Ban it! Ban it!

From the BBC:

A sheriff has warned that millions of homes across Britain with window blinds may contain a potentially lethal trap for young children. In a written judgement into the death of Clackmannanshire toddler Muireann McLaughlin, Sheriff David Mackie called for a ban on looped blind cords.

Yes, we have kids and care passionately about safety, we were forever putting stuff out of the way, using dummy plugs, opening and shutting child gates and ... er ... making sure that the looped blind cords were safely out of reach, but you can only go so far.

If they banned everything that had ever killed anyone then we simply wouldn't have much left, would we? We certainly wouldn't have windows in upper storeys, garden ponds, washing machines, cars, bicycles, stairs, television sets, lids on biros and felt-tips, gas or mains electricity in our houses, cats or dogs, any object smaller than golf balls etc etc.