Twin Boys Drown In Dalgety Bay Garden Pond

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-35794160

How many more children are going to drown in garden ponds before the parents/grandparents, etc will fill them in ?

[derekpara]

I think its more a question of supervision, Mikey.

[mikey4444]

Well...these two boys were 2 years old. You can't take your eyes off toddlers for one second. If the pod had been fenced off, or filled in, the accident would not have happened.

[Prudie]

Exactly, 2 year olds drowning in a pond together - not the pond's fault.

[Samuraisan]

How devasting. I just cannot imagine what their family is
going through .

[mikey4444]

Prudie...do you think the accident would have happened if the pool had not been there ?

My parents had a fish pond in their garden in North London, in the early 50's, but as soon as I came along in 53, it was filled in and made into a rockery. I recall this very well because we had two rockeries and this one was always referred to as the rockery where the fish used to live.

[frugalfred]

I would have had 2 uncles had they not been drowned, aged 6 and 4, in a mill pond in 1917!

[mikey4444]

I expect they are going through the same hell as all the other parents did, who have lost kids to garden ponds, and my heart goes out to them. What a totally avoidable waste of two young lives.

[Prudie]

No I accept what you've said mikey, they should have filled it in, but it makes me more cross that they were obviously unattended for a fair amount of time first thing in the morning. You don't just open the door and let toddlers out like the cat.

[mikey4444]

You are right Prudie....08:30 is very early and I presume it was still cold, that far north. Perhaps somebody forgot to lock the back door ?

[Mamyalynne]

Utterly heartbreaking for the family - I live next to a stretch of water and my heart is often in my mouth when I hear children by the water's edge (not as young as this of course).

[Sqad]

If you have kids, these disasters will invariably happen as you can't be supervising the 24/7.

My first job was in Casualty in Brighton....two year old boy ran into the road straight into the path of a double decker bus.........head crushed in and parents just took their eyes off him for a second.

Sqad.s son number 3 aged two, waddled into the other room and grabbed the electric fire .....skin graft to right hand.

and so on and so hand.

Yes...if the pond wasn't there, or indeed any other ponds.........

Life.

[pixie374]

It's just awful. My son ran out of a preschool aged just three, across two main roads and-luckily- got home.

[mikey4444]

Pixie...that must have been horrible for you, but think how much worse it could have been, if the preschool had had a pond in the grounds.

[Sqad]

^^LOL.......or an electric fire.......;-)

[pixie374]

Yes, you have to have fireguards with children under 5. I'm surprised you don't have to have pond covers. Family must be devastated.

[pixie374]

Cross-posted...!

[-Talbot-]

I had a lovely pond then had kids so filled in the pond, just about to build a new pond now all the kids can swim like fish.

Common sense, the kids take priority over a pond!

[Jaidyn]

I agree , we moved into our bungalow a month a go and first job once the garden actually dries a bit is to fill in the pond . Our grandchildren are more precious than the odd duck flying down onto it