10 Feb
2000
10 Feb
'00
5:43 a.m.
When I was a whelp in Philadelphia, there was a rash of kids suffocating
in old refrigerators during a big garbage strike one summer. Hide-and-seek
was the usual motivation. This was back in the day when many refrigerators
had latches/locks that could only be opened from the outside. I do
remember there being at least 20 PSA's a day on TV (a lot, considering
that we only got 2 1/2 channels) and special assemblies in school teaching
us not to kill ourselves in abandoned appliances.
You can tell kids all you want, but some are still going to play on the
train tracks, in old refrigerators, in dumpsters...
Aaron
On 10 Feb 2000, Eric Smith wrote:
thomas.h.lindberg(a)se.abb.com wrote:
A coule of years ago we had two very tragic
dumpster stories in Sweden,
three kids vere killed while reading magazines in covered
newspaper/magazine dumpsters.
I suppose people are going to think I'm a jerk for saying such a thing,
but IMNSHO the tragedy here isn't that the kids were killed, but that
they hadn't been taught not to do such things.
It's certainly the case that I've sometimes gone places that I know I'm
not supposed to go, but I only do it if I'm pretty certain that I know
what the risks are. And if I'm mistaken, I deserve whatever consequences
I get.
Here in the USA, all of the soda vending machines now have warnings labels
advising people not to rock the machine, because some idiots managed to get
themselves crushed under machines as they've tried (unsuccessfully) to
sodas without paying. Personally I think the machines should *NOT* have
the warning labels.
And let's not even bother discussing the labels on products that say
"no user-serviceable parts inside." :-)