Posted on 07/24/2006 6:12:21 AM PDT by Samwise
INDIANAPOLIS -- A 3-year-old boy was fatally injured when a floor-mounted mirror fell on him at an Indianapolis Wal-Mart.
Police said Christopher Antonio was apparently playing near the 5-foot-tall mirror in the children's section of the store Saturday evening when it fell at the store in the 3200 block of 86th Street.
The boy was with his 5-year-old sister and his mother. The mother told police she was about 5 feet away from her son when she heard a loud crash.
Police said it took two people to pull the mirror off the boy.
And it have very well happened even if she was standing right where the child was.
LOL! I remember an incident that happened to me many, many, many..years ago. Don't know why I remember but I do.
As a small child, no more than 5, my Grandfather used to take me to the piggly-wiggly. I was fascinated by the shopping carts..wanted to push them around with one foot on the cart, the other pushing - a lot like a skateboard.
PaPaw told me not to every time..he watched me closely, one day, he turned his head, I got the cart, began pushing it, and it flipped over on top of me.
I could have been seriously injured. No fault of piggly-wiggly, it was my grandfathers fault for taking his eyes off of a precocious child!
My incident turned out just fine. But Stores can not be held responsible for everyone's children. Unless that mirror just fell off/over of its own accord..that is another thing entirely!
We only have the mom's say-so as to what happened, and how far away she was. For all we know, she could have pushed the mirror over on the kid herself, so that she could sue the deep-pockets-company. Get her on a lie detector and grill her. Hard.
Have you really read what I said?
I said: If he had been next to her, he wouldn't have been near the mirror.
That means it would have fallen and missed him.
This woman just lost her child and all you care about is painting her as a negligent parent ebcause she didn't do exactly what you deem she should have been doing.
She wasn't looking at him. A parent can't take their eyes off a child. There are heartbreaking consequences. This is tragically one of them.
You weren't there, I wasn't there, there is not enough information in the article to lay blame on ANYONE.
Only if you don't read the article.
Yeah. It's easy to proxy lecture a mother who just lost her child when we have the advantage of perfect hindsight.
I have four nephews, a niece & my s-i-l is pregnant with a fifth. Is that not enough hands on experience for you? Believe it or not, I was also a child once.
From my post 73: I'm assuming that most parents are smart enough to control their kids. When mine got too big for the carts, they were either in the basket or holding the pocket of my jeans. The MINUTE they let go I knew it and they were back by my side where they belonged. As they got older, when Hubby was along, he'd say, "where do your hands belong?". My boys put their hands in their pockets and stayed beside us.
Pinging one of my Freeper kids to confirm the above.
I was taught to be a vigilant parent. I was taught that my children were my responsibility and so was their safety. I took that seriously.
Actually bright boy it could have been your fault for disobeying your grandfather. But if you honestly expect anyone to be able to keep an eagle eye on a kid 24*7 or even every second of a shopping trip (you know when your looking at things like labels, prices, and taking stuff off of shelves and putting it into a cart) you're nuts..
And professional burn out. Someone who works in a field often isn't an expert, they simply know too much.....way more than the average person would know.
Which makes the sanctimony even more unkind.
If she was standing right there, she could've removed him from the situation. I don't know of any parent who would just stand there if they saw something about to fall on their child.
Apples and oranges.
You are one miserable excuse for a human being.
Note: See how easy it is making snap judgements? Want another?
You are a jerk.
I hope you are never judged by someone with all the compassion you have.
Our local store is literally packed with family groups on the weekend. Invariably there will be a couple of kids in the store chasing each other, not paying any attention to people or things in their way. In this case the child that was killed was probably too little to have managed it on his own- but his older sibling might have been involved, or other children in the store.
Personally, I welcome your input, although I THINK we disagree somewhat.
Considering that they are 35, 31 and 21 now?
I taught Sunday School for some years. Kids 3 to 5. We walked in pairs and they walked beside me. They did NOT run ahead.
All of that pales to the having the sole day to day responsibility of watching *1* let alone *2* kids under five years old. So I'm sorry until you've lived that life you need to realize your station and stop giving advice on something you're clearly not familiar with!
Must be nice to *never* make a mistake... Guess youre just gifted..
Ah, well thank you. Even if we do disagree. :-)
This discussion started because someone suggested that Mom should have put the 3 yr old in a cart. I don't find that unreasonable. Too bad you do.
Great. Now they'll have even LESS money for clean floors and bathrooms.
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