[Morbid75]

The one statistic says one kid a month hangs from a window blind cord. That seems like a large statistic.

[Oswald2001]

Oops!

[Pink.]

I am glad hes OK, but why did she nt warn people ten years ago?

This is about something else.

Maybe she stopped reproducing because her husband lost attention and she was just desperate for it. Selfish at any rate.

I shudder to think of how many times I let my own children play at the window at that age.

[twayblade]

[SeaGrave]

Dumb bitch needs to stop breeding

[cardsharksam]

close shave glad he made it

[RealityUnfolding]

My thoughts on why she didn't release it back then was that it was so gruesome, most networks wouldn't show it and most wouldn't bother listening to it. Yes, he lived, but I think most parents hearts would drop (like mine did) the moment he popped up on the screen. That's chilling. She might have had it available online here and there, but as more kids are dying in the window cords (an acquaintance of mine just lost her child a few weeks ago, actually, in one of those with the alleged "safer" cords with releases of some sort), there is renewed interest and she's got proof of it.

There was a period where the national orgs for that stuff were promising to "do better" in "suggested guidelines", but they never did so consumers in the last year started making the demands themselves. A few major retailers have stopped selling them altogether, while half a dozen more have pledged to phase them out after current stock is gone.

Here's the stats:

At least 332 children have died, strangled in the cords of window blinds over the past 30 years, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Another 1,600 have been treated for injuries, including brain damage.

[RealityUnfolding]

BTW, it isn't just the cords to open the blinds that are dangerous - deaths have been recorded by the cords inside the blinds and by strings/cords in the upper mechanism that comes to "safe" outer cords. I had the upper cords in my blinds while my kids were small with blinds that enclosing the string in solid panels, not thinking they could manage to get up there, but some kids do. If I knew now what I knew then, I'd have gotten the push blinds.

[imptsd]

What was that nasty little monkey doing to the sofa with his pants down? Damn, she doesn't notice anything!

[petedeamon]

......she just wanted to show the crash-dummy poster child wearing a stupid sock she knits for the awareness of not being attentive to your litter.