Latest consumer safety rediculousness

[RatLabGuy]

http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/15/news/window_blinds_recall/index.htm

This is absolutely rediculous.
I can't believe we still are allowed to have forks and steak knives, those are pretty dangerous too.

Much easier solution - if you have kids, and a re REALLY worried about this kind of thing, just tie a knot in the end of the rope or tuck and tape them behind them so your kid can't get to it.

I'm sorry, but a little intelligent/attentive parenting will do your kids alot better than trying to idiot-proof everything.

/rant off

 

[Your Hot Dog Guy!]

I could not agree more. I figured out at a younge age if I stuck a bobby pin or similar thing into a electrial socket, I got the chit shocked out of me! Nobody had to tell me not to do it again. Drive a nail into the window trim and hang the @&^(@ cord on the nail. But be careful with that deadly hammer and use safety glasses and gloves! I'm done now.

 

[GotWood]

The world went wrong when they decided to put stop signs on the side of school buses. Before that, the dumb kids just got ran over.

 

[rattlecanpaint]

I totally agree! Lack of parenting is 99% of what is wrong with this country.

 

[burrellsjeep]

This is a serious problem guys, Nothing to joke about!

How am I supposed the leave my toddle alone, while I am in no way paying attention or listening to him.

In all seriousness we put up small cleats to wrap our cords around and keep them safe and keep the blinds from being damaged.

 

[strange1]

^^^^^ yeah, but when they get impaled through a notstril on one of those dock cleats, none of the rest of us will be able to buy them.

 

[burrellsjeep]

^^^Yeah Agreed^^^ We will just have to paint our windows, But they might eat the paint and get sick

 

[RatLabGuy]

In all seriousness we put up small cleats to wrap our cords around and keep them safe and keep the blinds from being damaged.

Oh shizzit, is that what those things are for??
Our old house had some on teh frames and for years I was like, WTF is this? lol.

Kids choking aside, I wish I had a nickel for every time one end got sucked up into a vacuum cleaner, hmm love that sound.

 

[mbalbritton]

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that ROMAN BLINDS got their name from the ROMAN TIMES. You mean to tell me that Julius Caesar didn't have the foresight to see the inherent danger in these and ban them before they became popular?

 

[D'Mann]

It's not the cord that you pull on that is the danger, it's the cord that weaves through the blind itself down to the bar at the bottom that gets the kids. this is roman blinds, not venetian blinds like most of us have, where the cord runs through all of the slats and you can't get your head in between them.

That being said, fawk the idiot that decided that this needs to be recalled. Who is gonna recall the cliff that gave way and killed my dad's best friend the year I was born? More people have died from falling off cliffs than getting strangled in roman blinds.

Freeking idiots

 

[burrellsjeep]

It's not the cord that you pull on that is the danger, it's the cord that weaves through the blind itself down to the bar at the bottom that gets the kids. this is roman blinds, not venetian blinds like most of us have, where the cord runs through all of the slats and you can't get your head in between them.

That being said, fawk the idiot that decided that this needs to be recalled. Who is gonna recall the cliff that gave way and killed my dad's best friend the year I was born? More people have died from falling off cliffs than getting strangled in roman blinds.

Freeking idiots

They recalled the venetian blinds in 2000

"In 2000, CPSC also worked with the Window Covering Safety Council to recall 85 million (see correction below) window blinds. The recall mostly affected Venetian and vertical blinds"

 

[Fart]

It's not the cord that you pull on that is the danger, it's the cord that weaves through the blind itself down to the bar at the bottom that gets the kids. this is roman blinds, not venetian blinds like most of us have, where the cord runs through all of the slats and you can't get your head in between them.

Exactly. Sounds like most of the users here didn't even figure out the problem when you put an article, with pictures, right under their noses. How can you expect all the parents in America to be aware of this issue? Furthermore, why wouldn't you want to make a product safer when it is going to go in millions of homes?

I could not agree more. I figured out at a younge age if I stuck a bobby pin or similar thing into a electrial socket, I got the chit shocked out of me! Nobody had to tell me not to do it again.

You basically just reaffirmed the need for this type of recall.
You told us that you did stupid stuff that could have killed you and your parents were not around 100% of the time to stop you. You can't pat yourself on the back for that.

The fact that parents can't eyeball their kids 100% of the time is exactly why we need safe products; or at least a strong awareness of what products are not safe and what we can do to safeguard them. These types of recalls are as much about awareness as they are about fixing the problem. The vast majority of people will not apply this new safety mechanism to their existing blinds, but if you make them aware of the dangers they will keep a closer eye on what their kids are doing.