Okay, first off - I have no hate for Australia or the Aussies, it JUST so happens that the past few articles I find intriguing or surprising to be there.
We love your kangaroos and koalas. No lie.
Quick Summary --
- Normal mom with baby strolling around train/tram station
- Mom becomes inattentive for couple of seconds while mingling with friends.
- Stroller inches towards tracks.
- Stroller falls into tracks.
- Subway comes in to make the stop.
- Baby dragged 30-33 feet... And fortunately, SURVIVES! [Yeah you sickos, no dead baby for you].
They actually have surveillance footage of the whole incident within attached linked at the top. At first, I was pretty shocked as to what had I just witnessed, but it was amazing enough the baby survived the whole incident and came off with just a minor cut to the forehead.
Of course the mom was distraught, I would be to witnessing such a terrible event.
Channel 7 said the incident came just a day after the launch of a public awareness campaign warning of the dangers of strollers on platforms.
I think the problem with community awareness these days is pretty simple - we, as normal people, are drowned with everyday hassles of real life and whatnot - that honestly, some of us don't even have time to be aware of news, current events, movements, programs, etc.
Certain situations just tend to affect our lifestyles and routines. So it wouldn't be surprising that the mother would had catch something such as the awareness campaign warning of dangers of strollers on platforms. Sure, she definitely is part of the target audience, but mothers are really out-of-tune with such things based on the fact that:
- Worried about everything else in relation to the baby, toddler, child.
- Assume that the situation will never happen to them.
Maybe, even a contributing factor on the mother's lack of knowledge or awareness of a potential situation could stem from the heavily saturation and disorganization of mass media. Bombardment of commercials and unwanted ads that have no relation to us WOULD put anyone off from watching television.
And news nowadays seem to have this weird tendency to focus on things that... Just doesn't seem as important. This article isn't even 1 full page long, and personally such incidents shouldn't be taken lightly and should be a public concern! But then of course, we're all worried about Kanye West barging in into our house while taking a shower interrupting our relaxation by proclaiming Beyonce had the best shower of all time...
Or something to that matter.
In other words, we're worried about everything else irrelevant to our safety, it's kinda affecting our livelyhood and family morals/values.
[Modernistic muckracking via technology?! Oh noes!]
So anyways!
But seeing as such awareness campaign does exist, it's safe to assume that this is becoming a problematic situations in regards to all public transportation that rely on trains...
Hopefully, in the future, innovative solutions are made in order to provide a safer environment for any family in general, because for all we know, this exact situation can happen to the elderly, or disabled.
So... Please, think about the children.
And kittens. Everyone loves kittens.
That is interesting that you brought up media effects in this way. Is is that news isn't emphasizing important issues, or is it that we are only listening to what we want to? Probably both.
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