Stupid Parents

[grffindoor2011]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18379364

What on earth were the parents thinking, letting a 4 year old go on a ride like the Tomb Blaster.

No doubt they will start blaming everyone else except themselves.

[EvianBaby]

She wasn't on the ride.

[THEMOTLEY1]

^^^That's the way I read it too.^^^

[grffindoor2011]

She was in the queue to go on it. She shouldn't have been anywhere near the queue or the ride.

Some parents need hanging.

[katdarn79]

On the Sun website it says there was a missing plank on the bridge, that she fell through.
http://www.thesun.co....ws/article4363787.ece

[Nosha123]

I dont think the parents are to blame for a missing plank on a bridge though... that is clear negligence of the venue.....

[EvianBaby]

Why shouldn't she have been on the ride? Assuming she was tall enough as per the height checkers all the rides have.

How do we know she wasn't going to stand with a member of staff while her parents went on it.

Why should they be to blame if the fencing of a queueing area 14ft off ground is insufficient?

[jno]

presumably it could just as easily have been an adult who missed a footing on a plank that wasn't there.

[bookbinder]

The parents should have seen the gap and kept their child away from it.

[katdarn79]

The parents are in no way to blame, ive let my daughter go on any ride if she has been tall enough.

[Mamyalynne]

The child had every right to be in the queue for the ride and the approach way should be safe for all to use, end of.

[EvianBaby]

The parents should have seen the gap and kept their child away from it.

Are you serious? The gap should not have been there in the first place. How often do you walk around looking straight at the ground?

[emmie]

i wondered that, usually the rides are height restricted, so how did a 4 year old go on it. Poor little thing, how she recovers.

[emmie]

sorry, hope she recovers.

[B00]

"The parents should have seen the gap and kept their child away from it."

Mini Boo often walks ahead of me, am I to blame if she was to (God forbid) fall down a hole in the flooring that I've not seen?

[EvianBaby]

Em, do you know the ride, what the height restriction is, how tall the child is?

[jno]

exactly, B00. I used to send jno jnr on ahead to check for land mines.

[emmie]

she was in the queue to go on it, that's what the article says, and that was what the news report said as well.

[EvianBaby]

Yes, but your comment suggests she wasn't tall enough to go on it. How do you know that?

[emmie]

many of these rides don't just have a height restriction but an age one.
I am not sure that i would let a 4 year old on anything like that.

[jno]

minimum height is 1.1 metres (about 3 foot 7)