Lock the idiot parent in a hot vehicle tomorrow and see if they ever forget their child again.
I read nothing that said the parent forgot to remove the baby .
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The parent is NOT an idiot! 🙄 It was an accident. The child was rescued right away.
We do not have kids, but we discovered that our car LOCKS ITSELF if we step away too long. My husband was locked out.
“Lock the idiot parent in a hot vehicle tomorrow and see if they ever forget their child again.”
Can anyone read in this thread?
This happened to me with my first born. I was wrangling the car seat, the groceries, my pocketbook, and my keys. I laid the keys down to secure the car seat, put in the groceries, my pocketbook, and shut the door. Got to the other side and realized the keys, my phone, but most importantly, my baby boy were locked in the car.
About lost my dang mind. I immediately started screaming for help and begging for a crowbar. People came running. A man called the fire department; thankfully, the fire department was just two minutes away and they were able to jack the lock without breaking the window. Another man brought over his crowbar just in case. A woman prayed over my son and me.
I was lucky. It was autumn and cool outside.
As the fireman checked out my little guy, I hugged and thanked all of the people who came to help, weeping tears of relief. They all got to see him and love on him. He was still just a baby, only a few months old, and cute enough to be in commercials. Plump limbs, pink cheeks, bright blue eyes, tufts of light blond hair, he was a charmer who had everyone smiling.
Those 10 minutes took a good 5 years off my life. I thought seriously about what I would do if ever confronted with a similar situation with no help nearby and engrained the instructions in my mind; climb on the hood and kick out the windsheild.
As a new parent, you only make that mistake once. I had an OCD response from that point forward.
I’m cutting this parent some slack. Like me, they instantly recognized what happened and acted to save their child. The ones that completely forget about their kids and let them die...that I could never understand.
Parent did not forget child in car. Parent locked keys in car. People do that all the time. Parent did not hesitate to destroy the windshield to correct the error. Not idiotic.