So do you remember the freak who lived in a Walmart parking lot with his daughter? The daughter is now at the hospital after being hit by a tractor.
Will Child Protective Services finally wake up and do something for the poor kid?
The Walmart Kid
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This is very sad for the kid. From what I’ve been able to find on PTO tractor accidents she’s damn lucky she wasn’t killed. And why was there a hole at all in the floorboard? Apparently tractors are dangerous enough that they’re not supposed to have passengers at all let alone small children. Rollovers are a huge risk as well as getting run over because the operator has difficulty seeing and hearing people.
This was completely avoidable and it wasn’t some freak accident that just happened when all adults were taking normal safety precautions.
I promise, I am gun shy because of the strange woman who dropped all those accusations on me earlier. Basically its like this. She was riding on a tractor with grandpa in Missouri. She fell and her leg dropped through a hole in the floorboard and her foot was crushed in the power take off of the tractor. She is recovering well, BUT..she had to have her pinkie toe amputated, and the fourth toe next to it might go tomorrow morning. It will be her fourth surgery since it happened. She was flown to the hospital, and is recovering nicely. It was a gruesome injury and an extremely unfortunate accident. I am having a hard time dealing with it and forgiving myself. I feel like it is my fault for letting her climb on that tractor on that fateful afternoon. It hurts.
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It’s rather telling that all he seems to care about are his own feelings and not, say, what his daughter might be going through or how his negligent parenting has literally disfigured her for life. I really hope CPS gets involved. Poor child.
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“It’s rather telling that all he seems to care about are his own feelings and not, say, what his daughter might be going through or how his negligent parenting has literally disfigured her for life. I really hope CPS gets involved.”
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“She is recovering well, BUT..she had to have her pinkie toe amputated, and the fourth toe next to it might go tomorrow morning. It will be her fourth surgery since it happened.”
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Holy cow, are you people a complete waste of human flesh.
At first I could not understand how anyone with even a shred of humanity could be so . . . so . . . what’s the word . . . oh, yeah . . . inhumane.
But now I understand . . . academics.
Still, one would think that someone who wrote these words:
” . . . it was difficult for me to realize that his behavior towards me had crossed into stalker territory.”
would recognize the same behavior in themselves. But no; if there is one thing academics know, is that they can’t possibly be wrong.
Because, you know, that would mean they might actually be human. And, FSM forbid, we can’t have that, can we.
I’m guessing empathy is a foreign concept, as is respect, human decency, and most of all, the humility to heed the words of people with far more experience.
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“At first I could not understand how anyone with even a shred of humanity could be so . . . so . . . what’s the word . . . oh, yeah . . . inhumane.”
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Oh, I know. You would have to not be an elitist bully and actually have some empathy to be interested in what others have to say.
. . . perhaps you should re-read your post on confirmation bias and do a self-check to see if you and your minions meet the criteria.
But yes, I will go away. A moment of weakness had me check out your bully pulpit. It won’t happen again. Being here damages my calm.
Oh, and thank you for the condescending comment. I expected nothing less and I was not disappointed.
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“Oh, and thank you for the condescending comment. I expected nothing less and I was not disappointed.”
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You all are idiots and do not know this family. They are great people. How dare you judge someone with your narrow minds. Get a life!!!!!
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The kid should not have been allowed anywhere near the tractor. This is the most very basic safety. They’re giant pieces of machinery built for a single person and passengers–especially child passengers–are actively discouraged by just about everyone who knows how to use them properly.
This idiot goes to school and does science. The words “As Safe As Reasonably Achievable” come to mind. Believe it or not, it’s not unreasonable to expect that a parent be able to tell when they’re actively putting their child in danger. You do not let small children ride as passengers on tractors. If you do, then yes, it is your fault if your child is injured. That’s just basic common sense. If the child is not old enough to think reasonably about the possible safety issues, the onus is on the parent to think reasonably about the possible safety issues.
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Two unbalanced people are dragging a small child around, sleeping in parking lots, and living a very weird lifestyle. An accident was just waiting to happen in this situation. The really sad part, though, is that not even the accident is making them rethink this life strategy. I’m seriously worried for this little girl.
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Part of me thinks this is just an unfortunate accident.
