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Given my possession of an extremely sweet two-month-old baby, my third little boy, I am one of the most profoundly sleep-deprived people on the planet. I should not be driving heavy machinery (and I don't); I should not be operating dangerous equipment. And, given the news about the recall of 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs today, it's clear I should also cross "putting together baby gear" from my list. (Graco is a unit of Newell Rubbermaid Inc (NYSE: NWL), whose stock is up 9 cents to $28.79 after an initial morning dip on the news.)I can't say I was surprised, a few days ago, when I saw Monroe's little bouncy seat had come detached from its frame, causing him to slide harmlessly a few inches onto the floor. But Simplicity Inc., the manufacturer of all the cribs under recall, shouldn't have been surprised, either, that parents put the drop-rail side of the crib on upside down. Let's review: parents are sleep-deprived. Parents are not necessarily mechanically-inclined to begin with! It is horribly unfair to expect parents, in their largely mentally-imbalanced state, to have to do everything right in order to keep their babies alive.
Now two sets of parents have to live with the guilt that they put their baby's cribs together incorrectly, which allowed their infants to become trapped in a gap and suffocate. Recalls? I only wish we could do take-backs, do-overs, when it came to the life of a baby.
The cribs under recall were sold nationwide in the U.S. between January 1998 and May 2007. While Simplicity says that none of the products in stores now are included, it's certainly the case that homes of friends and neighbors probably do carry these beds. And in the months and years to come, I can only imagine how many of them will appear in garage sales, craigslist ads, and thrift stores in every city, town and 'burb. I only hope the parents who pick them up, pleased with the bargain, aren't sleep-deprived yet.
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9-24-2007 @ 7:03PM
Jason said...
Sounds like a great reason to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. I guess this is after all the American way; don't take responsibility for your own actions, blame and sue some one else. Bullsh*t. WAKE UP AMERICA, take some responsibility for your actions. They put instructions in the box for a reason. If you get in a car accident, is it GM's fault because you drive like a blind person and don't use an indicator signal (turn signal)?