Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember falling off my top bunk while I was asleep in the 70's so probably no guard rails, born in 69. We also rode in the back of the station wagon with no seats or seatbelts.

SAME! We were back there in sleeping bags, back of station wagon with back seat collapsed flat, while dad drove on trips overnight.

[Anonymous]

My son sleeps in DH’s childhood bunkbeds (DH born 1977) and there’s a rail but it’s removable.

We were a far less litigious county back then, too.

[Anonymous]

Heck, my bunk bed in my dorm in the late 90's sure didn't have one.

[Anonymous]

Mine had guardrails. It was a separate attachment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember falling off my top bunk while I was asleep in the 70's so probably no guard rails, born in 69. We also rode in the back of the station wagon with no seats or seatbelts.

Yep, seatbelts didn't work in our station wagon, and I sat on top of stacked phone books-- that was my car seat until I was about 4😂.

Also remember me, my sisters, and cousins on the back of my dad's pickup truck flying down the beltway. I was no more than 5. Damn good times and I would not trade it for anything!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heck, my bunk bed in my dorm in the late 90's sure didn't have one.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Born in 78 and no guard rails on my bunk nor my friends.

[Anonymous]

Mine did. Late 80s, though

[Anonymous]

I had one in the 90s. No rail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few months ago a 12 year old playing in the little league World Series fell off his bunk bed at the complex where the kids are housed during the World Series and had a serious brain injury. He rolled out of the top bunk in the middle of the night. Luckily one of his teammates is a light sleeper and heard the thump and got help. The boy was helicoptered to a trauma center and had to have surgery.

So surprisingly not all bunk beds have Guard rails in this day and age.

This. And I saw an update and he has a significant TBI. Thank goodness his roommate woke up but it is a long recovery he is having seizures etc. Eorth it to have guard rails.

Here’s his IG support page: https://instagram.com/miraclesfortank

He has a long road ahead. If there were rails, this would have never happened.

[Anonymous]

Mine had guard rails back in the 70s. But they were removable, so if parents didn't insist, they could be easily removed.

[Anonymous]

There were guard rails in the 70s because they were on my brothers’ bed in the 80s, which was a hand-me-down from our sisters who graduated high school in the mid-70s. However, I think they were just window-dressing and I don’t know how much safer they made things. My brother fell out all the time. One of my middle school classmates had a toddler sister who fell and was trapped in the guardrail and died.

I really hope the baseball player kid will be ok.

[Anonymous]

I had one with a guardrail in the 60s. Usually they are removable.

[Anonymous]

I had bunk beds from that were originally my mom/aunt's in the 60s/70s. There was a little single wooden rail that you could perch on between the foot board and the head board of the top bunk, but no one (including me) ever really bothered with it. Also, my dorm beds were bunked and didn't have rails. I took the top since I was used to it. Never fell out, even drunk as a skunk as was often the case freshman/sophomore years

[Anonymous]

There was a guy on the Bachelorette who also rolled out of a bunk bed and broke his nose. This article talks about a college kid who rolled off in his sleep and was in a coma.

https://www.insideedition.com/after-bachelorette-accident-how-avoid-falling-bunk-bed-44327?amp