BEWARE THE DEADLY BUNK BED

Use a bunk bed only as a last resort - they are dangerous!  As a young boy I fell out of one but was lucky and was not hurt. After a bad bump on the head from the plunge, I refused to sleep on the bunk, so my older brother volunteered for the duty.  

You especially don't want to be in a jail-house bunk bed, so don't smoke and drink and break laws......you don't want to 'haft a' fight Spike for the rights to the lower berth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

------ Did you have a bunk bed as a child? Do you remember falling out of it, or seeing your brother roll off the edge? If so, you're not alone.

A study shows that bunk bed-related injuries are quite common. Researchers at Ohio State University tracked emergency room bunk bed-related injuries across the U.S. 

They looked at injuries to an estimated 572,580 children and adolescents younger than 21.

Mothers of sons may not be surprised to learn that bunk bed mishaps happened more frequently (nearly 61%) to boys and young men.

Here are more of the findings, leading with the most common types of injuries:

Nearly 30% of injuries were cuts

24% of injuries were bruises or scrapes

19% of injuries were bone fractures

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