putting a baby in the oven??

[phantomnamechanger]

someone on my local fb selling group has listed a meat roasting dish, pictured in her oven with her BABY laid in it. Obviously the oven is not on! but the baby is a bit twisted to fit and does not look best pleased! Lots of people have called her on this saying it is inappropriate and reported to admin but she says it was just done to show the size of the tin (well unless you actually know the size of the baby, it doesn't really help!)

So just after yr opinion please MNers - is this flippin odd thing to do or perfectly OK??

Most people use a coin to demonstrate "scale".....?!

I'm with chrome!

Oh lighten up. She was demonstrating the large size of the pot in a light-hearted way.

Should she have added a message to the effect that: "No babies were harmed during the making of this advert" ?

No yeuk and scary the stuff of nightmares like baby crawling into a swimming pool or tumble dryer.

Is it a gag about buns in the oven? Pretty poor taste.

I can't get worked up about this in theory however I didn't see the picture and if the baby was in obvious distress as the op suggests then yes it would annoy me

Very very odd!

Very very odd!

I would report that to social services. Theres something funny there..

I think it's funny as well. Doesn't mean I'd cook my baby.

It's spreading on fb with 12000 likes (you know those things like to slap mum share to save baby type pics)

I would never have thought it was from a selling page just some twat thinking they were funny

Either way ... Wrong!

DP and his mate had a 'most random place you can settle a teeny baby' competition. His friend won. The baby was fast asleep in a wok.*

*No babies were harmed in the making of this fun.

Of course it's not ok. Sounds very uncomfortable for the baby too.

If you want to show how big something is, you use something like a ruler. Aside from the poor taste, it's not like babies are all the same size.

Can you post a link??

Did it look like this?

imgace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/moms-away-daddy-plays.jpg

I think its funny. This is like those pictures you see online, and something that my DH would do to make me laugh.

It doesn't actually mean she's going to cook the baby. Wouldn't upset me at all.

Or more like this grown up version?

www.reactiongifs.com/kramer-turkey/

Well it is weird .... But funny

Babies with all the trimmings if you scroll down here

blog.yummly.com/blog/2011/11/20-adorable-babies-dressed-as-turkeys/

I'm on a turkey roll

imgfave.com/search/baby%20in%20oven

Although the baby won't come to any harm it does seem unnecessary and attention seeking to me. It reminds me of this story about a parent who was worried about leaving his baby with the grandparents so they made fun of him by taking a photo of the baby in the oven (includes photo).
thestir.cafemom.com/baby/146314/grandparents_put_baby_in_oven

The size of a baby is more variable than an oven, one should think...

A bit poor taste - like so many jokes are, but reportable to social services? Really?

No harm done, no potential risk of harm.

Its just silly.
And that should be the end of it really IMO.

This made me shudder and I usually have a sick sense of humour.

A south African friend told me of an incident where an armed burglar put a baby into the oven and turned it on to extort money from the parents.

A responsible person wouldn't even consider anything so idiotic.