Man catches child in 30 foot fall...

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xSauronx

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That's about 10 seconds. You obviously don't take care of four-year-olds.
I would like to encourage people with to use a ball-and-chain setup to keep track of any and all children under the age of 8.

/has two kids
 

Born2bwire

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Oct 28, 2005
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i don't even know why the bolded paragraph is in there. it doesn't add anything to the story. aren't there editors around anymore?

You know, I have been getting the feeling that writing quality in news stories has been really going downhill. I would actually attribute the writer as much as the girlfriend for that statement. The girlfriend could just stated that they were there because she wanted a burger as opposed to saying it was her doing that the kid was saved and the writer put the slant on it to fill out their word quota.

EDIT: Dammit! Stupid necro.
 

Howard

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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My guess to how it happened.

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Excellent!
 

GasX

Lifer
Feb 8, 2001
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I credit the kid. If he hadn't fallen, none of this would have happened.
 

fleabag

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The thing everyone can learn from this story is that this would have never happened had the mother inflated the tires to sidewall because then the kids would have been indoctrinated into inflating all the tires in the parking lot to sidewall. The inflation to sidewall would have prevented this kid from playing around the escalator in the first place.
 

Howard

Lifer
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The thing everyone can learn from this story is that this would have never happened had the mother inflated the tires to sidewall because then the kids would have been indoctrinated into inflating all the tires in the parking lot to sidewall. The inflation to sidewall would have prevented this kid from playing around the escalator in the first place.
Are you outing yourself?
 

Mr. Lennon

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Jul 2, 2004
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I was just at that mall last week. Had to take that exact escelator to get to the pizza place there. That kid must of been scared shitless.
 

BarkingGhostar

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This is nothing. When I was a whopping three (3) years old some friends and I climbed through a fence opening to throw stuff (helicopter leaves) off a shear wall. The wall was created by carving out the side of a hill to make room for four story tenement buildings. The wall's edge was level with the roof of the 4th floor.

Nice Spring day, we were enjoying our observations of the helicopter leaves twirling in the air as the descended the 40' to the bottom, which was asphalt. And then things got a little weird as at one handful the leaves no longer moved away from me. :awe:

Yep, I was in-flight with them on my way to meet that asphalt surface some 40 feet below my friends. I broke a femur, spent a month in the hospital, another month in a partial body case (waist down), and a nice scar to remember it all by.

It was interesting laying there wondering how on earth I got "here" when my friends were still up "there". I later learned something called the laws of Physics. D:
 

SunnyD

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The thing everyone can learn from this story is that this would have never happened had the mother inflated the tires to sidewall because then the kids would have been indoctrinated into inflating all the tires in the parking lot to sidewall. The inflation to sidewall would have prevented this kid from playing around the escalator in the first place.
Wait a sec here... is this a trap? I almost have to give you at least a modicum of respect/props for that one, but it's too hard to tell whether you're serious or not. ARRRGH!