I know first hand just how enticing a grandparent or grandparent-like figure on a tractor can be (and I absolutely rode on tractors with adults when I stayed with cousins in the countryside as probably has every kid on a farm ever).
Nothing happened to me on the tractors but I did get into some … unusual scrapes (I stomped my way right through a flimsy wooden bridge and got stuck in the mud underwater and my cousin had to dive in after me).
On the other hand, this seems like its part of a larger pattern of parents who don’t seem to have boundaries with their child (like not recognizing that the circles ‘what we want’ and ‘what she needs’ don’t perfectly overlap and who think that passing contact with random strangers is age-peer socialization).
On the other hand, I have not heard…. good things about Child Protective Services. I think the best would be serious therapy to find out why they’re rebelling so hard against the idea of being adults and parents.
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“On the other hand, this seems like its part of a larger pattern of parents who don’t seem to have boundaries with their child (like not recognizing that the circles ‘what we want’ and ‘what she needs’ don’t perfectly overlap and who think that passing contact with random strangers is age-peer socialization).”
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What a horrible story. My heart goes out to the poor kid. Both parents sound VERY immature. They don’t understand the value of socialization because their own socialization is faulty.
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Exactly. And instead of trying to ensure she is not similarly handicapped, they drag her into the same kind of hopeless existence.
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You appear to have an extremely tenuous grasp on reality and humanity, as do the clucking group you have incited. In fact, if you are capable of doing some research you will find that dropping out of the superficial rat-race currently regarded as ‘normal’ mostly gives a better-adjusted, more rounded, and better socialized individual than those unfortunates trapped in it. Parents who create such a life for their children are to be commended rather than suffer knee-jerk vilification.
Unforeseen accidents can arise from any activity ‘out of the ordinary’ which has a touch of adventure to it. Cloying cotton-wool-wrapping parents who try and monitor everything that could possibly be dangerous are stifling, and often far more prone to causing harm to their children than those who allow more freedom. The child ends up ill-equipped to recognise and deal with hazardous situations.
It is to be suggested that you climb down from the lectern, and don’t get back up there until you actually know what you are talking about.
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“Cloying cotton-wool-wrapping parents who try and monitor everything that could possibly be dangerous are stifling, and often far more prone to causing harm to their children than those who allow more freedom.”
“The child ends up ill-equipped to recognise and deal with hazardous situations.”
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“Cloying cotton-wool-wrapping parents who try and monitor everything that could possibly be dangerous are stifling, and often far more prone to causing harm to their children than those who allow more freedom. The child ends up ill-equipped to recognise and deal with hazardous situations.”
Are you talking about the parents’ parents here? Because I definitely agree that these parents are ill-equipped to recognize and deal with hazardous situations
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“Unforeseen accidents can arise from any activity ‘out of the ordinary’ which has a touch of adventure to it. Cloying cotton-wool-wrapping parents who try and monitor everything that could possibly be dangerous are stifling, and often far more prone to causing harm to their children than those who allow more freedom. The child ends up ill-equipped to recognise and deal with hazardous situations.”
-This was more than an unforeseen accident. Tractor interactions are among the leading source of child fatalities in agricultural environments. Wrapping your kid in cotton isn’t the same as keeping your kid alive. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Reasonable safety is not equivalent to keeping your kid from doing nothing. Reasonable safety is a parent taking proper precautions to keep their kids either alive or from getting seriously injured. Like this kid was, in a perfectly foreseeable accident.
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An observation:
If the exact same accident happened, say, on a school field trip and the non related adults there let the 5 year old girl as a passenger on a tractor with a hole in the floorboard big enough for her leg to slip through, her father and mother would sue in a heartbeat, regardless of any waiver they signed. They would sue to cover her medical expenses and her physical therapy if nothing else, and none of these commenters would be minimizing what happened as an “unforseeable accident.”
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Good point. In such a situation, we would hear that schools are evil, teachers are irresponsible, etc. But this is how cannibalizing parents think: THEY are allowed to do anything to the child because it belongs to them. There is absolutely no argument that will make them see why this position is not ok. We are seeing it in this very case. The kid has lost a body part, yet the daddy considers himself the victim.
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You are stupid and should shut down your pathetic blog!
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Really? ? Gosh, if you say so, I will be shutting it down immediately. Thanks for the valuable advice!
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