Warning, the following baby-tossing video is extremely difficult to watch:

It absolutely seems fake, but Gawker has covered it extensively, and it seems to be legit, as far as they can tell.

It’s amazing how you just have this gut reaction to seeing a baby treated in such a fashion. I think it is something biological; it’s like we see it and we fear for the survival of our species (both for that individual baby, and society as a whole to have produced a person that would even want to throw a baby around like that!). Sara said it made her feel sick to her stomach.

The thing that’s not really covered in any of the information I’ve read about it, is why you would even want to throw your baby around like that. Even if you somehow convinced me that it was safe, that it didn’t hurt the baby, and in fact the baby didn’t mind (which is not what it sounds like from that video), you still haven’t convinced me that there is any benefit to it. What’s the purpose? To get your baby used to roller coasters? Prevent a fear of heights? No other form of weight training can give you quite the same rippling biceps? Even if it brings you and the baby “closer together”, isn’t there about a hundred better ways you could have accomplished that?

Link via Greg.