AMERICAN WOMAN: Generally to start it's the, the one-to-one combat. Two eighteen month old babies are placed in the pen, made from old crates or sometimes a plastic paddling pool. They're held apart when the bets are being made, and then the baby man makes his noise, that's the signal that we, uh, we're gonna start. And we let them go, and they hit and scratch and kick and do whatever they want to do to maim or stop or floor the other kid. In a good fight it's very, very clear who's won. There's a kid on the floor in a pool of, uh, blood or vomit, and there's a kid running around, and it's the kid who's running around who's the winner.
Victoria, that's, that's our girl, she's just right in there, biting, and she does this lip bite thing? She bites the other baby's lips. She has these great false teeth. Uh, we had them made for her so she'd look good in her photos.
They have protection. Uh, a kitchen sifter, with the handle bent round the back of the head to hold it on. That's good, because... when they're fighting with knives... you know, we stick, um, modelling knives to their hands and feet.
Sometimes if a baby is beating another baby real bad, the mother of the baby that's getting the beating will try to rescue the baby, and attack the other baby that's beating up on her baby. And I think that's pathetic. I mean, if you want to fight a baby then you can, if you pay.
An adult will pay quite a lot of money to fight a baby, and, uh, some of those adults really, uh, they don't know when to stop.
AMERICAN MAN: Big... uh. Wednesday...
AMERICAN WOMAN: He does that. He does it, you know, he pays his five dollars to kick the shit out of a baby.
AMERICAN MAN: In the stomach...
AMERICAN WOMAN: I mean, for me, I don't... I really, I just don't see how any adult who does that can be... quite right. When I watch it I think "God, she must somehow be pretty... spiritually weak or something."
I like the screaming bets. We do this thing on the little kids, like, eight weeks old. This guy with a really horrible voice holds the baby's face about six inches away from his mouth, and he just screams and screams and screams. Like a camel. Real loud. And then we bet how long the kid will cry for.
I don't think it has any effect on the kids, do you?
AMERICAN MAN: Uh... well...
AMERICAN WOMAN: I mean, I would... I would retire Victoria if she killed someone. If she killed a baby. Or if she made a habit of it, or... yeah...
(, Fri 15 May 2009, 21:01, archived)