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Child Killed By Falling Mirror At Wal-Mart
The Indy Channel ^ | 7-23-2006

Posted on 07/24/2006 6:12:21 AM PDT by Samwise

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To: DJ MacWoW
I was a little one in the 50's. You behaved back then. My Mom used to try on clothes and we obediently sat on the bench outside the dressing room.

WHAT! Your mother took her eyes off of you in a store!

241 posted on 07/24/2006 10:00:07 AM PDT by N3WBI3 ("I can kill you with my brain" - River Tam)
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To: DJ MacWoW
There was a time when kids stayed by their parents and were quiet in stores. It was called obedience. I remember that time.

Ahhh, the Good Old Days. I remember them well.

242 posted on 07/24/2006 10:00:23 AM PDT by PattonFan
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To: DJ MacWoW
I don't know how religious you are, if at all. My kids are 8 and 9 (almost 10) - If they make it alive out of college, it will be due to the Grace of God.

I don't view parenting as architecture - you don't "mold" a child as an expression of your own will. It's more like agriculture - you till the soil and provide water and keep the weeds away - but in the end it (the plant and the child) is going to grow where it's going to grow in its own fashion. I know I'm screwing up the analogy, but hopefully you get the idea.

243 posted on 07/24/2006 10:00:40 AM PDT by Warren_Piece (Smart is easy. Good is hard.)
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To: Warren_Piece
Hubby made the boys keep their hands in their pockets as we shopped. LOL

And they never did wander off.

244 posted on 07/24/2006 10:01:25 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: PattonFan

MHO: Who is at fault is irrelevant Wal Mart will look at the potential bad publicity and just settle out of court.


245 posted on 07/24/2006 10:02:05 AM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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To: ShandaLear
If the mirror was not properly secured, it is Wal-Mart's fault period.

If frogs had wings, they wouldn't be thumping their butts on the ground either. Period.

246 posted on 07/24/2006 10:02:35 AM PDT by PattonFan
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To: DelphiUser
Who is at fault is irrelevant Wal Mart will look at the potential bad publicity and just settle out of court.

It is obvious that I should have kept that ay MY HO as well! LOL!

247 posted on 07/24/2006 10:03:42 AM PDT by PattonFan
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To: Warren_Piece

Sorry ,all I can say is beware of tunnels and falling glass.


248 posted on 07/24/2006 10:03:46 AM PDT by linn37 (Have you hugged your Phlebotomist today?)
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To: linn37
says you

LOL!!!

Can you tell the difference between a child playing near a mirror and a parent not watching to someone driving through a tunnel?

249 posted on 07/24/2006 10:03:47 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: lwg8tr
5 feet away is a whole 58 inches

Where I come from, 12 x 5 is 60.
250 posted on 07/24/2006 10:04:03 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Warren_Piece
We've now crossed the threshold into "FLAME WAR". Oh well - it was an interesting conversation while it lasted.

Nah! Just chuckle.

251 posted on 07/24/2006 10:04:43 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: linn37; DJ MacWoW
Freak accidents happen. Take for instance that poor lady driving through that tunnel a week or two ago. If only someone had been watching her perhaps nothing would have fallen on her either.

You can stop being an ass anytime you're ready there Linn.
252 posted on 07/24/2006 10:05:01 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - don't argue with internet people, they are on the internet for a reason)
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To: N3WBI3
you knowingly disobeyed him (at 5 I bet you picked your moment to do it ;)..

I was a handful. As this child probably was.

What is that saying "But for the Grace of God..there go I"?

253 posted on 07/24/2006 10:07:23 AM PDT by PattonFan
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To: N3WBI3
If you claim you never took your eyes off of one of your kids long enough for something bad to them to have happened you're a damn liar..

My children stayed with me in stores. WHY is that so hard to comprehend? Do you KNOW any obedient children?

254 posted on 07/24/2006 10:07:47 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: N3WBI3
WHAT! Your mother took her eyes off of you in a store!

We were taught obedience. We sat quietly with our hands in our laps. Compare that to what you're reading today.

255 posted on 07/24/2006 10:09:40 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: PattonFan

Wasn't shopping a joy then? *sigh*


256 posted on 07/24/2006 10:10:32 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: PattonFan

You're not around kids very much are you?


257 posted on 07/24/2006 10:10:36 AM PDT by pamlet
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To: DJ MacWoW

So what? Bad stuff can happen anywhere and there is no parent who can prevent it 100% of the time, not even you.


258 posted on 07/24/2006 10:10:38 AM PDT by ShandaLear (Gringos Unite!!!)
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To: N3WBI3
LOL you're not even a parent! how could you possible know how physically impossible to see a kid every second of every day, especially when you're also watching another kid!

That's Cindy Sheehan "logic" there . . . "unless George Bush killed your son, you cannot answer me."

I don't have kids, but I watch my nieces, and I know that a) it is challenging to keep one set of eyes on more than one child, and b) that doesn't mean you don't have to.
259 posted on 07/24/2006 10:10:46 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

>>Some things are obvious. Or used to be.

Do you have childrent?

If so, How old are they now?

How many do you have?

(There are never enough seats.)
(The kids won't ride in them after their siblings get to walk.)

5 feet; the mom was within visual range of the child. That's doing pretty good from what I have seen in Wal Mart.


260 posted on 07/24/2006 10:11:12 AM PDT by DelphiUser ("You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can't make him think")
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