Sucks to be her.

This is an old issue that shouldn't be one. There are safety equipment options.

Just thinking about it is tearing the ass out of me!

Somewhere John Edwards is chasing her ambulance

"the suction caused a two-inch tear in Abigail's rectum and pulled out much of her small intestine. "

Um, wouldn't the large intestine be involved as well?

Well, the girl found out quickly that this stimulation was not so pleasureable.

Better than losing both your feet

"the suction caused a two-inch tear in Abigail's rectum and pulled out much of her small intestine. "

Um, wouldn't the large intestine be involved as well?

Posted by ness_gadol at 2007-07-05 09:59 P

Star Tribune

A 6-year-old Edina girl remained hospitalized in serious condition Wednesday after an unusual accident in which several feet of her intestine were pulled out by the suction of a swimming pool drain.

Abigail Taylor was injured Friday in the wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park and taken to Children's Hospital for surgery.
,,,
Bennett said doctors had to perform surgery to remove the part of Abigail's intestine that remained following the accident. He said it is likely that she will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life.

Bennett said doctors now are concentrating on preventing infection and managing pain, and are also deciding what course to take on further potential medical procedures to treat the injury.

"Somewhere John Edwards is chasing her ambulance"

Edwards has, indeed, done some lawyerin' in a similar case to this.

In this case the Golf Club that maintained the pool is liable because it was their responsiblity to make sure the wading pool drain cover was safe. It was missing. Whether that's due to vandalism or shoddy maintanance is not the little girls fault nor her family.

Suing the Ob-gyns fer the faulty palsy linkage was another story altogether but even most rabid RTs agree with cases like these.

Wotsa matter?

Yer partisanship over-powering yer empathy once again?

This is worse than the time li'l Johnny managed to impale a picket from a fence right up his asshole!

Sorry? Wot's that? "Rectum", you say?

Wrecked him? It practically kilt him!

Be Well.

I read this earlier today. Weirdest thing I ever heard of.

You people are sick. God and god alone made the decision to punish this little girl by sucking her guts out of her body. She or her parents must've done something to deserve this punishment. Praise the lord.

John Edwards sued a company over this very same issue.

The money he made pays for his $1200 haircuts.

Yea, God punishes the children for their parents sins.

Angry is BOWA or OOHRAY incognito.

The money he made pays for his $1200 haircuts.

You have a problem with a barber making that kind of money.

I certainly don't hear ya bitchin about the pro-sportmans owners payin the outrageous prices for crappy players.

Sorry, moneydude, I guess the sarcasm was a little too subtle.

"Yea, God punishes the children for their parents sins."

And I'm pretty sure something to that effect is lurking around in the good book somewhere.

$1200 haircuts

Thought that was a 400 dollar haircut?

But wot are facts to one such as YKW?

Does the thought of missing Billions in tax dollars mean anything to you or is all about how much the candidates spend on their hair.

Rudy only pays 200 bucks fer his haircuts but that's mostly because he's going bald and thus gets 50% off.

Mostly.

The other reason is that Rudy either gets the discount or he sends one of Kerik's goons over to make the barber an offer he can't refuse.

Be Well.

...lurking around in the good book

"Suffer the little children..."?

Be Well.

God says that he visits "the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation."

Exodus 34:7

Angry,

I understood the sarcasm in your post, apparently you could not see mine.

Exodus 34:7 quote is interesting, just not sure you are understanding it the same way I read it.

Um, aah, a poor father will have poor children and so on. So being poor is a sin?

Weirdest thing I ever heard of.

Happens all the time. Unfortunately, often kids will get a leg stuck in a drain and drown.

Stop with the typical Republican garbage and slurs about calling John Edwards an "ambulance chaser" when you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

John Edwards is a decent lawyer and I'd like to see some of these sleezy Republicans complain about Edwards going to bat for them if it was THEIR 5 year old daughter with her guts sucked out of her body.

JOHN EDWARDS' CASE:

On a summer evening in 1993, David Lakey took his little girl swimming at a recreation center in Raleigh, N.C. Valerie Lakey was 5 years old, a good swimmer, and she and her friends liked to splash around in the children's wading pool that stayed open a little later than the big pool where they usually swam.

