Mirror Falls Off Wall, Kills Child At Mall Clothing Store (posted 6/1/2003)

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[btcusn]

If a 5 year old can cause a mirror to fall down in a store, than the mirror was not properly mounted in the first place.
Jack

[buffyt]

That happened to me a few years ago, a huge mirror fell off the wall. My friend and I were working out in her home gym. She was on the bench doing bench press. The mirror was on the wall behind the rack. As she put the barbell on the rack, the mirror came crashing down. Her little boy was in the room with us, too. No one was hurt, but if it had come down on her neck it would have sliced off her head like a guillotine.

[buffyt]

If the mirror were installed properly to start with, a huge heavy mirror, anchored and GLUED to a solid wall, it would not have fallen on the child.

[Ima Lurker]

Very sad. Several years ago a mirror fell off the wall in a hotel room. I thought the building had exploded but my husband slept through it.

[buffyt]

I was working out with a friend at her house in her home gym a few years ago. The huge mirror that covered half the wall suddenly fell. It could have been like a guillotine. Through some miracle neither Debbie, her son Matthew, or I were injured or killed. But we realized we could have been if that mirror had fallen on any of us. We felt very lucky and blessed that day. I still get chills when I remember the crash of the mirror, and then the realization that we were all inches from death. Her bench that we laid on to do bench press was directly under the mirror. It was scary!

[buffyt]

The mirror I mentioned just fell. No one bumped it or touched it. There was no horseplay. It had not been installed well in the first place. It is a miracle it didn't fall earlier.

Accidents DO happen.

But there is usually a reason, like shoddy installation. When my sister (the angry commie sister) moved into her first new house her kitchen cabinet that was attached to the wall FELL...
crashed to the floor, breaking her dishes and glassware.
It had not been properly installed. She, although being an angry commie, (liberal democrat socialist), was not guilty of horseplay.

[buffyt]

Sorry Chewbacca but if the mirror was hazardously installed and not PROPERLY installed it IS the fault of the store. A properly installed mirror doesn't just fall. I have raised three children with heavy mirrors all around us, at home and at malls, and as wild as my kids were, horseplay abounded, none of the mirrors fell on them.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think we can file this in the unfortuate shit happens file.

More likely under "poor workmanship", "negligence per se" and "everyone hates lawyers till they need one."

[Ichneumon]

In your posts, you faulted the parents of lost children for suing the people and companies whose negligence caused their children's suffering and death

No, he did not. He faulted the prevalence of how some people use tragedies as a means to win the "lawsuit lottery", whether or not negligence was actually involved.

and specifically indicated that a six figure settlement was too much for this lost boy.

Where do you hallucinate *that* in his posts?

You then claimed that you were being sarcastic

He clearly was -- I "got" it right off, as did several others in this thread, even if you did not.

only to follow that with a reiteration of the same callous thought.

Try to keep up -- he was making a serious point (about litigious society) via the use of sarcasm. They are not mutually exclusive.

I find your lack of empathy so close to this tragedy to be disgraceful.

And I find your belligerent attitude to be way out of line, *especially* your shockingly offensive and disgusting comment that he "may well deserve to" have his child die. Your own conduct on this thread has been orders of magnitude worse than anything he has said or done.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Did you bother to check the date of the statement you quoted before posting your factually vacant reply or were you in prison or a coma the last year and unable to reply earlier? Either way, get a life.

[Ichneumon]

Did you bother to check the date of the statement you quoted before posting your factually vacant reply or were you in prison or a coma the last year and unable to reply earlier? Either way, get a life.

I stand by my statements about your behavior in those posts, even more so now that I see that you didn't just wake up on the wrong side of the bed the day you made them, but in fact you're just as much of belligerent child today, looking for a fight and cheap excuses to denigrate others when you should be honestly looking at the beam in your own eye.

I would strongly suggest that you find another screen name, as it is an insult to the man you attempt to honor for you to consistently behave like this, when he most certainly would never stoop as low and be so petty, ever, as you do. You are not worthy to bear his nickname, you disgrace him in your behavior. He has alwasy been the consummate gentleman. You are quite the opposite.

"I think as we look back we will see him as the last gentleman of American politics. He was as courtly and well mannered as Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich are not. He was a person of dignity and weight, warmth and wit. The English say a gentleman is one who never insults another by accident, but Reagan took it a step further: he wouldn't insult another on purpose."
-- Peggy Noonan, on Ronald Reagan, in "The Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century", 1998

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Read the date of the post you responded to, fool. None of the fact-less drivel you have written now is worth me having to reread this thread in order to respond to it. Unless you can send an e-mail to last year, you are a year too late.