On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 12:24:43 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2016 09:18:33 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 11:23:59 AM UTC-4, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 23 May 2016 16:19:51 +0100, TimR wrote:

On Sunday, May 22, 2016 at 7:52:36 AM UTC-4, Stormin Mormon wrote:


You know, in all my fifty or so years, I can't
remember ever meeting (or first generation
reliable source hearing about) a child
injured by a lawn mower.

.

I know of two.

When I was very small, the neighbor's kid was hit by a thrown stone and killed.

So that's one.

Which wouldn't have been helped by any kind of cutout switch.

A push mower can throw a stone just as easily. Neither of them would usually kill anyone. Probably just as likely to be killed by a fly entering your eye while cycling, causing you to be temporarily blinded and crash headlong into a tree.

Because of that, my Dad refused to ever have a power mower, so I mowed the lawn with a manual push mower until I left the house.

that's two.

How is it two? You weren't injured.


Whoosh!
A "push mower" is not a "power mower"
It works on muscle power.

Clare, just curious...

This is the second time today that you have responded to *my* response
to Mr. Birdbrain with a comment that seems to be directed at him.

I don't mind hearing from you, but I'm wondering why you aren't responding
directly to his (ridiculous) posts instead of mine.