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What a senseless tragedy.
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on October 15, 2015 at 2:09 PM
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It's a terrible risk to take - and horrific when we lose kids that way.
There are grain elevators all along the Mississippi where corn, seed crops, etc. are stored and shipped via river boat, rail cars or trucks - seems like there's an accident almost every harvest season. Chills up my spine just thinking about it.
posted by
Pat_B
on October 15, 2015 at 2:07 PM
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I so agree with you. I know it is no time to make hurtful remarks toward this family but this is common sense. I am 79 and when I was little I was forbidden to even go near the barn room where cotton seed was kept for feed. All kids had it drilled into them that they could surely die playing in seed. I cannot imagine why they were allowed to do so. This is so tragic, it is far too late to punish the parents for what was surely an accident but I hope many, many learn a lesson here. The poor parents will live with punishment all their lives because of poor thinking.
posted by
Justi
on October 15, 2015 at 12:11 PM
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Kabu
I would never stop typing if I really got on the subject of stupid human actions (um, I did just get a speeding ticket so forget that for a minute). I live in a state that doesn't require helmets when riding motocycles and have lived in others that didn't....and idiots zoom by regularly feeling the air in their scalp....many will soon feel it in their brains. Fine, but they let their kids do that out on their farms....and drive their trucks on the farm roads, and the rv's. And you wouldn't believe how many people still don't wear seatbelts or teach kids to. And fireworks, that's a conversation! Farms are a special circumstance.....but everywhere is rife with danger when people are involved!
posted by
Krisles
on October 15, 2015 at 9:48 AM
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So sad it is that happened. Hopefully, people learn from it so that it does not occur again.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 15, 2015 at 5:43 AM
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It was a terrible and sad accident, easily avoided. I can remember being punished more than once for playing where it was forbidden when a child on the farm. At the time I didn't realize the danger - thankfully our foster grandmother had an eagle eye.
posted by
adnohr
on October 15, 2015 at 4:16 AM
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It is a case of treating all aspects of farming with respect . Those Bins are hazardous even when nearly empty if grain heats or is a little bit damp a blue mold develops.
A chap told me he had to shovel grain out of one that had become heated and he was in bed for a fortnight afterwards nearly paralyzed. I asked what did the Doctor give you, He said I never told a Doctor. 
posted by
C_C_T
on October 15, 2015 at 2:06 AM
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What a horrible thing to happen. There have been several grain elevator accidents in the farm areas around here, always fatal it seems--but children playing? That's nothing to play with.
posted by
TAPS.
on October 14, 2015 at 11:02 PM
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Kabu
A very sad event! Although a 'towny boy' myself, I've spent plenty of time on farms and know of those dangers...And your cousins husband can't have been playing with a full deck...:)
posted by
Nautikos
on October 14, 2015 at 8:42 PM
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Kabuiepie-;)~
Lovely photo's and a straight-to-the-heart about farming that points out the fun of farming but the horrid dangers involved with it too.
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 14, 2015 at 7:38 PM
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