Lets wrap all kids in cotton wool

[Old Greg]

The elastic bands.

The elastic bands removed your hands?

[SueEllen]

The elastic bands removed your hands?

[greenlake]

The only difference was when our fingers, hands or wrists started to change colour due to lack of blood flow we removed them.

You removed your hands?

If that happens, don't let anything go to waste....

[Old Greg]

Boy BLINDED by loom band as doctors warn they're a health risk | Mail Online

This sort of accident can happen with any toy. Anyone who thinks banning loom bans will prevent accidents needs a group of loom bands shaped like a giant dildo inserted up their rectum.

What I love about this thread is that it's a cracking example of a slightly frothing at the mouth Daily Mail article that is then picked up by one of the resident CUK cretins to build into a paranoid world-view that there are mysterious (probably statist) forces trying to ban childhood fun through an Elf and Safety agenda. Let's look a bit deeper.

The URL is Boy BLINDED by loom band after being hit in the eye | Mail Online

But nowhere in the article does it mention any schools that have introduced bans. The only authority that appears from this article to have banned them is the boy's mother who says:

I will never have them in the house again.

I emailed the company about changing the labelling to warn people but they haven’t got back to me. There should be a warning on the packet – children shouldn’t be doing the stretching. It’s terrible that this has happened. I’ve had other parents come forward and say that something similar has happened, but not as bad.

I don't really blame her position, and she's not even calling for a ban outside her house but has asked the company to add a warning to the label. Sounds like a good idea - then we can all make our own decisions.

Of equally sinister significance:

Stafford GP Dr Anne-Marie Houlder also urges parents to be vigilant

and

...a doctor has used a Facebook group to warn parents over the dangers of the playground craze, in which tiny bands are woven together, either using fingers or a special plastic loom, to make friendship bracelets.

The GP, from Bristol, posted a picture of a boy who had wound bands so tightly around two of his fingers before falling asleep that they had turned blue from lack of blood circulation.

What is more:

Other experts have warned the bands could be a choking hazard for younger children.

I wonder if that involved the Mail reporter phoning experts until more than one of them agreed that there could be a choking hazard. Perhaps I do them a dis-service.

[DodgyAgent]

What I love about this thread is that it's a cracking example of a slightly frothing at the mouth Daily Mail article that is then picked up by one of the resident CUK cretins to build into a paranoid world-view that there are mysterious (probably statist) forces trying to ban childhood fun through an Elf and Safety agenda. Let's look a bit deeper.

The URL is Boy BLINDED by loom band after being hit in the eye | Mail Online

But nowhere in the article does it mention any schools that have introduced bans. The only authority that appears from this article to have banned them is the boy's mother who says:



I don't really blame her position, and she's not even calling for a ban outside her house but has asked the company to add a warning to the label. Sounds like a good idea - then we can all make our own decisions.

Of equally sinister significance:



and



What is more:



I wonder if that involved the Mail reporter phoning experts until more than one of them agreed that there could be a choking hazard. Perhaps I do them a dis-service.

[MarillionFan]

I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when the Cheong Choon NG tried to pitch this.

'But it's an elastic band!'
'No, it's a rainbow loom'
'But it's an elastic band'
'I know, genius isn't it!'

[mudskipper]

And the BLINDED boy, was actually TEMPORARILY BLINDED IN ONE EYE, but I guess that doesn't make for such good clickbait

[BrilloPad]

wibble

Sh! Dont tell everyone.

BTW - sas would be proud.

[Old Greg]

And the BLINDED boy, was actually TEMPORARILY BLINDED IN ONE EYE, but I guess that doesn't make for such good cretinbait

FTFY

[original PM]

my kids have been playing with these - and strangley enough they have not managed to turn a small elastic band into a deadly weapon.

must be doing something right as a parent.....