Reply #16: Yesterday I started a thread...

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in which I said I hoped a kid got killed in someone's store by falling off a cart, so we'd have "proof" that letting them ride hanging off the fronts of shopping carts is dangerous. It was one of the more vicious threads you'll ever read if you don't know that the guy who started the thread worries about crowd safety 24 hours a day.

You'll love this one: just after I started, I was trying to get a kid out of the pressure-treated plywood. At the time it still had arsenic in it, and there's always an extremely slight danger that a cantilever could break and squish someone. So I pointed at this wet spot on the wood--pressure-treated lumber comes in wet because of how it's made--and asked the child if he knew what it was. "Uh-uh." 'It's blood from the child that was squashed yesterday when this stack of wood fell on him.' The kid jumped up and ran so fast he ran smack into a stack of vinyl siding across the aisle from the wood in question. The operations assistant manager saw this; I swear I never saw her laugh so hard.