It was bad parenting. He’s a victim of never having been taught to hug a tree and to not roll off a cliff (gravity is working fine in Malibu). For that matter he was never taught to not camp next to a steep drop-off — look for someplace flat(ter). Whatever, it could have been worse, but it shouldn’t have happened at all. Nothing to see here.

Edit: Rather than bad parenting, how about too much time on Faceplant and not a website where he might learn something useful.. like ETS,