Sitter puts baby in washer as joke. Washer auto locks and starts, DOH!


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2011 wants its video back.

 

edit: my bad, 2012 if the date stamp is accurate.  Still, an old video that we've all seen multiple times, except the OP.

 

I have never seen it.  The internet is a big place.

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I JUST REALIZED that many washers don't have an emergency override to open the bay. I know that my high efficiency one does NOT. The FDA needs to get on this.

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I JUST REALIZED that many washers don't have an emergency override to open the bay. I know that my high efficiency one does NOT. The FDA needs to get on this.

 

Can't say I disagree. An accident like this can always happen, even though it was meant to be a joke it turned out to not be so funny. This would've been quickly resolved if there was an emergency stop button provided.

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My LG High Efficiency washer does have a "Pause" button anytime. One of the big complaints with front loaders is that you can't add a sock after you've hit the start button. With mine you can at least do that at anytime during the wash/spin. Granted it will take a while before opening (to drain water or to slow down from a spin cycle) but it will open.

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The babysitter never told the mother what happened almost two weeks ago at the Camden, New Jersey laundromat.

Oops. Someone's secret is out. :D

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I JUST REALIZED that many washers don't have an emergency override to open the bay. I know that my high efficiency one does NOT. The FDA needs to get on this.

What do you mean by emergency?  On mine, I press the STOP button.  It takes a few seconds but then unlocks the door.

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The UK washers have a two minute pause built in to the software before you can open the front door for health and safety reasons i.e. to prevent accidents.The use of an "instant stop" is as per the video just cut off the power its not up to manufacturers to second guess such a stupid random emergency.

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I JUST REALIZED that many washers don't have an emergency override to open the bay. I know that my high efficiency one does NOT. The FDA needs to get on this.

 

OR, people can not put their children in a washing machine...

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I JUST REALIZED that many washers don't have an emergency override to open the bay. I know that my high efficiency one does NOT. The FDA needs to get on this.

 

Mine doesn't not either. The only way to stop it and open the door once it's started is to turn the button all the way to off. There's many options like whites/colors/delicates/heavy/light/manual and the off option is really not that easy to see specially since under normal behaviour the button will reach the off option by itself after a given amount of time so it's not an option you normally use manually. It's really not clear you have to do that to stop it. The first time i wanted to stop it after it started (forgot a sock) it took me a good 5-10 secondes to figure out how to stop it and i was clam and not under stress. I can easily imagine that someone in a stressfull emergency situation might actually takes over one minute to figure it out.

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The Camden County prosecutor's office says this was not an intelligent choice, to put the baby in the washing machine, but it was not a crime. How's the mother feel?

I'm pretty sure they could make a case for child abuse.

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2011 wants its video back.

 

edit: my bad, 2012 if the date stamp is accurate.  Still, an old video that we've all seen multiple times, except the OP.

Speak for yourself. Annoys me when folk post to say its nothing new to them, as if we have some sort of hive mind

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I had a washing machine that would switch on water and lock the door.    there was no way to open the door until the cycle has completed.     i had to wait 5 minutes for the door to open after canceling.

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