They taught me this one in health class. Now that I’m a father, I’ve wondered if it’s an urban myth.
A Montana toddler drowned after tipping headfirst into a five-gallon mop bucket, police said today.
Even if it was a myth we keep all bathroom doors closed (which has resulted in a few amusing events between the wife and I) and all toilet lids down. We don’t mop our floors with buckets so that isn’t an issue, and any buckets we do have tend to be kept in the basement or garage where the baby has no access.
My heart goes out to this family, how horrible it must be.
Still their horror and sorrow is ignored by the anti-gun people because it isn’t a USEFUL death. Only “Gun Death” counts, you see!
H/T Bob
Back in the early 1900s, my Grandmother (down in the Texas Hill Country) went with her father to pay condolences to a family after the “crawler baby” crawled off the edge of the porch, fell into the slop bucket, and drowned. Apparently it was more common than it is today.