The media swarmed the 'Broken Heart" of Rogers Park for this story. A two year old child fell from a window in an apartment building at 1628 West Sherwin Avenue this morning around 10:30 a.m.
Said one resident, "God knows what's going on upstairs?"
Said another, "Kids are always running around here unsupervised!"
Update: The Alderman Moore connection:
Water Tower Realty - Management for 1628 W. Sherwin, $500.00- Individual Contribution to Citizens for Joe Moore. The building management can contribute to the Alderman's re-election fund, but can't protect the children. Alderman Moore takes campaign contributions over the safety of children.
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28 comments:
This is terrible. It is awful to think that a 7 year old will have to live with this all of his life. Parochial schools were in class today and I believe that the public schools were too. Whay wasn't this child in school at 10:28?
What do you people want? Some kind of nanny society where big brother has to watch over everybody every minute of the day? I'm sorry for the family, but what's wrong with people taking personal responsibility for their actions? You don't leave a 7 year old in charge of a 2 year old. It's easy to blame the landlord. But even if the landlord installed safety locks people disable locks just like they disable smoke detectors. Funny how everything that goes wrong or badly in Rogers Park gets laid at the feet of Joe Moore. There's plenty of things you can call him to task for, but this one is pretty dumb.
"Alderman Moore takes campaign contributions over the safety of children."
Best statement ever.
Do any of you realize how ridiculous this blog is getting?
survival of the fittest. kids die because the parents are stupid. that adult should not have reproduced in the first place.
westgard:
many people have multiple controls in their lives to protect themselves(family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and just average people who will help), but the fact is that you can not always count on others to look out for you.
this parent left the kids alone. if there were safety locks the kid still could have died 100 other ways.
Thomas: Unfortunately children are always subject to peril. That's why parents and adult supervison is called for. Leaving a 2 yr old in the supervision of a 7 yr old just does not make sense. Blaming the landlord and the alderman (which is what this blog string started out about) is silly indeed. Who's fault would it have been had the children played with matches and started a fire? Who's fault would it have been if they turned on the gas stove and died? The government madates smoke detectors, but tenants pull them apart to take the batteries. Is a landlord supposed to make hourly inspections of the smoke detectors? If the landlord installs window locks, will he have to constantly visit the tenants to make sure they are being used properly?
And then there's Craig. Who sees something evil and sinister in campaign contributions. As if Joe Moore by accepting these contributions puts little children in peril.
By the way Ayn Rand is a good read.
Tom your analogy about driving a car is silly. Here's a more likely scenario. A parent leaves their child in a parked car for two minutes with the keys in the ignition. The child put the car in gear smacks the car into a building, hurting himself and others. Should the manufactures, believing there's a slight chance of a parent leaving a kid in the car, with the keys in the ignition come up with a way to prevent children from puting the car in gear and driving it?
Tom, I understand you're a lawyer. What would happen if a landlord installs safety locks on a windows and they do not work? How many lawsuits against the landlord? And even if the locks were in working order but disabled by the tenant, landlords still would get sued.
Tom: I've never advocated repealing the building code. My blogs have been about how silly can you get blaming the landlord and the Alderman.
funny that i dislike george w too, but i dislike t westgard just as much.
I once heard a segment on NPR about why making all cars have emissions tests once a year, really has no effect on pollution and is costly regulation. The report said car's 15 years or older contribute approx 70% of the pollution. The report said money spent on pollution testing of cars would be better spent buying those cars and taking them out of the market.
If you want to have an effective way to prevent childhood death, look at the items that a high cause of childhood death. Before we start regulating windows, why aren't we making child bike helmets manditory. More children are seriously injured in bicycle accidents than falling out of windows. Child safety restraints in automobiles have been a blessing.
I don't believe in the old saw that a "government that governs best is a government that governs least", but I do believe in government with well thought out regulation. Modeling for long term and cost recovery should be considered.
You really should read Freakonomics.
westgard, do any other cities in the u.s. require these child locks? how many kids die from falls in those locations? i'm sure you are well versed in that info.
why not compare smoke detectors. very cheap, and very effective. they are required and countless lives are saved due to those devices. funny thing is that people still die in house fires. early this year there were a whole bunch that died on the south side. why did they die? oh, thats right they either did not have them, didnt work, or they did not have batteries. funny that they ones who die are the poorest in our society. it comes back to that fact, that the poorest will still perish despite the governments efforts. funny that they are the ones we should be trying to help the most, since they are technically "in need" of our assistance.
how many children die from falls from windows each year in chicago? is it really such a large issue to pass a law to protect those who need our help the most, our little children?
funny that my dislike for you counts me to be an enemy. i'm not attacking you and sure would not harm you, which you know is the definition of an enemy. but you go on with your bad self.
dislike does not equal enemy. but people are always so insecure about others not liking them, it turns them back to hs behavior and they make someone into a enemy. please. i dont like you and i dont like gw.
at least you have stats to back up an idea. you still have to deal with the facts that people dont want the government in their lives. you can argue about shared commodities and responsibilities, but this is something in your home. people will always be against such things. especially if they dont have kids. and especially when each individual can install some sort of safety device themselves if they really cared!!!
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