7 year old, badly burnt.

[rohrl]

anonymous said:

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Same here. My brother and I nearly burnt down the south of France while pissing about with matches and bangers one summer. If my father hadn't come running with a cool-bag full of river water we could easily have been on the news too.

[MajorProblem]

You pissed about with matches and fireworks when you were seven years old?

Are there any pictures of the parents?

[rohrl]

MajorProblem said:

You pissed about with matches and fireworks when you were seven years old?

Are there any pictures of the parents?

My younger brother wouldn't have been much more than seven. My father and his friend used to make their own gunpowder as kids. These the sort of dangerous things that little boys do, like climbing trees, jumping bicycles over each other, trespassing in disused buildings or building sites...the list is endless. Both my brother and I are now law-abiding taxpayers of the most dull variety - he's a teacher for goodness sake.

There is no good reason I can think of that you could have to need to see a picture of this boy's parents.

[grumbledoak]

[scenario8]

Without going into too much detail so as to protect anonymity I know of excellent parents - church goers but not overly preachy, successful (as in director of a FTSE 100 company successful), loving people - who have lost not one but two of their children to tragedy. At least one of those deaths could be construed as death by misadventure and in some way brought on by the child itself. The other only marginally less so. While it may be easy prey to the PH massiv to lambast and criticise from afar - especially when tragedy befalls what is perceived as an undeserving underclass - I can assure you that st happens to good people, too.

I used to get up to all manner of boys own stuff when I was a lad in the scouts (in the days before H+S madness). There but for the grace of God and all that. (To a degree).

[Jasandjules]

Is there a clear answer as to what actually happened?

[scenario8]

I've not heard of a clear, concies and credible answer yet - but I've not gone looking for it paticularly either. No doubt the coroner will come up with soe answers in due course.

[longshot]

It's so sad that the little fella has died. Absolutely tragic set of events.

R.I.P.



Oh, hang on, I don't now him so I shouldn't do this should I.

[TTmonkey]

Jasandjules said:

Is there a clear answer as to what actually happened?

From what I've heard a bottle or container of clear fluid was on or in the back of a council vehicle. It looks like this got into the hands of the kids, by whatever means, and then the child got soaked in it. I don't know how it came to be ignighted.


Tragic, tragic way to die. The most intense and unbareable pain.

RIP little one.