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In article <1992Aug26.171638.4066@sctc.com> beede@sctc.com (Mike Beede) writes:
>>     [....] Normally
>>     they learn early-on that the class of objects to be hammered
>>     does not usually include foods. [....]
>
>Like veal, chicken, Swiss steak, coconuts, cracker crumbs, and cracked
>ice?  I would imagine a more realistic scenario to be 1) big kid
>mashes smoke detector with hammer 2) big kid chucks it somewhere 3)
>little kid finds it, chows it down.

     Your argument applies to small shards of glass and rocks and 
     trees, and car parts and screws and razorblades and pieces off
     of anything that can be hit with a hammer and ...

     I don't, of course, know if you have kids, but have you scoured
     your house for all possible things that they can injest, especially
     if they are hammered apart?  Have you emptied your cabinets
     of all utensils they can possibly shove down their throat?  
     Have you calculated the danger of source exposure
     vs. the probability of hemorrhage from sharp edges?

     I'd have to say that right after Alar, injestion of sources in 
     lightbulbs and smoke detectors is probably the most serious
     health threat facing our children today.

                                 dale bass
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C. R. Bass                                           crb7q@virginia.edu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia
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