James Caan from dragons den, he's IN

cm1179 · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:12

to buy a baby

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20101022/tuk-dragon-tries-to-buy-baby-dba1618.html

nice bloke, not sure if this was the right way to go about this though

Nitefly · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:13

Just saw this - pretty poor judgement to be honest, but he has admitted the error of his ways.

Greenlizard0 · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:16

What's the difference between him doing that and Madonna? I mean in terms of the result if that makes any sense.

BaZ87 · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:18

£1,000 for a baby? Del boy could have negotiated a better price for them.

Danthus · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:18

Nitefly said:
Just saw this - pretty poor judgement to be honest, but he has admitted the error of his ways.

Because he got caught out.

Darg · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:20

meh, the guy got caught up in the moment. He's doing good work out there, pity that the media are concentrating on this and not what he's actually doing.

Nitefly · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:21

Greenlizard0 said:
What's the difference between him doing that and Madonna? I mean in terms of the result if that makes any sense.

Well, I can't comment for Madonna, but he clearly didn't think it through and was trying to achieve a very significant decision completely ad hoc.

I don't think many are completely uncritical of Madonna.

cm1179 · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:24

as he stated, he got caught up in the moment. imo he's a genuine nice bloke and i can see why he wanted to do this, shame it's going to come across like it will now

Voltar · 22 Oct 2010 at 21:28

Darg said:
meh, the guy got caught up in the moment. He's doing good work out there, pity that the media are concentrating on this and not what he's actually doing.

Agree.

People don't get crabby with Madonna or A. Jolie for this...

^TANK^ · 22 Oct 2010 at 22:49

Pretty sad state of affairs when a human being can be bought

, he should be ashamed of himself.

Morba · 22 Oct 2010 at 22:51

Bad taste but understandable given the emotion. He's a good man, hence why he is out there.

CaptainComedy · 22 Oct 2010 at 22:55

I can see where he is coming from, throwing a one off gift to the family won't do nothing when you see hundreds of them, but taking one away from poverty means 1 less suffering. logical thinking but not how people see it.

must have been hard for him seeing all that, it's not mad to want to help someone have a better life. and his way would have given the child a richer life - but without it's family it doesn't mean much.

bmi92 · 22 Oct 2010 at 22:59

codec said:
I can see where he is coming from, throwing a one off gift to the family won't do nothing when you see hundreds of them, but taking one away from poverty means 1 less suffering. logical thinking but not how people see it.

must have been hard for him seeing all that, it's not mad to want to help someone have a better life. and his way would have given the child a richer life - but without it's family it doesn't mean much.

Surely it would have a family, just not its biological one. I can see where he is coming from, if the mother of the child cared she would she that he is only trying to do good for the baby.

But, I'm offering £1100!

Logsi · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:01

Children's charities are shocked after James Caan tired to buy a baby while doing charity work in Pakistan.

Damn, 4 and a half hours and counting....

^TANK^ · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:02

Morba said:
Bad taste but understandable given the emotion. He's a good man, hence why he is out there.

Its not his offer to give the child a better life that bothered me, I found that quite noble. What bothered me was the fact he deemed it appropriate to offer money for a human being

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Morba · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:06

^TANK^ said:
Its not his offer to give the child a better life that bothered me, I found that quite noble. What bothered me was the fact he deemed it appropriate to offer money for a human being .

Oh I agree, the amount is irrelevant. Unfortunately that is adoption from places like this though, based on money

unwashed potato! · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:11

^TANK^ said:
What bothered me was the fact he deemed it appropriate to offer money for a human being .

is it not appropriate for a place like that though?

if he thought he'd get the child for free i'm sure he would have asked for that, however he's a smart man and he knew that they'd want cash. not his choice but the family's if they accepted.

ThorpedoUK · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:15

Not something I would do, but I don't see the problem with it, there's a price tag on everything including the planet - that's pretty obvious.

arknor · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:28

tiny price tag though his clothes probably cost more than he was going to pay for a baby :S

he seemed to think he deserved it because he could give the baby more money aswell...

avec · 22 Oct 2010 at 23:32

Darg said:
meh, the guy got caught up in the moment. He's doing good work out there, pity that the media are concentrating on this and not what he's actually doing.

This is all that needs to be said.