Posted on 06/11/2018 7:00:54 AM PDT by rickmichaels
” I sorely doubt any of them were left intentionally”
I do. What kind of idiot forgets they have a child in a car?? None. They simply didn’t want to take the child with them.
Low IQ crowd.
“you forgot your child in the car.”
“He’s twenty, he’ll figure it out.”
Was astounded a few years ago to look up the statistics.
Big Cowardly Media never reports more than the obligatory three or four incidents per summer, because if they published all thirty-something cases every year, they’d lose subscribers.
“He’s twenty, he’ll figure it out.”
LOL. Thanks for the morning laugh.
We are on the ‘Nanny State’ extreme right now. And yes, technology will do far more to protect children than any punitive law. But aribtrary laws which demand tech will stunt innovation.
People want a ‘quick fix’ for everything. In the end, the resulting laws are like old furniture held together with bungi cords and duct tape.
I could. Fact is even smart people can forget something that is vitally important to them, given the right chain of events. Add to that the fact that it is a known situation that people will not remember the last several miles of driving their car. It’s a human brain thing. It’s about going on autopilot with routine tasks, and a slight change in the routine can sometimes cause a person to forget to do somethin that is critical. It’s also about multitasking.
Fortunately, it doesn’t happen often.
Perhaps parents would not forget their infants if they put something they actually value back there with them.
I know that there have been cases like this; we had cases where women left kids in hot cars to gamble or have their hair done. But I think in other instances people are just too stressed and harried these days.
It’s not intentional, but what do you expect in a culture that expects the government to protect us from all harm, except the knife of the abortionist?
The government mandated the child seats, with straps, with stringent regulations. That is good. But no amount of rules or laws can restore to people their now-lost parental bonding and common sense.
How do solve the problem: high profile prosecutions with prison time upon conviction.
Problem solved.
It happens when you don’t ALWAYS have the baby. That is the worst. To not remember which parent is taking a child to day care.
Since I always had my babies with me always, I was very unlikely to do it since THEBABYTHEBABYTHEBABY was my world. I never arrived anywhere without KNOWING the baby was back there. Even on the very rare occasions when I went alone somewhere, I’d have to freak and remember I went there without the baby when I saw the empty car seat at the end.
And in fact, I usually was driving while wearing an empty baby carrier around me. Get to the destination, pop baby in carrier, boom.
Traditional parenting where one person does 99% of all baby care actually keeps MAMABABY as a unit like intended by nature, and she is not likely to forget her baby. But once you start having dad take her some days and you take her others, you might well be too sleep deprived to know every second if it’s Tuesday or weds.
I saw two seasoned citizens driving their obligatory Crown Victoria the other day. There was a big sticker on the passenger window for when they left their dog in the car. It read “A/C on. Don’t break glass”
I guess they must have gotten sick of replacing windows.
That said, I’d have no hesitation on busting a window if I saw a kid in distress. I’m not a pet guy, but I’d do the same for a dog. Have to think about it for a while if it was a cat. (just a joke, put the flamethrower down)
Welcome.
“....... how do you solve a problem nobody thinks they have?”.
Take away their drugs, children and pets too.
Bingo!
Excellent post.
Stress can cause chaos in anyone’s brain activity. And other distractions.
A person thinks, “I’ll just be a minute.”
Then something happens.
We have yahoos out here who will bust a window if the kid is left alone for a few seconds.
Maybe they should be required to wait for five minutes? [or something along those lines]. And if they record it the parent pays a bounty to them or something for busting their window. Just sayin’.
I would do that now even if I was the parent that usually dropped off the baby/child. You only have to be distracted once.
, there’s another reason to make the tech we believe we need for entertaining and protecting us to be used to protect our kids.
Here in south Virginia we have guys busting windows and so forth to rescue kids who aren’t even overheated. It’s getting extreme.
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