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.
He should have been in a cart. Stores are NOT playgrounds.
My kids are well behaved, or so I'm told. They're also very self-suffiecient for 8 and 9 year olds. Time will tell whether this approach is a mistake.
The mirror should have been secured.
I need to quit using that phrase. makes me want to go to waffle house!
But what was he doing?
Playing can be anything from climbing walls to quietly singing a motion song.
Again, there isn't enough in this story to past ugly judgement on the mother or damn the child as bad.
Smother fried steak and taters.
The child should have been in a cart. They are there for the purpose of keeping a child close and restraining them. That was the original idea by freepers on the first page. This is way out of hand. A child died. That's heartbreaking. It's as tragic as the little one that pulled a TV over on themselves and died. I've always heard "an ounce of prevention".......
Why is that simple piece of information so unfathomable to some?
Children also fall out of carts. There is no place that's 100% safe.
I am at a loss on that one, too.
Honey! Where do you shop?! It's not near the toothpaste.
Again, in my post 70: 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.
What I did worked.
Because it requires not feeling superior?
You seem to read quite a bit into the few words in the article. It is quite possible to see something and hear it at the same time. And you are splitting hairs.
You were lucky, that's all.
#66: 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.
Both posts were by doc30.
Thank you. I won't back down despite all the rhetoric.
OTOH, five feet (or even 3) is far for a 3 year old when your view is obstructed in a crowded and/or cluttered uncontrolled environment.
I never trusted my kids so I kept them close. My house was "child-proof" and a store is not.
Bingo.
>>There was a time when kids stayed by their parents and were quiet in stores. It was called obedience. I remember that time.
And we didn’t have car seats, seatbelt laws and spanking a child in a public place wouldn’t land you in jail. This did not happen then, it happened now. We have been systematically removing discipline from child rearing since a guy named Spock wrote a book. (He later, before his death, admitted he had no idea what he was writing about)
Tell that to O. Henry:
"Two Desperate Men,
Gentlemen: I received your letter to-day by post, in regard to the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands, and I hereby make you a counter-proposition, which I am inclined to believe you will accept. You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars in cash, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night, for the neighbours believe he is lost, and I couldn't be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back.
Very respectfully,"
Who knows.
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