Do People Ever Learn.

[d2dave]

Saw on the telly tonight another case of a baby in a pram at a railway station today left unattended. Yep you guessed it, ended up over the edge and on the tracks.

I can see it wont be long before governments are forced to spend millions of our taxes realigning platforms with the slop the other way, all because of a few idiots.

[EastFreo]

And also a recall of all prams with the requirement that the replacement has a special electronic alarm to alert parents that they are more than an arms length away from the pram and/or not tethered to it.

[AndyG]

It's basically the Darwin genetic selection process at work.:wasntme:

[trog]

I would think if the CCTv coverage of supermarket car parks was the same as rail platforms , there would be a fair number of runaway prams and trolleys. it is just the availability of cheap and easy video filler for the primetime news.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

its an easy fix,,
just use the same release system as a self propelled lawn mower,,,

[discovery39]

It boggles the mind, the complete stupidity of these utter morons.
I'm amazed they remember how to get out of bed in the morning.

[Ausfree]

Seems pretty basic to me. Make sure the baby is safe before you turn your back.:o

[PAT303]

Well a few years back a wannabe model was too busy talking to her agent to notice her baby roll away into a pond at a park and the baby drowned,it took a long time before the rescue services found it,she accused anyone and everyone of abducting her child while it sank to the bottom.In todays society the person involved is not at fault,it's the person who sold the pram,designed the platform or poured the concrete. Pat

[d2dave]

If I was at a station with a pram, for starters I would have the pram side on to the platform

[Chucaro]

It's basically the Darwin genetic selection process at work.:wasntme:

some mothers do ave em :(

[loanrangie]

Saw that and couldnt believe how someone could be so stupid to let go of a pram at a train station, when my kids were in a pram i would never take my hand off it unless dead flat ground.
This was at one of our local stations too which luckily isnt a busy one.

[Debacle]

Not surprising, I see that level of complete lack of care for the safety of children from parents at work on a regular basis.

Quite often they will just let them run around on the platform and you have to tell them to get the child away from the train and hold their hand before you can give right of way to the driver.

They then give you dirty looks, as if to say what's the problem. Well the problem is that I'm trying to make sure your child doesn't get hurt, good that someone's looking out for them and it's not you.

They really need to start licencing parents.