[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[sagar]

Sue and close down the shelter.

[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...

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[o-n-money]

Zero tolerance to all poisons. The parents are at fault for making anything reachable. When my daughter was small, we kept all detergents in a cabinet above the washer and dryer.

[DannyTN]

When my first child was born, we went to parent training. They brought in a pharmacist to help tell us how to baby proof our house. He had horror story after horror story of kids accidently thinking a poison was candy or a soft drink.

He’d put a can of pepsi on the counter. And then put a can of stump remover next to it, with almost identical coloring.

And he did this repeatedly with product after product.

You could hear the hurt in his voice as he relayed some of the horror stories he had personally seen.

I wish they had made a video of that guy and made it required watching for every parent.

[smokingfrog]

Apparently, there have been around 6,000 instances of children getting hold of these things and trying to eat them. Part of the reason they have become more common is detergent manufactures trying to reduce packaging waste. (For the environment, of course.)

[goron]

Leftists will defend this as Birth Control.