02-17-2014, 07:14 PM
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Question: Odd situation at the Calgary Zoo today
Hey All.
Our family and a few friends went to the Zoo today to enjoy the nice weather. While we were there we encountered a very odd situation, and I was curious if any of you have witnessed or had a similar one.
While we were there, we noticed a couple pushing a small child in a stroller, and taking pictures of animals at each exhibit they went by. They would stop to take the kid out and take pictures with the animals in the background, etc. Pretty standard stuff for the zoo.
Here's where things go a bit on the far side...
The child this couple is taking for a walk around the zoo is not a child. It is a life size doll of an 18 month girl, complete with sunglasses and ribbons in her hair.
For the life of me I could not come up with a logical explanation. Have any of you encountered something like this in the past? I have never seen something like this and quite honestly my wife and I were a but unnerved by it.
Discuss....
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02-17-2014, 07:20 PM
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To answer your question: no
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02-17-2014, 07:21 PM
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How old was the couple? Maybe it was one of those things like when they make teenagers carry around an egg for a week to see what having a kid is like.
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02-17-2014, 07:25 PM
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Taco, both appeared close to 40. Definitely didn't seem like a trial situation on seeing if you were fit to be a parent.
The woman would position the limbs into different poses for pictures. It was creepy.
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02-17-2014, 07:33 PM
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It sounds similar to something I've heard of Doll therapy being used in Dementia/Alzheimer's disease: http://www.theguardian.com/social-ca...erapy-dementia, http://en.benessere.com/psychology/a...ll_therapy.htm
Patients have a life sized, real looking doll that they end up treating like a real child. They don't differentiate between the doll and a real human being.
Although being close to 40, I'm not sure dementia is a reasonable explanation.
Last edited by Drury18; 02-17-2014 at 07:35 PM.
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02-17-2014, 07:33 PM
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You will have your answers when the doll crawls through your window at 3:20 AM tonight and does the reverse crab walk across your ceiling. You won't need to speak, it will use telepathy.
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02-17-2014, 07:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
You will have your answers when the doll crawls through your window at 3:20 AM tonight and does the reverse crab walk across your ceiling. You won't need to speak, it will use telepathy.
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Hence the thread tags.
Drury I've heard of that therapy before as well, but given their apparent age I'm not sure it would be applicable.
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02-17-2014, 08:02 PM
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It could be like a "flat stanley" thing where people send an object on a trip to various destinations and post photos of it on a website or something.
Wierd that they are pushing it in a stroller though.
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02-17-2014, 08:02 PM
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Sounds like a "Reborn" doll. On a phone, can't link but if you google them you can see them.
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02-17-2014, 08:13 PM
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I'd hate to judge, but I don't know if I could avoid it.
It'd be heartbreaking to think that the doll would be in place of a lost child or something of that nature, but it's certainly bizarre. Never even heard of that before.
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02-17-2014, 08:14 PM
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Kudos to them if it is for therapy. Especially doing so in judgemental uptight Calgary.
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02-17-2014, 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Turner
Especially doing so in judgemental uptight Calgary.
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Okay then.
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02-17-2014, 08:26 PM
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Okay then.
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Yup. With our muslim mayor, female premier, and the pride flag flying at city hall. Slow clap, Turner.
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02-17-2014, 08:44 PM
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Maybe they were Scientologists or Jehovah's Witness?
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02-17-2014, 08:49 PM
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I agree it would be incredibly sad if the doll was a replacement for a lost child. There's a few explanations that preclude being judgemental that have been mentioned in here. That's why I didn't want to phrase my original post in a critical way.
I am curious if I was missing something that is mainstream, like the twitters or google, that would explain this.
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02-17-2014, 09:00 PM
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Can't remember what show I was watching... might have been a Heston Blumenthal or Gordon Ramsay one where if memory serves, I believe one of the food critics or guests had a side piece about him and his boyfriend/husband. They both dressed the same, always, and had a "kid" (doll) with them for years, They also dressed the doll like them.
Again, if I recall correctly, they basically said "Hey, no diapers, stays a good age, doesn't wake us up in the middle of the night and we are all having fun" or something to the effect.
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02-17-2014, 09:07 PM
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I don't know if I could have witnessed that without staring like a weirdo.
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02-17-2014, 09:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Turner
Kudos to them if it is for therapy. Especially doing so in judgemental uptight Calgary.
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Turner-ed the Corner?
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02-17-2014, 09:16 PM
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Chalk it up to eccentricity?
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02-17-2014, 09:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
You will have your answers when the doll crawls through your window at 3:20 AM tonight and does the reverse crab walk across your ceiling. You won't need to speak, it will use telepathy.
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More like you want to say something, to scream, to let people know that something is very wrong, but you can't. Your eyes are fixed on the doll as it turns its cold dead eyes to you and smiles hungrily.
And the last thought that goes through your mind as it drops from the ceiling is, I think I wet my pajamas
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