06-22-2011, 04:51 AM
a little early-morning editorializing~
yesterday's fla. news:
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Volusia County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the drowning death of a 1-year-old boy.
A 911 dispatcher received the call around 5:18 p.m. Tuesday that the toddler was at the bottom of the pool at a home in the 700 block of Leeward Drive.
The child was not breathing when he was removed from the pool.
A dispatcher tried getting the frantic caller to perform CPR on the boy until emergency workers arrived.
Officials said the boy's mother, father and grandparents were home at the time.
The boy was rushed to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City where he was pronounced dead.
me:
i lived and worked in florida for a number of years. and it's true, little ones die in swimming pools all the time. i remember TWO cases of twins who drowned in pools in Jax. last year! it only takes a few minutes and a parent who loses sight for a few minutes. little ones are fast and resourceful. pools are very attractive to little ones. there are laws about fences etc. but still it happens every year with tragic regularity. it's an ugly little fact about 'paradise' because pools are as common as palmetto bugs.
i had an inground pool, but i wouldn't have if i had a toddler. because all it takes is for a child to open an unlocked slider door from the house. my son was 9 when i put the pool in, and he and his friends were not allowed in unless i was home watching. the pool had a locked screenhouse too, exactly as picture shows below. but those above-ground pools don't.
do i think that's what happened to Caylee and her LEO-trained grandfather failed to call 911 or try CPR?
HELL FUCKING NO. why would he?? was he some irrational nutfuck and so was she? these things happen all the time, it's negligence and accidents, not murder.
nobody else here thinks so either, but i was struck by this little news article early this morning, almost like a message to everyone viewing the trial.
yesterday's fla. news:
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Volusia County Sheriff's detectives are investigating the drowning death of a 1-year-old boy.
A 911 dispatcher received the call around 5:18 p.m. Tuesday that the toddler was at the bottom of the pool at a home in the 700 block of Leeward Drive.
The child was not breathing when he was removed from the pool.
A dispatcher tried getting the frantic caller to perform CPR on the boy until emergency workers arrived.
Officials said the boy's mother, father and grandparents were home at the time.
The boy was rushed to Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City where he was pronounced dead.
me:
i lived and worked in florida for a number of years. and it's true, little ones die in swimming pools all the time. i remember TWO cases of twins who drowned in pools in Jax. last year! it only takes a few minutes and a parent who loses sight for a few minutes. little ones are fast and resourceful. pools are very attractive to little ones. there are laws about fences etc. but still it happens every year with tragic regularity. it's an ugly little fact about 'paradise' because pools are as common as palmetto bugs.
i had an inground pool, but i wouldn't have if i had a toddler. because all it takes is for a child to open an unlocked slider door from the house. my son was 9 when i put the pool in, and he and his friends were not allowed in unless i was home watching. the pool had a locked screenhouse too, exactly as picture shows below. but those above-ground pools don't.
do i think that's what happened to Caylee and her LEO-trained grandfather failed to call 911 or try CPR?
HELL FUCKING NO. why would he?? was he some irrational nutfuck and so was she? these things happen all the time, it's negligence and accidents, not murder.
nobody else here thinks so either, but i was struck by this little news article early this morning, almost like a message to everyone viewing the trial.