
Why are people so stupid?
A 4-5 year old boy who lives down the street from me fell out of a second story window this evening. Onto cement.
He's a nice little kid. I see him and his sister with their mom (I assume) when I leave for work in the morning.
They both wave and say hi.
His sister almost fell out the window as well, trying to grab him, from what I'm told. (She's 1 - 1 & 1/2 years older.)
I didn't see it happen. She could have pushed him for all I know.
I'm glad I didn't see it happen. I would have completely freaked out.
I think I would have had the presence of mind to call 911 though.... like my neighbor did. She has nursing training. She called 911.
She ran out of her house with clean towels and stayed by the boy until help came. Help came very quickly.
I can't say more. What I overheard was too much. I can't say things I do not know as fact.
Police radios can be very loud.
There will be an investigation.
That house will be empty within a week, no doubt about it.
**Update** Some of this is from what I would call a reliable source. Some from what I saw/overheard.**When the emergency services got there there, nobody would answer. The police kicked in the door.
The boy was lying on the sidewalk screamimg at the top of his lungs!! I heard it inside my house down the street!!
The father was completely, passed out drunk and was taken away in handcuffs. There were 3 other men in the house.
I think there were more... they just escaped out the back. There
were at least 10 people living in that house. Probably illegals.
They're gone. Told you they'd be gone by the weekend.... Well not quite gone, the grandparents are dragging stuff out of the house and taking it away as I type.
One of the officers mentioned drugs.
It made the paper. A little blurb.
Boy, 2, hospitalized after fall from second floor in Trenton
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
TRENTON -- A toddler was rushed to the regional trauma
center last night after he fell out a second floor window.
The fall took place about 8 p.m. at a home in the 100 block of Genesee Street, emergency officials said.
The child, described as a 2-year-old boy, fell more than a dozen feet, officials said, noting that the boy appeared to have suf fered leg injuries but did not lose consciousness.
He was rushed by ambulance to the trauma unit at Capital Health System at Fuld hospital.
Information about his condition was not available last night. The circumstances of the fall were under investigation last night by police and city building inspectors.