Rivers, streams, lakes, swimming pools and duck ponds will be her next targets.

As a designer I can tell you it stopped being cool strangling your children with mini-blinds years ago.

Throttling them with translucent pleated shades is much more likely to get you a spread in Wallpaper* Magazine.

How did anyone ever make it far enough into adulthood to have children that would make it far enough into adulthood to have more?! It's a nightmare out there...AHHH...and in here! The mini-blinds...!

jaylectricity:



Were they . . . possessed window blinds? A poltergeist, maybe?

With overpopulation of the world, it's a shame how many people are out there trying to save individual lives because they're too afraid of the day when they will no longer be.

I got Superglue in my eye once. So you can see right there, that shiat should be banned. It TOTALLY had nothing to do with me being a farkwad in any way.

Besides, it doesn't say "Don't put this in your eyes" in a big enough font size.

Maybe I can turn this into a paying gig as the director of Superglue Is Bad And They Should Feel Bad Center for the Eradication of Superglue.

I just like the phrase "shade related death."

Daemon Spooler: I just like the phrase "shade related death."

Then start throwing it out there the same way a monkey throws poo like it's hallowean candy.

The only thing this is missing is a new law named after the fallen child that will somehow effect my childless life.

Did it ever occur to her to put the damn cord up on the top of the blinds?

madmann: I got Superglue in my eye once. So you can see right there, that shiat should be banned. It TOTALLY had nothing to do with me being a farkwad in any way.

Besides, it doesn't say "Don't put this in your eyes" in a big enough font size.

Maybe I can turn this into a paying gig as the director of Superglue Is Bad And They Should Feel Bad Center for the Eradication of Superglue.

Jon did the same thing in Garfield. He somehow managed to mix up airplane glue with eye drops, and he couldn't blink all day.

/I don't know why I remember that...it's been at least twenty years...

I can't believe they're even addressing this issue. More children die in childbirth in the world than through window blind induced deaths yet we allow this travesty to be continue everyday! I mean did you know that 100% of children die from childbirth related activities including birth?

Good Behavior Day, Baseball Head Baby is not amused.

/lulz

We should all go in on a Christmas present for her, I'm thinking lawn darts?

All looped cord are a danger to toddlers and younger, they strangle, garrote they asphyxiate. Up there with the dry cleaner thin plastic garment bags.

Mike Tysons toddler stranger on a treadmill lanyard.

Have personally seen two dry cleaners bag caused non-fatal asphyxiation of toddlers. Yes that was a loooooooooooooong time ago at CHNO aka The Schweggmans of disease.

But were they silent?



/hot like Annie
//how's Annie?

Drat those quick clicky post.

Mat I blame it on Tylenol PM and being a SOF?

My apartment has blinds in every window, I was worried about my cat doing something like this... so I wrap the cord around the top of the blinds loosely where she can't get to it, and if she climbs up there to hang herself Darwin can have her.

It's almost like I care about my cat more than they cared about their kid...

/not sure if completely serious
//bad parents are bad

madmann: I got Superglue in my eye once. So you can see right there, that shiat should be banned. It TOTALLY had nothing to do with me being a farkwad in any way.

Besides, it doesn't say "Don't put this in your eyes" in a big enough font size.

Maybe I can turn this into a paying gig as the director of Superglue Is Bad And They Should Feel Bad Center for the Eradication of Superglue.

Superglue is perfectly safe to put in your eyes, in fact they use an expensive type of it if you have eye surgery. If you get stitches they will close the outside of the wound with superglue.

cksewell: "Somebody must take responsibility for my bad parenting!"

I watch all of my kids 24/7, never taking an eye off them, never becoming further than 5 feet away from them, never sleeping, never resting, never stopping until they are DEAD.

You're obviously not a parent.

i'd like to be the first to say something happened to Mike Tyson's kid.

nytmare: I watch all of my kids 24/7, never taking an eye off them, never becoming further than 5 feet away from them, never sleeping, never resting, never stopping until they are DEAD.

You're obviously not a parent.

So I assume you leave knives laying around all over the place, as well as loaded guns, right?

