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Tue, Jan 31, 2006, 2:26pm (EST-3) doth sayeth:
The child was supposedly taking a nap. It was not her own bedroom. She
was being taken care of by an aunt. An accident like this would only
take minutes. I understand what you are saying. snippity of something
about a lake and a pool As for you, I've seen your website. Are all of
the locks out of the doors and trunks of the junkers in your back yard?

When you don't hear a kid, that's when you get up and check on
them.

When my kids were 2 they were into about everything. I don't
recall what age they started opening cabinets, but eventually they did.
But, at age 2 I don't recall them "lifting", or even "trying" to lift
anything but their tooys, even the lid of the wicker chest we used for
their toys, and it was light. So, saying, or implying, a 2 yo got a
chest lid, that's apparently heavy enough to knock them out, and t then
sufficate, them, is not someting I can readily accept. To my mind, it
would be more llikely a hand(s) or finger(s) would be very much more
likely to get banged than a head. Unless the lid was already open, and
the kid cause it to close. But, if that's t he case, no reason it
should have been open.

When my kids were laid down for a nap, didn't matter if they were
home or not, we'd always check to be sure they were lying down, and not
getting into trouble, until they were asleep. And, when they woke up, I
don't recall that they didn't make some ssort of noise, alerting us to
them being awake, and to check on them.

How old was the babysitter?

As for my website, and junkers, that link has been changed a long
time ago, so your recall is inaccurate. Or, if you can still access it,
let me know, so I can change it. I don't have any junkers in my back
yard. My son does have a Datsun pickup, with a blown engine - which
will wind up back on the road, when he gets another engine in it; and, I
have my project Dub, with no engine, the plan is, that will also,
eventually, wind up on the road. So, neither is a "junker". All other
vehicles, including my son's 1952 Buick, run. And, no ,I do not have
the locks out of any of them, doors, or trunks. Why should I? They're
not junkers, after all. You think a kid is gonna crawl in a locked
trunk, and shut it?. Anyway, the only pictures are a couple of old ones
of my Dub project car, and one of my donor engine. Oops, almost forgot
- my son recently got a CJ-7, with no engine, that will be his off-road
toy. Still no junker, and it's not in the back yard either. Any
"junkers" around here get hauled off to, where else?, the junkyard.

JOAT
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