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No birthday cake for Little Hitler

  • 17-12-2008 07:26AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,159 ✭✭✭✭


    http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/700367/adolf-hitler-toddler-denied-birthday-cake
    Adolf Hitler toddler denied birthday cake

    13:00 AEST Wed Dec 17 20082 hours 25 minutes ago

    A US supermarket has refused to inscribe a birthday cake for a toddler named Adolf Hitler.

    New Jersey couple Heath and Deborah Campbell wanted to mark their son Adolf Hitler Campbell's third birthday with a cake from supermarket chain ShopRite.

    But the store refused to inscribe the toddler's cake for the family, who are Holocaust deniers and have swastikas in every room of their house.

    "We believe the request ... to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate," Lehigh Valley Live News reported a ShopRite spokesperson as saying.

    But Adolf's parents have described the supermarket's denial as "sad".

    "Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time," Heath Campbell, 35, said. "It's not fair to my children." The chain offered to leave the cake blank for the Campbells to decorate themselves, but the family rejected the offer.

    Their two younger daughters also appear likely to cause similar problems down the track.

    JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, who is named after notorious Schutzstaffel head Heinrich Himmler, will turn two and one early next year.

    ShopRite has already stated they will not make a cake for JoyceLynn.

    Fellow supermarket chain Wal-Mart now appears set to create Adolf's cake.

    "Our No. 1 priority in decorating cakes is to serve the customer to the best of our ability," a Wal-Mart spokesperson said.

    The Campbells, who are both unemployed due to alleged disabilities, deny they are damaging their children or setting them up for harassment at school.

    "They say, 'He (Hitler) killed all those people' ... I say, 'You're living in the wrong decade. That Hitler's gone'," Mr Campbell said.

    "Yeah, they [Nazis] were bad people back then but my kids are little — they're not going to grow up like that.

    "Other kids get their cake, I get a hard time."

    Disgraceful discrimination. The poor child just wants to see their name lit up in icing. What is the world coming to I ask you? What is it coming to?!?!?!


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Serves them right. What kind of dickheads call their kid Adolf Hitler. They shouldn't be allowed have kids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭spinandscribble


    so they admit hitler and the nazis were bad but named their kids after them...?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭jane86


    The parents must have mental disabilities or are extremely attention seeking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭burgess1


    Poor kids


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Thats a gas story.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Serves them right. What kind of dickheads call their kid Adolf Hitler. They shouldn't be allowed have kids.

    unless they are breaking the law I dont see the problem , there are any number of kooks in the US from hippies to born again christians that call their kids all sorts of crazy names.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,867 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    silverharp wrote: »
    unless they are breaking the law I dont see the problem , there are any number of kooks in the US from hippies to born again christians that call their kids all sorts of crazy names.

    The law is a far less important thing to break than the minds of innocent Children. This is not healthy for the children and only a fraction of the "discrimination" they are likely to face in their lives.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Id be far more worried about the Aryan Nations kid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,346 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Well a guy I went to school with was called Osama Adolf-Sadam O'Shaughnessy, his mother had great fun calling him in for dinner.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Can you argue both points of the story? Meh, gonna do it anyway :P
    Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time," Heath Campbell, 35, said. "It's not fair to my children."

    Should have thought about that before naming your kids after the the most hated leaders in modern history. Really... Adolf is bad enough, but hitler as his middle name? That kid is doomed.

    On the other hand, descriminating against someone because of their name is just sooo backwards. I wounder would the parents have any case against the shop, would the shop have to print that name on the cake if it went to court???


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    KTRIC wrote: »
    Well a guy I went to school with was called Osama Adolf-Sadam O'Shaughnessy, his mother had great fun calling him in for dinner.

    GTFO... Your taking the piss... right? You have to be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,853 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    cormie wrote: »
    The law is a far less important thing to break than the minds of innocent Children. This is not healthy for the children and only a fraction of the "discrimination" they are likely to face in their lives.

    Have you ever watched Jerry Springer , unless all the "guests" are out of central casting , there is an underbelly of seriously imbred or "retarded" Americans presumably mostly living in trailer parks. Whats your solution? It would be ironic if men in black uniforms came to move these types in camps for "special treatment". The kids name is the least of his problems, he can change that later or at least drop the Hitler bit.

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Strange, strange people to name their kids like that (esp. Aryan Nations!) and expect to be treated as anyone else when the WWII is still a living memory. Is this a minor form of child abuse I wonder?

    BTW, can't the store just say 'no' and not make the cake. don't they reserve the right to serve regardless of why ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Ponster wrote: »
    Strange, strange people to name their kids like that (esp. Aryan Nations!) and expect to be treated as anyone else when the WWII is still a living memory. Is this a minor form of child abuse I wonder?

