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Kid Nation - Lord of the Flies

  • 05-09-2007 1:50am
    #1
    Rabies
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭


    TV studios have gone too far in my opinion with Kid Nation
    40 Kids have 40 days to build a brave new world without adults to help or hinder their efforts. Can they do it? These Kids, ages 8-15, will turn a ghost town into their new home. They will cook their own meals, clean their own outhouses, haul their own water and even run their own businesses including the old town saloon (root beer only). Through it all, they'll cope with regular childhood emotions and situations: homesickness, peer pressure and the urge to break every rule they've ever known.


    Using young kids (as low as 8yrs) in a reality show is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

    ABC News
    The show has raised questions about whether child labor laws were violated and whether or not the children were exploited.

    With that many kids and minimal adult contact for the show's duration, accidents were expected an did happen.

    Wiki
    Some injuries occurred on the set. Four children needed medical attention after drinking bleach that had been left in an unmarked soda bottle, a girl sprained her arm, becoming one of two children to visit a local emergency room, and an 11-year-old girl who was cooking burned her face with splattered grease. That child's mother, Janis Miles, filed a complaint in June calling for an investigation into "abusive acts to minors and possible violations of child labor laws." The claim was investigated by Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Greg Solano stated his office found "no criminal wrongdoing on behalf of the production company".



    Crazy :eek:





    kill the pig.... cut her throat...


Comments

  • #2
    Smellyirishman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,285 ✭✭✭Smellyirishman


    This was on the news over here a couple of weeks ago, pretty shocking stuff alright. The scary thing is that the parents have signed a contract that pretty much reduces their rights (kids and parents) to nothing, and the fine for breaking that contract? A couple million dollars. This includes speaking to the media about the show...

    Then of course, the whole thing is shot in Mexico (I think?) where things are even more lax.


  • #3
    tvnutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,788 ✭✭✭tvnutz


    Wasn't there a something similar on British TV a few years ago?


  • #4
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    and an 11-year-old girl who was cooking burned her face with splattered grease. That child's mother, Janis Miles, filed a complaint in June calling for an investigation into "abusive acts to minors and possible violations of child labor laws."
    I'm sorry but is this woman fúcking retarded or something? She puts her child in a situation that is bound to turn bad and then blames everybody but herself. :rolleyes:


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