Monday, September 23, 2013

Report: 3-Year-Old Dies After Becoming Trapped In Sofa Bed

"According to sources, Aissante Diallo and her older sisters — ages 5 and 10 — were playing on a sofa bed inside their West 140th Street home around 6 p.m. when one of the folds came down, trapping the little girl inside..."

Neighbors were shocked, calling the incident a tragic accident..." “You try to child-proof your home and then there will be the littlest thing that you’re not even aware of until something happens,” one neighbor said. “This is another tragedy where now parents have to be aware of sofa beds.” Police said the girls were being watched by their mother’s boyfriend at the time of the incident, Sandberg reported."

The investigation is ongoing.

CBS New York

32 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

The solution to preventing all future sofa bed accidents is obvious.

Chip Ahoy said...

Bummer.

I saw a movie once, Run, Rabbit Run, or something and the baby ate paint chips and um

uh

that was bad

mental development, died, I forget. Anthony Bourdain just now said, "they don't name their babies here until they are one year old. Know why?"

unnecessary and exceedingly annoying pregnant-with-drama pause

"Because so many die! That's why."

Oof. Boy, didn't see that one coming.

He spoke about vegetarianism, he does that sometimes, and said, these people are vegetarians but not by choice. This thing we're doing is special because our crew is here, plus a birthday, a goat is roasted. So that's special. The usual thing is rats. *shows roasting rats* that are caught by a man in a neighboring village and sold to this one. So their market for protein is rats.

That's how poor the protein level is. Rats a few times a week and that is their protein. So a goat. Jeeze.

In another show the guy is vegetarian but chicken doesn't count.

The saddest part, apart from all the kids waiting for the guest to start even though it was rare and exciting, all so pathetic, was Bourdain began their sorry state of affairs, "First dreadful colonization." The voice deepens indicating this is the worst of of a litany. It began poorly with colonization then rolled downhill from there. Nothing about tribal life before that. Bourdain's history begins with Colonization. Then a brief stint with Communism, then civil war. Then this.

He meant to say reversion to tribalism where the flower of their civilization is extinguished. So that the only thing remaining is the skeleton of infrastructure, unsaid, built by what? Their colonial past.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

There are some pretty horrible ways to die.

But Jesus loves the little children.

All the little children of the world.

It's always good to bear that in mind.

Trooper York said...

Wait a minute. Didn't the same family sue the city because the father had a bathroom plunger stuck up his ass?

Trooper York said...

Let's wait for the autopsy.

Trooper York said...

Not to say that it can't be true. The number two reason for children's deaths in Staten Island is giant TV's falling on them.

So I guess it is possible.

Trooper York said...

Wait I had that wrong. It was Abner Louima that had the plunger. Diallo was the guy that got shot in front of his house.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I thought they might be related too Trooper. There is nothing on the story about that.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

There is nothing on the status of the boyfriend either.

Trooper York said...

I am just very suspicious when a child dies in the care of a "boyfriend." That almost never turns out well.

Trooper York said...

Of course they are always the victim of the company that can pay the most in damages.

I mean they almost never swallow a Popiel's pocket fisherman.

The Dude said...

Diallo is the guy who served as a target for NYPD "marksmen" - that commie rat from Joisey wrote a song about it.

But back to the story at hand - I know English is a second language for most "reporters" these days, but what the fuck does "one of the folds came down" mean?

That doesn't make any more sense than leaving your child with your "boyfriend". Maybe she wasn't sure the child was hers or something.

KCFleming said...

Sounds hinky.

Methadras said...

BAN ALL SOFA BEDS!!! THEY ARE KILLERS AND MUST BE BANNED!!! SO SAYS GOD URKEL!!!

The Dude said...

Just saw a picture of Kenyan troops entering the mall to take on the muzzies - they were carrying FN Herstal SCAR 17S rifles - probably chambered for 7.62 x 51 rounds.

Those things are at least 3 grand apiece - who the heck paid to arm the Kenyan army with American firearms?

Trooper York said...

Well they also have Obamaphones so that should tell you something.

Trooper York said...

I mean that distributions was part of "Fast and Furious."

You know they didn't get the gat's from the "Sons of Anarchy."

AllenS said...

Police said the girls were being watched by their mother’s boyfriend at the time of the incident, while he was in the kitchen cooking meth.

ndspinelli said...

Meth is primarily used by white trash and upscale homos.

KCFleming said...

It was probably the sofa ....that boyfriend helpfully placed on top of her to stop her from screaming.

Methadras said...

ndspinelli said...

Meth is primarily used by white trash and upscale homos.


Inhale me, snort me, smoke me. Whatever it takes to get rid of the chaff.

Palladian said...

But back to the story at hand - I know English is a second language for most "reporters" these days, but what the fuck does "one of the folds came down" mean?

I wondered this myself. Do you think it's because the story writer has never seen or operated a sofa bed? Is an accurate description of a sofa bed too technical for a "journalism" major to handle?

Palladian said...

The first thing I thought of when I read this was the way Christopher Moltisanti killed Adriana's dog.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The take away is the sofa bed is played by the republicans shutting down the goverment ;)

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

When the size of a 3 year old, the engineering of a sofa bed and a boyfriend are not enougf to keep death at bay, you have to sit up and take notice.

edutcher said...

Remember refrigerator doors?

In the old days, they just told you take them off once they were out of commission.

The Dude said...

It was heart wrenching when Christo-fuh crushed Cosette in his heroin induced stupor.

What followed was amazing for that show - the funniest intervention scene I have ever seen - the recriminations, denial, and ultimately Tony's fury over the fact that Christopher killed a pet was very impressive. I got the sense that Gandolfini didn't have to dig too deep to become enraged at animal abuse.

Either that or he was a great actor.

ndspinelli said...

Sixty, That was on of my favs. Paulie Walnuts acknowledging the intervention guy by saying, "You're that 2nd story guy" and Christopher daying, "Yeh, you got all those pork loins." Wouldn't you love to see an intervention w/ the box wino.

The Dude said...

Not sure that I would, but I really liked the one on the Sopranos. It was seriously funny, and at the same time, violent and mean.

That's how I envision my own intervention going.

Sixty, you are addicted to commenting on the internet. NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Bam bam bam!

JAL said...

But back to the story at hand - I know English is a second language for most "reporters" these days, but what the fuck does "one of the folds came down" mean?

"I wondered this myself."

Me too. We have a couple sofa beds. One has to really push the things deliberately and with intention. They don't just fold by themselves, unlike that little girl doing the Castro Convertible Sofa ads from 50 years ago in NYC.

ndspinelli said...

Sixty, Sorry for my typo. I think typo obsession might be why you would need an intervention.

The Dude said...

I am not obsessed with typos, and that should be a lower case "s" in "Sorry".