    BTW, can't the store just say 'no' and not make the cake. don't they reserve the right to serve regardless of why ?

    Imagine telling a member of the travelling community that they can't get their name on their cake because their are travellers... It's descrimination. I am not sure about the consumer rights in America, but I doubt you would see it here without a big hulabaloo...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,867 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    silverharp wrote: »
    Have you ever watched Jerry Springer , unless all the "guests" are out of central casting , there is an underbelly of seriously imbred or "retarded" Americans presumably mostly living in trailer parks. Whats your solution? It would be ironic if men in black uniforms came to move these types in camps for "special treatment". The kids name is the least of his problems, he can change that later or at least drop the Hitler bit.

    Aye, his name is just an indication of the mindless brainwashing he's likely to endure for the next 20 or so years, which no doubt his parents have also gone through themselves. It's a sad situation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Heil never understand human nature , seriously , what did they expect?
    Why didn't the mother make the child a cake and put his name on it , it's hardly rocket science.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,199 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Nobody with a child with a stupid name should be allowed a cake.

    Here is a small list of mine, please add to it if you wish

    Crystal
    Mercedes
    Apple
    Teardrop
    Anything double-barrelled
    Peaches
    Dynasty
    Providence
    Promise


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    The supermarket must be annexed immediately.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Id be far more worried about the Aryan Nations kid.

    Article doesn't state if they are caucasian ;) Imagine they were chinese, hispanic or african american... lulcats? Roflcopters? I would think so.
    Berty wrote: »
    Nobody with a child with a stupid name should be allowed a cake.

    Here is a small list of mine, please add to it if you wish

    Crystal
    Mercedes
    Apple
    Teardrop
    Anything double-barrelled
    Peaches
    Dynasty
    Providence
    Promise

    :O My sisters name is crystal... I always thought that was a nice name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Each time hitler gets refused a cake a jew dies.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 757 ✭✭✭milod


    stovelid wrote: »
    The supermarket must be annexed immediately.

    Well, if it's anything like Superquinn, it'll already have ovens.

    On a serious note though, that tosser really should be starved of media attention. He got what he wanted even if the child didn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Berty wrote: »
    Nobody with a child with a stupid name should be allowed a cake.

    Here is a small list of mine, please add to it if you wish

    Crystal
    Mercedes
    Apple
    Teardrop
    Anything double-barrelled
    Peaches
    Dynasty
    Providence
    Promise

    Add ghetto names.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    Imagine telling a member of the travelling community that they can't get their name on their cake because their are travellers... It's descrimination. I am not sure about the consumer rights in America, but I doubt you would see it here without a big hulabaloo...

    ah but that's because membership of the travelling community is covered by the equality act, as is race, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientatation, family status and marital status.

    mental names aren't covered you see

    edit:that's why here:
    http://www.qatarliving.com/node/157354
    Fat Women refused entry to Jersey Nightclub!
    By Elaine Byrne
    FEMALE clubbers were refused entry into Havana nightclub on Saturday night for being too fat.
    Police were called to calm the situation outside the Halkett Street club as bouncers and manager Martin Sayers allegedly told women to 'go away and lose some weight'.

    they had to organise a boycott themselves because they couldn't bring a discrimination case. maybe all the work organising the boycott might make them lose a few pounds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Good point sam, but could it be argued? You are refusing to provide a service based on a trait of the customer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,773 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Heil never understand human nature , seriously , what did they expect?
    Why didn't the mother make the child a cake and put his name on it , it's hardly rocket science.
    Is that a pun Sharpy or is that wager finished??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Q2002 wrote: »
    Is that a pun Sharpy or is that wager finished??

    Of course it's a pun ;) Is the week up yet? tut tut...

    They should have called him litler, little hitler, get it??? :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,199 ✭✭✭✭Berty



    :O My sisters name is crystal... I always thought that was a nice name.

    Depends on where you are in society. Being called Mercedes or Crystal in a council area is just bad for Karma.

    Or in certain parts of Limerick being called Jonathan is not good either because people call you Johntan in a cutting accent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Berty wrote: »
    Depends on where you are in society. Being called Mercedes or Crystal in a council area is just bad for Karma.

    Or in certain parts of Limerick being called Jonathan is not good either because people call you Johntan in a cutting accent.

    Mercedes is just cheap, in any context. Even before my sister entered this world, the name Crystal didn't seem odd to me. Yea it was a council area, but a well spoken council area ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,538 ✭✭✭niceirishfella


    I wonder does the young fella have just 1 ball like Hitler?
    Maybe thats why they called him Hitler?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,683 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    RATM wrote: »
    Thats a gas story.
    Ah, now.

    Why didnt they just do the writing themselves? Surely that would have been the more efficient way of doing things.


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