Maybe someone should be asking the pre-school teachers why they weren't watching this kid while he was shoving broken glass down his throat. In any case, I don't think you can be held responsible for what happened. That would be like the person who slips on the broken jar of peaches in the grocery aisle suing the person who droped the jar in the first place.
Re: I'm in some serious trouble
Originally posted by Cosmic_Beings
Allright, lets go back to yesterday when I was meeting at my church for a play practice. We were practicing hard, and I did great. After the practice was over, I got bored and started playing around with props. I took this big white tube and started swinging it around hitting a little peice of plastic. Well one time I hit it I slugged across the room. (We were in a big room, with tables covering half of the room.) I couldn't find the piece of plastic after I smacked it, so I pick up a christmas ornament laying upside down on one of the tables. One of the kinds that are light, hollow,and round, that you hang on trees. Anyway I pick up my big tube and slugged away at the ornament. Honestly I didn't know what I was thinking. I was acting like a complete idiot. Lucky for me it smacked up against the side of the wall but it didn't break. I let out a sigh of relief. Then when it came down on the ground it shattered into a lot of little pieces. I was thinking "Oh crap." I briskly walked away from the scene where it happened. It was a pretty big room with tile and tables so nobody saw what I did. Anyway, I went home and thought all was well. Then I got up went to school, and after I got back I heard something terrible. My church also has a preschool program going on in it. And that day the preeschoolers were out running around in the room (right before they take their naps), anyway, this preeschooler walks all the way across the big room, and from what I heard, standed behind a tablecloth on a table so he couldn't be seen, and ate two, I mean TWO peices of the ornament. They said after being called for two minutes he didn't come, and the preschool teacher found him suffocated in his own blood. (The jagged edges on the glass must've ripped his throat.) Anyway this is a huge tradgidy, because I live in a small town and they're probably gonna make a HUGE scene about it tommorow in the paper. I'm just wondering, theres no way I could get in trouble for this right? I mean wouldn't it be the teacher's fault for lack of supervision. Or at least the dumb kids fault for eating the stupid thing. I didn't mean to kill the poor kid. I feel really sick and I missed school today. Can someone help me out?
You're a f'ucking idiot for doing something like that and not at least cleaning it up or telling someone. For the child's sake and the sake of the parents, I hope that he lives. For your sake, I hope you get what you deserve you utter moron.
Come on you guys, he didn't mean to do it. And more importantly, I doubt he thought, "oh, little kids will be playing with those shards of flesh cutting broken glass." It's sad, it's irresponsible and it's childish. But, he didin't mean to do it. And looking at it from the other side of things, hind sight is always 20/20. Knowing then what he knows now, he would have cleaned up the glass, but there was no way he could have known what was going to happen. He broke something and didn't want to get in trouble for it. Anyone of us would have done the same thing.
It's really almost black comedy.
I'm concerned that you seemed more worried about your own ass than the little child who was horribly injured as a result of your own negligence and immaturity. GROW UP!!!
The path to manhood begins when you take that first step towards responsibility for you own actions.
I have 2 young children, and I would be incredibly angry if I found out that my child choked on broken glass that was left as a result of what you had done, BUT....
Going to someone and admitting what you did, and taking some action would sure make it a lot easier for me to deal with, had it been my child.
Do what's right, admit your mistake. This is a problem I see more and more with today's youth. Never willing to take responsibility for their own actions, and always looking for a way out regardless of the consequences.
cornponious
Originally posted by cornponious
WTF??? Black comedy?? Someday you'll have kids and you'll probably choke on those words.And you certainly can't liken this to that silly grocery store anecdote you stated earlier.
cornponious
Sure I can. It's the same. Someone who breaks a jar of peaches and walks away, knowing full well that someone could slip on it is guilty of exactly the same thing. They knew they dropped it, they knew it was a mess, they knew someone could fall on it, yet they simply walked away so they didn't have to pay for it. It's exactly the same thing.
I said that this kid was irresponsible for not cleaning it up, but the circumstances still apply. Nothing was done on purpose. Most of the responses in this thread have been based on moral outrage, or the fact that some of you have kids. But the simple fact of the matter is that there is no legal precedence for him getting in trouble. That coupled with the fact that he is likely a minor(which might explain why he didn't clean up the broken glass) means he has little to worry about.
Originally posted by Capt_Fantastic
Come on you guys, he didn't mean to do it. And more importantly, I doubt he thought, "oh, little kids will be playing with those shards of flesh cutting broken glass." It's sad, it's irresponsible and it's childish. But, he didin't mean to do it. And looking at it from the other side of things, hind sight is always 20/20. Knowing then what he knows now, he would have cleaned up the glass, but there was no way he could have known what was going to happen. He broke something and didn't want to get in trouble for it. Anyone of us would have done the same thing.It's really almost black comedy.
Soooo, because he didn't MEAN to do it, his actions or lack thereof AFTERWARDS totally exonerate him from any responsibilty or liability? If that were the case, car accidents would ALL be written off because the person didn't MEAN to do it. Hell, what would we need lawyers and prison for? I'm sure that if you asked the majority of criminals out there, they didn't mean to do anything.
Bottom line, we are ALL responsible for our own actions, and in this case, his actions and lack of action post event make him at least partially responsible for the injuries to this child. He was irresponsible.
Originally posted by ClaraG
i see your point and i know doing that wouldn't be responsible and is the easy way out but if it was me i would want the best for myself. call me selfish but that's just my way of doing things
It's just that it's not just you involved. There is a small child, innocent, who has no clue what happened....and I would hope that a person would have the gumption and bravery to admit their wrongdoing.
Cosmic_Beings how old are you?
live and learn my friend....
the first mistake was playing with stuff in a manner other than what was intended....the second mistake was breaking the ornament and not cleaning it up....the third mistake was not telling anyone...the fourth mistake was putting off confessing, coming to these forums, and asking people what you should do. You've got two choices: Confess....Or continue keeping this inside, letting the guilt eat at you, not sleeping well and having nightmares, always wondering if anyone knows it was you...the list goes on. I haven't been in this exact situation, but I did cause someone to get hurt due to my mistakes and irresponsiblity (wasn't life or death, nor a child).
Sooner or later, the guilt will get so bad you'll want to confess. And it will be such a relief. Get it over with.
Your conscious will be more painful than the consequnces, I promise you that...