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If I may beg to differ, (and I worked retail for 10 years) most of the time, the employees are informed by higher management to allow the customers time to shop without being hassled. If that includes keeping an eye on their kids, oh well. The employees are not in the store to be a baby sitter for customer's kids. (And that is something I've done also while working, since my previous place of employ was a full service store.)

The employees of the store have the responsibility to prevent accidents as much as possible. But there is also the possibility that this was a case of horrible accident (where there is no fault with the people at hand.)>>

The duty of care to a customer is *absolute.* The DUTY OF CARE doesn't mean what you think it means.

If a child dies from a crashing, falling mirror, *the store is at fault.* Regardless of how much or how little supervision the child had. The only possible exception is if the child (say a 12 year old) was committing a felony, say attempted robbery. Under the circumstances, sorry, the store is almost certainly liable for everything and then some.

And to whoever else questioned whether I belonged in FR because of the remark I made about "too stupid to get out of jury duty," go stuff yerself. I was being ironic. By that I mean: the system makes is FAR TOO EASY to get out of jury duty. It should be almost IMPOSSIBLE to escape jury duty, if trial by jury is to survive.

The ancient Greeks had a custom: they'd drag in jurors with ropes dipped in red paint. The resulting mark--the 'vermillion stripe'--was a mark of shame, or at least embarassment. They had the right idea.

Let me clarify: they'd use the 'vermillion stripe' if there were NOT ENOUGH jurors initially; they'd make the city police (Scythian archer-slaves) go out and fetch folk on the street and drag them in, using the red ropes. The stripe was the mark of someone who was trying to escape his duty, hence the shame.

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.