Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - A fifth-grader was impaled on an exposed metal pole in Hudson K-8’s cafeteria on Wednesday.
Stacy Minnifield, the student’s mother, says a nurse called her around lunch time to tell her about an accident. The school’s cafeteria tables have individual plastic seats attached to metal poles.
At least one plastic seat was missing leaving a pole exposed.
Maybe they'll post a "Look Before You Sit" sign in the cafeteria. I'm glad the girl will fully recover, but she may not take so much for granted after this. If this had been a boy, it might have removed him from the gene pool.
Last edited by Steve McDonald; 10-11-2016 at 06:10 PM..
Maybe they'll post a "Look Before You Sit" sign in the cafeteria. I'm glad the girl will fully recover, but she may not take so much for granted after this. If this had been a boy, it might have removed him from the gene pool.
Has it been that long since elementary school? We missed seats when sitting down, fell out of seats, tipped chairs back too far, and our friends pulled chairs out from under us. I don't think the school was necessarily at fault, but I do think the kid was probably being a kid.
As a school principal who sometimes supervised the cafeteria, I can see it happening. Our tables had 12 seats all together...not chair type seats, just stool type seats. I can see hurrying to an assigned cafeteria seat hoping to chat with friends and not noticing.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
