You might be a Redneck if you killed your kid with a lawn mower?

[ShadowBoxing]

On the Today Show this morning they had a featurette called "Lawn Mower Safety", specifically aimed at riding mower accidents involving children. The couple in question was, on one Saturday morning, not watching their child, and the wife (whilst mowing the lawn) backed over her child.

The show made them seem very much like victims in the matter as the incident eventually led to the death of their son, after several attempts to save his life. It seemed to blame the lawn mower's first and foremost. "I don't know what I was thinking getting on [the lawnmower] that day" said the wife "[Our son] was always inside or on the deck". She describes backing up and seeing a bump, only to look down and realize her son was that bump. A very tragic fate for him indeed. Now the family goes and speaks about "Lawn Mower Safety" around the country.

I'm glad they never came to my town because I'd have to ask them "just how ******ed are you?" After the Today show made such a big deal about the lack of rear view mirrors, the sharpness of the blades and the lack of good stearing I just had to ask. Why wasn't she, oh I dunno, looking where she was going. How about a little common sense. "You mean you weren't looking behind you when you backed over your son?" Wow, that's stupid.

I have a riding mower, had it for quite some time, and the thing goes what...2 miles an hour, tops. I could walk faster than it at top speeds. Certain accidents with it are certainly understandable. Sometimes they malfunction, sometimes stuff gets caught up in blades and sometimes they catch fire...I've heard of all those things and gone "wow, sucks for them". This though, this scares me. How can Matt Lauer sit there straight faced and pretend not to be offended at the clear stupidity being showcased here. If you hit a person with a car, you're in deep sh**. If you run over your son with a profoundly slower and easier to control piece of equipment, society sees you as the victim. Bullcrap. These people ought to be held accountable. You run over a living thing like that because your so totally oblivious, no one should be taking your side.

Below is a website on tractor/lawnmower related injuries.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16361919

 

[hammy]

Why do you post things like this?

 

[JayCaz]

Lawnmower killings are on the up and people need to know about them.

I hear alot about 'Hoe killings' too in the US, so maybe Gardening-related crime is getting very serious.

 

[knowsbleed]

Why do you post things like this?

For your entertainment Casey. Are you not entertained?

 

[Darthphere]

On the Today Show this morning they had a featurette called "Lawn Mower Safety", specifically aimed at riding mower accidents involving children. The couple in question was, on one Saturday morning, not watching their child, and the wife (whilst mowing the lawn) backed over her child.

The show made them seem very much like victims in the matter as the incident eventually led to the death of their son, after several attempts to save his life. It seemed to blame the lawn mower's first and foremost. "I don't know what I was thinking getting on [the lawnmower] that day" said the wife "[Our son] was always inside or on the deck". She describes backing up and seeing a bump, only to look down and realize her son was that bump. A very tragic fate for him indeed. Now the family goes and speaks about "Lawn Mower Safety" around the country.

I'm glad they never came to my town because I'd have to ask them "just how ******ed are you?" After the Today show made such a big deal about the lack of rear view mirrors, the sharpness of the blades and the lack of good stearing I just had to ask. Why wasn't she, oh I dunno, looking where she was going. How about a little common sense. "You mean you weren't looking behind you when you backed over your son?" Wow, that's stupid.

I have a riding mower, had it for quite some time, and the thing goes what...2 miles an hour, tops. I could walk faster than it at top speeds. Certain accidents with it are certainly understandable. Sometimes they malfunction, sometimes stuff gets caught up in blades and sometimes they catch fire...I've heard of all those things and gone "wow, sucks for them". This though, this scares me. How can Matt Lauer sit there straight faced and pretend not to be offended at the clear stupidity being showcased here. If you hit a person with a car, you're in deep sh**. If you run over your son with a profoundly slower and easier to control piece of equipment, society sees you as the victim. Bullcrap. These people ought to be held accountable. You run over a living thing like that because your so totally oblivious, no one should be taking your side.

