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Indiana toddler, allegedly dangled by grandfather, dies after plunging 150 feet from cruise ship
fox news ^ | Richard Wheatstone | The Sun

Posted on 07/08/2019 6:43:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The 18-month-old girl slipped from his arms and fell from the 11th floor of Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas ship.

The child is believed to have fallen onto the concrete below while the ship was docked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The tot was rushed to hospital at around 4:30 p.m. local time yesterday.

According to the local Primer Hora website, the girl was from Indiana and on holiday with her parents and grandparents.

The girl's family have not yet been quizzed by detectives but police have said they believe the incident was a tragic accident.

"At one point, one of her grandparents... in an act of games, exposes the girl to the void and falls out of his hands."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: cruiseship; drunk; drunkenspree; freedomoftheseas; indiana; puertorico; royalcaribbean; toddler; whatanidiot
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To: BenLurkin
Few years ago at the Pittsburgh zoo a young mother stood her little boy on the railing surrounding the african wild dog enclosure.

He somehow fell in and was killed.

What I couldn't believe was that there was not a single man to jump down in and try to save the kid.

21 posted on 07/08/2019 7:07:23 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: BenLurkin

A lot of crazy people in the world the gene pool needs some bleach.


22 posted on 07/08/2019 7:08:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: BenLurkin
"At one point, one of her grandparents... in an act of games, exposes the girl to the void and falls out of his hands."

If only Darwin Award winners stuck to exterminating themselves from the gene pool, instead of their innocent children and grandchildren.
23 posted on 07/08/2019 7:08:51 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ScottinVA

Thinking or drinking?


24 posted on 07/08/2019 7:17:44 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: BenLurkin

WTF takes a toddler on a cruise?

Drunken Pee Paw.


25 posted on 07/08/2019 7:26:58 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

:)


26 posted on 07/08/2019 7:28:20 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: redfreedom

I have some stories but will not relate them here.


27 posted on 07/08/2019 7:31:42 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: tuffydoodle

“...doesn’t sound like a tragic accident to me.”

That’s no such thing as an accident.

It’s always somebody doing something that’s:

Illegal.
Illicit.
Illogical.
Ill-advised.
Or just downright...
Idiotic.


28 posted on 07/08/2019 7:43:32 AM PDT by moovova
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To: BenLurkin

29 posted on 07/08/2019 7:48:41 AM PDT by bgill
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To: rjsimmon

That game ended the same way the game of chicken did when the mama ran down her little toddler a few weeks ago. People get more stupid by the day.


30 posted on 07/08/2019 7:50:06 AM PDT by bgill
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To: mylife

Thanksgiving dinner is really going to be awkward.


31 posted on 07/08/2019 7:55:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts.”)
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To: redfreedom

Years ago, we took my two oldest grandsons on a cruise for the younger one’s birthday. My daughter was a wreck because the oldest ,who was then 12, was and still is a daredevil. She warned us to watch him like a hawk for fear he would try to do a Wallender on one of the railings. Of course, he didn’t but we didn’t let him out of our sight.
I can’t imagine what these families are going through.


32 posted on 07/08/2019 7:56:16 AM PDT by surrey
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To: SleeperCatcher

If true, he should be given a gun with a single bullet and 1 hour to finish himself off.

Only blood pays for blood.


33 posted on 07/08/2019 7:56:31 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Your tattoo looks ridiculous.)
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To: BenLurkin

Seen a picture of the open windows?
At least shoulder height for an adult.

Hopefully they have camera of this old fool dangling the baby out the window to hear her scream


34 posted on 07/08/2019 7:58:01 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: bgill
Steve Irwin, also:

Not sure this type of idiocy happens more often than it used to, or if internet and 24 hour cable brings stuff up from all over the world.

Used to be, if someone died in Pittsburgh, no one in Iowa would ever hear about it. Now, every time someone dies, it's all over the globe.

Still incredibly stupid.

35 posted on 07/08/2019 8:02:05 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Richard Kimball

Very stupid.

Tastes like chicken!


36 posted on 07/08/2019 8:08:42 AM PDT by bgill
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To: redfreedom

You are not alone. My dad had a bad habit of holding me up above railings “so I could see”, without prior warning: the Statue of Liberty (memory plays trick, but I think this was back when you could actually go into the crown); and, an ALLIGATOR FARM. My father was not a daredevil and I trusted him to hang on, but 55+ years on, my pulse rate has doubled while I type this.


37 posted on 07/08/2019 8:20:51 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Chewbarkah

I don’t get it. When my daughter was about 18 months, we took one of those Astro-lifts at Aquarena Springs. It went over a lagoon with alligators. It had bars all around, but I thought she might have been able to crawl through, so I held on to her so tight in that car my wife told me “She can’t breathe! Loosen up!” That was with her sitting on my lap. Can’t imagine a parent or grandparent deliberately dangling their kid.


38 posted on 07/08/2019 8:26:55 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: BenLurkin

All I can say is that if I had been the grandfather, I would have been over the edge next chasing after the child. Life after that would have had no meaning and I would rather die than live with that on my conscious.


39 posted on 07/08/2019 8:30:40 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: BenLurkin

Had to be a selfie involved in there too..


40 posted on 07/08/2019 8:30:50 AM PDT by shotgun
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