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Congress Passes Bill Named After 18-Month-Old Who Died After Swallowing Battery
CBS News ^ | AUGUST 5, 2022 | Caitlyn O'Kane

Posted on 08/05/2022 12:49:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: mmichaels1970

“I do the same...and mine gives me a devilish smile before proceeding.”

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They do have that look, don’t they? As in, “I bet you I can get this in my mouth quicker than you can get to me and stop me!”


61 posted on 08/05/2022 1:58:29 PM PDT by CFW
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“Imagine a smart watch “

Smart watch batteries are not easily removed.


62 posted on 08/05/2022 1:59:44 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: TexasGator

If it’s anything like an iPhone, more like brain surgery, LOL.
I’ve done several of those.


63 posted on 08/05/2022 2:01:32 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: mmichaels1970

“I agree. Haven’t perused the 4500 pages, but that would be my guess.”


This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish product safety standards with respect to batteries that pose an ingestion hazard (e.g., button cell or coin batteries).

Specifically, consumer products with these batteries must include (1) a warning label instructing consumers to keep the batteries out of the reach of children, and (2) a battery compartment that prevents access to the batteries by children who are six years of age or younger.

Additionally, such batteries, if sold separately or included separately with a product, must comply with federal child-resistant packaging regulations.


64 posted on 08/05/2022 2:02:52 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: gloryblaze
I'll admit I've never heard anything about that before.

Same here. And I've got a bunch of these of various sizes and of questionable charge remaining lying in junk drawers around the house.

65 posted on 08/05/2022 2:04:23 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: cuban leaf

I mean, who thinks it’s okay to feed your toddler batteries?

Are we gonna have background checks for batteries now? Required training courses? Permission from a local official to possess one?


66 posted on 08/05/2022 2:07:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Seeing that movie was one of the strangest, headache-inducing experiences of my life.


67 posted on 08/05/2022 2:09:39 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: CFW
They do have that look, don’t they? As in, “I bet you I can get this in my mouth quicker than you can get to me and stop me!”

They do. And with grandchildren, it’s much harder to prove to them decisively that they are wrong.
68 posted on 08/05/2022 2:16:54 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: GreyFriar
Why not just require all battery’s to be made no smaller or less in weight that the common building brick?

I think that's the way to go. It's just common sense.

And just imagine the biceps and triceps development you'd get from wearing a five pound wristwatch?

Make it so!

69 posted on 08/05/2022 2:17:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: albie

Ambulance chasers ruined gas cans, too.


70 posted on 08/05/2022 2:29:38 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: mmichaels1970

“They do. And with grandchildren, it’s much harder to prove to them decisively that they are wrong.”

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Yeah, the old saying is true. “If I had known how much fun it was to have grandchildren, I would have had them first”.

Now we have the time, knowledge and experience, but we just don’t have the energy. All my grandchildren, even the three year old (especially the three year old) can out-run me. I have to depend on my stern “Grandma” voice to get them to stop. (I don’t really have a “stern” Grandma voice)


71 posted on 08/05/2022 2:32:26 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

After giving it some thought, I decided that labeling seems like a very useless idea & it would cost extra, I’m sure. I guess there is just a price to be paid to have certain conveniences but I wish it wasn’t the life of a small child.


72 posted on 08/05/2022 2:51:38 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: nickcarraway

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

If we put severe restriction on every object that causes the tragic death of a toddler..when will it end?

Buckets not allowed anymore? No steak knives? No matches?

Need common sense parenting and the willingness to accept some bad fate. Just like the last 10,000 years of civilization.


73 posted on 08/05/2022 2:59:19 PM PDT by Phoenix8 (uestion )
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To: nickcarraway

Those things will sneak up on you.

One minute they’re there staring at you, and the next thing
you know something sneaks past your lips into your throat.

You slowly get ill over a month, with strong abdominal pain,
and the hospital doesn’t even think of doing a normal
everyday radiology scan of the abdominal region.

Next thing you know the next of kin gets a free battery.

Folks, there are so many things for kids to choke on.

If you let this battery go, you’ll let a number of other
things go too.

You just can’t eliminate every danger in life.

This becomes so juvenile over time.


74 posted on 08/05/2022 2:59:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: TexasGator
Already done.

I feel like somebody owes me retroactively.

75 posted on 08/05/2022 3:05:40 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: mmichaels1970

You could like tattoo a little “+” on one side of their ear and a “-” on the other side!


I was thinking the same thing, the tattoo idea lends a twist though LOL.


76 posted on 08/05/2022 3:09:53 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: nickcarraway

“In 2020, Hamsmith swallowed a small, flat battery, called a button cell or coin battery”

Darwin Award.


77 posted on 08/05/2022 3:26:18 PM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: fretzer
LOL. Unfortunately, babies will STILL swallow batteries. HOWEVER, if this bill was *4501* pages…maybe we could save them.

As a grandma now, I am astounded that my daughter and her husband pretend that they’re capable of raising children. Clearly, they’re too young and…well, young. :). Idk how my parents sat by and watched me raise my kids…except I am doing the same. :). Takes a lot of prayer. I’ll bet that’s how some older people find Jesus.

78 posted on 08/05/2022 3:52:19 PM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Two bricks.🙄


79 posted on 08/05/2022 4:08:00 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

All my ducts look old fashioned. We need to upgrade to the new fashionable ducts!


80 posted on 08/05/2022 6:16:55 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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