Police: Dad Leaves Kids In Truck To Go See Strippers

AP via The Carolina Channel ^ | 8/13/03 | AP

[wimpycat]

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida dad is in jail, after he allegedly left his kids in a pickup truck while he visited a strip club.

Police in Tampa say Olvin Pabon paid a $20 cover at the Deja Vu bar, and spent about 20 minutes inside. A security guard outside heard crying and found the four children in the pickup truck.

Security officers and several patrons blocked Pabon's pickup truck until police arrived.

He's charged with four counts of child neglect. Pabon claims he just stopped to use the strip club's restroom and only left the children for about 10 minutes.

The kids, ranging in age from 1 to 8, are now staying with Pabon's sister-in-law.

[wimpycat]

Cheapskate just didn't want to cough up $80 more to get his kids in.




I sure hope one of them isn't named "Olvin", Jr.

[hellinahandcart]

What kind of father do you think I am, officer? You can't expect me to take my dear children into a fleshpot. So I did the decent thing. I left them out in the truck.

It's gotta work better than "I had to take a twenty-dollar, twenty-minute whiz."

[wimpycat]

No, he said he was only in there for 10 minutes.

And how many beers did he have?

Everybody, all together now...

[hellinahandcart]

"Only two, Ossifer..."

[Normal4me]

Guys will pee in a parking lot. I think he had to make a poopie.

[Chad Fairbanks]

What was this poor guy suipposed to do? The wouldn't let him bring the kids in with him, so he did what any man who's back awas up against the wall would do...

[sarasmom]

Bookmark.
Waiting for all the divorced men who should have custody of their kids to show up and spin this crap.LOL

I should point out that my "father" was such a prime example of fatherhood that the few times my homemaker mother left us in his care due to family funerals, we kids wound up huddled in the car outside of bars for hours at a time.Wouldnt have been so bad, if it had not been winter...

[hellinahandcart]

How long would you leave your eight-year-olds in the parking lot of a strip club?

[sauropod]

Um, no strip club visits on my weekends w/ the kids.

Burger king on the other hand...

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Jackboot licking statist......you wouldn't have a problem with locking this guy up....

[Arpege92]

absolutely!

[anniegetyourgun]

How very sad for these children. Their father is not a real man - just a selfish weenie who lacks in character and self-control.

[wimpycat]

You-know-who would paint this guy as a victim.

[Libertina]

Many years ago during college, when I was working as a cocktail waitress, a man left his 5 year old son in the car for 5 hours during freezing weather. When the little boy came in (12:30 AM) I called the police. Unfortunately, it took them so long to arrive that the guy took his child and attempted to drive home. He was drunk and got in an accident. I have a hard time forgiving the manager who actually made an announcement - giving the creep a chance to come get his little boy - and the police who came so late. What a sorry excuse for a father. Poor little kid...

[proud American in Canada]

"No mention of the mother(s) of Olvin's kids

Well, she was working, IN THE CLUB! "



Yep... but then, would he really have wanted to go in there? I doubt it. ;)

[ChemistCat]

Yeah!!! You're so right, there.

And Sarasmom, it would have been worse if it had been high summer...glad you made it through.

I make a point of looking in cars as I walk through parking lots. Not to be nosy, but to make sure there are no forgotten babies. I'd hate to find one, but I'd hate even more to realize I was there in time, and hadn't noticed....

[proud American in Canada]

"I make a point of looking in cars as I walk through parking lots. Not to be nosy, but to make sure there are no forgotten babies. I'd hate to find one, but I'd hate even more to realize I was there in time, and hadn't noticed."

Thank God for that. Up here in Montreal, a man left his daughter in his car... he and his wife had a certain routine and it was broken, unlike every other day, he dropped his wife off first.

So when he got to the train, he forgot about his sleeping daughter.

She basically broiled to death in the minivan, tinted windows, nobody noticed.

We all say it can't happen to us... I can't imagine 'forgetting' my children in a car... but it happened. To a loving father, by the way.

There but for the grace of God...

let's not be so judgmental, everyone... it's easy to rip on this guy because he was in a strip bar. It's always easy to rip on the idiots who somehow have dumb luck.

JMHO.

[proud American in Canada]

and let me just add: when kids are (by law) in the back seat, and asleep, and you're stressed out... and your routine is broken...

I realize that is a different situation from this selfish idiot who had to go visit a strip bar while his kids sat in the car.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I almost forgot the two of you. :-)

Thank you for remembering, wimp. I love these triumphant stories of the human spirit, and its resourcefulness.

He must have really had to go to the bathroom.

[stands2reason]

My father was a moral, hard working, honest, sober, God-fearing man. My mother was a drunk. Your life is not everyone's.