Daily Wail wants EU to save children from window blind cords...

[Troll]

I thought the biggest threat to young kids was chest of drawers not being bolted to the wall and the drawers used as a climbing ladder

[mudskipper]

I thought it was discarded fridges.

[original PM]

hmmm - we had blinds when my kids were young and somehow they managed not to randomly kill themselves.....

think Darwin is at work here...

[mudskipper]

Yours hasn't reached the "experiment with auto-asphyxiation" age yet, has he?

FTFY

[sasguru]

You could always tell your kids not to jump off the window ledge or ***** about with the blinds.

Just saying, like.

Good one.

[darmstadt]

I thought the biggest threat to young kids was chest of drawers not being bolted to the wall and the drawers used as a climbing ladder

I thought it was parents

[OwlHoot]

Yep, it's real; now they want the EU to legislate on window blind cord safety regulations!

Erm, but I thought the Daily Wail hated the EU!??!?!?!?!?!?

How my four-year-old was nearly strangled by a window blind cord | Mail Online

Must be a quiet news day - I'm sure they were banging on about the very same thing several years ago.

[MaryPoppins]

You could always tell your kids not to jump off the window ledge or ***** about with the blinds.

Just saying, like.

Aye. When they're too little to understand the instruction, but big enough to be in danger - keep the blind cord out of reach.

Same as with knives. And expensive lipsticks.

Madness.

[al_cam]

One of my mates is an ENT surgeon and cut the cord in his own blinds because he has had to fix up a lot of kids after being caught in them (he also won't let his own kids have lollipops after having to fix kids who have fallen with them in their mouths)

So, it's a potential danger but we certainly don't need any more legislation to fix it FFS.

[SueEllen]

So, it's a potential danger but we certainly don't need any more legislation to fix it FFS.

You are presuming all parents and anyone else who looks after a child is that knowledgeable and know these things are a risk.

Many people don't.

This is a simple design flaw that can be removed easily.