If you’re in the market for a new home and planning on bringing your kids along to house showings, one Utah realtor would like a word.
Karina VanOrman, who runs the TikTok channel @karinasutahhomes, recommends that parents avoid bringing young kids to home showings. The reason? VanOrman was witness to the six-year-old daughter of her clients being life-flighted to a hospital from an injury she got while her parents toured a potential new home.
The realtor told the story on her TikTok, explaining that while showing homes to a couple who often brought their young, very active children to showings, VanOrman watched in horror as one of the kids ran full force into a glass door.
“I could see that she did not realize that the sliding glass door was closed,” VanOrman described in a TikTok video. “So as she was running full speed ahead, I yelled, ‘Stop!’ But before she could stop herself, she ran straight through that glass door.”
Because the door was made of full glass from the 1970s, it didn’t fracture into tiny pieces, like many newer glass structures do (they are designed that way for safety), but instead, it fragmented into huge, jagged shards of glass.
The girl had been cut from the glass on her upper body and her head, but most terrifying, VanOrman looked down to see a giant piece of glass sticking directly out of the girl’s abdomen.
Although the realtor immediately instructed the girl not to pull the glass out, the girl panicked, reached down, and yanked it out of her body.
“She looked down in total panic, and she grabbed it with both hands and pulled it out and cut her hands,” VanOrman remembers.
