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.
'You never shopped with two kids?'
Sure have. And they are always at my side.
....that was my thinking also...how many articles have we read and how many times have we heard about how EVIL WalMart is towards their employees....we need to learn more about this story....
You're making an assumption - don't forget that in today's world, many 3 year olds are too "big" to fit in the cart.
Of course, that would mean, with the attitude of many here, the mom deserved to lose her kid becasue she let him get fat!
You are of course correct. But there are also things such as freak accidents, where there really is no one at fault.
Was her back to him? Was she looking at him or something else? If he had been in a cart, he'd have been with her where he belonged.
She had a reasonable expectation that heavy fixtures were not going to fall onto her child.
When you are out in a public venue there is no reasonable expectation. You have no control on the environment. Your kids should be controlled and in view at all times. Hold their hands or have them in a cart.
Yes, my comment was callous and it was meant to be. But it also should bring home the point that parents need to watch their kids, assuming, of course, that the kid was playing with, or on, the mirror. Sadly, some parents will not control, or monitor, their children's actions, and will quickly blame others when things go wrong. I sincerely do hope that is no the case here, but if it is, these parents need to take responsibility and not try to hit the lawsuit lottery. If the mirror was improperly or insufficiently secured, then Wal Mart needs to bear responsibility. However, I don't think Wal Mart should be responsible for designing and installing mirrors that will withstand being played with by children. It's common sense not to let your kids play with such things. And sadly, that is something becoming rarer and rarer in ths country.
If we were out in a store yes.
But some here won't leave it at that. They want to TOTALLY blame the mom!
Attempt reading the replies. There's a lot of us 'jerks' out there who practice parenting.
Now that's bizarre. Did that famous steakhouse pay for her dinner?
My thought exactly when I heard about this. What a terrible tragedy.
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.
To suggest that the mother deserved to lose her 3 year old because they were walking together at WalMart is beyond callous. It borders on psychotic.
Or totally blame WalMart.
Personally, there is not enough info for me to blame anyone.
DING!DING!DING!
And that attitude is the problem. It's a store, not a playground.
And kids often get very ancy when they are in the cart for too long. Then, it's perfectly ok to let the kid out to walk around.
No. It's not.
Nothing in the article suggests that the little guy was not "under control." He was 5 feet away. That is about one and a half steps. Any closer and they would have been tripping over one another.
5 feet away is not under Moms control.
To suggest that the mother deserved to lose her 3 year old because they were walking together at WalMart is beyond callous. It borders on psychotic.
I said no such thing. You are using emotion to argue against common sense.
Exactly.
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