That's what Valerie was doing when a nearby mom heard her call out for help. Valerie was sitting on the bottom of the shallow pool, and the suction from the drain was holding her down. David Lakey raced to free his daughter but couldn't. Other parents jumped in the water to help, but they couldn't get Valerie loose. Valerie was scared, and she began to say that her stomach hurt.

Time passed, and somebody figured out how to turn off the pool's pump. The suction broke, and Valerie was released from its grip. But as David Lakey pulled his daughter from the water, blood and tissue filled the pool. Valerie's intestines had been sucked out.

David Lakey slumped to the ground on the side of the pool. He held his daughter on his chest, praying as they waited for an ambulance. Over and over, he told Valerie, "Daddy loves you. Daddy loves you. Daddy loves you."

This account of what happened to Valerie Lakey comes from "Four Trials," the book John Edwards wrote last year as he prepared to run for the presidency. Edwards represented
Valerie in a lawsuit against the company that made the drain cover in that swimming pool. A jury awarded her $25 million, compensation for a life of intravenous feedings and colostomy bags.

[Republican]Tucker Carlson has heard about Valerie's case. It's the [same] one, apparently, that causes him to dismiss John Edwards as a "personal-injury lawyer specializing in Jacuzzi cases."

For six years now, Republicans have tried to minimize and demonize John Edwards as the worst kind of societal parasite: a personal-injury lawyer. North Carolina Sen. Lauch Faircloth ran anti-lawyer TV spots when Edwards ran against him in 1998. When Edwards began pondering a presidential campaign, then-White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was quoted as saying, "Bring on the ambulance chaser."

Bush and his own band of thieves like to make it look like Edwards is a sleezy lawyer stealing from everyone but Edwards took that 5 year old girl's family's case on a contingency basis. If they lost the case, Edwards' firm eats all the costs themselves and the family pays him nothing. If he wins, his firm gets 1/3.

While Edwards, like most attorneys, won't discuss his fee arrangements with his clients, plaintiffs' lawyers generally take cases on a contingency-fee basis. If the client loses, the lawyer charges nothing and covers the costs associated with the case. But if the client recovers money, either through a verdict or a settlement, the lawyer typically keeps approximately one-third, plus reimbursement for the costs he has fronted.

...Edwards didn't take "tens of millions of dollars" of Valerie Lakey's settlement. After Edwards showed that the pool-drain company knew that people had been injured before by its product, that the product could have been made safe by the use of two inexpensive screws, and that the company had thought about including a written warning with the product but didn't do so -- and after the company's insurers rejected an offer to settle for $4.1 million -- a jury ordered the company to pay Valerie Lakey $25 million, and the parties settled on that amount. Edwards' law firm received about a third -- or roughly $8 million -- plus a million or so more as its share of settlements with other defendants in the case.

The greedy corporation and its insurers rejected a $4.1 million offer to the family and then THE JURY clobbered the arrogant corporation and its insurer with a $25 million verdict against them. Bush and thugs are fine with lawyers when it gets them out of trouble.

Republicans don't like lawyers who defend the average working guy against huge corporations.

Sucks to be her.

Posted by cookfish at 2007-07-05 09:19 PM | Reply |


Just thinking about it is tearing the ass out of me!

Posted by ASSHAT at 2007-07-05 09:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

Somewhere John Edwards is chasing her ambulance

Posted by cwakes at 2007-07-05 09:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

John Edwards sued a company over this very same issue.

The money he made pays for his $1200 haircuts.

Posted by YouKnewWho at 2007-07-05 10:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Here's the link to the above quotes.

"She'll receive her nutrition through a port for the rest of her life."

Horrible.

CC- Fred is a trial lawyer, right?

This happens almost every summer. I used to think it was a myth until they did it on Mythbusters. They sucked the ass right out of the berret guy. Ok the thats part is not true...but this does seem to happen every few years.

sorry take out the "the-thats" add that. Tired time for bed

Hell if John Edwards cared about this little girl so much he could have just done it Pro Bono. He's already rich so a freebee here or there wouldn't hurt.

How many cases did John Edwards turn down where the person to be sued didn't have a lot of money?

He's a slimy predator if I ever saw one. All the money and haircuts in the world can't wash that off.

