Safety

Yes, it’s obvious, but you know we’re going to say it. “The dingo attacked by bay-bee!”

A THREE-year-old girl has been bitten by a dingo on Queensland’s Fraser Island.

The girl was at Eurong, on the eastern side of the island, when she was knocked over by the dog and bitten on the back and buttocks on Tuesday.

It is expected that Queensland Parks and Wildlife rangers will shoot the dog if it can be identified.

It is the fifth such incident in 12 months, with three other dingoes having been destroyed.

The attack prompted Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara yesterday to urge all visitors heading to the island for the September school holidays to be wary of the wild dogs.

A Utah girl accidentally had her toes cut off when she fell of the back of a riding lawnmower and it ran over her feet.

She’s now in the hospital, and paramedics say she’s lucky to be alive.

Clinton’s assistant fire chief, Guido Smith, tells the Ogden Standard-Examiner the little girl was riding with her father on the back of a four wheeler with a lawn mower attachment. She fell off the back, and the mower ran over her.

Paramedics say when they got to her last night, many of her toes had been amputated. She was taken by Life-Flight to the hospital. “In all reality she is extremely fortunate to still be alive,” Smith said.

An tragic and important safety lesson.

Connor W. Youngren of 224 Ave. C in East Peoria was pronounced dead about 5:30 p.m. at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, according to Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. An autopsy showed the infant died from lack of oxygen after becoming trapped between a bed and the wall at his home.

Youngren was asleep on the full-size bed and somehow rolled off, becoming trapped, Ingersoll said. She added that it did not appear as though the parents, Brandon Youngren and Amanda Whitaker of East Peoria, had done anything criminal.

Some reports estimate his time of death from heat exhaustion was only after 3 - 4 hours. The boy was only 10 year old…

DeGeus-Morris said Nettleton had been outside exposed to the elements for around 17 hours and likely died from environmental hyperthermia. Temperatures in the Foothills south of Emmett that day reached into the mid-90s.

She believes the boy became disoriented and the heat was too much for him. Hyperthermia sets in when the body fails to adequately cool itself.

For one little boy who’s father said he lived and breathed for baseball, his first pro baseball game gave new meaning to, “Take me out to the ball game, take me out…”. Because that is just what happened to him, he was taken out when a pro batter’s ball which hit him in the head, leaving him unconscious and in serious condition.

Let’s all pray for a full recovery for this little boy.

Seven-year-old Dominic DiAngi couldn’t wait to go to his first Cubs game Thursday. And for the first two innings, he was having a blast.

Then, a foul ball off the bat of Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly struck Dominic in the head and fractured his skull.

What was supposed to be the most memorable of occasions, a child’s first professional baseball game may be his last. When hit by a baseball at Wrigley field, the speed of a professional baseball left the boy in serious condition. MT wishes him and his family the best and hopes he pulls through.

Normally we wouldn’t want janky old tires piled next to our apartment building, but there’s one mom today that’s glad they were there.

An Ohio toddler who fell 30 feet from a window is recovering thanks to a stack of tires that softened his fall.

Twenty-month-old Jaelin Lewis bounced through the screen of an open apartment window in Columbus while playing on a bed with his mother Wednesday. He hit four old tires on the ground before tumbling onto a concrete patio.

Neighbor William Zander tried to catch the boy and says it was the type of scene that makes people believe in angels and miracles.

Or, you know, fortunate circumstance.

Teaching your kids little songs to remember important things like their address or what number to dial for help seems like a great idea. It certainly was for one Oklahoma mom.

Jessica Eaves taught her daughter, Madelyn, the song a week before she fainted due to a medical condition called vasovagal syncope (vayzo-vay-gal SIN’-kuh-pea).

When the 24-year-old and 3-months-pregnant Eaves fainted, Madelyn picked up her mother’s BlackBerry phone.

She pressed 911 and the green button and was connected to a dispatcher.

In the recently released 911 call, Madelyn was able to answer questions about her house and cars outside that led emergency workers to the home.

We tend to agree that if you leave a loaded handgun where a young child can get it, that certainly constitutes “child neglect”.

[Tracey] DeCarr said she kept the handgun in her nightstand to protect herself and her son.

“He goes through my stuff all the time in the morning, like a normal child, and he found that,” DeCarr said. “He took it back to his room because he knew he was not supposed to be playing with that and that’s where it happened, in his bedroom.”

DeCarr insisted the gun was not loaded.

Volusia County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Brandon Haught said there was a bullet in the chamber and the toddler may have been trying to drop another bullet down the gun’s muzzle.

“It definitely could have been a whole lot worse,” Haught said. “This child was just playing with a gun, just pointing it in the wrong direction. It could have been a whole lot worse.”

In Devil’s Lake, Canada, authorities believe two men and a 5 year old boy may have drowned after setting out to go fishing. A search is still underway.

DEVIL’S LAKE, Alta. - The families of three missing Edmontonians - one a five-year-old boy - wait by the shoreline of Devil’s Lake as divers continue to search the water.

Hunor LaRose, 5, his father Zsolt Voros, 40, and family friend Kyle Digout, 25, have been missing since Monday.

