Posted on 06/11/2018 7:00:54 AM PDT by rickmichaels
“Technology is NEVER and substitute for good management...……..”
What cook needs a timer anyway?
[Smoke pouring from kitchen.]
Simple solution: Don’t leave your baby/toddler in a car unattended. I don’t give a damn what the temp is.
When I ran into to pay for gas I used to leave my child in the car. I knew I had left her. It only took one death on the news for me to change my ways.
Those who forget probably shouldn’t be driving. They are too distracted or impaired.
‘Technology is NEVER and substitute for good management...……..’
Good management goes through phases to improve. And perfection is never achieved.
Like their phone
Why couldn't auto makers put a brief audible notice in the car that states or asks just prior to driver leaving the vehicle.....”Is a child left in this vehicle?”
I will say this, until we have safe borders, kids are at risk of kidnapping. I suspect that is much more common than heat exposure.
Read the stories. They don’t pan out that way. The excuse is I forgot. The reality is they were either high or drunk or so distracted that they shouldn’t have been driving a multi ton weapon in the first place
Yes, but not all. I can see how it could happen.
‘When I ran into to pay for gas I used to leave my child in the car.’
When I was a brat, I was left alone in the car all the time. I got sunburn so bad that I ended up with blisters.
For the most part life was good. People were free. Kids used to clown around haflway out the windows. Dangerous, but free.
People used to ride without using seatbelts. They were free to do so.
I dunno. We’re being squeezed in, compressed into something ugly.
Cars should have other warnings:
“Did you eat your greens to-day?”
“Do you have thrombosis?”
Actually, that is a good idea. Purse, cell phone, wallet.
“The reality is they were either high or drunk or ...”
High or drunk while driving and then the kid suffers from heat exposure?
That triple combo most definitely merits thrwing the book at someone.
But if someone runs a red light when no other car is around, who the heck cares? If someone has an empty beer can in his car but not driving under the influence, who cares?
Ka-ching!
Zing-em for money and squeeze freedom from society.
You are right. We had a tragic case a few years ago where it was a father driving, and I don’t think it was routine for him to drive the kids.
Here’s another one — kid unlocks safety seat harness, distracts parent, who crashes.
Kid dies.
I think the parent has suffered enough, don’t you?
Yesterday, I locked my dog away in the car for about 5 minutes, running into a store. Once I was in the store, I realized that I had not opened the windows. So I returned to the car. I didn’t forget about the dog; I forgot about the windows...
“Those who forget probably shouldn’t be driving. They are too distracted or impaired.”
A driver has one job: Keep occupants alive and unharmed.
All BS. The government killed all these kids.
Parents would never forget a baby if the baby seat were beside them in the front passenger seat.
This fact has been obvious for years, and yet, despite much safer cars and controllable airbags, the rule on car seats has not been changed. Why? I think my tag line explains it.
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