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Posted on 08/22/2011 7:26:02 AM PDT by PROCON
CHICAGO (AP) - More than 5,000 U.S. children and teens are injured each year in falls from windows, according to a study that suggests the problem stretches beyond urban high-rises. The research found many children fall from first- and second-story windows.
"This is more than just a big-city problem," said senior author Dr. Gary Smith of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
Suburban mother, Beth Harlan, knows that to be true.
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Government must also mandate window locks and require that all windows be locked if a child is in the house!
Too funny.
Islam in, civilization out.
More intentional stupidity.
Windows in high-rises are dangerous.
Windows in your typical single family house are not dangerous.
Most people are not terribly concerned about window safety in highrises, because they rightly figure they don’t live in one, and those that do typically take precautions if they have young children.
But a small number of people are morons and have unguarded windows on higher floors, so something must be done.
The only way to make a crisis that demands a government-imposed solution is to make the problem effect a rough majority of the population. Since the vast majority of people are unaffected by this problem, the only way to do that is to pretend that a window is a window, not matter how high off the ground, and that an injury is an injury, whether it is a skinned elbow or a decapitation. So the nature of the exersize is to confuse the data as much as possible in order to report a problem that doesn’t exist, thus enabling the one-size-fits-all solution.
So, a couple of years from now, when you are installing window guards on a first floor bedroom window because the building department requires them before you can sell your house, remember that they will do nothing to improve the safety of your house, but you are required to install them so they can also be required for the idiot who lives on the 20th floor, who can’t figure out that window guards on the nursery are a good idea.
My 6 year old grand daughter fell out of her second story bedroom window in April. She was playing in her room and Mom was in the kitchen. No one knows for sure exactly how it happened. She claims she was twirling around the room and fell but the window isn’t at waist level, it’s quite high. Fortunately she only sustained a broken wrist.
This same grand daughter picked up a dead bat in her school playground thinking it was a Halloween decoration. Thank God she showed it to her teacher who called authorities. Bingo...it was rabid. She had to go through a series of rabies shots. She ‘s one tough cookie.
I agree, the only logical conclusion to be reached
Let me add more reasons to ban Windows:
1. Windows drive up the cost of housing, did you know that? it is true
2. Windows let harmful UV and Infrared radiation into the house. This radiation causes materials to premature age, including carpet, furniture, your pets, hell ... even you! Yes YOU! Also, this radiation is scientifically proven to cause cancers that could be terminal, Yes, this means DEATH!.
3. You already know what happens when you fall out one, what if you fall through one? Just as deadly
4. Windows are one of the weakest areas of the home for insulation. They leak out heat at night and let heat in durring the day. This causes heaters and air conditioners to waste energy.. releasing carbon, leading to the extinction of the HUMAN RACE, Yep, it is true....Al Gore said it best, “Yall DOOMED!”
....There are many more reasons
For the Children and to save planet...lets get together on this and organize a movement to “BAN WINDOWS!”
Dopey old me. I thought it expressed admiration. A thousand apologies and I’ll never bless anybody’s heart again.
That's it, I'm switching to LINUX!
Darwin effect? s/off
The screens on newer windows (even the VERY well built windows like I have) are not nearly as tough as the old ones. Very easy to dislodge and pop out. Frames are weaker too.
Re % of harmful accidents to kids, windows seem to out pace that of firearms
It probably depends where you are from. I was northern-raised but most of my family is in the Carolinas. It took me a while to catch on to honey-dipped barbs, so “bless your heart” and especially “bless her heart” behind someone’s back raises suspicions. But if you come from a place where there’s no sting in it, carry on, because blessings are and ought to be a good thing.
Natural selection’s a b!tch.
excellent !
My charming twins were very quick. At 18 months, they were climbing out of their cribs. They were climbing all over the place. They figured out safety locks on all sorts of devices.
When they were not even 2, I was gone, and my husband went to take a quick shower. He put them in the family room with a safety gate. They climbed over the safety gate, pushed a chair by the door, unlatched the chain that was up high, unlocked the door, and ran out of the house. A neighbor caught them and took them home.
We knew were they were, but they were quick.
If you have more than 1 kid, you can’t always keep track of them.
That’s it, time to get rid of the windows. No excuses, no lip, no attitude. Rip ‘em out, cover them over, or we’ll have a SWAT team at your door within a week to kill everyone, because we don’t want kids dying from falling out of windows.
But I can't physically stop myself from calling for a ban on high-capacity windows: indeed all assault-apertures such as sash-casements and triple-pane palladians.
Once the kids outnumber the parents, all hope of control is lost.
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