Florida baby dies after ingesting detergent pod

TORONTO SUN ^ | AUGUST 16, 2013 | QMI AGENCY

[GeronL]

How about keeping them in the top-load washer where the toddlers can’t reach them

[yldstrk]

The stupid shelter killed him

[Veto!]

Horrible. I don’t even like touching the toxic things with my bare hands.

[KittenClaws]

The detergent pod is at fault rather than the in attentive mother?

It figures.

[latina4dubya]

Sad... poor thing... poor mama too... i am surprised the shelter didn’t ensure the detergent would be out of reach... when we adopted our boys through the county foster system, we had to follow very strict rules about such things...

[Pox]

I call BS on this. The “Green” asshats can't stand the fact the something has bypassed their authority and they must vilify anything that does not bow to their beliefs and assertions, specifically anything that could possibly pour more phosphates into our environment or something that would allow our dishwashers to actually competently clean a load of dirty dishes since they began their crusade against phosphates in dishwasher detergent.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

I wouldn’t be in such a haste to judge the mother, in this instance. If she were in a house or apartment, she could have put the pod out of reach, or she could have had the baby in a separate room. It’s very difficult to control everything in an environment like a shelter.

[montag813]

A Florida infant has reportedly died after eating a laundry detergent pod his stupid mother left them on his bed and went to watch Beyonce videos — something authorities have been warning about ever since the brightly coloured little packets hit the market stupid people have been doing since the beginning of time.

[KittenClaws]

She was in a shelter? And her baby was left out of her sight?

I am most certainly wrong in thinking the safety of her child was out of her control. Shelters are such family friendly places.

[KittenClaws]

I should qualify my statement.

I have been a battered wife.

Some things you go beyond yourself to protect.

[Vision Thing]

“This may be the first case in North America of a death linked to the pods.”

So other deaths linked to pods have already taken place elsewhere?

I feel awful for the baby. Rest in peace, dear child.

[Rodamala]

The important question though... was the detergent free of phosphates?

We need to protect the planet, you know.

[latina4dubya]

Ping... read the comments...

[jiggyboy]

So other deaths linked to pods have already taken place elsewhere?

FWIW, logically you cannot draw that conclusion. Their statement is also true if they have no idea whatsoever about deaths in places other than North America.

[jiggyboy]

On a similar thread a couple of months ago, somebody posted a picture of Willy Wonka displaying one of these “pods” in his hand. (I’ve been rummaging around and can’t find it.) They really do look like swirly peppermints or some kind of candy.

[funfan]

Chuck Shumer is on record of saying these products are bad because they are so colorful and look like candy and he just wants to eat one. When I saw the post I thought of him and how he will now go on TV and tell us all about the evils of these pods and how they will have to be baby proofed and all.

[sagar]

Sue and close down the shelter.

[huckfillary]

Has this event been verified? Something just does not add up.
Can a seven-month old baby open one of these detergent packets on its own? How? With what? Their hands? Their teeth? To me, it all seems implausible.

Just my two pesos.

[Chode]

how hungry does the kid have to be, to eat something that not only burns your mouth and tastes like crap, BUT EATS A SECOND ONE!!!

something smells here...