Posted on 08/12/2012 6:08:06 PM PDT by chrisinoc
L.A. County sheriff's officials praised members of the public for alerting them to the plight of two young children who were left inside a car during sweltering condition Saturday in Cudahy.
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Unbelievable that anyone would think to leave their own precious children in a sweltering car. I’m glad tragedy was averted.
Addendum: Just read that the Mom was a teen. Probably a single mother. Just bad all around.
My dog would too, but most stores object.
Arely Amaya, 18, is suspected of leaving her 1-year-old son and 2-week-old daughter strapped in .........
shop-til-they-drop.
We had a case locally a couple of years ago where police were called because of a child locked in a hot car. Turned out that the child was 12 years old.
They went around and around for months in the media arguing whether the father should have been criminally charged. Idiots.
At that age, the greatest danger of leaving me in the car would have been that I would drive off.
Dozens of children are killed each year in overheated cars?
I dont think so.
A well known attorney forgot his kid in a locked car in the parking garage locally. Child was dead.
not just teen mothers.
“Addendum: Just read that the Mom was a teen. Probably a single mother. Just bad all around.”
If we weren’t showering her and her kids with money, she’d probably be living with her mom, and this crap wouldn’t be happening.
Average of 38 per year, apparently.
http://www.kmvt.com/news/local/Child-Deaths-In-Hot-Cars-Can-Be-Prevented—162147405.html?vid=a
I dont believe it. Like the millions of women dying of anorexia.
I dont believe it. Like the millions of women dying of anorexia.
Actually one of the things that bothers me is that all cars have electric windows and locks now. It just seems to be an unnecessary convenience and an unnecessary danger.
Just the other day a story was posted about an old man being left in a hot car. Aside from severe dementia I can’t imagine he would be in danger that he couldn’t get himself out of unless he couldn’t roll a winder down or get out.
I thought about that one day when my girlfriend went into the store and I stayed in the car. It started down pouring and I couldn’t roll the window up because she took the keys with her.
On the bright side, she drove some 300 miles that day in a wet seat. LOL
Actually, that could happen. My Aunt died from Alzheimer, and I remember her friend telling me that when it first started, she had driven home from her friends house, and it took her almost 45 minutes to figure out how to OPEN the car door. Apparently she ‘came out of it’ so to speak, long enough to realize what happened, called her friend scared to death, and thus began the long journey known as Alzheimer. Sad and scary that she had even been DRIVING, let alone found her way home.
Did your Aunt’s car have electric windows?
For someone of that age, rolling the window down is the more natural action. I’m only 50 and grew up with window cranks and hate electric windows
I have no idea, this was in the mid 90’s, and she passed away in ‘02 (IIRC). Only remember this story from her friend. One of those things that sticks in your head.
According to this website, dozens are killed each years in overheated cars.
According to this website, dozens are killed each years in overheated cars.
Ha, my dog like to "shop" for delights left out on the kitchen counters. Blueberry muffins are good, as are partial sticks of butter.
Fortunately she also left Dad in the car to attempt to entertain us and to allow the windows to be down (no A/C in our car in the 50's/ early 60's).
Another problem with electric doors and windows: they don’t work if something bad happens to your car.
My sister was in an accident. Her car had electric door locks and windows. She wasn’t able to get out of the car and it caught on fire. She was lucky that some men nearby broke the windows and got her and my 18-month-old niece out.
Babies, possibly.
There’s a bunch every year.
This incident was about 20 years ago, and she was driving a Ford Taurus. It was new, IIRC.
My present car has no mechanical means to unlock the doors from within. The door lock button is completely electrical. You can get in with a key from outside, of course, but inside you’re out of luck.
After my sister’s accident, our brother gave us each a pointy thing that is supposed to be able to break auto safety glass.
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