Originally Posted by Chickenhauler:
Honestly, I think it's a pretty weasel-ly thing all around for all parties.
The mom wants to blame the city, everyone wants the lady who was watching the kid tarred and feathered, the city is running around with their heads cut off looking for anyone to blame but themselves, etc etc.
How about this one.....bad stuff happens sometimes?
Honestly, how many here knew that a plastic slide could reach 160+ degrees before this? How easily could this have been any one of us?
You want to know what REALLY is going to come out of this? The park being torn down. The entire play structure, slides, walkways, swings, EVERYTHING is going to be torn down.
Why? Because everyone wants someone to pay, and the city is going to say "fine, we're going to have to limit our liability.....tear the park down".
As for charges on the provider, they could never get abuse to stick, they could get negligence, but never abuse.
I agree! Accidents happen. Now we are all even more aware of the damage a heated play surface can cause! Do we really have to make someone PAY for it...
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The city and or manufacurer spending hundreds of thousands of dollars replacing slides??
The child care providers name being dragged through the dirt and being blamed for this??
Come on people. It was an accident. Lets all learn from it and move on. I am glad that news station didnt try to give the home daycare provider (AND ALONG WITH IT A STIGMA FOR ALL HOME PROVIDERS) a bad name. They focused on making parents aware of a potential safety hazard.
Everyone has made errors in judgement...arent you glad a news station wasnt there to document it a plaster it on everyones tv screen? Let's not be so quick to judge others. None of us were there and do not know how it all played out. Obviously the parent trusts her provider. And I am sure the provider has learned from her mistake as well.