Eric Bergen

In perfect timing with my unable to assess risk series a family wants to have plastic pen tops banned because their teenage son died choking on one. Banned. Really? You want to ban something because out of the millions of plastic pen tops your child was the one unlucky one that choked on one? Insane. I understand you’re upset and you want to get revenge for your sons death. First you can’t take revenge on an inanimate object. It won’t make you feel any better. Second there are millions if not billions of these caps floating around and one person has died. They may get plastic pen tops banned but I bet the will still drive while talking on a cellphone.

We have some wonderful people fueling the fire too. His school has banned the pen tops. I’m sure a few hundred people get these caught in their mouth every year. Now one _one_ kid has died and they should be banned? Before we get pen tops banned let’s focus on cellphones, swimming pools, and bad parents.