![]() Rattus Cartus, a card game based on the Rattus board game, includes twelve different buildings with players using all or only some of them each game to provide a wide variety of play. Are you going to play it safe, or will you run the risk of perishing from the effects of the plague? My first grader was partaking in a class project involving marshmallows when another mother told me a pretty sad story. She said that a few years ago a child died playing a game called 'Chubby Bunny'. The game involves children in turn stuffing as many marshmallows into their mouths as they can and trying to say 'Chubby Bunny'. She said that one child stuffed so many into their mouth that the marshmallows 'emulsified' and the child choked to death. I have played such a game as an adult at baby showers and in my experience the marshmallows disolved and didn't clump together. Our main problem was drool. I was wondering if you have anything in your files or if you have heard of any such thing. This apparently happened in or around Austin, Texas. Inspiration 9 authorization code. Collected via e-mail, 2006. Actual occurrences can sometimes take on folkloric lives of their own, making the shift from news stories to cautionary tales through emotional responses to elements of those events. That was the case with the 4 June 1999 death of 12-year-old Catherine “Casey” Fish, who did indeed die while playing the marshmallow-stuffing game known as “Chubby Bunny” — descriptions of her death have become part of the cautionary lore spread among parents. The rules of “Chubby Bunny” require competitors to enunciate that phrase with marshmallows stuffed in their mouths. No swallowing or chewing is allowed, and any participant who gags, coughs, or spits is “out” of the game. The winner is whichever child manages to utter the expression through the largest number of marshmallows. Casey Fish choked on four marshmallows and collapsed during the annual Care Fair held at Hoffman Elementary School, a grade school in Chicago’s North Shore area, and died at the Glenbrook Hospital a few hours later. The “Chubby Bunny” competition was to have been part of the day’s activities and would have been supervised by a teacher. However, Casey began playing the game with some of her friends when her teacher momentarily left the area ten minutes before the scheduled start of the “Chubby Bunny” competition to have a word with a janitor. As Casey choked, the teacher was summoned back to the room, but he arrived too late to head off the youngster’s death. Casey’s death was reported by the media at the time of the incident. But, unlike many news stories about the death of a child, the deceased sixth-grader’s story was told and retold in ensuing months, primarily via The Oprah Winfrey Show, which talked about the case (including airing interviews with the distraught parents) in January, March, and June 2000. The tale of how Casey’s life ended continued to surface in the news as her parents pursued a civil suit against the school district, asserting that a failure to properly supervise the children led to the death of their daughter. (In 2005, her parents settled their lawsuit for $2 million.) All of this additional attention served to keep the story in circulation. The folkloric shift this real-life tragedy has taken involves the mode of death. While a very real youngster did indeed lose her life through playing “Chubby Bunny,” she did so through choking on the intact confections in her mouth, not (as developing lore would have it) via the marshmallows’ somehow breaking down to form a windpipe-clogging glue. In the example quoted above, the bonbons were said to have “emulsified” — that is, turned into a liquid mass. Sources • Hussain, Rummana. “School ‘Broke Trust,’ Girl’s Family Says.” Chicago Sun Times. Documentation is vital in demonstrating a program meets minimum requirements. Mistake 7: Not Retaining Records Claiming compliance is very different than proving it. If you accidently purge forms prior to a minimum retention period, it may result in a recordkeeping violation. Forms must be kept in accordance with §40.333 and §382.401. Records must be treated as confidential information and maintained in a secured location (i.e., under lock and key) with controlled access (i.e., only a select few). Dot drug and alcohol testing. 27 May 2005 (p. • Hussain, Rummana. “Janitor Says Teacher Aided Student Who Was Choking.” Chicago Sun Times. ![]() 28 May 2005 (p. • Hussain, Rummana. “Casey’s ‘Lips Were Purple,’ Friend Testifies.” Chicago Sun Times. 2 June 2005 (p. • Zimmermann, Stephanie. “Parents Blast Teacher’s Promotion.” Chicago Sun Times. 25 February 2005 (p. • Associated Press. “Parents of 6th-Grader Who Choked Settle Suit.” Deseret Morning News. • The London Free Press. “Woman Who Choked on Marshmallow at Western Fair Dies.” 14 September 2006. • Tulsa World. “Child’s Choking-Death Lawsuit Goes to Trial.” 27 May 2005 (p.
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