Very easy to see how this could happen. I see big-time lawsuits in the future.
Posted on 11/22/2010 8:54:57 AM PST by BenLurkin
A toddler is dead after falling 50 feet from a luxury suite at Staples Center after Sunday night’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Oh no. The story I heard on the radio this morning made it sound like it was more like a teen and that he’d survived.
What a tragedy.
Horrific. Parents were probably trying to give their child an enjoyable evening, and it ends in tragedy. Terribly sad.
Very easy to see how this could happen. I see big-time lawsuits in the future.
This is horrible. May the Lord give the family peace.
If you don’t live in California and your mind doesn’t readily think Sports Arena, the headline suggests this happened at an office supply store.
Its hard to hear news like this. What a shame. These parents will be second guessing themselves and their actions for the rest of their lives.
How tragic! You can’t take your eyes off a toddler for one second.
Our granddaughter is a 13-month-old toddler. They require constant watching every single second. May God give the family comfort in this horribly difficult time.
Oh my gosh, how horrible. Prayers
An enjoyable evening for a toddler does not include watching a professional sporting event from a luxury suite, or any other seating. The term for a young child at such an event (or in a movie theater, or on a floating party barge) is "dragged along."
And yes, it is a terrible tragedy. I'm so sorry this happened to the child and his surviving family.
And how exactly do you know a toddler doesn’t enjoy such things? You read the minds of all toddlers?
Check her home page. Tax-chick knows Toddlers.
:-)
Yes ... starting with the nine I’ve had, moving on to all my friends’ and acquaintances’ toddlers, and adding in all that I have ever babysat. I believe this is a sufficient sample to make the statement.
A toddler can understand a sport like Nascar or bowling. Going around in a circle and knocking pins down, but running back and forth is too much boring for a such a young mind.
I know it’s hard to see, but there is a glass partition about the wall ledge.
He must have climbed up it somehow and went over.
Poor kid.
Lovely family - but I’m thinking there are some little ones who would really enjoy soacializing in that environment.
I attend professional sports games - and I don’t particularly like sports or follow along. I go there to be with family and friends, to laugh and enjoy “the show” and the food and the music, etc...
Seems like a toddler would enjoy those things too. Our family has taken toddlers to St. Louis Cardinals games and they enjoyed their time there as much as I did.
A couple of snippets of information from other news sources:
“KTLA-TV says it’s believed the child was taking pictures when he plunged to the concrete floor. “
“The Los Angeles Times, citing unnamed people familiar with the case, says the parents of Lucas Anthony Tang of Garden Grove had been searching for him when they learned he had fallen Sunday night.”
When my kids were little, places where you could fall over like this scared me to death. I’m already afraid of heights myself, and I would have nightmares of my kids climbing out windows or over railings and falling to their deaths, unaware of the dangers.
You’re right.
LOL! If anyone knows, it’s Tax-chick!
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