Feds ban common baby cradle [Talk about a Nanny State!]

[rambone]

HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

By order of the king:
the sale, manufacture, & resale
of drop-side cribs is
hereby outlawed!

Lest not ye be caught
selling one of your old cribs,
or the king's dutiful servants
will come and teach you some
respect for his majesty's laws.

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Actually the Federal ban doesn't start until June 2011.

Some babies have apparently been killed from a malfunction in this style crib. While tragic, I think a ban is wrong, and parents should be able to make a free-market decision on their own, for or against. Some people have a genuine need for a drop-side crib.

According to the article, in the entire country, 32 babies have died in 10 years from it. Each year, 4,000,000 babies are born in the USA. In a decade, that is 40 Million babies. 3 deaths a year in this vast country is hardly an epidemic. But the Big Government fanatics want a Federal solution to every conceivable problem.

After dozens of deaths, drop-side cribs outlawed



Thanks to Pami for bringing this to my attention. I am outraged as well.

 

[trad78]

Wow...looks like the one in my kids room!

 

[rambone]

Wow...looks like the one in my kids room!

Don't try to sell it in a yard sale or you will be breaking Federal Law.

 

[88GT]

The irony, and what you won't read in the news articles, is that most of the "flaws" are parental. The darn things aren't assembled correctly from the get-go. Now, how is that inherently dangerous to the kiddos? Maybe their parents should be banned instead.

Though I did avoid the drop-side cribs because of the potential for breakage at those points. All those connecting pieces, sliding pieces, locking pieces are made with plastic now. No, thanks. But I know some short moms who would never had been able to get their kids into the crib without the side lowering down.

 

[public servant]

Thanks to Pami for bringing this to my attention.

We'll be sure to send her a "thank you" card.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Most new and many old laws are unconstitutional and therefore do not apply to me. I will abide by the COTUS and nothing else aside from state laws that the COTUS and federal gov does not have jurisdiction over.

 

[rambone]

The irony, and what you won't read in the news articles, is that most of the "flaws" are parental. The darn things aren't assembled correctly from the get-go. Now, how is that inherently dangerous to the kiddos? Maybe their parents should be banned instead.

Though I did avoid the drop-side cribs because of the potential for breakage at those points. All those connecting pieces, sliding pieces, locking pieces are made with plastic now. No, thanks. But I know some short moms who would never had been able to get their kids into the crib without the side lowering down.

I totally agree. If the quality is lacking in certain models, then the free-market will drive those crap manufacturers out of business. And like you said, these cribs really help out short people. Maybe baby will be safer when mommy is standing on a ladder.

 

[trad78]

Don't try to sell it in a yard sale or you will be breaking Federal Law.

I wonder if they'll go through all the records of sales and do "no-knock confiscations".

 

[ThrottleJockey]

It's already a crime to sell a used carseat.

 

[VUPDblue]

In regard to the title of this thread, it's a crib not a cradle....

 

[88GT]

It's already a crime to sell a used carseat.

Only in California (go figure!).

 

[rambone]

In regard to the title of this thread, it's a crib not a cradle....

Maybe that would be a good legal loophole to use when you are facing 12 angry jurors after selling one of these babies.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Only in California (go figure!).

No, right here in Indiana.

 

[ocsdor]

I'm not defending the decision of the gov't; however, I would like to state that most of the cribs being built and sold are junk.

Before my son was born, I built a crib for him (even to federal guidelines). I was so disgusted at what I saw was being sold that I felt it was the only option.

Once he outgrew it, I sold it for the price of the materials I put into it (plus I threw in the mattress for free).

 

[88GT]

No, right here in Indiana.

Prove it.

 

[nawainwright]

I saw this to, disgusting. Its been in the works for at least 6 months, anything to tell you how to live your life.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...to_tell_you_where_your_baby_should_sleep.html

 

[lumpy39us]

and 4 times as many children have died from federal imposed vaccine programs within the last 10 years. I say we start on the one that has the most verifible danger then go from there.

 

[abnk]

We have drop-side crib. Will I have to turn it in to the local BATFEC or can I make inert and register it as a relic?

 

[jeremy]

HUH...

My Brother and I had one of these when we were little even with the Lead-based Paint option when we were kids...
We made it to adolescence just fine...

 

[public servant]

HUH...

My Brother and I had one of these when we were little even with the Lead-based Paint option when we were kids...
We made it to adolescence just fine...

That explains a LOT...

I'd much rather see the parents go after those manufacturers who make faulty beds and financially drive them out of business. If these companies are criminally negligent...throw the CEO's in jail.

.Gov should butt out. I don't have a problem with warnings for proper use...but that's as far as their input should go.