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."
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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.
A lot of crazy people in the world the gene pool needs some bleach.
Thinking or drinking?
WTF takes a toddler on a cruise?
Drunken Pee Paw.
:)
I have some stories but will not relate them here.
“...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.
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.
Thanksgiving dinner is really going to be awkward.
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.
If true, he should be given a gun with a single bullet and 1 hour to finish himself off.
Only blood pays for blood.
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
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.
Very stupid.
Tastes like chicken!
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.
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.
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.
Had to be a selfie involved in there too..
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