Eclipsehornplayer

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/23/bus.boy.ap/index.html

Not much to say other then how tragic....

rjzeller

My G*D. THat is tragic. Sadly, I'm not sure what you can do to the boy. He certainly deserves some punishment for breaking into the bush, but as much as I like to take a hard stance against people who do bad things, how much weight do you give to an 8-year-old's reasoning abilities?

I think it can be pretty well assumed he had no intention of killing or harming anyone, and probably didn't figure he'd lose control of the bus at that point, either.

Simply tragic all the way around. One kid dead, the other having to live with the killing of another on his hands the rest of his life.

Manny Laureano

We had a similar (sort of) thing happen here just yesterday...

A grandmother wound up backing over her own little grandson because the mother had gone inside for just a moment and didn't take care to let the grandmother know the boy was outside.

He was 13 months old.

ML

rjzeller

That has to be the most devastating part of your post, Manny. I just don't leave any 13 month old child outside without making sure someone is watching them.

Sorry, it's devastating and she's got to be in the most terrible shock, but I DO blame the mother for that one....It's not intentional, but it IS negligent.

Tootsall

When my youngest daughter was about 3 or 4, she was out riding her tricycle on the sidewalk in front of the house while I was washing the car. I heard something and turned around.... the neighbour girl (who had just received her licence) had jumped in her car and backed it up... right over my daughter. Her tricycle protected her by preventing her from going further under than the gas tank of the car and pushed her along "ahead" of car as it reversed. The car was stopped within about 6 feet of the initial impact.

Fortunately my daughter suffered nothing more than scrapes; the neighbour was VERY shaken up (as was I)... she couldn't even see the toddler since she was below "trunk level" on the car. Everyone learned a heck of a lesson that day. We should all have gone out and purchased lottery tickets right then.