What was he thinking!

[Wongdai]

Darwinism at work.

[The Bleeder]

Should have laws for "retrospective abortion". He's a prime candidate.

Steve

[rrich]

The insanity of it all is to just picture a six year old standing on whatever to be tall enough to feed wood into a table saw.

It makes me shudder just thinking of it.

Would it have been safer to have the child sitting on the saw table and feeding the timber?
Rhetorical! Rhetorical!

[WoodJunky]

Seriously, I don't understand why someone would do something so stupid. My son is 7 and my daughter is 9. There is no way I would let them within 10 metres of my table saw and I scream my head off at them if they come near me when I'm using it. I want them to understand how serious it is.

He must have had to pick the kid up to hold the board too. My son is tall for his age but he wouldn't be able to pass something over the blade without me picking him up or standing on something.

Some people shouldn't be allowed near machinery. To me it shows a lack of respect for what a table saw can do to you.

Maybe I'm just paranoid having narrowly saved my son from walking off a cliff when he was 5 but the idea of letting one of my kids go near a spinning table saw blade turns my face white.

I agree with your comments completely, I just cannot believe how this guy and his wife both agreed that it was purely an accident and that he wasn't being unsafe or inattentive.

A 6 year old is way too young for even closely supervised tablesaw use, what was he thinking !!!!!!!!,

My grandkids have come over when I have been in the shed and they are the same age and whenever I am cutting anything I ask them to leave, but that is after I have explained to them the dangers that is involved with such work as I want them to understand how serious it is