Yes, the tendency to believe no nails is really good for everyting is strange. Glue is also going to soften with heat.
You do have to be quite thick though to not even do back of the envelope maths o n such things as this. Brian
Reminds me of two incidents in Burnley 2012 and 2013 -ish where toddlers have been killed by falling television sets.
In the most recent case Natalie McMillan was cleared of manslaughter but got a 4 month sentence for neglect.
She said that she was trying to plug a TV recorder into the set when it toppled over. She was under the influence of drugs and her partner was also (he was unconscious on the kitchen floor at the time)
It's difficult trying not to be judgemental in cases like this. Perhaps thinking that the child is better off.
Poor bastard. He has to live with that. Not sure I could
Being paranoid, I'd be screwing thick steel strips to the back and using those as backup lugs!
Being paranoid is a parent's duty
Or perhaps more accurately, KNOWING when to be paranoid....
Too much paranoia in general these days with regard to children I think.
Tim
Correct. They do not learn how to analyse their environment for risk if some overbearing entity has removed all risk with excessive mollycoddling.
Yes, but to be fair I would probably assume that a big marble fireplace had been fixed securely.
The solidity of the thing itself implies that it won't move.
I'd be paranoid in case the vibration of a small earthquake made it fall on me or the cat!
Yes, straight up and down. ...but tilt? Falling over squashing you or the cat?
At two years old, perhaps not. There is no indication in the report as to how long between, ''She reached up to the fireplace and started swinging from it." and ''All of a sudden it came away from the wall." The whole thing is tragic, but genes from both parents contributed as dad and father-in-law stuck the thing to the wall. When my daughter was a toddler, we made sure that she knew certain things were not toys or gym equipment.
Apparently there are toddlers who will drink bleach given half a chance. I've never met one though. IME they are an ultra cautious bunch
Most won't even touch vegetables, or anything that isn't breadcrumbed and shaped to look like a dinosaur.
Owain
Quite right too!
My brother took a few swigs from a bottle of Dettol when he was small.
One swig might be understandable, but a few? Did he decide he liked it then?
Couldn't have been very pleasant:
These products often contain stuff like Bitrex (Denatonium) which is the most bitter tasting thing you could try. Perversley, some children seem to like it!
Nasty if ingested, but I seem to remember once being told to use a Dettol solution as a mouthwash.
John
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