by LauraLoo
Patricia Krentcil, who has been tanning ”her whole life,” is accused of child endangerment by bringing her young daughter into a tanning bed with her.
Patricia’s obvious addiction to tanning beds has fried her eyes. Can she not see how her skin is permanently ruined? And what’s going on with her lower-lip? Terrifying.
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[Apparently], it is much more important for the school to have Planned Parenthood at Benson than it is to have a teacher teach computer science and math.
~ High school teacher Bill Diss (pictured), who was escorted by police out of his classroom at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon, last week because of his opposition to Planned Parenthood’s presence on campus, as reported by Christian News Network, March 22
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Comments (48)
Sun, good. Fake-n-bake, bad.
Does anyone know how old this woman is?
She looks like she was dipped in cocoa.
I feel sorry for her. Anyone who has to tan to this degree is filling that hole in her heart with sunrays…when it should be filled with SONRAYS.
Jespren, where have you been for the last 20 years??? Sun is bad too. It’s all the same cancer causing UV rays.
Ummm. Actually Elizabeth we need sun rays to survive as they help our body produce vitamin D3. There is more danger from chemicals in sunblock than there is in moderate sun exposure. God created our bodies to live in the sunshine waaaay before sunblock was invented. Skin cancer is a relatively modern malady. It is likely there is another reason for the sudden surge in melanoma cases, unrelated to direct sun exposure alone. Modern medicine and science takes a myoptic view of the sun/skin cancer scenario and has not looked further into other factors such as modern diet, fabric softeners, modern detergents, etc.
I do believe that tanning beds were invented by the Devil himself, however. Their uniquely evil combination of artificial rays are dangerous and damaging.
Courtnay says: May 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm “Does anyone know how old this woman is?”
[Carbon dating would suggest she was birthed during the cretaceous period and her age would be expressed in 'half lifes'.]
“Ooooo, a lovely lady. Hey baby, you’re alright. You must have been something before electricity.”
[She definately has a future in leather crafts.]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1FbAsFX8sA&feature=related
Tan me hide when I’m dead Fred.
Tan me hide when I’ve died Clyde.
So we tanned her hide when she died Clyde,
And that’s it hangin on the shed.
“
According to all the stories..she’s 44.
I liked The Soup’s take on this (I’m paraphrasing):
“Now, before we judge this mother in the court of public opinion, we should at least hear her side of the story.”
[Video clip plays]
“That’s one untrustworthy catcher’s mitt.”
Elizabeth, in common sense land. The sun’s rays (through the whole spectrum of light) is much, much different than the UV rays used in a tanning booth. Sun exposure is *GOOD* for you. Sunburns are bad. As Amy1 already mentioned, skin cancer as an ‘epidemic’ is a very new thing, skin cancer was almost unheard of (although has aways been around) in the days where the average person was in the sun dawn til dusk. In fact there is a direct corrilation between a culture’s sun exposure and general rate of skin cancer, namely the more direct sun they are exposed to the lower the general cancer rate is. (In fact the only population on earth that has a zero % occurance of skin cancer spends part of everyday specifically sunbathing and lives at high altitude near the equator). ‘Sun is bad for you’ is a lie to sell ‘beauty’ products that reduce your body’s natural protection from the (limited) harmful effects of the sun while causing resurgents of things like rickets and chronic D deficiency among 1st world populations who spend more on making themself look ‘young’ than a family in a developing population needs to survive on.
Tanning booths are directly linked to skin cancer because they take the harmful parts of the sun and expose people to them without any protection. Sunburns are directly linked to skin cancer because they are *overexposure* (drink too much water and you’ll make yourself sick too). But *sun exposure* has not only *not* been linked to skin cancer but is logically linked to a *lowering* of skin cancer.
So if you’re going to be out long enough to burn, go ahead, slop on sunscreen or cover up to avoid overexposure. But if not give your body a boost and get some healthy, life-sustaining rays!
Too much exposure to the sun, resulting in the burning of one’s skin can lead to dangerous cancers of the skin, the deadliest, of course being melanoma.
To say that beauty products are selling a lie when they offer sun block is total false. My father, never wore a beauty product in his life and had two rounds of melanoma skin cancer. Sun block is a good tool when used properly – i.e. put on half an hour before going out in the sun and replenishing frequently.
Tanning beds are deadly – more and more young people are getting melanoma skin cancer directly attributed to their time in tanning beds.
The zero incidence that you write of more than likely involve people who have darker pigmentation in their skin, from more melanin in their skin, which naturally protects from the sun’s rays if they live close to the equator.
wow she looks awful. Thats all I can say
Lee, the population is from the Andes mountains, so light to middle brown. But guess what anyone’s skin does in exposure to the sun? Yep, it gets darker, thus confering natural protection. And I didn’t say beauty products offering sun block was a lie, I said beauty products made to make you look younger, thus destroying your bodies natural defense, is a marketing lie that goes hand in hand with ‘sun is bad’. As I stated, sun *burns* are bad, sun exposure, good.
I’m sorry your dad had to deal with skin cancer, as I mentioned it’s always been around, some people will get it regardless of how careful they are (just like some people don’t get it even if they spend 50 years getting repeat sunburns). But the prevelence of skin cancer has greatly increased as our culture has moved away from near-constant sun exposure and towards as little sun as possible. That’s a hard fact to escape if you want to vilify the sun.
It sounds like she’s been roasting her lungs with smoke as well. I’m afraid “curing” herself inside and out like a ham won’t end well.
Other clips have shown her delightful, fair-skinned red-headed daughter. At best, she’s still doing her harm because of her obsession.
Hans, I was trying to think of what her skin resembled and you described it perfectly. A ham (honey baked).
I wonder what this poor woman used to look like before she destroyed her skin. Not just on her face but her whole body.
LL
Looking at this woman’s face, I’m reminded of what Dr. Cox said to a guy in an episode of Scrubs. ”Have a great day–ya look like a purse.”
Black people must be having the biggest laughs of their lives.
This makes me so sad. This woman needs help.
An addiction to tanning is not healthy and how long will she be around for her daughter?
Her daughter would have been better off aborted.
Jake what does burning yourself up in a tanning bed have to do with aborting?
Obviously not, Jake, because then she’d be dead. Why do you think everyone’s so upset about the kid going into the tanning bed in the first place? Duhhh….ya think it might be because it could harm her? What do you think abortion would’ve done to her?!