Reply #15: A kid did get killed in Toronto a few years ago.

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I can't remember the store, but it was one of the big box retailers. Maybe it was Ikea? Anyway, the kid was running around like an idiot, completely unsupervised, and one of the staff stopped him and tracked his parents down. They told the parents to keep an eye on him and keep him under control. Parents got pissed at the staff and chewed them out. Kid resumes running around like a jerk.

About an hour later he got crushed by a heavy box of stuff falling off a shopper's buggy. Killed instantly.

Of course, the parents sued, but because they had been told to subdue their kid and didn't the Court didn't support their claim. There was security camera footage of the staff talking to the parents and them yelling back, and several customers who had been in the store for a while testified that the kid wasn't being controlled, despite staff warnings to him and his parents.

It wss pretty sad, because it was a lose/lose situation, but sheesh, cautionary tale!