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When Failure to Listen Costs Teens Their Life

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Teenagers aren’t exactly known for listening.  In fact, they tend to gravitate toward the precise opposite of listening.  Sometimes they pay a heavy price for this failure to heed advice. In East Chicago, a 14 year-old-boy was playing along lake Michigan.  Adults warned him not to jump off the breakwall into the water along the lake’s northwestern Indiana shoreline.  You can probably guess what happens next.  He jumped off anyway, and lost his life because of it, drowning in the … Continue reading →

Boys Survives 100 Foot Fall

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It’s not often that you fall off a cliff and live to talk about it.  Yet that is exactly what happened to a 13-year-old boy from North Dakota, who fell while vacationing with family at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. He was hiking with his family when he slipped on the edge of a cliff at the Bright Angel Point Trail.  He plunged nearly 100 feet, and it took emergency crews two hours to rescue him.  Let’s hope he … Continue reading →

Girl Dies After Grandma Forget Her In Hot Car

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Tis the season for hot car deaths, and these tragic incidents continue to rise alongside the rising temperatures. Among the latest victims was a 14 month old girl in New York who died after her 54-year-old grandmother forgot to drop the tot off at daycare.  She went straight to work leaving the girl inside a hot Jeep Cherokee for 8 hours.  I can only imagine how this grandmother feels. When people hear about cases like this they assume it can … Continue reading →

Two Kids Killed Over Lost Luggage

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An SUV full of kids was traveling on State Rout 78, a busy highway near Vista in California, when luggage fell off the back of their car.  A 16-year-old girl, who was apparently the driver, got out along with a 10-year-old boy to try and retrieve it.  Both were struck by a Nissan sedan and pronounced dead on the scene.  Four other kids were also in the car and watched it happen.  It’s a tragic story that didn’t need to … Continue reading →

Four Kids Survive 40 Days Alone in Jungle

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In a rather incredible survival story, four children, ranging in ages from 1- to 13 years-old, were found alive 40 days after their small plane went down on May 1st in the rainforest of Columbia. Sadly, the plane crash killed their parents.  The mother had survived for four days after the crash, but ultamatly succumbed to her injuries before help could arrive.  Prior to her passing, she told her children to go out and find food and water.  It’s normally … Continue reading →

Four Year Old Girl Goes on Accidental Camping Trip

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The tragedies that befall children can happen in the blink of an eye. A few seconds is all it took for 4-year-old Evelyn Sides, who goes by the nickname Vadie, to vanish from the backyard of a family friend, “Nanny,” who was watching her at the time. The girl was playing outside with her dog Lucie when she ran off into the Alabama woods. As Vadie describes it, “We took a walk, but then I got too fast and got … Continue reading →

Storage Unit Fires, Opioed Overdoses, & Cockroach Friendss

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Here are some notable stories from around the U.S. in the past week: In Bakersfield, California, a small child believed to be around 4 or 5-years-old died when the storage unit his family was living in caught on fire.   In Weymouth, Massachusetts, a 2-year-old girl was hospitalized after swallowing a synthetic opioid pill. If parents have a prescription for these they need to keep them well guarded. A single pill of some of these medications is enough to kill … Continue reading →

Ambulance Driver Rushing Overdose Victim to the Hospital Overdoses Himself

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In a sign of the times of just how bad the opoid crisis has become, a man in Fairborn, Ohio, was being driven by paramedics to the hospital after a drug overdose. On the way he needed to receive an overdose reversal injection in order to survive. This in itself isn’t that unusual. What is unusual is that the driver of the ambulance also had an overdose on the way and needed an overdose injections shot himself. The driver’s partner … Continue reading →

Little Baggies of Death

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Most people by now are aware of the human toll from the opoid epidemic sweeping the nation. Yet one often overlooked aspect of the scourge is the danger it poses to children. In Ohio, staff at a Toledo hospital were forced to use 3 doses of a narcotic overdose drug, naloxone, in order to revive a one and a half year old boy who had overdosed on opoids. Assuming his mother is telling the truth, the toddler came upon the … Continue reading →

Did A Citizen With A Gun Save The Day?

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The tragic church shooting in Texas has reignited the gun debate in this country, and already the media and gun lobbyists are promoting the narrative that a citizen with a gun helped save lives by confronting the gunman and engaging him. It’s a story of bravery t o be sure but the facts on the ground simply don’t match the narrative that a good guy with a gun helped save the day. First and foremost is when and where this … Continue reading →