Flagpole incident

ThatOneMan3424 · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 652 **Location:**

Ok guys please dont take this as a joke...this is in all seriousness...

Yesterday there were high winds and at a school in Ferndale the kids were outside at recess.

The flagpole was rusting and with the high winds it snapped in half and landed a group of kindergardeners striking one in the head and killing her. She was only 5

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

whoa....thats sad

cin · **Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:51 pm

i dont think you can expect something like that..
this is just bad luck i dont really think its anybodies
fault. this couldve happened anywhere with any
high object.

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

why isnt this on the news?

Gul · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 385 **Location:** Where?

Thats really sad, but I don't think its something that would make national news. There obviously would be local coverage.

Not to mention national news is too busy looking for someone to blame with whats happening in Virginia.

ThatOneMan3424 · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 652 **Location:**

cin wrote:

i dont think you can expect something like that..
this is just bad luck i dont really think its anybodies
fault. this couldve happened anywhere with any
high object.

that is true but what is the chance that a new not rusting pole would just snap in half? i mean it was the only flagpole in the area that snapped and fell

Locketart · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 2119 **Location:**

Man too many senseless deaths these days. If people are going to die, it should be the ones who deserve it like murderers and rapists. I don't anyone could have expected it. Unless there's laws about repairing/replacing flagpoles.

cin · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:00 am

ThatOneMan3424 wrote:

cin wrote:

i dont think you can expect something like that..
this is just bad luck i dont really think its anybodies
fault. this couldve happened anywhere with any
high object.

that is true but what is the chance that a new not rusting pole would just snap in half? i mean it was the only flagpole in the area that snapped and fell

this is cause of nature not cause of men. when it storms at your
place and your roof blows off taking your mom and dad with it,
would you blame the architect for not making your house tornado
proof?
you just stated that there was a lot of wind, more than avarage.
so i blame the wind, not the school nor the flagpole nor the dumb
kid that was playing outside in a storm next to a high rusty pole.

ranger4life · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 2526 **Location:**

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RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ThatOneMan3424 · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 652 **Location:**

cin wrote:

ThatOneMan3424 wrote:

cin wrote:

i dont think you can expect something like that..
this is just bad luck i dont really think its anybodies
fault. this couldve happened anywhere with any
high object.

that is true but what is the chance that a new not rusting pole would just snap in half? i mean it was the only flagpole in the area that snapped and fell

this is cause of nature not cause of men. when it storms at your
place and your roof blows off taking your mom and dad with it,
would you blame the architect for not making your house tornado
proof?
you just stated that there was a lot of wind, more than avarage.
so i blame the wind, not the school nor the flagpole nor the dumb
kid that was playing outside in a storm next to a high rusty pole.

well again very good point....but with the tornado there would be other houses in the area that had there roof blown off....with this it was the only pole in the area to snap in half and they siad if it wasnt rusted it wouldnt have happened....
Also its the skools fault they were outside....they shouldnt have even been outside with hi winds and freezing cold

rek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:58 pm

how could they have know it was going to fall?

ThatOneMan3424 · **Joined:** Apr 2007 **Posts:** 652 **Location:**

reK wrote:

how could they have know it was going to fall?

They new it was rusted and was getting very old....its only a matter of time.

Locketart · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 2119 **Location:**

ThatOneMan3424 wrote:

reK wrote:

how could they have know it was going to fall?

They new it was rusted and was getting very old....its only a matter of time.

Yea they should have been keeping maintenance on it.

Sharp324 · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4383 **Location:**

in that high wind the kids shouldnt have been out playing really...

i play silk road · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 919 **Location:**

ThatOneMan3424 wrote:

cin wrote:

i dont think you can expect something like that..
this is just bad luck i dont really think its anybodies
fault. this couldve happened anywhere with any
high object.

that is true but what is the chance that a new not rusting pole would just snap in half? i mean it was the only flagpole in the area that snapped and fell

whats the chance of them being in recess, whas te chance she was standing there

Sharp324 · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 4383 **Location:**

well if your relgious at all read the bible, amazing things it says

rek · **Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:29 pm

ThatOneMan3424 wrote:

reK wrote:

how could they have know it was going to fall?

They new it was rusted and was getting very old....its only a matter of time.

but still they didnt know it was going o fall at that exact moment..mayb they were gonna replace it

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