Posted on 06/05/2010 1:16:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
911 first? That’s the only thing that he could have done better.
Several years ago I came out of the grocery store to find a group of 5-7 people around a car. It was July in Florida, hot as hell, and a woman had locked her keys and baby in the car. She was screaming that her husband was on the way and that they had called 911 10 minutes ago. When I looked in the car the baby had sweat beads on its face that looked the size of bees.
Less than 60 seconds later I’d opened the car via the opposite door window. I told her that if she wanted me to pay for the window I would. I never heard from her.
Sometimes people can’t get there brain out of the box.
I’m glad you are so perfect, have such a perfect family, and wonderfully perfect priorities.
As for myself, I’m thankful for God’s grace and protection that my six children are all alive, healthy, and well adjusted in spite of my occasional mistakes and oversights.
Insightful post. If God had made you a machine, though, you might still break down...and wouldn’t be able to have children anyway! :-)
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I am female. What does that have to do with it?
Today I went to the park with my dog and there was the usual family of geese who come to the pond every year to raise their young. At least one of the parents is always on the watch. Even though we have coyotes in the area I don’t recall ever seeing the number of baby geese diminish. The geese are better parents than some people.
One time, I decided to sit in my car for awhile to see how long I could endure it - windows up with sun. I can tell you I lasted only a few minutes. I just cannot even imagine. I think the fines should be much stiffer. It really is one of the most horrible ways a person could die. Literally being cooked. Something is wrong with people who park at an “entertainment complex” with a baby in the car. It’s hideous behind belief and I can’t even think about it as it is too upsetting.
You must not have thought about it very long or hard.
Not saying that it SHOULD happen, or is not a tragedy when it does and results in injury or death to the child.
I only have 2 kids. My son got lost at the mall once, that sort of thing happened - but to leave the kid in a hot car and walk away and forget about them....just haven’t done that.
OMG! I absolutely cannot even comprehend your ability to so casually excuse this. I remember a few years ago, a young man was supposed to take his infant to the daycare. His wife always did this but, for some reason, on this day, he had to do it. He went on auto pilot and went to work and literally left the car there all day in the sweltering heat. The baby die. Of course, no one can ever be consoled in this kind of event. Obviously, I can see “how” it happens but as a mother whose mind was on my child every second of every day, it is on some levels inconceivable. For five minutes or ten minutes of forgetting, yes, but hours?
There was also a related story where the mother put the baby in the carseat on top of the car and drove off. Fortunately, baby only had a few bumps and bruises.
You are right, it does not require malice; it requires much, much more - negligence, irresponsibility, and a whole host of other behaviors. Anyone that sleep-deprived, sick, or just plain stupid, should be driving with a kid in the car EVER.
You made a very good point. It’s like all this social justice crap. The Lefties and liberals don’t ever touch the abortion conundrum.
I thought the same thing. Safe until the next idiotic scenario... I could see somebody doing this as a deliberate way to get rid of their kid and make it look like, “oops, oh I forgot...” so I think the penalty should be much stiffer. Heck, they nail your %$$ to the wall if you leave a dog chained outside in the sun.
Thank YOU! So how sleep deprived or sick could the person be (using one poster’s defense of this idiot) if they were at an entertainment complex. Common sense seems to be a rare commodity these days.
Everyone makes mistakes, and there are no perfect parents. Sometimes, it's sheer luck that nothing bad results from our mistakes.
You know what? You have to be a total moonbat. I can assure you that millions of parents have NEVER forgotten their kid. That doesn’t mean that the kid didn’t wander or go into the next room but that is not the same thing as forgetting.
Exactly. This guy is a kook. And you are right about the male/female thing too. Meanwhile, he thinks he’s in the majority. No way. Thank GOD he’s gotta be in the minority or I think we’d see this way, way more than we do. What can I say? Why God gave an idiot five kids, I will never know.
Better to get and use the wrench first, and then worry about calling 911. Children can suffer permanent brain damage in these situations, and seconds count. Besides in a relatively busy place like that, most likely someone else would call 911 when they saw/heard someone smashing into a parked car with a wrench, and presumably yelling "call 911" at the same time.
Know one = No one DUH!!
The nanny state kills.
The annual number of child fatalities in hot cars has increased approximately TEN-fold since the introduction of laws requiring young children to ride in the back seat of vehicles. Before that, nearly all parents put their little ones in the front seat when the parent was the only adult in the car. The proliferation of dark-tinted windows has also contributed to the problem, though that’s really also part of the same back-seat problem, since there are strict limits on the darkness of front seat windows, to avoid the driver’s visibility being impaired.
It was extremely rare for a parent to forget a young child in the car, when the child was in the front seat next to the parent. Now, not only is the parent subjected by law to the “out of sight, out of mind” risk, but passers-by often don’t see the child either, due to the darker windows in the back seat. There was one case where the car was parked in the psrking lot of a busy hospital where the parent worked, and the child was in the car for many hours with no one noticing (and already dead when someone finally did — can’t recall if it was the parent returning after work, or someone else seeing the child through another widnow.
Agreed. It’s the “law of unintended consequences”.
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