Local Stupidity: Drinking Game Fail

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Joplin man who was accused of challenging his 11-year-old nephew to a drinking game has pleaded guilty in the boy’s alcohol-poisoning death.

Twenty-nine-year-old Dale Phillips had been scheduled for trial next month on charges of second-degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child. KOAM-TV reports (http://bit.ly/xwUzb8 ) that Phillips pleaded guilty to those charges Monday.

Phillips’ nephew, Tyler Fecko, was found dead in July 2009 at his uncle’s apartment, where the boy had been staying. Authorities said the boy died after taking part in a drinking game with Phillips and his girlfriend.

This stupid crap happens everywhere.  Adults are no smarter than kids.  You can lay out the rules, explain why it's a bad idea, and you will still have some freaking idiot who has no better judgment than this.  That little boy (wrongly) assumed this man wouldn't let any harm come to him, and he died an ugly death at age eleven.  Eleven.