[TChris]

How absolutely heartbreaking! I knew a lady who accidentally backed over her two-year-old. It just makes you sick with grief...

[najida]

How heartbreaking! Prayers going up and out for the family.

[diamond6]

I HATE HATE HATE hearing about these types of tragedies. How does a parent go on after this, I don't know if I could.

Being a parent is so wondreful and rewarding, yet scary at the same time, so many dangerous things can happen when you turn your back for just a second. You just have to be alert and think ahead 24/7. The poor man and his family, my heart just goes out to him, and to happen right before the holidays. It just makes me sick and want to cry.

[Publius6961]

A double whammy. A tearjerker. Losing a child and being unable to avoid the irrational idea that "second sight" should have come into play.

My heartfelt condolences to the family.

[whoozit]

This is the saddest thing I have heard in a long time. May God hold up this family in what must be an unbearable situation... :-(

[Prince Charles]

How hideous. Prayer bump.

[truecons]

But from the "Strange News Photos" section on the same page:

 

 

 

 

PHUKET, Thailand -- A devotee to the Chinese Shrine of Jui Tui in Phuket, Thailand, has his face pierced by a bicycle and helped by others as he takes part in the annual Vegetarian Festival. Ritual Vegetarianism in Phuket traces it roots back to the early 1800's. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants in the festival perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves. (10/20/04 AP photo)

 

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At a press conference Friday, John Kerry was shown the photo, and he surprised reporters by stating that he had not only taken his swift boat into Cambodia, but that one lost weekend he actually found himself and his crew in that same city in Thailand. He was asked if he had fond memories of his trip.

 

Unfortunately, in the confusion another reporter simultaneously asked him to describe his post-election mood. Not sure which question he was answering, reporters gazed at each other in stunned silence when Kerry responded, "Ahhhhh...Phuket".

 

 

 

                              

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

One of the basic rules of driving (that my father taught me, anyway) was never to drive through piles of leaves, whether they are in a driveway or along a curb. For just this very reason.

[Lockbar]

Didn't this happen before a few years back? Also another kid killed? I think the kids where inside a leaf pile on the curb side of a street, and a car drove through the pile. I think of that everytime I see a leaf pile near the side of a road.