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In reply to the discussion: 5 year old's touch sends on-loan sculpture crashing to floor. Kansas City bills parents 132K [View all]meadowlander
(4,416 posts)The statue didn't fall because someone casually bumped into it or tapped it with a cane. It fell because a fifty pound child was repeatedly yanking it down onto himself for the better part of a minute.
Is your expectation that every public space needs to be designed so that no behavior, no matter how irrational, unpredictable or devoid of regard for personal safety, could possibly harm anyone? Because if so, we wouldn't have any public space - no trees, blind people could walk into them; no benches - people can trip on them; no rivers or fountains - toddlers could drown in them; no playgrounds - kids can kick each other on the slides, fall off the platforms, hang themselves on the rope ladders; no roads - cars crash all the time; no animals allowed in public parks - some of them bite or carry infectious diseases... let's just encase the whole world in bubble wrap and call it a day.
Or we can acknowledge that parents have a responsibility to supervise and keep their own kids safe in public spaces and, if they are not able or inclined to do that, they need to leave their kids at home until they are old enough not to need that level of supervision.