On 10/5/2014 2:57 AM, sf wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 20:48:52 -0700, "Julie Bove"


>>> You're thinking of old refrigerators.
>>
>> Nope. Let me look it up for ya.
>>
>> http://www.lanefurniture.com/custome...placement.aspx
>
> Where are your statistics about children dying in them? They are not
> air tight, so children and animals will not run out of oxygen.
> Starving is another issue for animals. Kids will make enough noise to
> be found.
>

Nope, kids have died. We had one local about a year ago. Here is one
of them. Suffocating kids don't make a lot of noise, and often these
chests are stored away from the daily family activity room.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014...ope-chest?lite

Here is some statistics
http://www.insideedition.com/investi...t-in-your-home

You have to push a button on the outside of the chest to open it. But
if a child climbs inside and the lid closes, there is no way out.
Suffocation and death comes quickly.

And it's not just little kids. Even 15-year-old Natalie Massarella, from
Columbus, Ohio, suffocated in a Lane hope chest. Her mother, Mary,
discovered her body.

“I opened it and I found her. And I screamed for [my husband] to call
911,” said Mary.

Robert Adler, Commissioner for the U.S. Consumer Products Safety
Commission, made a sobering prediction, “I'm very afraid that we will
see that happen. It's been happening on a regular basis since 1987.
There have been nine deaths, including the most recent two deaths. So
I'm very concerned that it may happen again.”