The three had left for a fishing trip in Morinville on Sunday. Concerned family members contacted the RCMP in Morinville on Wednesday. The RCMP did not find anything around Morinville Lake. The family then suggested that the trio might have gone to Devil’s Lake in search of better fishing and deeper waters. A van and boat trailer were found there.

Ouch!

Gaining a lot of attention are stories like little Lexi, who was wearing crocs on her way to a Disney vacation and got her toes stuck in the escalator for 15 minutes. Her toes, broken, with one requiring a pin, will leave her bedridden for the next 3 weeks weeks.

Poor boo.

EMT’s rushed the little girl to the hospital after being stuck for about 15 minutes. She suffered three broken toes. Doctors placed a pin in one and performed surgery to clean bones and remove skin contaminated by escalator grease.

Her foot may eventually be as good as new, but her shoe is a different story. She was wearing “Crocs” at the time, a brand of footwear gaining attention for escalator accidents.

By now most parents are aware of the dangers of toys containing small powerful magnets. For those that aren’t, if more than one is swallowed they have the potential to attract each other and cause, let’s just say “gastronomic distress”. Usually reported cases where children were harmed or even died involve toddlers and babies — but in a recent case, an 8-year-old girl swallowed a whole mess of the things and now her parents want an all out ban:

Haley Lents of Huntingburg underwent emergency intestinal surgery last month in Indianapolis after she swallowed pieces from her Mega Brands Magnetix MagnaCase set.

She was taken to the emergency room for stomach pains, and an X-ray revealed the force from the magnets had torn her intestines in eight places.

Doctors told Haley’s parents her intestines looked like they had been punctured by eight gunshot wounds or stab-like holes, Haley’s father told CBS’ Early Show on Monday; it is being reported by cbsnews.com.

Haley, who spent two weeks in the hospital, is lucky to be alive, doctors said, according to cbsnews.com.

Um, anyone else wondering why at that age this girl is swallowing thirty metal objects? One or two, maybe, but thirty? That takes some serious effort!

That salt water must be hell on playground equipment. Town of York, Maine, may I suggest perhaps a fiberglass or plastic slide?

John Connor said his 3-year-old son was going down a metal slide at the park’s playground, barefoot, when he was stopped short toward the bottom.

“The slide had a rust hole, and his little toe went in,” said York police Sgt. Gary Finley.

Connor, who described the hole as about 2.5 inches to 3 inches wide, said it appeared as if someone had previously tried to cover it with duct tape. He estimated it was a few minutes after an emergency call was placed before the paramedics arrived, and another 15 minutes before his son’s bleeding toe was freed.

York Beach Fire Department Capt. Mark Gay ultimately tried several pairs of pliers to bend the rusted metal from around the toe, according to a report from the Ffire Department. A paramedic gave pain medicine to the boy while he was stuck.

“Everyone was amazed he didn’t lose his toe,” said Connor.

A mother placed a dish drainage bin on the floor of her apartment in order to clean the countertop when her 3 year old toddler fell over the dish bin, landing on a knife that punctured her stomach (athough some reports say that it stabbed her in the heart). She remains in critical condition at a children’s hospital.

A routine late-night kitchen chore turned into frantic, life-threatening minutes for a Brown Street mother after her 3-year-old toddler tripped and fell on a knife in a dish drainer that had been placed on the floor, said Hartford police and neighbors of the family.

The child, who had a knife wound to the stomach, remained in critical condition Thursday at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center following emergency surgery, according to city police.

A 16-month-old girl in Greensboro, North Carolina, fell two stories from a balcony over the weekend, and miraculously survived.

[Tiffany Robertson, the girl’s mother] remembers the moment it happened… her 16-month-old daughter was right next to her when she slipped through the railing, going after a toy.

“She hit the cement, that’s all you heard was her head hit the cement,” says Robertson. The child dropped from the second story. “It could’ve killed her, yeah it could’ve killed her.”

The fall fractured part of Cordai Dearmon’s skull but left her with no other broken bones. Robertson hopes other parents will learn from what her daughter survived. “I want them to know it could’ve happened to them, watch their kids while they are playing. ‘Cause just a little inch you look that way they could be gone any second.”

MT’s first question? What the heck is tombstoning??

Apparently, it’s when you jump into a body of water from a signifant height. So, jumping off a cliff or a bridge. (Why would anybody in their right mind to this?)

Apparently, it’s a fad. A fad of teens and young people who have very poor judgement.

MT thinks a fine punishment, aside from the injuries he’s received, is to pay for his rescue efforts through montetary obligations.

A 14-year-old boy is in hospital with suspected spinal injuries after he landed on rocks whilst tombstoning.

The teenager, who has not been named, was tombstoning - jumping into water from height - in the Fishers Nose area of the Barbican in Plymouth, Devon. But he suffered suspected spinal injuries, a broken wrist and lacerations when he slipped and fell onto rocks.

He was rescued by inshore lifeboat and taken to hospital in the city.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution and the Coastguards have repeatedly warned thrill seekers about the dangers of tombstoning.