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.
thank you
Hate to be the middle child here, but you both are correct.
I knew absolutely everything there was to know about parenting before I became a parent. Now I know I was sadly mistaken.
That being said, sometimes an "outside" point of view helps us see things we wouldn't otherwise see. Like the old Indian proverb goes: if you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish!
I answered you. You just don't like the answer. The subject is watching your children in a store. I watched mine. Sorry that you have a problem with that.
My wife and I harness our 3 year old. She is able to move about, but never too far from our reach.
Not dismissing whatever the problem with the mirror might be, as anyone under it would've certainly been hurt, but three-year-olds should be in the cart, out of the way of other carts, Wal-Mart merchandise carts and ladders and people who may be carrying a big enough box not to see small children. Nevertheless, it's a tragedy whether or not anyone is at fault. Sometimes an accident is just that and no one is to blame.
I won't be surprised if a lawsuit occurs though, even if Wal-Mart double checks and double-secures the mirrors in every store.
From the article: Police said Christopher Antonio was apparently playing near the 5-foot-tall mirror
He was playing by a mirror and Mom wasn't watching.
We were sitting quietly on a bench the store provided for those waithing. We were not playing or moving.
Again, what don't you understand about obedience?
I pulled a curtain closed while entering into a dressing booth at a local department store (NOT Walmart) and the curtain rod pulled loose and fell down on my nose. No major damage, it just stung. I reported it, and a claims adjuster came to my house. They paid for me to go to a physician to get my nose checked.
Reagan used emotion to explain things that he believed based on facts, logic, and reason.
That's the key.
To convince someone who deals only in emotion you must use emotion, but there is nothing wrong with a fact, logic, and reason based conclusion.
What was disobedient?
You keep using the word but I see nothing in the article where the mother told him not to do what he was doing.
a 5-foot harness would not have helped in this situation. We didn't do the harness thing, although we were terribly tempted. We already get enough funny looks for being an interracial family, the sneers from the "anti-harnessers" would have been almost too much to bear!
Wow!
A humane, compassionate post on this thread!
You're a wonderful person to do that.
A 3-year-old boy was fatally injured when a floor-mounted mirror fell on him at an Indianapolis Wal-Mart.
As usual the Bush administration has no policy on Wal-Mart mirror safety. This administration's lack of policy are killing our kids and this is just one example. Administration spokesman denies Bush involvement. Democratic spokesmen hint of an investigation and possibly a call for a special prosecutor to be involved.
The child was playing near a mirror.
From the article: apparently playing near the 5-foot-tall mirror
The mother was not watching him.
From the article:she was about 5 feet away from her son when she heard a loud crash.
If you aren't SEEING what your child is doing, that's not control
And how many times were we told that. :)
Outta control dude. LOL
>>Kidnappings have occurred at Wal-Mart, muggings have
>>occurred at Wal-Mart. It is not OK to leave a child
>>unattended just because this is the USA
But it should be. I was allowed to be on my own lots of time (from about 4 on), because I was well behaved, and could be trusted to come back.
Kidnapping was a worry for people with money then.
My children were a gift from God. I took that seriously.
There's been a lot of reference to the distance between the mother and the child. Five feet.
The "floor mounted " mirror's height was given to be Five Feet as well.
Designer tip: Stand, in socks, with your heels together and stretch out your arms, level at 90 degrees from your body, your fingers extended and joined. Have someone measure the distance between your left and right finger tips...it should equal your height.
Let's say the Mother was 5'6" in flats.
That would mean the child was out of her mother's reach by 27 inches.
She never worked in Pediatrics & never said she did. She said she was a Sunday School Teacher. She taught for more than 20 years.
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