I read the following news story and it made me shake because I was so angry.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/1546781/detail.html
I have no words to describe the rage I feel.:mad:
There was yet another case I heard on the local news this evening. Seems a divorced man was visiting his kid, and left the kid in the car for 15 (yes, fifteen) hours, while the guy got drunk. The next morning, he called the police. He was still too drunk to remember where his car was or what he did with the kid.
Summon welby1 +5.
Holdin’ out for a hero, here. Why are people so goddamned stupid? 
Oh, because they NEVER think that anything will ever happen to THEM! snort
And whaddya know, folks. It happened here, too; a man left his two children to die in his car while he was shopping for porn movies. Fortunately, they were rescued before they died, which they would have; it was sunny and very hot today:
Toronto Fucktard Leaves Kids To Roast Alive In Deathtrap While Shopping For Spunk Tapes
She looks completely and utterly stoned in that picture.
Fuck, what IS it with people?
You need a license to FISH…
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You know, I’m sure this has been happening for a very long time… as long as people have had cars.
At least now it’s getting widespread media attention, which if it doesn’t make anyone think twice about leaving a kid in the car, will at least make passers-by more sensitive to noticing and/or acting on it should they encounter such a situation.
In the US, most kids attend public schools, and most of those who don’t attend schools accredited in some way by the govt (meaning govt officials have some say in curriculum). Are there not a few things that every child should be taught while young and impressionable? Taught in school, so as to make sure as many people as possible get the information.
I’d say that one of those things would be the danger of leaving a baby, a child, or a pet in a car. And, if I may engage in a slight hijack, another should be the likely consequences of trying to zip one’s car across a railroad track after the barriers are down and the alarm is sounding. There are probably a number of other candidates for addition to Hazel’s proposed course, “How to Avoid Accidently Killing Someone (Including Yourself)”. For, say, the 5th grade?
wow, and her hair didn’t even look good!
That second one… the police estimate that the inside of his car reached 100 F? Err… that isnt’ very high. Cars get MUCH hotter than that inside. I’d say probably more like 130. (hell, 100 is an average temp in the shade in Arizona!)
No kidding… well, it was 100 after 20 minutes when they got the kids out of the car, IIRC. No idea how hot it is when they find these kids and pets that didn’t make it. I’d imagine if it can get up to 100 in 20 minutes, in less than an hour it can get a lot hotter than that.
I know sometimes here when it’s in the high 90s and my car’s been sitting in the sun all day, I get inside and it’s so hot I literally can’t breathe. (Gotta roll down the windows until the AC gets going…)
These people leaving kids in their car are probably the same ones that don’t supervise their children around the pool and leave gates unlocked and unlatched around swimming pools. Every year a few kids drown here because some moron couldn’t be bothered to make sure his pool was not accessible to their kids/neighbours kids without an adult(with the key) present.
Isn’t it crazy that people who aren’t capable of being responsible for themselves can wind up being responsible for a child? I wouldn’t let these fuckheads have a pet rock.
Don’t know if this observation would hold up to scientific scrutiny. but there seems to be an anecdotal correlation between low socio-economic status and frequency of leaving children/pets in locked cars.
When people of low socio-economic status engage in dangerous behavior at a disproportionate rate, it seems that education about said dangers is lacking. I think Hazel is onto something with her ideas.
Unfortunately, you can’t teach common sence or How to be a loving and caring parent. Even a book titled, Raising children for Dummies probably wouldn’t reach the target audience.
Amazingly, Parenting For Dummies does exist. I wonder if it has a chapter on not frying your kids to death. Or better yet, one on effective contraception.
Chalk up another for “Nothing learned.”
Yesterday, a Texas mother left her six-month-old baby to die in her car.
What gets me is this:
What the bloody blue fuck?! How do you forget about an infant?
Her other three children stand a better chance being raised by fucking wolves.
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Moron, you only get a Darwin award if you off yourself, not your progeny! Let the little blighters get through childhood, at least… Maybe the dipshit gene is recessive. Go put your head in an oven. An electric oven. :mad:
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Argh.
What do you mean, nothing is learned?
These people obviously learn by doing.
Actually, what I have been thinking about, is probably what puts them in a low socio-economic status to begin with. The fact that if it weren’t for modern science, these people would have been low man on the totem pole for natural selection, and dead themselves, long before they would have been able to procreate.
~V
Anyone who leaves a child unattended in a car should be jammed into a pizza oven for the length of time their child was in the car. If, after their time is up, all their skin doesn’t fall off they can go home.
It’s not just America.
From Japan Today, Pair jailed for letting child die in car while they played pachinko
Despite the headline, they weren’t even jailed for leaving their infant daughter to die in a hot car for two and half hours while they gambled. The judge let them off with a suspended sentence.
Not a whole lot I can say about it right now.