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On 31 Jan 2006 09:52:10 -0800, wrote:

I know everyone here knows how important it is to use hydrolic hinges
on the lids of chests but....I just had to write this. This weekend my
neighbor's 2 year old granddaughter was knocked unconcious and
suffocated. I'm writing this to ask you to think about your families,
friends, neighbors, babysitters,,,that have chests in their homes and
remind them to have hydrolic hinges on them. I realized myself after
this accident that I have an antique steamer trunk in my basement. I
now have an excuse to get rid of the junk stored in it and the trunk
can go on the slabwood pile for all I care. Jana

A public apology: I received news from the TV station verifying that
this story was true, at least in part. The child was 'unconscious'
[deceased through suffocation], but not knocked unconscious, and it
was the mechanics of that which troubled me initially, trying to
figure out how the lid would fall etc.. What did happen is that she
was apparently trapped and suffocated. A sadness, to be sure, and why
I put large openings in the sides of my granddaughter's toy box, with
offset decorative squares of solid wood outside of them.