My Son Choked

JWM

I don’t see that how many posts I choose to make equates in any way as to how long I’ve been reading the site – that’s very poor thinking. Are you saying that people with fewer posts are not allowed to offer an opinion – only posters like you are allowed to do that?

Also contributors with more posts (large numbers of posts does not equal intelligence or maturity by the way!) do not have more knowledge than I do – don’t be so patronising!

My opinion is that there are some posters with very strong anti-children views on this site (the Post Office thread is a shocking example). I hope this small minority do not spoil what is otherwise a great site.

I don't want to get into an argument, lives too short after all, but please remember that all posters are allowed to express their opinions, don't immediately jump on the fact that they might have only a small number of posts previously, that’s very sizest!

scheming_gypsy

JWM wrote:

Ithat all posters are allowed to express their opinions,

except child haters though

trickytrolleys

I cant believe people on here think going to Trading standards / Envi Health about this is over the top - the child choked! Would you all be so blase if a child had choked to death? If it was me I would have gone straight to Environmental health, these things need to be taken very seriously considering they are potentially fatal!

maka_2

hiya
look 1st thing i would like to thank you all for your comments and yes that does include you scheming_gypsy and wig. it's great that people have different out looks on things otherwise it would be a very boring world we live in. i just think latley some people on this site seem to want to slag people off for their thoughts instead of helping them.
when i 1st started using this site i loved it people helping me and the other way round.
But of late i find myself on this site less and less because a select few want to do nothing but argue and i really cant be arsed to be honest.
This i find is a great shame because on the whole 99.9% of the time its fantastic. its just a shame whats been being said by a select few.
And im sure that not that long ago i saw a comment from martin himself saying this site is not for fighting but to help each other from the corporate world (something along that line anyway).

kscour

(brief pause while I put on protective clothing!)
To those who don't think this is important - what if there is another pack out there with another piece of wire in? It doesn't have to be a child choking on it as it could just as easily be an adult.
And in my pleasant experience of Tescos if you're after some reassurance that it isn't going to happen again - forget it. I bought swimming armbands (their own make) from them. They weren't cheap and I checked them before putting them on my girls every week so I know they weren't splitting etc. My daughter who thankfully was the strongest swimmer was right next to my mum when one of them fell apart and dropped off her arm. Not my mums fault but she didn't notice and my daughter who could at the time swim a width (but because I had the two of them in the pool and was concentrating on teaching the other daughter I insisted she wore the armbands to be on the safe side) was thrown by the sudden extra bouancy in one arm and went under. By the time my mum had the slightest idea something was wrong I'd launched across the pool and dragged her up. So one very very shook up daughter. I didn't want compensation but what was foremost on my mind was alot of if's. If I hadn't turned to look at her that very moment, If I hadn't got to her so quick, if she hadn't been so strong a swimmer (she was fighting to get to the surface but the one armband left was stopping her) and you can't help thinking what if it was some other child, who couldn't swim, whose parents weren't watching etc. :eek:
So I went back to my local Tesco's and explained what had happened and to be fair they are very nice and helpful there normally - so much so they were very concerned that I had a full refund but as they had sold out they didn't know the price and how much did I think they had cost? But they couldn't tell me what would happen about the armbands. I wanted to know that if this was a fault and I really think it had to be that they would alert people - after all it was their own brand - but no all they could do was fill in a report form and send it off :mad: Not my local branches fault but what if this had happened to another child and they hadn't been so fortunate? I was promised that Tescos would be in touch to let me know what they found - still waiting 5 years later and funnily enough they have never sold those armbands in our local branch again
And it may be wasting resources and taking up agencys time etc but if I could wind the clock back I'ld have gone to every possible official body over and above Tescos just to know for sure that it had been properly investigated.
For the first few hours after these things happen you worry about your child but for the next few weeks or even months you end up worrying about the possibility of it happening to someone else and you being the one who could have prevented it if you'd handled things differently