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Mysterious-Change954 t1_jeb0mw3 wrote

Reply to comment by Thick_Neighborhood_2 in Lawsuit: Flo Rida’s 6-year-old son in ICU, suffered serious injuries after falling from Jersey City apartment window by bottomless-mimosa

Yes. When your options are waiting for a lazy landlord and allowing your child to be in potentially mortal danger. Or spending $10 and doing 10 minutes of work yourself and taking it out of the rent payment. The decision should be clear. To most people anyway

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cC2Panda t1_jeb4e4d wrote

Some people are also just totally unaware of how to do this stuff. I grew up helping do home repairs and even constructed my own tool box when i was a little kid. On the other hand my wife grew up in buildings with on site maintenance guys, before I moved in with her the only tools she had came in that orange Ikea toolkit.

Waiting for a professional to install something critical that you don't think you have the tools or knowledge to install isn't too crazy.

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cmc t1_jeb8iht wrote

Yup. Especially something like this- I wouldn't know how to install this either (I'm a homeowner and hire people for anything safety related because of this). God forbid you install it yourself, incorrectly, and then something happens. So you deal with the guilt and you're culpable.

I'm so sad for the mom reading these takes. Like "how could you not do something you're not comfortable doing in a place you don't own!" Where's the empathy, damn.

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