Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 07:08     Subject: Re:Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.




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.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 06:45     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote: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.


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Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 04:17     Subject: Re:Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote: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.


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.


Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 03:38     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 03:28     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:There is no shortage of aholes on DCUM, but people on this thread take the cake.


Indeed. The lack of empathy is something.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 02:02     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Feel sorry for the kids for being raised by such irresponsible parents. I guess the pool fence ruined the design of their mansion.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 01:16     Subject: Re:Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
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.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2019 00:55     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Eh. Never heard of this person and I don’t have a ton of sympathy for preventable tragedies like this. Watch your kids. Have an alarm on the door leading to the pool. Have a gate around the pool. It’s not rocket science.


Agreed.


You both are heartless.


Nope, just practical. The mother of this child? Was posting gleefully about a honeymoon sans kids and working on her abs 4 days before her 3rd child died.

I wonder where she was while he was falling into the pool and dying alone.


You better hope something like this never happens to you, because you won't have all the answers. You're not practical, you lack empathy.


Sociopaths lack empathy.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 23:30     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eh. Never heard of this person and I don’t have a ton of sympathy for preventable tragedies like this. Watch your kids. Have an alarm on the door leading to the pool. Have a gate around the pool. It’s not rocket science.


Agreed.


You both are heartless.


Nope, just practical. The mother of this child? Was posting gleefully about a honeymoon sans kids and working on her abs 4 days before her 3rd child died.

I wonder where she was while he was falling into the pool and dying alone.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 23:17     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
I just saw a picture of the Smiths' pool and it has a wrought iron pool fence around it.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 22:53     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
There is no shortage of aholes on DCUM, but people on this thread take the cake.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 22:47     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there any uglier trait than filling in smug judgment where your heartfelt sympathy is supposed to be?

The only person who deserves sympathy is the child who this lazy narcissist and her loser husband let drown because they needed to show off with a house pool. Go cry elsewhere.


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.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 22:41     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Eh. Never heard of this person and I don’t have a ton of sympathy for preventable tragedies like this. Watch your kids. Have an alarm on the door leading to the pool. Have a gate around the pool. It’s not rocket science.


Agreed.


You both are heartless.


Nope, just practical. The mother of this child? Was posting gleefully about a honeymoon sans kids and working on her abs 4 days before her 3rd child died.

I wonder where she was while he was falling into the pool and dying alone.


JFC I have seen a lot of shit comments here but you really take the cake. So a mother can’t enjoy exercise or a child free trip without her kid deserving to die? You are awful. Truly. [/quit her priorities were off
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 22:40     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there any uglier trait than filling in smug judgment where your heartfelt sympathy is supposed to be?

The only person who deserves sympathy is the child who this lazy narcissist and her loser husband let drown because they needed to show off with a house pool. Go cry elsewhere.


You must know them personally, to be able to make a comment like this.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2019 22:38     Subject: Granger Smith's 3-year old dies in pool accident
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there any uglier trait than filling in smug judgment where your heartfelt sympathy is supposed to be?


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