[bgill]

What part of parenting do people not understand? Keep little kids inside and teach them not to touch or get near the lawn mower, the chain saw, the garbage disposal, guns, fire, wasp nests and fire ants. What's with that woman letting her toddler run out to the mower? Does she let the girl put stuff down the garbage disposal?

[Liberty Valance]

Horrible.

[Vaduz]

What part of parenting do people not understand?
Indeed most people don’t THINK any more.

[EricT.]

I just have to say that I didn’t even let the dogs in the yard while I was on the riding mower. The thought of a toddler out there...

[radiohead]

When I was in law school, we read lots of lawnmower cases for torts. You’d think parents would know to keep kids away.

My stepfather was an attorney and I guess he’d read some of those same cases because we were never allowed out on the lawn when he was mowing.

How sad for this little girl and her family.

[oh8eleven]

Two-year-old Ireland Nugent was calling her father’s name as he mowed the lawn Wednesday night, but he didn’t see her, said Nugent, who watched as her husband mowed over her daughter’s legs.
Journalists. Hrummph ...

[hondact200]

It states right their on the owners manual it is operating insructions. If I remember right, cannot check to much snow right now 12 inches fell, and the yard is to soft, wheelchair would sink) there is a label right on my zero turn mower regarding lawnmowers and children. What now do we have to have back up signal on lawn mowers and the use of video camera on the back of a riding mower? some people are just idiots, yet every year there are too many accidents involving a child getting a leg, hand foot or ? cut off. As for a snowblower it has a label not to put hand in auger. but to many people do this too.

[BitWielder1]

Mowing lawns, felling trees, using heavy equipment, backing up a car, target practice - KIDS LOCKED INSIDE THE HOUSE.
You can tell them all you want to stay away but their little brains forget quickly.

[al_c]

2 year olds can be pretty quick. And fearless. This entire situation probably played out very quickly. I won’t pass any judgement onto the parents without details.

[headstamp 2]

10-1 he didn’t even look behind him when backing up. See it all the time with people on riding mowers.

One guy backed into his wife heading down the driveway in a car.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dreadful.

[SamAdams76]

Some of the self-righteous comments here insinuate that tragic accidents involving negligent parents did not happen until recently. That is not true. Tragic accidents involving negligent parents have always happened. It was only in recent times that news of these accidents are instantly transmitted to millions of people by way of mass media and the internet so that people sitting in their easy chairs at home can make snarky comments about how these things would never happen back in their day.