Whoa. Good for the Mahe family. Hopefully those types of blinds become non-existent.

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Sep 23, 2021
12:00:03am

mulletino mulletYno@gmail.com

Whoa. Good for the Mahe family. Hopefully those types of blinds become non-existent.

Former BYU football player and coach Reno Mahe and his wife, former BYU volleyball player Sunny Tonga Mahe, were awarded $25 million this week in a wrongful death trial against a blinds manufacturer after the death of their daughter in 2016. https://t.co/MiWPGTqrV9
— Daily Universe Sports (@DailyUnivSports) September 23, 2021

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Whoa. Good for the Mahe family. Hopefully those types of blinds become non-existent.

mulletino mulletYno@gmail.com

9/23/21 12:00am

The same thing almost happened to our son when he was 3. We came home from a BYU football game to a driveway full of

mulletino

9/23/21 12:07am

I’ve been paranoid about it ever since I heard the news a few years ago.

OnEMoReTrY

9/23/21 12:12am

Same here.

CBer

9/23/21 12:30am

We paid extra to get our blinds without cords in our new home.

JohnnyC

9/23/21 6:09am

I installed our blinds personally - thus assuring that half of the time...

Eddie

9/23/21 9:05am

RE: I installed our blinds personally - thus assuring that half of the time...

rerunc

9/23/21 9:13am

What is amazing is it cost us $40 a blind to move to cordless. The guy selling

ordinary tri guy

9/23/21 6:22am

I've never understood why they are even made with two cords in the first place

Hotlanta

9/23/21 7:36am

You need multiple cords to pull them up

mtcougar

9/23/21 7:46am

In order to buy blinds with cords from Lowe’s you now have to special order them

9/23/21 8:13am

Same thing happened to my brother when he was younger. My wife and I have always gone cordless in every

-C9-

9/23/21 7:45am

I remember following the story, I also follow Sunny on social media and she is

Ten_Hour_Drives

9/23/21 12:15am

Didn't they stop selling those soon after that incident?

John Doe

9/23/21 12:24am

Yep. We actually took all of these old blinds out of our house and so did my parents and in-laws after this happened

9/23/21 12:51am

We were at primary's at the same time as them, I'll never forget it

CrashMcLarson

9/23/21 3:21am

25M is amazing yet no doubt they’d trade it in a heartbeat to reverse things…

Pretorian

9/23/21 5:34am

No doubt. Sunny is still suffering from depression because of it.

ordinary tri guy

9/23/21 7:07am

Yeah. I think I could handle just about anything that's thrown at me. Losing

CougBlu

9/23/21 9:56am

They'll be getting even more than that

Cougs'16

9/23/21 6:59am

Punitive? Anyone know the details of the case? Weren't these blinds standard

QBarrister

9/23/21 9:06am

I have followed the story and Reno and Sunny are truly inspirational

cougforever

9/23/21 9:09am

i wonder what the initial low ball offer was from the company. If youre patient

buckeyecougarguy

9/23/21 10:28am

I question that this is good. They put warning labels on things and this is not

SoBlueitHurts

9/23/21 2:22pm

I suspect that if I was a parent of a child who died due to something...

Eddie

9/23/21 2:38pm

Makes some sense. Does anyone have any insight why they won despite this

SoBlueitHurts

9/23/21 3:43pm

Given your moniker, I'd sit this discussion out.

9/23/21 5:19pm

While that remark is kind of funny and this is an uncomfortable subject

SoBlueitHurts

9/24/21 1:47am

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