Trampoline Baby

maybe the guy stood on the trampoline and held his son and then edited himself out of the picture

Michael Jackson isn't leaning out of a hotel room window just above the top, is he?

Seriously, if that's real, it's child abuse! That's dangerous. That has to be photoshopped. How would the baby land without hurting himself? Tha's really dangerous for the child.

Simple - it's like the bit in '2001' where we see a pen floating weightlessly inside a space shuttle. The baby is actually glued to a sheet of glass material which is held just in front of the camera lens. If you notice, his face looks a little deformed, as if it were pressed against something.

Surely if he was actually bouncing, the leaves on the tramapoline would be distubed?

Hmmmm..... That would be a HUGE baby. Compare the kid to the size of the trampoline!!!!

I don't think that it is photoshopped. Rather, it looks like a simple "UFO" type photo. The baby looks like he's being suspended from something with the connection hidden in the dark trees above. He also appears, from perspective, to be hanging just over the springs of the trampoline but that's really hard to judge.

I do, however, like the idea of him being stuck to a piece of glass. That's pretty cool.

all they did was super imposed the baby to the background. next.

Okay, I just looked at Dave's webpage, which makes it pretty clear that the trampoline photo was photoshopped. I'm embarrassed this wasn't more obvious to me immediately.

http://www.homestead.com/bambam/dave.html

Okay, obvious (at least to me) fake.

Damned good one though.

There is no way a child that young has enough control to even stand upright, let alone jump. My niece is 4 months old, and just the other day we were watching her attempt to control her arms enough to reach for her rattle. It was actually quite funny, she gets this really hilarious look when she's trying to concentrate on something.

There is also no way that there was anyone standing on the trampoline while the picture was taken, or there would be an indentation there. Also, the very first bounce would have moved the majority of the leaves to the centre.

I admire the guy's photoshopping skill, he's pretty good.

If I had to guess, I'd say that the baby part of the picture was taken while the baby was lying down...

And I'm kinda surprised that nobody's taken this as proof of ghosts, what with the "orbs" and all...
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Just looked at his site...

I like the upside-down one.

Obviously this was taken with a flash, so if it was real the baby's shadow would almost certainly be cast on the fence. Babies are often in a position like this while lying on their backs. I would say it's a composite.

Simple, He just took a photo of the baby lying on a bed or something and photoshopped it into the trampoline photo.

P.s. notice the absence of a shadow...

I agree with you all, except for Rod on just one point. Rod said...

"There is no way a child that young has enough control to even stand upright, let alone jump. My niece is 4 months old, and just the other day we were watching her attempt to control her arms enough to reach for her rattle."

Although that statement is probably acceptable for the majority, there are always exceptions. Our youngest, a now 4 year old little girl named Reese, NEVER in her life crawled in any form or variation. Between 3 and 4 months of age she started what we thought was a reflex action of always pressing down with her legs... seemingly preferring to "stand" whenever you were holding her or anything. Like I said, she never crawled any at all. By the time she was a full 4 months old you could stand her up at a coffee table or end table and she could hold onto it and stand on her own. Jen, being worried that I might cause some developmental problem by encouraging this at such a young age, immediately took it up with our pediatrician. Who informed us that all kids are different, although there are general guidelines some perform ahead of this "norm" curve while others perform behind it (on whatever aspects you're referring) to arrive at (generally) the same place. At 4 months old she was standing on her own, at 5 months she was taking the side-shuffling steps to either side to move to her desires, by 6 to 6.5 months old she was full blown walking! It was one of the most surreal things about my entire life... it was almost like a scene out of a "Chucky" movie or something, to see something so small have enough control to be able to walk, run, or even climb stairs. We had 3 other children previously who had all gone down the more conventional timeline for achieving stance and walking... so needless to say I thought I had a something really extraordinary, until I investigated a little and discovered that although it's not the "norm" it wasn't all that unusual either.

Point being that although you're right about the photo being faked... to arrive at that determination based on your belief that "There is no way a child that young has enough control to even stand upright, let alone jump." could in fact result on "egg on your face" in future debates. I'll quit rambling and boring you all now...

Walking at six months is possible. I agree.

I don't see this kid holding onto a coffee table in this picture, though.

As for jumping up and down on a trampoline to get about three feet of air at the age of 4 months? Nope.

