Oh dear not the best publicity

[monkeyjoe]

I am aware these things can happen, however to offer a day's free travel (if that is true) is a bit of a mickey take. I wonder if anyone's head will roll for this? Maybe the latter, not the best choice of phrase's, oops.

[wilmotm (Matt Wilmot)]

? Can you clarify your post at all

[monkeyjoe]

? Can you clarify your post at all

Silly me, it's the heat forgot the link.


http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/baby-boy-cheats-death-freak-5101025

[notepanel]

I guess it's in reference to this .... http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/baby-boy-cheats-death-freak-5101025

A slightly exaggerated headline I believe, and just shows all that is wrong with this country.

I hope NXWM didn't just offer a free days travel, but I hardly think it's worth pages in the newspaper. The slightest thing has to happen now and immediately people see the £ signs. Yes it shouldn't have happened, but we live in the real world and sometimes things will go wrong.

Possibly it's because of some things I see/deal with on a day to day basis, but I'm always a bit cynical when people are complaining about things like this. For a start, I imagine the extinguisher didn't just fall randomly, but was probably the result of the bus hitting a pothole/going over a speed bump/interference by an earlier passenger.

Most extinguishers (I believe - don't know if anyone can clarify) are within a glass container, yet there's no mention of the falling glass.

There's also other parts of the article which make me have doubts such as - 'It hit the baby in the pushchair on the forehead, but after this she had to prevent it hitting her other child' and 'The extinguisher hit the child on the forehead - yet in addition to the wounds on his head & legs, he has bruises on his back.'. If the extinguisher hit the child on head and then the legs I fail to see how her other child was at any point at risk as she states, and how this has caused bruising on his back.

I also dislike the part where the lady claims the reason for being so insulted about being offered the free daysaver, is that 'they tried to get her back on a bus, when obviously it's not safe', yet she continued her journey by bus on the day it happened.

[monkeyjoe]

I don't believe the days free travel part.

[Dylan4579]

1 DAY!!!!!!!!

[nitromatt1]

As if she's going to want to go on the bus again any time soon after what happened

[Andrew1991]

As if she's going to want to go on the bus again any time soon after what happened

she went on one straight after it happened apparently. :/

i'm just trying to work out how it hit his head and he sustained a bruise to his back ?

[nitromatt1]

As if she's going to want to go on the bus again any time soon after what happened

she went on one straight after it happened apparently. :/

i'm just trying to work out how it hit his head and he sustained a bruise to his back ?

Perhaps he was sitting forward at the time and it pushed him back hard against his pram

[Andrew1991]

As if she's going to want to go on the bus again any time soon after what happened

she went on one straight after it happened apparently. :/

i'm just trying to work out how it hit his head and he sustained a bruise to his back ?

Perhaps he was sitting forward at the time and it pushed him back hard against his pram

possibly

[fleetline6477]

I fail to understand how if as the article claims a 1 year old boy whose skull has not yet fused properly was hit on the head by a heavy fire extinguisher which had fallen 6ft why the Paramedics didn't insist on taking him to Casualty to be checked out. Head injuries on young children are seen as a major priority. Surely, for their own protection as well as the well being of a 1 year old child too young to explain how he feels he would have been taken to Casualty.

[Dylan4579]

Beacause the woman is milking it and the papers are forever biast towards the bus companies.

[Liverpool Street]

Give them a £1.70. Its valid on the Bristol Road for a minimum of 3 years. - Includes all your family, friends and random strangers you wait with at bus stops.

[Mike K]

Give them a £1.70. Its valid on the Bristol Road for a minimum of 3 years. - Includes all your family, friends and random strangers you wait with at bus stops.

LOL  ;D ;D nice one.

There are a few other routes in Birmingham where I bet these are valid too.

[Lukeee]

Correct me if im wrong but I thought the extinguishers weren't kept 6ft high I always thought they were lower to the ground.