Father puts child inside FL washer

[thor]

Have no words to describe what I feel about this video...

http://www.minutouno.com.ar/minutou...lavarropa-y-el-chiste-casi-termina-en-muerte/

 

[cuffs054]

Man Damn, that's scary.

 

[dirtybuck]

A Darwin nomination for "Father Of The Year". Apparently Dad takes his brain out regularly and plays with it.

 

[Unimatic1140]

The bigger question here is why is there no emergency stop on a machine that has a door that locks?

 

[DirectDriveDave]

To Robert

Do those even exist? I cant say I have ever seen or heard of them, and I have been to many laundromats before.

 

[a440]

Idiots!
I hope this child is taken from them for awhile to "Scare Them".
Good Point Robert! Seems like there would be a huge Red Button that you could "mash" to stop and unlock.
Brent

 

[michaelman2]

This is unbelievable The sperm donor's ass needs to be kicked until his nose bleeds. Fool!

 

[arbilab]

Commercial washers don't "start themselves". SOMEbody put money in it to make it run. Cops and social services will be following up on this but media likely won't.

 

[ozzie908]

Did the child survive?

I ask because not only would it be very badly bruised etc but I am sure there is water in there too maybe its the angle of the cam? Also the fact the Mom seems to be pretty mad.

But there are not many laundromat machines with stop buttons they seem to be on the ones in private use.

Austin

 

[mark_wpduet]

Wow.......

Unbelieveable

 

[tolivac]

How stupid!!!It takes the act of putting the kid in the machine-and inserting coins in it to start it.Is this some sort of punishment?I think DAD should go on a trash truck tour!Put him in the Leach and pull the lever!I just don't get why ?? the child was walking in front of the machine-and Dad just puts him in it!

 

[alr2903]

I don't understand how this passes code, but it does

This is not the first time,  last one of these the news covered a "good samaritan", worked on the electrical supply with a fire axe. Robert is right, these huge machines are dangerous, and inviting to small children, whether their dad's are idiots or not. alr

 

[tolivac]

Yes,why aren't these machines equipped with an E-stop button?Hit the button drum motion stops right away-and door unlocks.The laundry attendent shouldn't had to bulldoze the tables away to get to the back of the machine.At how safety minded politicians and others are-think the EStop would be required on commercial patron operated machines.

 

[qualin]

I cross posted this into "As the tub turns" without checking to see if this post was already made.

Sorry Robert.

 

[qualin]

The first time I watched this, I was like, "Why would you do that? What were you thinking?"

At least the laundromat attendant was able to do something quick about it.

My guess, the only reason why Emergency Stop buttons don't exist on commercial front loaders is because people could abuse it and get free clothing. (Then again, there's always people stealing clothing out of dryers too....)

Better to have the option of a REPO (Remote Emergency Power Off) button which is activated by two terminals located on the rear of the machine, if they are shorted, the machine stops and unlocks immediately. These could be wired back to a control panel or something behind a pane of glass. Smash the glass and push the right button.

Either that or the control panel could be controlled by a laundry attendant.

Just my thoughts.. Kind of sad to see this happen.

 

[Ultramatic]

Shocking. That poor child.

<span style="font-size: medium;">I'm sure child services got involved. </span>

 

[gansky1]

Knowingly placing a child in mortal danger is a felony in this country.   Not sure what country this video is from but I would bet this act is a serious crime there as well.   This was an act of a deranged and monumentally stupid person upon a child.  As has been true throughout history; pity the poor children to whom for centuries all manner of pain has been inflicted.

 

[pierreandreply4]

yet another proof that front load washers are unsafe for kid

this is my only post in this thread and i would say that this is yet another proof that front load washers can be unsafe with kids i have 2 cats and i always makes sure when i do laundry that my cats is not near the washer or inside it same go for the dryer and that locking doors are not wise to put on machines.

 

[macboy91si]

<2x facepalm>

Oy

 

 

 

[coldspot]

Here is the video not zoomed it is the usa. I think it is odd no one helps them at all look at the folks in the background

 

[coldspot]

Can not edit same link just easy to click

 

[macboy91si]

"I think it is odd no one helps them..."

Hell I'm surprised that people weren't grabbing their phones and filming it....

 

 

-Tim

 

[dascot]

Only two facepalms?

Pierre,

I would say it is no proof at all that a front load washer is unsafe for kids. The only proof you see there is someone who does not think before acting - and that's nothing to do with FL or TL washers. You don't like them, that's fine, but don't act as though a video showing an ADULT doing something unutterably stupid proves a point to suit you.

 

[alr2903]

here you go from Channel 5

 

Must of been a slow new's day here.  alr

 

Wow You Tube already yanked it.  (edit)

http://www.wmctv.com/story/18580041/father-puts-baby-in-washing-machine

 

[qualin]

What Pierre also doesn't really know...

Modern Consumer front loading machines can sense if the load is shifting when the tub is stationary. If this happens, the machine will abort the cycle and unlock the door. It's a safety feature. I'm not about to try it myself though!

Commercial machines don't have this capability because it's extra electronics which could fail, resulting in less income and higher maintenance costs for the owner. It does make me wonder though if there is anything a commercial manufacturer could implement which could prevent this from happening.

I agree with Dascot, both front loaders and top loaders are as equally as dangerous in a laundromat. Both machines have their fallacies. At least they were able to get the kid out of the machine with only minor injuries, thank God.

I think that the whole "Which machine is more dangerous" thing is a topic for another thread IMHO and provides a good argument in itself, but it's not really appropriate for this thread.

 

[qualin]

This suddenly reminds me of a memory... I can tell this story now...

There was an old neglected laundromat near where I used to live, since long gone...

Inside, were a bunch of older Huebsch dryers, the large kind with the large glass door that you could probably fit at least two loads in with no problem.

Anyway, on one of the dryers, the belt was broken... on a dare, a friend of mine got inside the dryer and rocked the drum as fast as he could.. Of course, eventually, the dryer started banging against the other dryers as it rocked back and forth.

We had a content to see how fast we could get the dryer spinning... being dumb kids, we didn't really realize that we could have killed ourselves, breathing in the fumes from the gas or knocking loose the gas line...

I bet the owner wondered why the heck he was blowing through bearings like crazy...

 

[tolivac]

"dryer riding" heard of it when I was a kid-I didn't do this-but other kids would go to a laundramat to "ride" the dryers-they would try to do that before the laundramat operator caught them.

 

[coldspot]

Why is youtube removing the video? This one still works or did.

 

[DirectDriveDave]

people are probably flagging the video as child abuse or something along those lines.

 

[dave886]

This is just horrible I'm absolutely shocked that someone could do such a thing, joke or no joke these machine are design in such away, once activated they will lock until the cycle is over, but in some laundromats, machine are sometimes know to have a power shortages, where the customer has inserted coins into machine but it will not start, so they will move there laundry to another machine thinking that machine is broken until the next person comes and uses it and it works again, in this case the father must of thought the machine was offline but WRONG!! but the father of the child, honestly should be sent to prison life sentence and the child should be adopted into a loving family who are not stupid enough to do such a thing, this video really ranges me, i don't know how i would of reacted if i was at the laundromat, i would of been in total shock.