# Dio, at it again and raising the bar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-at-it-again-and-raising-the-bar/543888>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 20, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-at-it-again-and-raising-the-bar/543888 "2010-06-20T18:19:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dio-at-it-again-and-raising-the-bar/543888/79 "2010-06-21T06:49:06Z")

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> [@curlcoat](#):
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> As I said, I’ve had them so I am smart enough to write a note or something to make sure that I don’t forget those things that are important. In case you haven’t noticed in your rush to judge, my point is that I simply cannot believe that people who claim to love these kids are allowing **neglectful** parents to excuse frying their kid in a car. I have never met anyone that would accept any excuse for frying a dog, and yet you all claim that the kids are more important?

Bolding mine

Nobody is making excuses for parents that go do their hair at the beauty salon and leave their kids in the car (which actually happened once). That is not what we are talking about.  
And Dio, you don’t know me. I’ve never pitted any board member. People on message boards don’t piss me off enough, but I am worried about you. And I mean it. You are acting in a manner that is not your usual self. I have no idea what’s going on, and I don’t care enough to pit you, but I suggest, humbly, that you need to step back and take some time off.

Saying that you don’t care to acquire relevant information because no matter what you will not change your mind is, well, bizarre at least.

> [@Texas toddler dies after mom leaves her in a hot car for 45 minutes](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/texas-toddler-dies-after-mom-leaves-her-in-a-hot-car-for-45-minutes/543728/6):
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> [This article](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html) (which won a 2010 Pulitzer Prize, incidentally) is a very good look at this topic, although extremely difficult to read. (At least, it was for me.)

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