On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:50:34 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

> 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.”

I had no idea anyone or anything could suffocate inside a wooden box.

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