Death of child prompts hooded sweatshirt recall

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oh my, I can’t imagine how the mother of that boy must feel. =(

makes sense to me that you’d pull them out. that just kinda seems like common sense 🤷
 
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For decades, children have worn sweatshirts wiih pullstrings. Now they are telling parents to take out pullstrings from children sweatshirts. Is this extreme? Maybe parents should cut them. Your thoughts?
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I have been doing this since my own kids were small, and daughters still do, don’t even know why they still make them. several similar news items back then, apparently perennial problem. so are the old fashioned mittens-on-a-string, which have since disappeared. we remove drawstrings from pj’s, jackets, hoodies and anything else, and by sweatpants and shorts with elastic not drawstrings.
 
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I have been doing this since my own kids were small, and daughters still do, don’t even know why they still make them. several similar news items back then, apparently perennial problem. so are the old fashioned mittens-on-a-string, which have since disappeared. we remove drawstrings from pj’s, jackets, hoodies and anything else, and by sweatpants and shorts with elastic not drawstrings.
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I’ve never heard of this. My children as well as my small grandchildren have had hooded sweatshirts and I just tie them. I will look for hooded sweatshirts without strings.

I also saw this Feb. 11th story about a scarf…
A Massachusetts car wash worker is battered and bruised but thankful to be alive after her scarf got caught in machinery at her job last weekend. A customer leaped to her aid and saved her life, reported WCVB-TV in Boston.
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Stephanie Carpluk, 19, of Chicopee, Mass., lost consciousness Sunday when her scarf got caught on a spinning scrubber brush at the Golden Nozzle Car Wash and began strangling her.
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Customer John O’Leary jumped out of his vehicle, which was moving on car wash rails, and used his pocketknife to free Carpluk from the spinner.
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“I didn’t know what to think. I was just scared. I didn’t know what the outcome was going to be,” Carpluk said. “I started hearing little things like, ‘You’re breathing. You’re going to be alright. You’re back, just stay with me, stay with me.’”
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O’Leary, of Southampton, Mass., is a state wildlife biologist. He used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive the teenager. Another customer called 911.
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Carpluk was the only employee at the Northampton Street car wash at the time. kirotv.com/caughtoncamera/18689423/detail.html
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I haven’t noticed any of my children’s hooded sweatshirts (past 6 years or so???) that still have strings… I think the advice of removing them was taken into effect… 🤷
 
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