Below is a website on tractor/lawnmower related injuries.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16361919

[redneck]Yeah, I gots a question for y'all, what type of lawnmower you guys use? Because if it can kill a kid, than that sum***** better be darn good at cutting grass.[/redneck]

 

[LazloSpeeker]

On the Today Show this morning they had a featurette called "Lawn Mower Safety", specifically aimed at riding mower accidents involving children. The couple in question was, on one Saturday morning, not watching their child, and the wife (whilst mowing the lawn) backed over her child.

The show made them seem very much like victims in the matter as the incident eventually led to the death of their son, after several attempts to save his life. It seemed to blame the lawn mower's first and foremost. "I don't know what I was thinking getting on [the lawnmower] that day" said the wife "[Our son] was always inside or on the deck". She describes backing up and seeing a bump, only to look down and realize her son was that bump. A very tragic fate for him indeed. Now the family goes and speaks about "Lawn Mower Safety" around the country.

I'm glad they never came to my town because I'd have to ask them "just how ******ed are you?" After the Today show made such a big deal about the lack of rear view mirrors, the sharpness of the blades and the lack of good stearing I just had to ask. Why wasn't she, oh I dunno, looking where she was going. How about a little common sense. "You mean you weren't looking behind you when you backed over your son?" Wow, that's stupid.

I have a riding mower, had it for quite some time, and the thing goes what...2 miles an hour, tops. I could walk faster than it at top speeds. Certain accidents with it are certainly understandable. Sometimes they malfunction, sometimes stuff gets caught up in blades and sometimes they catch fire...I've heard of all those things and gone "wow, sucks for them". This though, this scares me. How can Matt Lauer sit there straight faced and pretend not to be offended at the clear stupidity being showcased here. If you hit a person with a car, you're in deep sh**. If you run over your son with a profoundly slower and easier to control piece of equipment, society sees you as the victim. Bullcrap. These people ought to be held accountable. You run over a living thing like that because your so totally oblivious, no one should be taking your side.

Below is a website on tractor/lawnmower related injuries.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16361919

Further proof that women and tools don't mix. Men made these tools, cultivated the materials to make these tools... men KNOW these tools.

Please ladies, you're doing more damage than good even if you do know how to turn a wrench.

 

[LazloSpeeker]

[redneck]Because if it can kill a kid, than that sum***** better be darn good at cutting grass.

Dude, you don't even know how to speak redneck. It's not 'sumb**ch.'

It's actually son-a-***** with only about half the 'a' pronounced.

 

[Logan's Runt]

Further proof that women and tools don't mix. Men made these tools, cultivated the materials to make these tools... men KNOW these tools.

Please ladies, you're doing more damage than good even if you do know how to turn a wrench.

Dude, you don't even know how to speak redneck. It's not 'sumb**ch.'

It's actually son-a-***** with only about half the 'a' pronounced.

Wtf?

 

[DeaDheaD]

One of my in-laws riding lawnmower does 14 mph , its good for getaways

 

[jaguarr]

Lawnmower killings are on the up and people need to know about them.

I hear alot about 'Hoe killings' too in the US, so maybe Gardening-related crime is getting very serious.

The Garden Weasel is well on it's way to becoming the number one murder weapon in America. It's true.

jag

 

[Schlosser85]

How the hell are you oblivious that you don't realize you're running over your son with a lawn mower? I could even see accidentally running over your son with your car (and if you did you'd get in trouble for it), but a freaking LAWN MOWER (?!)

 

[knowsbleed]

They must've put custom shocks on it... lift kit or something.

 

[jaguarr]

They must've put custom shocks on it... lift kit or something.

You would almost need the lift kit to get enough clearance to mangle the child properly. Those mowers are usually pretty low to the ground so you'd either have to have enough speed built up to leverage the momentum in allowing you to roll up over the top of him or you'd have to have the mower chassis up high enough that you could go slower and still chop him up.

jag

 

[JayCaz]

You would almost need the lift kit to get enough clearance to mangle the child properly. Those mowers are usually pretty low to the ground so you'd either have to have enough speed built up to leverage the momentum in allowing you to roll up over the top of him or you'd have to have the mower chassis up high enough that you could go slower and still chop him up.

jag

might have been a 'hover mow'


I crack me up.

