Child Killed By Falling Mirror At Wal-Mart

The Indy Channel ^ | 7-23-2006

[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.

[linn37]

LOL? does that mean you find the story funny?

Heres your problem. They were both tragic accidents,caused by someones negligence. Walmarts in not securing an item that could cause death or injury and The Big Digs negligence in using faulty materials.

Theres your apple and theres your orange.

[ShandaLear]

"We were taught obedience. We sat quietly with our hands in our laps. Compare that to what you're reading today."

And if you had been seated in front of an unsecured mirror, would your mother had been at fault?

[DJ MacWoW]

I don't view parenting as architecture - you don't "mold" a child as an expression of your own will.

Obedience and manners aren't optional. You must be younger than me. I'm 56. It was very different to be a child in the 50's.

[Skooz]

This discussion started because someone suggested that Mom should have put the 3 yr old in a cart. I don't find that unreasonable. Too bad you do.

Not true.

The discussion started like this:

Me: "It is likely that the mirror was hanging without much support and fell from the nails or clips which were used to secure it. If that is the case, in no way is it the parent's fault."
your response to that post: "The child was 3,why wasn't the boy in a cart under Moms control?"

You are (once again) making things up if you contend that I think it unreasonable that a mother would have her 3 year old in a cart. I don't think that is unreasonable at all.

What IS unreasonable is spurious accusations against the fitness of this mother based upon a very short article with few details.

[Xenalyte]

It's my new Kanga chapeau! Fetching, idn it?

[N3WBI3]

Bingo! I just wish more freepers would take this to heart before jumping on the mother..

[linn37]

I'm the ass here? I'm not the one attacking some poor mom who's kid just died. Maybe you should apply that post to yourself.

[N3WBI3]

Ok so youre refusing to answer either way..

[najida]

Ohhhh
CUTE!

[DJ MacWoW]

So what? Bad stuff can happen anywhere and there is no parent who can prevent it 100% of the time, not even you.

Except the subject is parental control in a store.

[N3WBI3]

What I am reading is this..

The kid was 5 ft away and the mother could not see him. Compare this to you sitting on a bench while your mother was out of reach and could not see you... You have no indication of how the kid was behaving you made an assumption based on zero factual evidence.

You talk a good game about the grace of God but you seriously need to examine if you hold that attitude in your heart..

[Skooz]

Nothing in the article suggests the child was not under control.

Was the child running around? Screaming? making a ruckus? Knocking things off the shelves? Making a scene?

[Tijeras_Slim]

I was a handful. As this child probably was.

Mother Slim kept me on one of those kid leashes. She wasn't inattentive, I was speedy and inquisitive.

[Xenalyte]

I think we need one.

[DJ MacWoW]

Heres your problem.

No it's your problem. The child was not being watched by the Mom. The police say the child was playing near the mirror. Since no one was watching, no one saw if the child was bumping it, pulling on it or something else. At any rate, it wasn't made to be played with in anyway.

The tunnel was meant to be driven through.

Two separate issues.

[N3WBI3]

Pulling your like cindy into this is just plain stupid...

I could say that a young woman with no kids telling us how to raise ours is like rich liberals who send their kids to private school telling us how to fix public schools...

Neither of which is in any way relevant..

[sine_nomine]

If we behaved badly, it reflected on the whole family. I grew up in the 1950s too.

[N3WBI3]

BINGO!

[Skooz]

Mother Slim kept me on one of those kid leashes.

Before my first daughter was born, I saw a mother holding her toddler with one of those in the mall. I thought it was barbaric and disgusting.

After my daughter started walking, I thought it was a stroke of genius and wanted to know where to buy one.

[Xenalyte]

Shopping with Mom, my sister and I were decently behaved (in her case, presaging a life spent in malls and high-end stores), but our little brother was a TERROR. So on the harness he went!

Family friends found the leash weird, but they never had to hunt the boy down while he was hiding inside a round dress rack.

(We usually found him because he couldn't keep the joke to himself, so when some unsuspecting woman would take a dress, he'd whisper, "No, don't take that one.")