Worst. Parent. Ever.

[Schofield]

Parenting Fail? No. Geometry Fail? Yes.

Most people wouldn't realize it's slanted anyways. I wouldn't call her the worst parent ever.

[Blank Stare]

More like the luckiest baby in the world.

[MrFancypants]

I'm pretty sure most wheelchairs come with some sort of break. Heck, even those airport luggage trolleys have a break built in but prams don't?

Hm, maybe I should get into the stroller business.

The poor child will probably have an irrational fear of trainstations for the rest of his life.

[BadHairDẵy]

Since it was a six month old baby, I don't think it'll remember falling underneath a train.

[Inyri Forge]

Originally Posted by MrFancypants

I'm pretty sure most wheelchairs come with some sort of break. Heck, even those airport luggage trolleys have a break built in but prams don't?

Most do, but they're unfortunately not automated. The parents still needs to set it, and again I'm sure the poor child's mother didn't expect the thing to go rolling off onto the tracks. I expect that breaks on various things like stroller, wheelchairs, etc, go underused. It's not as if you never hear of wheelchairs rolling off because someone looked away from it at an inopportune time.

Of course the child's mother may make good use of the stroller's breaks now.

[Rogue Nine]

Brakes.

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[Commissar MercZ]

Originally Posted by BadHairDẵy

Since it was a six month old baby, I don't think it'll remember falling underneath a train.

The mom will definitely be a hell of a lot more clingy to her child now though. I was surprised with it though, she was very lucky the impact didn't give her baby serious harm, much less kill it.

[Zach]

Originally Posted by Inyri Forge

There is not a great distance between the mother and the edge of the platform. That kind of thing could happen to any of you people and I'm sure you'd love being labeled as the worst parent ever for an easily-made mistake. As BadHairDay said, things don't roll away for no reason. The mother had no reason to expect the pram would randomly roll onto the tracks.

This, and my first thoughts when I saw the thread title consisted of "Octo-mom, unemployed with a boatload of kids living off student loans, a real credit to society"

[Admiral Donutz]

That baby got pretty "lucky" surviving an accident like that.

Did the mom fail at parenting? In hindsight it's easy to see what she did wrong, she could have applied the brakes, positioned the stroller parallel to the track, or stood between the platform edge and the stroller. It's kinda hard to judge how noticable the incline of the platform is, it could be a very gentle, almost unnoticable slope. She could have done a much worse job, that's for sure, like placing the stroller right next to the tracks. But I bet she'll be much more careful, perhaps overly careful in the future...

The train driver seemed to respond properly though, after stopping he didn't open the doors.

[Force]

I saw this on the news the other night. It happened it Melbourne, Australia. Crazy shit.