People Don’t Kill, Trees Do
Hopefully people will start to rethink the cult of trees in the wake of near disasters like these:
Posted: June 10th, 2008 | Filed under: Just HorribleA 50-foot tree towering over a Manhattan schoolyard full of kids came crashing down with little warning yesterday — striking more than a dozen shrieking first-graders scattering away from its path.
The tree buckled a sidewalk and fell into the yard of Manhattan’s Epiphany School at about noon.
A parent volunteer, identified by her husband as Monica Tompos, went to Bellevue Hospital with head and neck injuries, authorities said.
Emergency responders treated 13 children, mostly first-graders, in the school’s office for minor scrapes, bumps and bruises.
“I just heard all the little kids screaming and I put my hands up to block my head, but I got hit with the branches,” said Danniella Tompos, 13, an eighth-grader.