[vivalaoink]

And congress is now subsidizing these ‘assault condoms’?

Won’t somebody please think of the children?!

[libh8er]

Lawsuit ???

[RichInOC]

Ewwwww...

[peggybac]

This is just sickening.

[Drew68]

The child’s mother, Amy, heard her little boy chewing and choking on the condom and tried to get it out of his mouth, but he had already “ingested the contents ” the lawsuit stated.

So is there any evidence other than the mother's allegations that the boy actually swallowed a used condom?

[DieHard the Hunter]

GAK!!!

[reg45]

Where was Bill Clinton???

[ConservaTexan]

Bush’s fault.

[KoRn]

Before I turn any of our very young children loose in an unknown environment, I tend to look around to see if there’s anything that could be harmful.

Of course it IS the responsibility of the hotel to clean the room after guests leave though. It’s hard to really see who’s at fault for what happened to the kid. The previous guests, the hotel, AND the parents could all be considered to be at fault here. Some ambulance chasing lawyer may find a close family member to sue all 3 parties on the child’s behalf. lol

[Melinda]

This is one suit I would fully support. Some hotels and motels have become trash receptacles for creeps. Even friends of mine who ran a very nice bed and breakfast got out of the business because they were sick and tired of picking up the used crap patrons left hanging around like trophies. I'd also go after the pig who left it there in the first place.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Pelosi’s fault.

[LostInBayport]

Pittsburgh, Mass.

Uh...no such place. Pittsfield, maybe?

Given what's been discovered in hotel beds, letting your kid crawl around a floor in a hotel room is not the best idea. I once had to kill a cockroach in a very expensive Boston hotel. Not because it scared me, but because I didn't want it to join the rest of its brethren in office on Beacon Hill.

[nmh]

Test the fluids ... it probably belonged to the parents ...

“The morning of their departure, the toddler apparently found a used condom in the room, left behind by previous travelers, according to the lawsuit. “

Why weren't the parents WATCHING the kid?

HOW did they miss this?

Yes, responsible parents WATCH THEIR KIDS - especially at this age. We did. Why can't they?

[Dallas59]

Poor baby.

[PeanutbutterandJellybean]

There are always two sides to every story. How do we know that it wasn't the parents who left the used condom on the nightstand, got distracted and never threw it away? A curious toddler picks it up and puts it in his mouth? Maybe, in these “sue happy” times, this is a case where the parents are trying to make a quick buck off the Homewood Suites? Also, a condom is no more a “life threatening item” than an electrical outlet and their are dozens of outlets in every hotel room. Parents be responsible for your children and stop acting like everyone else should be doing your job.

[JillValentine]

I just had to read this right before lunch.

[SouthDixie]

left behind by previous travelers

Riiiiiiiiiight...wink, wink.

[HighlyOpinionated]

If this were just a case of an adult locating a used condom in a motel room, I’d say . . . no lawsuit, just report to the manager and write a letter to the home office of the motel chain.

But THIS is a case of a CHILD who could have died and who may end up with AIDS or an STD or who knows what. So, yes, in this case a lawsuit seems to be appropriate.

What our Drug Task Force explained at a meeting I attended is that sometimes people use motel rooms to make Meth using the coffee pot in the room. The moisture in the air then transfers the Meth making chemicals to the walls and the rugs and the curtains and the bedspreads. The Task Force Officer said he never walks barefoot on a motel rug and that there IS a chance that a crawling baby could get poisoned by the Meth that settled on the rug.

Stay at Motels and Hotels at your own risk as adults. It’s the Motel and Hotel responsibility to clean and sanitize the room and to make sure that there are no dead bodies under the mattresses (I watched CSI) or used condoms left lying around.

[Drew68]

The 15-count complaint contends that all five Wolfes suffered severe mental anguish witnessing the incident, and that the boy's siblings likely would have "psychiatric scars" because of it.

It says that Steven Wolfe has been forced to spend "great sums of money" to help cure his wife of a "loss of enjoyment of life."

OK, I'm raising the BS flag on this lawsuit.

[dforest]

Check the DNA. I ain’t buying this without it.