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Re: 8 Year Old Girl Dies From Her Birthday Balloon


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What are they saying? I don't understand what had happened. The balloon deflated and landed on her face and smothered her as she was sleeping?

 

 


She apparently was trying to inhale the helium gas from the balloon and was exfixiated.  So sad.


And the same ole question --- where were her parents?


@151949  Probably at home but so what?  I don't blame the parents.  What if she had the balloon in her bedroom?  It was her birthday balloon.  Do you think a parent would be in an 8 yr old's bedroom 24/7 watching her? This tragedy was realy unforeseeable - who would ever think of such a thing?  I can't believe you'd think the parents were at fault. Smiley Sad

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(NEWSER) – Just hours after a birthday party, an 8-year-old girl went to bed at her home in Portland, Ore., only to be found not breathing by her father 20 minutes later with a large Mylar balloon over her head. Now her devastated family is hoping to raise awareness about the dangers of balloons, reports KATU

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How sad. I wonder how she got her head in the balloon. I thought the openings were very small.

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An 8-year-old Portland, Oregon, girl died on her birthday after authorities say she was found with a Mylar balloon stuck on her face while she was sleeping last week.

"My son went in to check on her and all he saw was a foot sticking out of her bed. Then he took the covers off and found the balloon on her head," her grandmother, Pat McGloghlon tells CNN affiliate KATU. "He put her on the floor and cut the balloon off her head. He started CPR and we called 911."

Officials said the girl may have tried to suck helium out of the balloon and ended up suffocating.

According to KATU, authorities have ruled the girl's death as an accident and there will not be an official investigation.

 

the dad had to cut off the balloon off her head. This is what I don't understand. How was this thing on her face? If she was trying to inhale it, wouldn't it be a small place near the base of the balloon? the balloon was in the shape of the number 3. 

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My very best friend's brother had a puppy.  There was a small bag of chips (mylar bag) left out on the cocktail table.  The bag was opened.  The puppy must've tried getting to the remaining chips in the bag and suffocated.  My BFF's brother found the dog dead with the chip bag on it's nose.  I would never suspect an 8 year old child to not be left alone with a mylar balloon.  I will now.

 

I find mylar balloons (deflated)all the time on the beach, tangled up with seaweed and driftwood.  I can't believe how many balloons end up on the beach.

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Strange. 

 

Maybe she passed out goofing around with it, and then the balloon stuck to her face and suffocated her.

 

 

 

Geesh, just saying that is awful.

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@makeup addict wrote:

An 8-year-old Portland, Oregon, girl died on her birthday after authorities say she was found with a Mylar balloon stuck on her face while she was sleeping last week.

"My son went in to check on her and all he saw was a foot sticking out of her bed. Then he took the covers off and found the balloon on her head," her grandmother, Pat McGloghlon tells CNN affiliate KATU. "He put her on the floor and cut the balloon off her head. He started CPR and we called 911."

Officials said the girl may have tried to suck helium out of the balloon and ended up suffocating.

According to KATU, authorities have ruled the girl's death as an accident and there will not be an official investigation.

 

the dad had to cut off the balloon off her head. This is what I don't understand. How was this thing on her face? If she was trying to inhale it, wouldn't it be a small place near the base of the balloon? the balloon was in the shape of the number 3. 


The balloon was a 3 when she was 8??

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I read the balloon was 3.5 tall and was the number #3.  Maybe, they could not find 8, and it was the closet looking number to it.  sad  

 

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I read the balloon was 3.5 tall and was the number #3.  Maybe, they could not find 8, and it was the closet looking number to it.  sad  

 


If my child was 8, I wouldn't settle for a 3.  A round, plain balloon that said Happy Birthday would be better than a 3 and easy to find.  I don't get it unless the story is wrong.

 

If it had just been stuck on her face, I'd understand it.  But they had to cut it off her head.  Really strange.

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It's weird they are not investigating this, but taking it as face value.