Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 20:09     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
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.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 20:08     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
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.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 20:01     Subject: Re:Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
So far 4:3, in favor of bunk beds having had guard rails while our parents were playing our Ataris after pur bedtimes.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:42     Subject: Re:Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
I got a concussion falling off the top bunk at camp in the 80s.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:41     Subject: Re:Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
Mine had guard rails. My Mom still has the beds. I was born in '72.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:40     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
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.


That's horrible
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:23     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
Anonymous wrote:I remember falling out of the top bunk at 4-5 years old, approx 1980. I believe that bunk beds had no guard rails back then. Agree/disagree?


Mine did. I know that because my mom still has it! But the guard rail was a separate piece that was attached so not everyone might have used it.

Also, mine was bought in 1976, so maybe yours was older?
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:20     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
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.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:11     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
I was born in ‘71. Most families we knew had kids in bunk beds. Everyone I saw until college had guard rails —even if they didn’t have a real ladder and you just climbed the footboards.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:08     Subject: Re:Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
Anonymous wrote:I agree. My 3 brothers, 1 sister and I used to share a room (2 bedroom farmhouse with 1 bathroom) We had 2 sets of Ethan Allen bunk beds. Neither set had guard rails or a ladder. We only fell out a couple of times. My kids (now older teens) use the bunk beds my younger brother and I slept in. We bought the plastic guard rails that fit under the mattress.


OK. Sometimes I am not sure I am remembering things right (head injury? Lol) , but I looked up the Brady Bunch boys' room and -- no guard rails to be seen.

I purchased those "bed bumpers" so my 4yo would not fall out of his 2-foot off the ground twin bed.

I guess it's another one of those things like the metal playground slides that literally burned your butt when it was hot and other crazy kid equipment from back then.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:05     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
Anonymous wrote:I remember falling out of the top bunk at 4-5 years old, approx 1980. I believe that bunk beds had no guard rails back then. Agree/disagree?


Mine did. I was born in '73.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:03     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
That should say they were required*
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:03     Subject: Re:Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
I agree. My 3 brothers, 1 sister and I used to share a room (2 bedroom farmhouse with 1 bathroom) We had 2 sets of Ethan Allen bunk beds. Neither set had guard rails or a ladder. We only fell out a couple of times. My kids (now older teens) use the bunk beds my younger brother and I slept in. We bought the plastic guard rails that fit under the mattress.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:03     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
I think it was after injuries broken bones and death - strangulation between the bars happened that they were equites.
Anonymous
Post 11/07/2022 19:00     Subject: Bunk beds in the 70s/80s didn't have guard rails - fight me
I remember falling out of the top bunk at 4-5 years old, approx 1980. I believe that bunk beds had no guard rails back then. Agree/disagree?