Posted on 01/03/2017 12:56:59 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Brady Shoff appears to have a future as a police officer or counterterrorism agent, although he probably needs to learn to talk first.
The two-year-old Utah boy has a twin brother named Brock, and their parents run surveillance video in the boys’ room. The night the dresser fell over, they didn’t hear it at first. When they checked on the boys later, they found the dresser on the floor but observed that the boys appeared to be fine and acting normal. It was only after they later reviewed this video that they realized what had happened:
So, where were Mom and Dad?
Apparently didn’t hear tilt over
My wife wouldn’t have heard it
I would have I’m a very light sleeper
Sleeping in dangerous places will do that
And aging
Kids get trapped under and killed by falling dressers on a regular basis - and it only takes a few seconds. Dressers and file cabinets should always be bolted to the wall.
It’s odd that the little boy didn’t run to get his mother. Maybe he thought he’d get in trouble. But for a 2 yr old he did a great job trying to figure out how to rescue his brother. Just glad it had a happy ending,
The kids pulled out drawers and were climbing in them, causing the dresser to tip over. Then when the dresser fell on one of them as they tipped it over, the other improvised, adjusted and overcame. Good job.
I spent part of my childhood in a cheap trailer with sliding wooden doors that were easily knocked off the track and onto us if we started goofing off and wrestling near them. They were so heavy that between the three of us, we weren’t strong enough to put them back on the track, so we were usually found out. The knots on our heads or other bruises sort of gave us away too. But thankfully there were no nanny cameras to record that and all the other dangerous stuff we did...
Difficult to watch.
So these hard of hearing parents never heard of installing a wall anchor to the dresser(s)to keep them from falling over?
In the other room. You aren’t one of those who thinks kids should be under direct 24/7 surveillance are you?
People don’t think about it, for some reason. Most new dressers actually come with a strap and a bolt to hold them onto the wall so this won’t happen. But I think a lot of parents don’t realize the possibility that this might happen.
I remember also that adults used to get killed by falling file cabinets in offices - they’d pull out the top drawers and it would over-balance the 800 lb. file cabinet. It just takes a second. Now in offices these cabinets are either built in or bolted in, but I think maybe more work needs to be done on getting in touch with the consumer market for drawers and files, particularly when there are small children in the house.
On Krypton.
Yes. Particularly if they are toddlers.
“So where were Mom and Dad?”
Busy making the video.
There was a time I could sleep soundly through all kinds of noises, but, once I became a mother, all of that ended. Even now, with the youngest of my four children approaching the age of 39, I wake at the slightest noise.
The joy of twins. Yikes!
You sleep in the same room with them till what age?
Parents under 45 are well just different
I’m not hover at all
My wife is a little
I guard them but let them be boys or girls
I’m not sure expecting two year olds not to pull over dressers is unreasonable
Lucky though it was that cheap toysrus or Walmart pressed stuff stuff
If it had been Bellini it coulda been bad
I’ve got five
My first was a two pound preemie that woke up every 45 minutes till doc gave us dope for her at 5 months so she slept in a SIDS canoodle with us
The rest were in Crib 15 feet down the wood floor hallway next to us from after two weeks home from birth
I would have heard it but some folks don’t wake up easy
They obviously are attentive folks cause they kept video in there they could see I guess while they watched tv or made the beast with two backs
Don’t be too hard on them
Things sometimes happen despite best efforts
They don't sleep in my bed, but their bedrooms are on the same floor and the doors stay open so I can hear everything and I am a VERY light sleeper as time in Vietnam will do for you. I also have all of the state-of-the-art safety devices on all harmful items/chemicals and all firearms are well secured. Trust but verify, as they say.
I have never left my children unattended. Never.
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Did you sleep in the same room as your kids? It looks like it was either bedtime or nap time.
I know I had to constantly keep telling my kids to get back in bed when they were little. I could easily see how something like that could have happened.
However, I can’t imagine that I would not have heard it.
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