Or do you take minimal safety precautions to make sure your kids can't hurt themselves on things, like dangling noose-like cords on every window?

jaylectricity: Absolutely no remorse in her eyes for what she did.

Yeah, because having to do something like get dressed or take a stubborn crap or change your tampon makes you a negligent parent. Do you want your toddler to bear witness to mommy doing things like this? Do you think a chick should fry up dinner with an kid on her hip?

I don't blame the chick for getting this emotional and needing something to externalize the blame on to get through life after this horrific thing happened. It's totally understandable she'd go on some crusade. How's about blaming whoever allowed this recall to occur instead? All it's about is picking up a retrofit kit anyway, which if these things can be retrofitted to safety why the hell not do it if you have kids?

skinnycatullus: I saw this on TV today. 8 kids died in 8 years. And that was supposed to be proof that they're a menace. I'm sure that many kids died on stairs this MONTH.

Maybe you should watch less television.
FTA:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said five deaths and 16 near-strangulations from Roman shades have been reported since 2006, while three deaths connected to roll-up blinds have been reported since 2001.

Thorak: nytmare: I watch all of my kids 24/7, never taking an eye off them, never becoming further than 5 feet away from them, never sleeping, never resting, never stopping until they are DEAD.

You're obviously not a parent.

So I assume you leave knives laying around all over the place, as well as loaded guns, right?

Or do you take minimal safety precautions to make sure your kids can't hurt themselves on things, like dangling noose-like cords on every window?

We need to recall all wooden stairs because if you fell (like toddlers do a lot) they could crack their head open! Also, window sills, they should also have rounded or padded edges!

SlothB77: how do you strangle yourself on a blind.

It's easier than you think. You never see it coming.

Not that blinds are toys, but what the hey...Link (new window)

Ah yes, like childseats and fireproof pajamas, a multi-million-dollar initiative that will save 4 lives and result in higher costs for responsible parents and the rest of us.

My car's front passenger airbag shuts off if there's not enough weight in it, because at some point some idiot parent put their kid in the front seat and got in an accident. And now we all get to forever pay for a feature most of us don't need and can't opt out of. Fark socialized parenting.

Knucklepopper: skinnycatullus: I saw this on TV today. 8 kids died in 8 years. And that was supposed to be proof that they're a menace. I'm sure that many kids died on stairs this MONTH.

Maybe you should watch less television.
FTA:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said five deaths and 16 near-strangulations from Roman shades have been reported since 2006, while three deaths connected to roll-up blinds have been reported since 2001.

Uhm, I think you proved his point. Or was that your intent?

My son played with the cords on our window blinds. After I smacked his ass a few times he never touched them again.

Obviously, beating your child prevents their death.

FunkOut: Mike Tyson's kid strangled on a loop hanging down from an exercise machine. If you've got kids, anything that could act as a noose should be taken away. Laziness not to.


Sorry Funkout, Egg smear boy wanted to be first.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body: i'd like to be the first to say something happened to Mike Tyson's kid.

Be my guest.

MsIndy: My car's front passenger airbag shuts off if there's not enough weight in it, because at some point some idiot parent put their kid in the front seat and got in an accident. And now we all get to forever pay for a feature most of us don't need and can't opt out of. Fark socialized parenting.

How do you not like that feature? So you actually want to pay to replace a deployed airbag when no one was in the passenger seat during an accident?

/a fool and their money...

In elementary school, kids got their melons stuck in these things all the damn time.

/not me of course . . .

This woman = idiot

a somewhat relevant joke...

Two nuns are ordered to paint a room in the convent, and the last instruction of the Mother Superior is that they must not get even a drop of paint on their habits. After conferring about this for a while, the two nuns decide to lock the door of the room, strip off their habits, and paint in the nude. In the middle of the project, there comes a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" calls one of the nuns.

"Blind man," replies a voice from the other side of the door. The two nuns look at each other and shrug, and, deciding that no harm can come from letting a blind man into the room, they open the door.
"Nice tits," says the man, "where do you want these blinds?"