Comments on: “Tunneling boy’s mother sues utility”

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:50:11 +0000

Either the facility or the kid should be encased in a three-foot lead barrier. It’d be to the utility’s cost benefit to wall up the kid. Even if the case included room for the parents, it’d be cheaper.

But if kids start using blow torches to get through the insufficient lead barriers, then I’m going postal.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:35:55 +0000

What I don’t understand is why the parents weren’t charged with child endangerment.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:09:14 +0000

Ohm my God, watt a sad story! I’m shocked something like this could happen. The current fence standards should be transformed.

By: arby

arby — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:06:26 +0000

It was all a simple misunderstanding. The boy was only doing what the sign said http://lh4.ggpht.com/abramsv/SQAlGR8S6tI/AAAAAAAAiKs/HIbwcMlRdL4/s1600-h/DareYa1.jpg

By: Todd Rogers

Todd Rogers — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:21:42 +0000

The unidentified boy was one of four children who couldn’t get through a locked gate or over a high fence surrounding the transformer As a lad, I was guilty of all kinds of mischief, much of which was probably very dangerous. However, by nine years old, I was pretty sure that a power transformer surrounded by a fence was not to be messed with. But apparently the mom (and possibly dad) in this story wasn’t all that good at teaching right from wrong and smart from not smart. But, I suppose a few mill will make things ok. With tunneling in or around a box of volts being within the realm of acceptable behavior, it’s only logical to me that this family’s jackpot celebration will be short lived. I do, however, hope that this young man is given the benefit of proper medical treatment before the well runs dry.

By: tcaptain

tcaptain — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:06:34 +0000

Dear god and I thought Canada was largely untouched by the litigious ridiculousness of the U.S.

The suit contends the boy was left with severe scarring and mental impairment.

I would postulate that the mental impairment was a pre-existing genetic condition, and not subject to consideration for damages.

By: E-Bell

E-Bell — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:51:25 +0000

Well, clearly, the utility should have built the substation on a foundation of granite and not mere dirt. I mean, that’s only reasonable, right?