toddler almost decapitated by 20 gal tank

In Arizona a mother left her toddler of age 2 or three unattended, and
the little toddler managed to topple a 20 gal tank containing a single
goldfish over on top of her. In the process it cut her so severe from
the neck to ear as well as other places it came close to being a
decapitation. Surgery and over 150 stiches later with numerous other
facial lacerations and bruises, the toddler is doing fine. Tanak was a
20 gal on a typical wrought iron type stand......The news showed a
gold fish bowl being held above the no empty taank stand and said the
mother returned to the house after her child was out of surgery to
find the only inhabitant of the fish tank still in a small puddle of
water in the remains of the tank and doing well.its now in a 1 gal
fish bowl...Talk about lucky stars for bouth the toddler and the
fish...

A lot of those wrought iron stands and a lot of stands they sell make
out of particle board are just accidents waiting to happen.. The older
all welded construction with a good substantial spread of legs that
were sold years ago were pretty good, but the newer ones made so they
can be folded down and packed in a box suck. They are shakey when
nothing is on them and even more so when a tank with water is on it.
Still not an excuse for letting the toddler alone like that, but then
again its somehting most everyone does every now and then, and most
would not think of a toddler pulling over a tank. IMHO its a good idea
to put a bracket from the stand to the wall or from the tank top edge
to the wall and this would prevent things like this from happening or
at least reduce the chances....Then again toddlers are always gonna
get into what one would never think anyhow.


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