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Demovictory9

(32,487 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2020, 11:19 PM Jan 2020

Royal carribean proves grandpa knew window was open

The family said the little girl wanted to bang on a window's glass, as she did at the rink at her brother's hockey games. So, grandfather Salvatore Anello lifted her up to a window pane, believing it was closed, the family claims.

Anello is color blind and couldn't have seen that the window, part of a bank of green-tinted windows on the ship’s 11th floor, was open before he lost control of Chloe and she fell onto a deck below, the family said.

But Royal Caribbean counters this claim in its motion, which includes a series of still images that the company said were taken from security video and which it says show that Anello knew the window was open before holding Chloe up to it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/granddad-toddler-who-died-cruise-ship-fall-knew-window-was-n1117796

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Royal carribean proves grandpa knew window was open (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2020 OP

Wow. I hate you grandpa! Beakybird Jan 2020 #1

Why do you hate someone before any kind of trial? That photo is impossible pnwmom Jan 2020 #6

Article says the grandfather leaned out the open window himself for about 8 seconds... Kaleva Jan 2020 #2

Seems like a pretty bad idea to encourage a toddler to bang on glass anyway. cwydro Jan 2020 #3

Does Mr. Anello also have no nerve endings in his skin? jmowreader Jan 2020 #4

Yeah, saw the video...pix... Liberal In Texas Jan 2020 #5

Where was the video? pnwmom Jan 2020 #7

Beakybird

(3,333 posts)

1. Wow. I hate you grandpa!

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 11:23 PM

Jan 2020

pnwmom

(109,020 posts)

6. Why do you hate someone before any kind of trial? That photo is impossible

Reply to Beakybird (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 01:42 AM

Jan 2020

to make out.

At this point we just have the cruise line saying one thing and the family, another.

Kaleva

(36,371 posts)

2. Article says the grandfather leaned out the open window himself for about 8 seconds...

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 11:25 PM

Jan 2020

before lifting up his granddaughter.

cwydro

(51,308 posts)

3. Seems like a pretty bad idea to encourage a toddler to bang on glass anyway.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2020, 11:30 PM

Jan 2020

Pretty sure I’d have been scolded for banging on glass anywhere.

I remember that happening with a zoo window, and dad told me quite sharply not to bang on the glass. Common sense really.

What a tragedy.

jmowreader

(50,569 posts)

4. Does Mr. Anello also have no nerve endings in his skin?

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 01:17 AM

Jan 2020

He should have been able to feel the wind from the sea coming through the open window.

And even if he couldn't feel the wind, he should have been able to notice that the part of the bank of windows (in the NBC News video, they show the area in question and it's a huge glass wall) he was holding Chloe up to was brighter than the rest of the wall.

Liberal In Texas

(13,600 posts)

5. Yeah, saw the video...pix...

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 01:42 AM

Jan 2020

You don't pick up a small child and hold her outside of an open window. WTF. after almost 40 seconds he let her go. FUCK!

That's what he did.

It is not the cruise lines fault.

pnwmom

(109,020 posts)

7. Where was the video?

Reply to Liberal In Texas (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 18, 2020, 01:45 AM

Jan 2020

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