Please tell my not all parents today have forgotten to teach about lawn mowers

wynterangel77

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I was laying in bed watching Elfi and the kittens...when I hear a lawn mower start stop start stop about 5 times so I roll over and look out the window and there is a boy the neighbors grandson....he's probably about 8 playing with the mower but just starting it so no big deal he wasn't touching anything else......so I just roll back to watch Efli and her kittens....he gets bored with mower and starts bouncing a ball....and then I here the little (about 3-4 year old) sister/cousin? and they play ball next thing I know I hear him tell her to sit on the lawn mower which she did I could see by the time I rolled back over...and he tries to start it...she jumps off....unharmed thank god but he once again tries to get her to sit.....I went out told him if I so much as heard the mower again I was knocking on the door....and told her not to sit on it cause it could hurt her real bad.

I just can not believe that the adults are all inside and not one of them so much as looked out the window when he was playing with the mower. Granted by the time I was his age I was mowing lawns but I had also been taught lawn mower safty since I was younger than her.

This just inferates me
 

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I can't think of a worse tool for a child to be mucking about with! Glad you spoke to the little boy and his sister, there could've been a very nasty accident. And I agree with you, where were the parents???
 

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Is it one of those ride on mowers? I sure hope that he isn't heavy enough for the sensor to know that someone is sitting on the seat! I agree, where are the parents????????? The mower should not be sitting out where the kids can access it - whats wrong with putting it away?
 
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wynterangel77

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It was a push mower....and I talked to the grandma just now...apparently the kids at least the little girl's parents live in Goergia and she's been staying with grandparents for 2 months now and is going home this weekend....not sure about the boy...other than he lives there and is their grandson.
 
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