we are several posts later talking about religion...interesting.


...and yes, had any child died by hanging from a treadmill cord, it would have been in the news because that does not happen often. There are many nationally known child deaths in the news to alert parents of what could happen. And those families aren't famous.


...you can laugh at my words, but I shake my head at ignorance. Judge and be judged is how it goes, period.


...clearly you come from la la land where everything is perfect because where I am from, hundreds of people are murdered every year and many times by young kids and teenagers. Am I to fault a lost soul??? No, I am to hope that they shall "become found". Not judge them. There is a documentary called, "Girlhood" where it follows a few girls from my city who are in the juvenile delinquency system. I know one of the girls and she has grown up and made a huge turn around. Shall I judge her for stabbing a girl to death when she was just 12 years old??? No. She was lost then, but she is now found. God forgives all who repent, and she deserves to be looked at as a human being, not a monster.


...I laugh because you dissect my words and clearly miss the entire point of my sentences...I stated that my cousin was murdered and I forgave his murderer. Of course I cared about my cousin and was upset for years that he was gone, but it happened to him and I can't change it. Why carry a burden on my shoulders??? Several women I know were molested as children, and though sympathetic, you can not do anything to change it, so why become upset about it??? The person who did the crime did a bad thing, but God will handle them. And God will take care of His children for having endured that pain. Even watching Oprah, who was a molested child say she forgave her molester was big. She now helps fight and pass laws about sex crimes against children.


To care for someone is never to judge their past. I can love a family member or a criminal because people change and we all deserve love, despite our bad choices in life.


For homework, maybe watch the documentary, "Girlhood" and the movie, "Woman thou art loosed". Criminals are people too...and authorities say that 80-90 percent of women in jail were molested as children. When they are in jail, they can really turn their lives around, even forgiving their molesters and those who go free sometimes go on to earn degrees and great jobs...they committed crimes, but are no lesser people than me or you...


"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere" ~Agnes Repplier
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Sun, 05-31-2009 - 7:41pm

It's very interesting how you dissect my words and use them just to find a reason to reply.


I reply because that's part of debate.

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Mon, 06-01-2009 - 2:17am

Yes and we said it was sad. Considering the child's father is Mike Tyson, it is understandable that people talk about him on the same message that we talk about his child. I don't see anything wrong with that.

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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 11:02am

I have watched enough documentaries and talked to enough people to know about the women in jail molestation percentile. I don't have to go search around for a link for you-just use common sense. It is the same for prostitutes-many were molested as children. It goes the same for overweight children-they are victimized more in general...and for battered wives etc...I can go on for days...It's called talking to people in this world and using our brains. It's just that simple.


Now, I did bring up God, but it was for inspiration, not debate.


Where have you been, really? There are so many stories that come to the attention of the nation every day. I recently saw the news about a Kansas doctor who was murdered (for giving late term abortions). I'm in Maryland, so that's national news...I hear about stories coming from California & Texas & New York & Washington & Oklahoma & Nevada & Michigan & Colorado & Alaska &

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere" ~Agnes Repplier
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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 11:07am

Oh, and since I don't see my initial response, here it is again. I save everything I write, just in case it is erased or lost...


Previously written on May 27, 2009: Although this is such a tragedy, it's funny that you still put your ignorant personal jab in this post...there are a lot of celebrities/entertainers who I don't care for, but when it comes to the death of some one's child, I would not be that heartless to say, " sucks...but this is a tragedy". That is wrong on so many levels, and I am more pissed that someone would write that than I am about the event itself. What an awful person.


Now, I do send my condolences out to the Tyson family because this happens to thousands of families every year and it is just heartbreaking every time. I don't know Mike Tyson, but I am saddened by this.


"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere" ~Agnes Repplier
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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 11:31am

LOL, I guess you're a better Christian than me.


Have a good trip.


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Tue, 06-02-2009 - 11:54am

***But I know their heart is heavy because we're all human and we are wired the same. ***


Science, brain imaging studies and a college ethics class would fail to support this. There are as many different kinds of human hearts/minds as there are people in the world. But, whatever you need to get yourself through life.



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