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.
Ack!
I apologize,
I just re-read the thread and it was Westlander that said it.
Out of sight of Mom.
From the article: The mother told police she was about 5 feet away from her son when she heard a loud crash. Mom saw nothing.
as could I make about why you're no longer working in Pediatrics.
Excuse me? I taught Sunday School. I've never worked in pediatrics. And never said that I did.
And you say you won't make assumptions but then make THESE assumptions: You've got an agenda and you've got issues and they have nothing to do with the death of a child or the grief of a mother.
Holy cow lady. Does this mean you've taken me off your ping list?
Trying to keep track of all the posts is head-spinning. :-)
All the article says is that it was a floor mirror.
FR is full of these threads.
Somehow, somewhere, they make someone feel superior.
All they do is make me glad that my relatives who thought that way are either dead or out of state ;)
That came from a post about the Mom not keeping the child from wandering 5 feet away. My kids weren't allowed to do that. When I had to defend keeping my kids by me, I said they were obedient. It escalated from there.
Everybody here, and anyone who's been a parent, knows that things can happen in a millisecond - EVEN if the child is attached to your hip. You can't look at them every single second you're in public.
In unguarded moments, I might mention that horrible feeling of panic that sets in when your small child has gotten out of sight. Such a confession ALWAYS draws a "me, too, isn't it awful?" response. You are the first person I have EVER spoken to about this that apparently hasn't experienced this.
Times must be different. Funny thing is, when I was growing up (you seem to be about the age of my parents), my parents were MUCH less protective of my brothers and me than I am with my own children. No seat belts, M-80's, we could wander the yards of the neighborhood at will, waiting in the car while Mom shopped.
And this was the 70's, not the 50's. The funny thing is, i don't know who was the irregular one, you or my mom. Either way, no big deal. To each his own!
Subscribe to The Pediatric Journal of Medicine. It's reality.
You are getting beat up over the distance between mom and the child. I have to agree with you.
Five feet in a grocery story (long straight aisles) is not far.
Ten feet (or even 20) in a public park or field isn't far because it's open and you can see what's going on and where the child is.
OTOH, five feet (or even 3) is far for a 3 year old when your view is obstructed in a crowded and/or cluttered uncontrolled environment.
The post you're quoting does not say the child was out of control. It says he was not in his mothers control. You can't control what you aren't looking at.
The article states that it was a floor mounted mirror. "Mounted" generally implies that the mirror was installed by someone. That is was mounted- was it mounted correctly?
June 2003- Mirror Falls Off Wall, Kills Child At Mall Clothing Store
Yep, I'm taking you off the
'Those who get off on the grief of others by telling everyone what great parents they were and how perfect their parents were and if the whole world just raised their kids the way they raised their kids and they themselves were raised then no children would ever ever ever die in freak accidents.'
Ping list.
As for the Pedatrics thing, I mistook you for Westlander, I apologize.
As for the Mother having her eyes off the child, how long are we talking? The mirrors in my Walmart are close to the bedding section. So, she looks up, grabs a stack of towels to put in the cart and BAM! Little Joey is dead.
You have to look at what you're buying when you're shopping, otherwise, you come out with a cart full of nothing you went in for.
Exactly right. Playing near something and playing on something are two very different things.
I'm sorry that you think obedience and manners are smothering.
OK,
Different types of parents,that's all.
The child may have been perfect, obedient little angel standing out of mom's way, like she asked, while she tried to wrestle a comforter from the shelf and into the cart.
It's so easy to see the other side of this story. Good kid, good Mom. Mirror fell.
The End.
Unless you have instilled obedience in your children, like your parents did with you and your siblings.
Read the article!
From the ARTICLE: The mother told police she was about 5 feet away from her son when she heard a loud crash.
Where does it say she SAW anything?
Let's return to my original premise, he should have been in a cart.
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