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Girl dies inside washing machine
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Good. Better for safety and discourages people from taking a "soak" period as a liberty.
American made clothes dryer have a "start" switch that must be depressed with each opening of the door, to prevent this type of thing.
Maybe now that washers are to be F/L in this country, we need this safety device on washers.
Anyone know where to write to get this message across?
Maybe now that washers are to be F/L in this country, we need this safety device on washers.
Anyone know where to write to get this message across?
hoover1060
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umm...
Involuntary manslaughter is a pretty serious crime. It would certainly suggest that the little girl had some help getting in that washer.
I don't understand the lawsuit either. It would be different if the washer opened up and inhaled the kid inside it.
As to power cutoffs, I was at my local laundromat a couple years ago washing a comforter in the big Maytag triple loader. It was stormy, and in the middle of the final spin the power went out for a few minutes. The washer did not unlock...
When it came back on the machine showed some life, but did nothing, and did not unlock.
At the suggestion of another customer, and then after watching her do the same thing, I got the Maytag open with a good swift kick to the front of the machine right by the door latch...
Maybe a look at the safe-ness of these machines is in order...
Involuntary manslaughter is a pretty serious crime. It would certainly suggest that the little girl had some help getting in that washer.
I don't understand the lawsuit either. It would be different if the washer opened up and inhaled the kid inside it.
As to power cutoffs, I was at my local laundromat a couple years ago washing a comforter in the big Maytag triple loader. It was stormy, and in the middle of the final spin the power went out for a few minutes. The washer did not unlock...
When it came back on the machine showed some life, but did nothing, and did not unlock.
At the suggestion of another customer, and then after watching her do the same thing, I got the Maytag open with a good swift kick to the front of the machine right by the door latch...
Maybe a look at the safe-ness of these machines is in order...
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That's comforting. The solenoid should be normally OPEN so if the power goes out, the door can be opened.
All the more not to trust those things.
That's comforting. The solenoid should be normally OPEN so if the power goes out, the door can be opened.
All the more not to trust those things.
Burpalator
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More to this story . . .
The mother was outside on the pay phone talking to her husband (who works out of town) and the two kids were alone inside.
As to the lawsuit, these are country folk, and largely uneducated past high school. I would be willing to bet some ambulance chasing attorney jumped on this one and probably was talking to the mother the same day the little girl died.
It's tragic. I don't know that a charge of involuntary manslaughter is appropriate in this case. District attorneys have of late become entirely too anxious to pin outrageous charges on kids when it's clearly a case of overkill. I recently read of a case in California where an 11 year-old girl hit an eight year-old boy in the head with a rock after he and a friend bombarded her with water balloons. (She threw the rock at him; she did not simply bash him in the head with it.) Someone called 911 and they brought six squad cars and a helicopter to arrest this child and charge her with assault with a dangerous weapon.
Of course, kids are doing more and more insane things all the time. I am in that stage of midlife now where I am thankful that I will never have to deal with any child-related issues. Don't get me wrong! I think kids are great. I just no longer have the patience and nerves to deal with them on a full time basis.
The mother was outside on the pay phone talking to her husband (who works out of town) and the two kids were alone inside.
As to the lawsuit, these are country folk, and largely uneducated past high school. I would be willing to bet some ambulance chasing attorney jumped on this one and probably was talking to the mother the same day the little girl died.
It's tragic. I don't know that a charge of involuntary manslaughter is appropriate in this case. District attorneys have of late become entirely too anxious to pin outrageous charges on kids when it's clearly a case of overkill. I recently read of a case in California where an 11 year-old girl hit an eight year-old boy in the head with a rock after he and a friend bombarded her with water balloons. (She threw the rock at him; she did not simply bash him in the head with it.) Someone called 911 and they brought six squad cars and a helicopter to arrest this child and charge her with assault with a dangerous weapon.
Of course, kids are doing more and more insane things all the time. I am in that stage of midlife now where I am thankful that I will never have to deal with any child-related issues. Don't get me wrong! I think kids are great. I just no longer have the patience and nerves to deal with them on a full time basis.
Alarmists. Accidents happen. Darwin at work. Whoever shut the door thinking this was fun or funny is to blame. Inattentive parent(s) is to blame. If the parent gets charged with manslaughter or murder for leaving their kid in a hot car, the same should certainly apply here. "I didn't kill her! The gun did!" Yeah right! User error.
ahhhh. a type "I D -TEN- T" operator error
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hoover1060
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"As to the lawsuit, these are country folk, and largely uneducated past high school."
When do they learn common sense? College?
Lets face it, we've all been kids, and have all done stupid things, or risky things.
I'm not heartless, I feel for the family. This is something they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. I just can't believe how incrediibly stupid this is.
The attorney who filed the suit should be shot...
"As to the lawsuit, these are country folk, and largely uneducated past high school."
When do they learn common sense? College?
Lets face it, we've all been kids, and have all done stupid things, or risky things.
I'm not heartless, I feel for the family. This is something they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. I just can't believe how incrediibly stupid this is.
The attorney who filed the suit should be shot...
In incidents like this-Those attorneys and clients that file the lawsuits are just the biggest problem and why more and more and more senseless regulations on things to protect the "stupid"-and drive up the cost of products.Lets face it many things we use in our daily lives ARE inheretly dangerous-our cars the first one-I will stay well away from those guys if they drove their car to that laundry facility.Yes-parents and even elementry schools used to educate children-"common sense" to stay away from things that were dangerous-I was taught at an early age that washers,power tools,guns,cars,swimming pools were dangerous.-and to use them safely.
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