Age 7 Girl Digs Hole in Florida Beach, Sand Collapses, Kills Her

Saturday, February 24, 2024

7-year-old Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's beach when a 4-to-5-foot-deep hole collapsed on her and her 9-year-old brother, Maddox. The boy was buried up to his chest, but the girl was fully covered. Video taken by a bystander shows about 20 adults trying to dig her out using their hands and plastic pails, but the hole kept collapsing on itself.

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"News reports and a 2007 medical study show that about three to five children die in the United States each year when a sand hole they are digging at the beach, a park or at home collapses on top of them."

#1 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-23 05:34 PM | Reply

So where was the parent? Grew up spending summers at Ocean City, ME [pictures even as a baby there], and my brothers and I always were looked after. When older had a much younger sister and brother, as if parent went back to the house where we were staying, we teenage boys were responsible to watch the youngsters. Guess in this day and age the parent[s] were too busy on their smart phones to keep an eye on the child.

#2 | Posted by MSgt at 2024-02-23 08:16 PM | Reply

Correction to the post above as that is Ocean City, Maryland [MD], not ME.

#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2024-02-24 12:12 AM | Reply

Guess in this day and age the parent[s] were too busy on their smart phones to keep an eye on the child.

#2 | Posted by MSgt

As always, idiot righties take extremely rare events and apply them broadly to tickle their confirmation bias.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2024-02-24 12:51 AM | Reply

Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, a small enclave north of Fort Lauderdale, does not have lifeguards at its beach, so there were no professionals immediately available to help.

Cuz Freedom.

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-02-24 01:16 AM | Reply

@#2 ... So where was the parent? ...

Yeah, that was my first question as well.

Do the states that reply upon beach visits inform parents of the dangers involved in digging holes on the beach?

Or do those states expect the parent to just know about those dangers?

If the former, yeah, where was the parent.

If the latter, shame on the state.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-24 01:34 AM | Reply

Do the states that reply upon beach visits inform parents of the dangers involved in digging holes on the beach?

I'm a bit sceptical that a 7 and 9 year old "team" dug a 5 foot deep hole in a beach by themselves in the first place. That's a lot of work.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-02-24 01:57 AM | Reply

Death Santis strikes again.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-02-24 02:43 AM | Reply

Don't you mean Death Sandis?

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-24 08:13 AM | Reply

#2 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2024-02-23

Did they have sand when you were young, you old fart?

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-02-24 08:15 AM | Reply

#8, #7,
Gov. DeathSand is going to be right on this banning children under 16 from Florida Beaches, just like Social Media.
He's also going to ban any animals, including sea life, from copulating in front of anyone K-12.

#11 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-24 08:30 AM | Reply

On the subject of the article, however, I've heard of kids dying from sand collapses here on multiple occasions. Most of the time its sand collapse from builder's sand. I used to play in that stuff all the time, digging tunnels, etc, but I never made them big enough to get in. Even the small tunnels would collapse in on themselves often enough to show you that would not be a good idea.

#12 | Posted by YAV at 2024-02-24 08:35 AM | Reply

I'm a bit sceptical that a 7 and 9 year old "team" dug a 5 foot deep hole in a beach by themselves in the first place. That's a lot of work. #7 | Posted by REDIAL

Maybe they were Palestinian.

Some people are just naturally good at stuff.

#13 | Posted by censored at 2024-02-24 11:51 AM | Reply