Definitely characteristic lying-down baby poses, especially the head posture - generally a young baby, if held up, carries its head slightly forward, but a lying-down one lets its head rest all the way down on the surface it's lying on.

notice the leaves on the trampiline, also...some of those would be airborn...flyttered back down to the trampoline...in addition to all the stuff already mentioned.

"fluttering," that is

Wrong. It was done in Australia, so: the baby was tossed up in the air toward a trampoline, and the picture was then turned upside down. Too slow, Sherlocks.

Hairy said :the baby was tossed up in the air toward a trampoline, and the picture was then turned upside down.

All I can say is "huh?"
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Obviously fake. The leaves on the trampoline look pretty settled to me. You can see bad photoshop cutting around the kids legs and right arm. Probably just snapped a shot of the kid laying on his back and put it in the trampoline picture.

It's like this: water goes down the drain in a clock-wise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. So, therefore, ifso facto, the kid must be falling up, and the picture rotated. I amaze myself.

I think it must be real...didn't ya'll see that body builder kid on the cover of all the magazines? This is far less disturbing than a kid lifting weights. Plus this kid is super cute...only super cute kids can do amazing things like jump on a trampoline at a young age...Amazing, just amazizng

The "trampoline" was invented and popularized in the Trampoli region of Australia, if I'm not mistaken. The Trampolis were a lost tribe of Italian Circus Folk, who took kangaroos as their totems...

The Trampolis do encourage strenuous activity as a rule, mainly as a digestive aid. So, a firm bouncing may be to knock the crap out of a baby, but I wouldn't advise it. Too messy

I seem to have lost the Trampoli region, Hairy! Must be in Tasmania.

I'm pretty sure it's in Australia. The Trampolis are nomadic by nature, so that might explain it. It just keeps kinda getting moved around, y'know? Bouncing around, If I have to

Oh, no... I just re-read the opening paragraph to this thread... man, I'm sorry... The kid's name is Simpson, so there's no way he could be from Australia... Dar. Earth to Hairy. Sorry- carry on

Not to mention that he says that he's from Alabama!

No, I live in Pennsylvania. I think that Italian Trampoli Kid might live in Alabama, tho, now that I read closer

Hairy, I'm glad you're on the other side of the world from me. I think I'd go quite mad if you were any closer.

Actually, if I truly lived opposite from you, ever step I take would make me closer. You're better off where I am now. Besides, I like it here

try to stay on topic, will you, Smerk? Just a thought.

Okay, topic talk. This particular photo does look as though a picture of bub has been superimposed over the photo of the trampoline. BTW, who would take a photo of a decrepit trampoline at night? That's just bugging me.

I was one of those kids who walked and talked by the time I was 6 months. Miracle child, to be sure. Cut ahead many, many years? I'm a crazy woman with a bunch of cats. Maybe if I'd had a trampoline when I was a child....

Yeah... the Decrepit Trampoline At Night thing kinda had me wondering, too... maybe they were ashamed of how decrepit it had become. Nomads are proud people, you know

I don't think a 6 year old could jump that high! Not to mention, who would allow their 4 month old baby on that rusty trampoline?! I mean look at those springs!
Definitely photoshopped.

heres how i think it was done.
the camera was on a stand and a photo of the trampoline without the baby was taken. another photo was taken with the baby being held by someone. the first picture was saved as a background and the person holding the baby was erasered out.
if somebody has already said this, soz cuz ive only read a few comments

do people ever send stuf in that is not a hoax?

If you count all the spam I get, then yeah, tons of stuff. Otherwise, not really.

And remember folks; Alex loves to get Spam!!!

Mmmm, spam!

Look at the trampoline itself: It's perfectly still. You think that for a trampoline there'd be some sort of aftershock, wouldn't there? Or maybe a motion blur?

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Looks real enough to me... haven't you seen Cirque du Soliel? Trampolines are meant to be outside, rust and all. I had a dog who jumped higher than that. Too many skeptics.

LOOK people, if you compare the SIZE of the BABY to the SIZE of the trampoline; you can see that this is VERY fake, just like I said earlier. My word is all the proof you need!!!!

"My word is all the proof you need!!!!" - Stephen

Reminiscent of Nixon.
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I do not think this woman was sober when she took this picture! who the hell would do that she must have been on crack! this picture can not be real because the leaves on the trampoline have not been disturbed. as soon as I saw this I thought of micheal jackson. 💋

Okay, someones got some issues...

As soon as she saw a picture of a baby she thought of THAT THING?

I just think it's amazing that she can tell that it was a woman who took the picture. Let alone if the person taking the photo was under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol!