Miracle? Boy survives after falling from tree house trying to escape yellow jackets and falls onto meat skewer that pierces his skull.
Sounds like hideously neglectful and careless parenting to me.
You allow a yellow jacket nest to exist more than a day near where your child plays.
You stick a meat skewer into the ground directly where they could likely fall.
I hate the word "Miracle" in the first place....
Unless it's a fantastic white horse.
But credit goes to the medical team who had years of training and knew what to do.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I grew up in a "freerange" family (remember this was the 50's - 60's). We did lots of things most parents would not let their kids do. We built a tree house in a vacant lot a couple of blocks from our home. Once my sister was going up the ladder we built and fell into a sticker bush. She also caught herself on a nail sticking out of a board and ripped her side. A neighbor came to the rescue (parts of her fat were hanging out). She required many stitches to fix her wound.
When I was about 11 we built a treehouse on the other side of a fence in our back yard. We had a step ladder to get over the fence. Once I was returning to the backyard, climbed over the fence onto the ladder. It started to shake and I thought I would dive and roll. But then I was hanging upside down (the fence was the kind with crossed points on the top and my leg got impaled on one point. My dad rushed and lifted me off. My calf was ripped and we could see the bone. It took a dozen stitches and I still have the scar. Want to see? Being a kid in the old days was so much fun!!
JackPedigo
Level 9
Sep 13, 2018
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I did have an adventurous childhood, ad so did my kids.
But if I did believe in g-d, it sounds like it was trying its best to kill the kid, and now it's getting all the credit for saving him.
I saw this on my local news (I live in Missouri). From my understanding, the parents did not know a skewer was near the treehouse. Also, yellowjacket nests are underground so the parents may not have even known there was one near the treehouse.
Personally, I think you're judging things on information that isn't even there.
I do agree with the "miracle" thing though.
kiramea
Level 7
Sep 13, 2018
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(going out back to move my meat skewer collection)
Count_Viceroy
Level 7
Sep 13, 2018
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An ounce of prevention ?
But whether you pronounce it with one or two syllables tell me where you might live.
it's a miracle that anyone still believes in miracles. wait, wrong word. what do i mean? um... i know! it's astonishingly ignorant that anyone still believes in miracles!
but some of it is just language. even an atheist can fall into the trap of saying oh my god when hearing something shocking, and it's honestly NOT a call to a deity, it's just a phrase indicating shock. same with miracles, SOME of the time. other times, it's a religionist not giving credit (or blame) where it's due.
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genessa
Level 8
Sep 13, 2018
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They are actually saying g-d is the reason this kid is alive.
Wrong.
Well trained doctors are the reason this kid is still alive.
If his parents had just prayed the kid would have eventually moved his head the wrong way and bled out in a couple minutes.
@BufftonBeotch oh in this case for sure, stupid parents. i was just speaking in general.
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Yellow jackets are nasty when riled. Very nasty.
Umbral
Level 8
Sep 13, 2018
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Very much agree.
Remember all the scare talk and movies about "Killer Bees" in the seventies.
Another load of BS. lol
Wow, judge much?
ReadyforaChange
Level 7
Sep 13, 2018
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Yes.
I judge someone leaving a meat skewer in the ground directly under a kids tree house.
I will not apologize for that...ever.
Or allowing a damn yellow jacket nest to remain.
@BufftonBeotch It doesn't say how big the nest was or how the skewer got there. It very well could have been the beginning of a nest with only 1-5 individuals, which would be very difficult to know it even exists until you piss them off. I also know that when I was his age, I played with ninja stars and knives, pretty much anything that was sharp that I could jab stuff with. Throwing a pointy object into the ground to get it to stick is an activity that I haven't outgrown. If I were to guess the most likely reason the skewer ended up under his tree house sticking up is because he was dropping it to get it to stick into the ground.
Without more details, it's impossible to say if it was negligence.
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