Posted on 06/25/2010 12:07:02 PM PDT by iowamark
“If you can’t your children somewhere, find a babysitter or stay home.”
It’s a dumbed down, irresponsible, self-centered, and callous society in some primarily urban areas of America today. It’s those areas I’d bet the majority of these sorts of incidents are happening. I’d also bet some of it is because dumbed down, irresponsible, self-centered, and callous sorts probably can’t afford to pay a babysitter in todays Obamaconomy, nor have sufficient compassion, nor commonsense to stay home.
All they wanna do is have some fun.
Man, if you’d stuck your face in hers and screamed at her till she was too flustered to function, you’d have been 100% justified.
“”A thermal heat detector that can automatically roll the windows down................... “”
So every car in a Texas parking lot would automatically become thief assessible on a hot day.
The moment you make a car idiot proof, they will just make a better idiot.
I don’t remember children dying in hot cars before they were mandated to ride in the back seat.
again I agree. It’s negligent homicide or something similar, not sure what they get charged with when it happens, stupid isn’t quite enough.
Be careful of the air bag:
...car air bags can cause injury or even death, as well as offer protection. Most car owners are aware of recommendations by safety experts that young children be placed in the back seat and that a distance of at least 10 inches be maintained between the driver and the steering wheel to minimize the chances of air bag-induced injury. Some people feel that air bags are not worth the risk and would like to shut them off, or at least have the option to do so. An on-off switch can be installed, but it requires permission from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and costs several hundred dollars.
From 1986 through April 2001, fewer than 7,000 lives had been saved by air bags. An estimated 246 people (including 61 unconfirmed air bag-related fatalities), mostly drivers and children, had been killed by air bags during the same period (snip)
http://www.nae.edu/nae/techlithome.nsf/weblinks/KGRG-57XNSR?OpenDocument
Would you forget a purse full of a million dollars in the back seat?
This is SO sad—and the “parents” who let this happen need to be sterilized-—or locked up in hot cars for a few hours.
Am I in before the posts whining about if only they didn’t mandate child seats in the back, this wouldn’t happen?
So let’s have the car makers spend a ton of money (thereby jacking up the auto price) to solve a problem that is not theirs to solve?
Um, yeah, or we could just start holding parents responsible for their children.
Novel concept, I know.
In my car, people in the back seat can talk to people in the front seat, and vice versa.
This is an interesting article regarding the children who die of hyperthermia in a car because they were forgotten...approximately 50% of child deaths.
It won’t reduce the condemnation of those who hold themselves incapable of making the same mistake, so the rest of us will just prey their record remains inviolate and that it will NEVER happen to them.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html
Prey = pray, and the 50% means that about half of the children who die in hot cars resulted from them being forgotten by the adult, not knowingly left in the car by the adult (statistics can be viewed in the original article posted).
Comments from the article in post 52. Thought you might like to inform yourself.
In hyperthermia cases, he believes, the parents are demonized for much the same reasons. “We are vulnerable, but we don’t want to be reminded of that. We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.”
I encourage you to take time to read the article. It might soften the tone of some of the comments on posts like these.
And you “might like to inform yourself” on the context of what is actually posted.
My particular post was in regards to children who are FORGOTTEN in automobiles.
F-O-R-G-O-T-T-E-N.
Like a dirty shirt or an overdue library book.
But go ahead, defend that particular sub-set of heinous, criminally irresponsible behavior if you like.
I gotta be brutally honest ... why do we need the tone softened?
You bear children, you have the responsibility of caring for those children.
If you neglect said children such that they are harmed or even dead, why should I soften about that? Your busy life is no excuse.
What you said. If children are God’s greatest gift to us, we shouldn’t need to put our purses with them to remember them.
Did you read the article linked in post 52?
Did you even read the article linked in post 52?
Again, I ask, would you forget and leave a purse with a million dollars in the car? Is your child not worth more to you than that.
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