On 10/5/2014 12:23 PM, sf wrote:
> 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.
>
Uh... yeah. Especially if it was of good construction. Lane cedar
chests were always good construction. Pre-1987 Lane cedar chests had
automatic locks. Still, I was not allowed near the cedar chest. I knew
better than to try to open it, much less look at what was inside it,
without Mom being there with me. In fact, there were many places I
wasn't allowed, including near a hot stove with boiling pots. Just
sayin'.
Jill