A Model Citizen for the Nanny State
Thirty-year old Stanley Thornton chooses to live life as a 350-pound "adult baby" courtesy of Social Security Disability benefits.
Thornton, who maintains a website called bedwettingbabyabdl.com, is tended to by his morbidly obese companion, Sandra Dias, who also collects disability benefits.
Thornton worked briefly as a security guard then, claiming disability due to certain "childhood experiences", took up residence full-time in his very own nursery, complete with a custom-reinforced crib.
Ah, but there is trouble in babyland. United States Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has asked the Social Security Administration to look into the matter.
Thornton, answering a query from the Washington Times, responded in the sort of measured tone one expects of the parasites of the nanny state:
“You wanna test how damn serious I am about leaving this world, screw with my check that pays for this apartment and food. Try it. See how serious I am. I don’t care. I have no problem killing myself. Take away the last thing keeping me here, and see what happens. Next time you see me on the news, it will be me in a body bag."
The Obama Administration would, no doubt, be torn: they love dependency but, oh, there's that obesity thing...
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Dec '10
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If Mark Steyn isn't writing a column about this, I will be very very disappointed. I think he may be the only one who could truly capture this perfect metaphor of the state and infantilized citizenry. And this guy isn't the only one. Recently, I watched several of the hoarding shows, and it seems that plenty of them are on disability as well. I accept that there are people who are truly disabled and need help. I don't accept that the government is the most efficient and compassionate method of assistance, but that's an argument for another time. What I'm interested in is the question of whether government is enabling some of this behavior.
Mar '11
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I resent your bigoted mockery of this maby's constitutionally protected alternative sexuality. What next? Requiring him to use separate baby bottles? Time has passed you by on this issue, Kenneth.
Jun '10
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SS Disability for the morbidly obese gets me angry. This guy can maintain a website? Get a job doing that.
His companion has a strong enough stomach to "tend" and feed a grown diaper-wearing man who drinks from baby bottles? Surely this proves there is no job so distasteful, so dirty, that this woman can't do. Mike Rowe can give her job leads.
The environmental impact caused by his use of all those adult diapers should get the attention of the Obama administration.
Jan '11
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"Try it. See how serious I am. I don’t care."
If we don't give you money, you'll kill yourself? Morally, I have no obligation to submit to extortion. Take the check away.
Aug '10
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The folks at the Onion have to be reeling from this story. How are they supposed to make up satire that is weirder than this?
May '11
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At least he has a website; I guess that's kind of productive....
Feb '11
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Basil's right Kenny, you seem to be in favor of denying full rights to a whole class of people here. Luckily we're all civil here at Ricochet and no one will accuse you of bigotry.
Apr '11
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This is revolting on so many different levels; it's hard to even process it.
We are doomed.
Apr '11
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He made himself a drop-side crib? Doesn't he know the CPSC has declared them to be dangerous and banned them???
May '10
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Richocet rules of conduct preclude my stating my REAL feelings regarding this Fellow Citizen....
Nov '10
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There will always be freaks among us. But what trips me out is that "clinical psychologist" who suggests that we're "threatened" by this guy because he doesn't adhere to our "cultural norms." In other words, *we* have the problem, you see. We are adultinfantophobes.
Yes, I have a mental disorder. Whatever.
How *dare* that adult baby threaten me, when my hard-earned money pays for his diapers. Cut off the funding, and let him do what he will.
Nov '10
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KC Mulville: "Try it. See how serious I am. I don’t care."
If we don't give you money, you'll kill yourself? Morally, I have no obligation to submit to extortion. Take the check away. · May 20 at 6:50am
Amen, Mr. Mulville. Well said sir.
Jul '10
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Does SS "Disability" actually pay enough for gluttony? Or have We found out where all that "stimulus" went?
Let's hope there's no webcam.
Aug '10
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This is like a Mad Magazine parody gone nightmarish.
I'm for paying him and using his interviews and footage in GOP fundraising and campaign commercials. He's a 'progressive' icon.
Feb '11
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I find this story absolutely hilarious, especially the bit about suicide.
He actually seems to think people will recoil from cutting off his check because he threatens to cease burdening us.
Nope!
Jul '10
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The tragic part is the guy can't even go out in public in baby garb without "shaming".
Shaming; what an archaic concept.
Aug '10
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"Body bag " ?
They don't come in his size. Anybody ask this blimp who he voted for ? Or is that a foregone conclusion ? Or who his social worker spent most of their time doing phone banks for on our dime as well ?
Reveling in dysfunction is so American, making it a sexual thing, so European. Give this guy a reality tv show ( and you know that there are probably 3-4 companies about to greenlight it). Oh wait, there already is a show for that ! Maybe that's why he is throwing some twists on the old morbidly obese schtick.
I can imagine the class action suit from the regional Krispy Kreme retailers against the Federal government, this guy dies and their business drops off.
It's hard not to be mean about something so egregiously in-your-face with my made up problems .
But I can only apologize to the gentle Ricochetti, not the sideshow.
Edited on May 20, 2011 at 10:03amFeb '11
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I feel like quoting Ebenezer Scrooge here, "be done with it and decrease the surplus population". It's like that one concept that the characters in Atlas Shrugged took so long to get about the fact that moochers have no real power over the rest of us except what we give them.
Jun '10
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Still waiting to see if Mark jumps in, but Michele Malkin has at NRO [here], with her usual acerbity. Worth reading.
Kenneth: The tragic part is the guy can't even go out in public in baby garb without "shaming".
Shaming; what an archaic concept. · May 20 at 7:48am
C. S. Lewis (speaking of Christianity, but the idea has broader application): "A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity." The Problem of Pain
Mar '11
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He wants to be a spectacle? Maybe it's time for a human zoo.
Other than California, of course, Kenneth.