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.
Good point. And some carts are in bad shape and have no belts, or the belts or torn and unusable. Or the wheels are so wobbly that they could fall off if not mounted correctly or tampered with by a 3 year old. And what about the germs on the cart left behind by previous shoppers? Falling mirrors vs faulty carts- no place is safe.
Fingerpointing on Free Republic. It began at post 2 and will no doubt continue for 300 more posts.
So, I'm stopping here.
I meant the fingerpointing began at post 4 or 5.
Indeed. For now, none of us do. But, just as we are all great parents, we can easily assert that if we were the ones that installed the mirror, said installation would have been done to the highest level of perfection as possible.
So, I'm stopping here.
Ditto. Have a nice day, everyone.
I guess that you have to value your kids more than you value the shopping.
The scenario that you paint about the shopping trip shows that the shopping is more important than the children. If there are too many kids to watch, even a single mom can leave them with a sitter, a neighbor or with family. Taking children to an uncontrolled enviroment where you cannot keep an eye on them can have deadly consequences.
I am sure that this mother thought that she was being careful and I'm equally sure that she loved him very much. But just as assuredly, the child is still dead and he need not be and may not be if he was not 5 feet away in an uncontrolled environment.
Even if the Walmart store manager deliberately pushed the mirror over on the child and he admits it, the fact is that she was too far away to prevent the child's death.
'Those who get off on the grief of others by telling everyone what great parents they were and how perfect their parents were and if the whole world just raised their kids the way they raised their kids and they themselves were raised then no children would ever ever ever die in freak accidents.'
Ping list.
That's a shame. I'm friends with people that I disagree with. It makes life interesting.
As for the Mother having her eyes off the child, how long are we talking?
Long enough for a tragedy.
The mirrors in my Walmart are close to the bedding section. So, she looks up, grabs a stack of towels to put in the cart and BAM! Little Joey is dead.
Why wasn't the child in a cart that the store provides for the purpose of keeping track of children.
This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Every morning my kids wake up, I thank God. Every time my kids test 4 grade levels above their own, or say yes m'am or please, i thank God. Patting myself on the back just shows how ignorant I am - nothing I have, nothing I have accomplished, nothing my children have accomplished, their very breath, NOTHING is due to ME. NOTHING.
What does playing mean? My daughter gets a kick out off picking something up and putting it down in the same place, Ill grant you she is scantly over a year but playing can mean many things which are not misbehaving..
From the article: apparently playing near the 5-foot-tall mirror in the children's section
It's so easy to see the other side of this story. Good kid, good Mom. Mirror fell.
It only started out as some us saying he should have been in a cart. All of a sudden, common sense is condemnation.
And there by the grace of God this did not happen to you! YOu may want to claim you never once took your eyes off of a kid in your charge but first Ill believe the sun will rise in the West tomorrow..
We were not siamese twins. Only in stores. ;)
What a shame that saying he should have been in a cart is condemnation. Common sense is cruel?
After all the mother took her eye off the kid for a second or two and the kid had the nerve not to just stand there with his hand in her pocket... they had it coming and thank goodness that Walmarts mirror god that crap out of the Gene pool
/sarcasm
Why wasn't the child in a cart that the store provides for the purpose of keeping track of children.
Look, let's assume everything you're saying is true. It just seems callous and downright rude to point it out so close to when the tragedy occurred. Where I'm from, this sort of talk just isn't done, at least not till years after the fact. You wouldn't go to a friend's teenage son's funeral and say, "Too bad he wasn't wearing a sealtbelt. I always made my kids wear seatbelts", would you? The truthfulness of what you say is irrelevant - it just seems untoward. You aren't from the South, are you? There's just some things you don't say.
LOL!
It's a quote from the Mom. If she'd seen it, she would have said so, don't you think? Do you think she'll ever forget that horror? If she'd seen it, she would have been saying what she saw. You're claiming splitting hairs because of what the article DOES say.
How a company initially reacts to an accident determines how the victim proceeds. If people feel they've been treated fairly, they generally won't sue. The store you were in was a very wise store. You'd be surprised how rarely that happens.
I'm serious. I like najida - but tattoo threads and gender war/marriage threads usually put us on opposite sides. This is nice.
Thanks.
What the hell is the difference it could be church, it could be your home! there are times you can lose track of your kid *I DONT CARE WHERE* and it can kill them... If it does just hope some A'Holes on a website do start crowing how you had it coming and preening about what perfect parents they are!
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