A Hawaii national park has issued a new warning to tourists after a toddler was grabbed “in the nick of time” from falling off the rim of an erupting volcano.
The little boy wandered off from his family and “in a split second, ran straight toward the 400ft cliff edge” of the Kilauea volcano, the park said.
“His mother, screaming, managed to grab him”, the park added in its statement, when the toddler was “just a foot or so away from a fatal fall”.
Park ranger Jessica Ferracane, who observed the incident, told the BBC she hopes sharing details of the incident will help “prevent future tragedies”.
Next time someone makes a comment about putting kids on leashes, point them to this article.
When my sister was a toddler we went on a trip to the Grand Canyon. Immediately after arriving she started climbing over a small barrier that had a steep drop on the other side. Her harness stopped from what could’ve been a terrible accident.
The little boy wandered off from his family…
Just gonna leave an “attentive parent” comment.
Because parents can’t be bothered to actually pay attention to their kids?
The parents in the article did pay attention to their kids, which is why the kid isn’t dead. Now I’m not saying it’s a good idea to take a toddler to a volcano, but I don’t know all the details either. As another commentor said, parents aren’t robots and can’t watch their kids every second. Adding to that, toddlers are suicidal psychopaths with rubber bones. In the past an entire community looked out for kids and helped parents. Now we all live in our own silo and judge others instead of helping.
So yeah, if I see a kid on a leash, I just make sure I don’t trip on the leash
Toddlers are idiots with no sense of self preservation. All it takes is a single second for then to wander off. Parents aren’t robots that can monitor them 24/7
Sounds like a good reason to leave them at home if you’re going to a 400’ drop and can’t watch them.
Spoken like someone without kids.
I have no kids. Dudes just an idiot
This is exactly the sentence, word for word, that someone without kids would say. You can be the most attentive parent in the world and this can still happen. Parents (especially parents of kids under 2 or 3) are also chronically sleep deprived.
And yet you’re wrong…
You never make mistakes, huh?
Leashes and shock collars
When my son with autism was very young, he was a runner. I had to have a king fu grip on him at all times otherwise he’d run into traffic or off a cliff.
Harambe knows the feeling when people don’t watch their goddamn kids.
Ah yes, child doesn’t die, truly one of the news of all time
Didn’t read the “park ranger hopes the details of this incident will prevent future tragedies” part, eh?
I did, it still doesnt strike me as eventful. Kids almost run off cliffs and die every day. This is a valuable story to tell, but it’s not what I consider news.
Then again it seems like other people disagree with me here so I guess I have different expectations
This is a valuable story to tell, but it’s not what I consider news.
So then how should the story be told if not via news?