YKW- Gonna vote for fred thompson?

Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!

YKW- Gonna vote for fred thompson?

God you're such a simple-minded fucking tool.

Have you ever had an abstract thought in your life?

Well, if you were paying attention you'd notice that YKW brought up edwards in a thompson thread, so i simply returned the favor.

Sorry I attacked the honky of hocus pocus and the next daddy figure you're gonna vote for, pinche.

Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!

Posted by Pinche_Mao at 2007-07-06 12:20 AM | Reply | Flag:


God you're such a simple-minded fucking tool.

Have you ever had an abstract thought in your life?


Posted by Pinche_Mao at 2007-07-06 12:22 AM | Reply | Flag:


Priceless.

Pinche-
Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!

Nothing about this is funny----even when you observe it through the prism of abstraction inherent to fucking pussies whose way of life allows them to post commentary on internet message boards all day long.


You're such an obvious jerk, Pinche.

Nice catch, boyd.

Hope the muck from looking through the obnoxious bullying douchebags posting history washes off.

Nice catch, boyd

Oh yeah?

Well nice "pitch", Alexandrite.

I knew I grew that goatee for a reason!

Check ya later, pal. :)

---Sincerely,

Boyd

Pinche-
re: Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!

You're such a laugh riot, dude.

I'm sure many may not get the joke, so allow me to explain:

See, a little girl got her intestines sucked out by a faulty pool drain, and the company was aware of the problem years before. It would have cost pennies to fix the defect, but even less to deny the problem and hope for a sympathetic court ruling.

You can laugh now. That was the joke.

Ain't Pinche funny?

Thanks for the anklebiting, pinche.

Pinche-
I always seem to botch a joke.

Maybe you can make this funny:

Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!

(I really don't know how your joke failed, 'cause I'm bad at telling jokes)


So, um, how is a little girl being eviscerated funny.

Try again, Pinche, from the top: "Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!

Would it be funny if Hannah Montana was the kid, pinche?

Just thought I'd ask the manly man of the blog who watches the disney channel.

See, Pinche, I thought this, "Betcha she won't have the guts to swim in that pool again!", was REALLY FUNNY, but I'm afraid that most people didn't get the humor in a little girl getting her intestines sucked out.

Maybe you could make it funny again.

Pinche?

You gotta help me out here...

C'mon pinche...use a kiddie show like "that's so raven" to try and slime another poster with it.

It doesn't clssh with the marlboro man personality you've tried so hard to sell. Not at all, pilgrim.

"clash"

"It clashes"

Yes, it does clash "tough guy"...sarcasm aside.

You gotta help me out here...

Okay.

The emoting of fake outrage makes you look like a dumbass that hasn't been laid in 5+ years.

The little Remora you've picked up in the process adds the element of humor that keeps the whole thing from being creepy.

The emoting of fake outrage makes you look like a dumbass that hasn't been laid in 5+ years.

I think you're getting it now, pinche...

Nothing about this is funny----even when you observe it through the prism of abstraction inherent to fucking pussies whose way of life allows them to post commentary on internet message boards all day long.

C'mon pinche...use a kiddie show like "that's so raven" to try and slime another poster with it.

I compare you to "Hannah Montana" because you exhibit the emotional and intellectual maturity of a female in that age group.

You really do remind me of a teenage girl.

Look at the seething yet impotent rage in your posts above.

Everything's gonna be OK, pumpkin.

It's just an internet messageboard.

I'm not seething at all. I'm laughing at the guy who's spent three years + trying to convince the blog he's a mans man and everyone left of him is a latte drinking pussy...

Turn around and use the disney channel, and his knoweldge of underage girls, as a means to attack people.

You're a fucking joke, pinche. Perhaps one of the few that doesn't get that joke.

Nothing about this is funny----even when you observe it through the prism of abstraction inherent to fucking pussies whose way of life allows them to post commentary on internet message boards all day long.



You really do remind me of a teenage girl.

Look at the seething yet impotent rage in your posts above.

Everything's gonna be OK, pumpkin.

It's just an internet messageboard.


Hahahaha...

Look at the seething yet impotent rage in your posts above.

hahahahaha

Everything's gonna be OK, pumpkin.

