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You must know them personally, to be able to make a comment like this. |
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You are insane. Personally, I think it is crazy to have a pool at your house if you have small children. But these parents deserve sympathy. No one deserves to lose a child this way. You are missing some kind of empathy gene. |
| There is no shortage of aholes on DCUM, but people on this thread take the cake. |
| I just saw a picture of the Smiths' pool and it has a wrought iron pool fence around it. |
You sound almost gleeful, which is incredibly disturbing. You should seek some help for that. Tragedy can strike any family at any time, so I wouldn’t be so confident that your parenting is so stellar that nothing will befall your loved ones. |
Sociopaths and people who (wrongly) believe that nothing tragic will ever happen to them because they are so "careful." Tragic things happen to good people for no reason at all, and there is often no one to blame. Many people don't want to accept this. |
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Horrible tragedy.
We have a pool with a locking automatic cover. The key to unlock it is kept in a place out of reach of children. |
| Feel sorry for the kids for being raised by such irresponsible parents. I guess the pool fence ruined the design of their mansion. |
Indeed. The lack of empathy is something. |
| Every parent in this thread could've had a preventable accident happen to their child at some point. Just because the timing wasn't right doesn't mean you haven't left an appliance on, forgot to latch a baby baby gate, didn't tighten the car seat straps enough, took your eyes off the road, forgot to put up a knife, left a bottle of cleaner out, didn't realize how easily a piece of furniture would topple etc JUST ONCE in 18 years. Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean that you haven't had one opportunity for something to go wrong in your child's life. Stop being smug over the loss of a child. |
I think this is the only precaution that would make me feel safe with a pool and young children. Along with an alarmed gate. We don't know any details about this tragedy but I do think, even with every precaution, these kinds of accidents can happen very fast. I'm so sad for this family, can't imagine the kind of pain they're in right now. |
+10000000 |
We had this. I still worried about someone leaving the cover off. Or a malfunction. Or a child slipping through somehow. Or drowning during a party or while people were over. That is when these things happen. |