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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone else thinking back to the times when your kids were small and you let them dig large holes?   I have pictures of 2 of my kids (the 2 boys) in a hole that could have killed them if it had collapsed and the thought makes me sick to my stomach.  [/quote]

I grew up near the beach and I remember seeing plenty of kids playing in holes as a kid.  And 100%, my boys would have jumped in a hole of any size when they were little if we had let them. I was an engineering major, so I knew about the dynamics of sand, but I also don’t remember hearing stories in the news about sand collapse when my kids were little. I do remember reading a story about a grain silo death. Not sure how old your kids are, but even 10-15 years ago, news didn’t “go viral” with the same intensity that it does today. There were still kids dying from collapsed holes on the beach, but they didn’t get circulated as much.

I live in a ski town, and I didn’t learn about tree wells until I moved here. It’s not so much an east coast thing as a west coast thing, and I had never seen a news story about them. Hopefully these tragedies will make this danger more well known. Every year I read a story about a child who dies sledding on a ski hill. It has happened at least a few times in my town. Don’t let your kids sled on ski runs, no matter how gentle the slope looks. Google the Doering case at copper for a horrific example. [/quote]

Ok but in that case the mom borrowed a sled from the ski daycare saying she was going to pull her kids around the village, but took them to a closed trail after hours where the kids slammed into the back of a snowplow, that was grooming slopes at 30 mph. Idiot. [/quote]

I just read about this case. They sued Cooper mountai, saying there should have been warnings about snowplow. But I think they gave up? [/quote]

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