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"The boy's parents were sitting at the table and the child apparently wandered 4 to 5 feet away, when he got caught between the rotating portion of the floor and a wall, a space of only about 4 to 5 inches."
Attentive parenting is the best form of "child-proofing" anything.
This. We can say how heartbreaking this is and it is heartbreaking, but it is ultimately their fault that they were not monitoring their child. What were the parents doing? A 5 year old child should be supervised at all times.
Based on the YouTube video at the end of page 1, it looks like the columns for the glass form pinch points with the tables, which seems to corroborate the descriptions of this as the child getting stuck between a table and static object. With that in mind, it's an inherently bad design. I'd expect some kind of continuous table-level guard rail at least. Someone could still get pinched if they stuck their hand in and the friction grabbed them, but it wouldn't be nearly as bad as what it looks like now.
"The boy's parents were sitting at the table and the child apparently wandered 4 to 5 feet away, when he got caught between the rotating portion of the floor and a wall, a space of only about 4 to 5 inches."
So the parents were seated while the little boy was allowed to wander around the restaurant.
Sigh.
How many times have we all seen kids annoying the other patrons, underfoot of the wait staff...
Though one would certainly never expect this horror to happen, it can't be a total shock that 5 year old boys wandering loose get into trouble.
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I never agree with you but boy do I agree with you on this one. That was my very first thought. They are at a restaurant and their child is "wandering" around? Even without the rotating part of it all, it causes problems for other people. This IS the parents' fault. Child should have been seated at the table, it's not Chuck E Cheese.
Similar to the stratosphere on the Las Vegas strip. I have eaten there a few times. My memory is there simply were no pinch points. Tables on the rotating part were all free to move. There was simply a small crack between the table and the fixed wall.
Sounds to me like a design problem. Should be nothing fixed on the moving plate.
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