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From: "William Spurlock" <>
Subject: RE: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Tragic Accident Didn't Have to Happen...
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 13:45:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: <6c.a42a7e3.28242909@aol.com>


I think that there is one additional lesson to be learned from this as well.
Kids will be kids and no matter how hard we may try to instruct them
otherwise it's only natural for them to want to climb on things. We need to
keep an eye on them at all times. When one of my sons goes on a field trip
there are always at least one or two parents per class that go along just to
keep an eye on them and keep them in line and to assist the teachers just so
that such an accident will not happen. There has been one or two times that
they canceled a field trip for lack of adult supervision.


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Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] Tragic Accident Didn't Have to Happen...


I'm sure many of you have seen this already, but for those that
haven't... Folks, please remember to instruct children to respect
cemeteries
and not treat them like playgrounds...

Falling Tombstone Kills 9-Year-Old
.c The Associated Press

BUTLER, Ohio (AP) - A tombstone fell on a third-grader and killed him during
a field trip to a cemetery Wednesday.

Nine-year-old James Wies appeared to have died of a skull fracture, said
Richland County coroner's investigator Paul Jones. He said the boy jumped
atop the 5-foot-tall tombstone and grabbed it when it toppled backward.

``It was just a freak accident,'' Jones said. ``With the injury he
sustained,
and with the way it landed on him, it was definitely fatal. No one could
have
done anything.''

Superintendent Mark Stock of the Clear Fork School District said the boy was
on an annual field trip for third-graders to learn about historic sites in
Butler, about 50 miles northeast of Columbus.

He said most people buried in the cemetery had lived during the
Revolutionary
War.


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