I'm not seething at all.

Oh, you're furious. :)

Furious with laughter.

Everything's gonna be OK, pumpkin.

I know, Tiger

*tossles hair*

That's why I told ya that...

Now you run along and go get mad at those neocons or something...

Furious with laughter.

And we all know those "furious with laughter" are inclined to accuse others of being pedophiles...

That's one of the first things I do when I get a case of the giggles...

Furious with laughter.

That was a great save, Alex.

I didn't call you a pedophile.

Just a "tough guy" that uses a kid show to label/demean other posters with. Then calls them an anklebiter at every turn. Read your sad contribution to this thread and realize you have a level of a self-ignorance and hypocrisy I can't even touch, pinche.


It IS funny.

Adios Pinche.

Just a "tough guy" that uses a kid show to label/demean other posters with.

I demean you with allusions and comparisons to teenage girls because you exhibit the emotional and intellectual maturity of a teenage girl.

You really, really do.

But we've covered that.

Then calls them an anklebiter at every turn.

I call you an ankle-biter because you are an ankle-biter. That's your schtick. And that's cool. Don't get mad about it.

Read your sad contribution to this thread

With the exception of my first two posts, my contribution to this thread is a series of reactions to your replies and overall pulling of your strings in order to elicit the reactions from you that provide me with a couple hours' entertainment.

You never fail to deliver---and I never fail to be entertained.

Now go flag some posts and write Rogers an email. :)

John Edwards sued a company over this very same issue.

The money he made pays for his $1200 haircuts.

Posted by YouKnewWho at 2007-07-05 10:39 PM | Reply

Yep,

That is all the right has to attack with..... nonsense non-issues. Nothing about anything of substance, only haircuts. I guess when you are a party of such limited intellect and ideas that you have to attack a hair cut.

I almost feel sorry for you.

Almost.

How many children have to have their intestines sucked out by a pool filter before anything is done about this? But of course, make jokes and then attack the lawyers that will attempt to make companies responsible for failing to address this issue for decades.

A friend of mine's 11 year old son almost drowned because he was held to the bottom of the pool by the filter intake. But of course it would be too expensive to put any sort of safety device onto the intake. It is much better to cut manufacturing costs and allow the CEO to make $30 million per year.

"There have been three such incidents since 1990. The most recent was two years ago when a 3-year-old was disemboweled by a hot tub drain.

None of those accidents was fatal, although in the same time span 13 people, most of them children, drowned after being caught in underwater drains."

I saw the TV piece on the girl hurt in the 90's...it has run several times...she is doing pretty well. They also show a life-sized doll sucked onto the drain. Scared the stuffin out'a me! My kids say I "spazzz" but I preach they check out all pools before letting the kids in. Why not drop one or two of the stupid public service warning on smoking and run one or two about this problem ?

$8 million!!!!

What a piece of shit. What, did he have to show up for court like twice on such an open and shut case?

Yea, God punishes the children for their parents sins.
Posted by moneywar at 2007-07-05 10:43 PM | Reply

OR He allows humans beings to have free-will allowing such stupid postings, as well as all kind of idiots, dumb-asses, perverts, and negligent pool-owners to exist rather than simply frying them with lightning.

As Duane "Dog" Chapman put it last night on Glen Beck, "God doesn't pull the weeds in my yard, *I* have to do that."

Isn't "Dog" the bail jumper who brings bail jumpers to justice?
Didn't he also kill someone once?
What a hero.

I kid you not.

This just sucks!!!

I heard Bush is having one of these installed in his & Jeffy's private bathroom.

Furious with laughter.

That was a great save, Alex.




Posted by Pinche_Mao at 2007-07-06 01:20 AM |


hahahaha!! FF, I thought the same thing when I read it.
See PinchaLoaf? I'm not always an asshole.

This has been an ongoing problem for decades. It is an easy and inexpensive fix, why this is still happening is beyond logic. I remember reading about an incident like this in the 80's, the article stated that it was fairly common, (at that time). I can't believe that pools with one pump return have not been re-fitted, or not had a baffle installed; given the severity of injuries that this problem causes, and the easy and cheap remedy that is available ...

It is truly sad for this little girl who will suffer for the rest of her life, needlessly ...