 

[Logan's Runt]

You would almost need the lift kit to get enough clearance to mangle the child properly. Those mowers are usually pretty low to the ground so you'd either have to have enough speed built up to leverage the momentum in allowing you to roll up over the top of him or you'd have to have the mower chassis up high enough that you could go slower and still chop him up.

jag

They are low, but powerful, and with little stopping power. They have to be powerful enough to go up fairly steep hills at low speed, and so they take off from stop with lots of power. Its way too easy on one of those to start going in a direction and not be able to reverse or stop quickly. My dad's old riders didn't have brakes at all, you just throw it into reverse to stop quickly, or vice versa. It would be pretty easy to hit reverse, have the mower power over the kid, and not be able to switch gears in time. Not that those things excuse not looking behind you when backing up on a machine that you should know beforehand is hard to stop and takes off suddenly with too hard a twitch of your hand or foot. Or teaching your kids not to play behind a lawnmower.

Plus, once the blades get ahold of something chunky, like a hand, they suck it in pretty powerfully. Rabbits are too big to fit under a mower deck at standard height, but I've seen plenty of them get sucked under.

My brother used to chase me with the lawn tractor.

 

[Fading]

You would almost need the lift kit to get enough clearance to mangle the child properly.

jag

That's almost sig worthy lol. Saying this from experience? Been dumping trash bags in the river have we? Lol just kidding.

As for the topic, I feel for the kid, and I do feel for the saddness of the family, but WTF? Everyone is at fault but the person who actually did it anymore I guess. Maybe this is a way for the mom to cope with her grief rather than admitting she did it. However of course lawn mower blades are sharp...this isn't the world's best kept secret.

Let's put it this way, when mowing your lawn you stop to pick up sticks and rocks, yet she backed right over a 'bump' she saw over the corner of her eye....right. A lawn mower is slow, and not hard to stop. If I was backing up and saw something the size of a small boulder out of the corner of my eye, I'd damn well stop and look to see what I was backing up over.

 

[Darthphere]

Dude, you don't even know how to speak redneck. It's not 'sumb**ch.'

It's actually son-a-***** with only about half the 'a' pronounced.

Phonetically, my response is correct, and you've clearly never been to Tallahassee.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

That's almost sig worthy lol. Saying this from experience? Been dumping trash bags in the river have we? Lol just kidding.

As for the topic, I feel for the kid, and I do feel for the saddness of the family, but WTF? Everyone is at fault but the person who actually did it anymore I guess. Maybe this is a way for the mom to cope with her grief rather than admitting she did it. However of course lawn mower blades are sharp...this isn't the world's best kept secret.

Let's put it this way, when mowing your lawn you stop to pick up sticks and rocks, yet she backed right over a 'bump' she saw over the corner of her eye....right. A lawn mower is slow, and not hard to stop. If I was backing up and saw something the size of a small boulder out of the corner of my eye, I'd damn well stop and look to see what I was backing up over.

Yeah, seriously. This is like parents who let their kids wander aimlessly in malls without watching them, and then cry foul when some unsavory character scoops them up, or people who take their kids to McDonald's everyday and then get mad because they're fat and lazy. A little personal responsible would be nice here. I don't expect Matt to trash these parents, but to practically reward them by allowing them to travel the country and speak out against lawnmowers is just ridiculous. The lawnmower didn't kill their kid, poor driving skills did. My dog, and all the other little animals and plastic objects that often find their way into my yard are fine because, honestly, I have a little common sense when it comes to operating these things, and I've been using one since middle school.

 

[bullets]

You can't accidently back a mower over your kid. Stupid or not I suspect foul play.

 

[Schlosser85]

At best, these parents are morons who didn't have the basic sense to keep an eye on their kid or watch where the hell they were going on their lawnmower.

At worst, they ran their kid over on purpose to get attention for themselves.

 

[Obi-Ron]

That kid's *** was grass.