# Good God woman - can you really be THAT stupid? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 27, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672 "2003-05-27T01:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/21 "2003-05-27T04:17:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by monstro \* > **I think we should sentence careless parents to a couple of hours in a front-loading washing machine…** One of the saddest parallels I’ve ever made… [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=186230](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=186230) ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/22 "2003-05-27T04:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zabali\_Clawbane \* > \*\*You know what really struck me as the most “off” about the whole incident? The fact that the woman had no desire to “show off” her 2 week old baby. \*\* No kidding. This woman has been in before, and I’ve always thought she was - unpleasant. I don’t know how else to say it - she has as much personality as an old shitty boot. Anyhow - that was the kicker. I talked to the owner about it today, and she agreed with me. However, I guess in the past this moron has brought her other two boys in the store and they’re _HELLIONS_. This is a ladies clothing botique. We have a lot of really high end stuff - I guess her little shits where wrecking stuff and anoying the hell out of the other customers so the owners told her she wasn’t alowed to bring them with her anymore if she refused to control them. Apparently she’s too stupid to realize that the 2 week old baby is omitted from the ban. :rolleyes: Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![ratzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@ratzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratzie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/23 "2003-05-27T04:57:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stonebow \* > \*\*we had a case like that on campus. i had always thought that educated people didn’t do stupid shit like this, but one of our professors was hauled off for leaving his 3 year old daughter locked in his van all day while he taught classes. \*\* Oooh noooo… I spent 15 years at an academic research institution until I ran off screaming into the sunset last January. Certainly, there are wonderful parents in our campus community; however, I have also seen too many cases of parents who acted like they will just make another… I saw toddlers walking by themselves through the campus to the nursery school along the main artery, a father who bicycled down the center of the same road with his toddler FOLLOWING him on her little bike. He never even turned to look at her. The guy who drove with his toddler in his lap allowing him to steer. One day I saw that his side view mirror was ripped off and hanging my a wire. _snicker_ My personal favorite. A woman, obviously rushed, stopped her car in the road, hurriedly buckled the kid in the carseat, and stepped on it with the back passenger door wide open!!! She was a multi-generational threat…that car door was heading straight for an elderly professor shuffling along the road… ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/24 "2003-05-27T11:39:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ego\_Mk2 \* > \*\*That part, **dantheman** > > That part. \*\* Oh, sure. I see the relevance. Real relevant, that. As relevant as a cow pie to a IBM technician. ---
**Author:** ![TaxGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TaxGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaxGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/25 "2003-05-27T17:50:39Z")
> [@](#): > > She was **a multi-generational threat** …that car door was heading straight for an elderly professor shuffling along the road… 😛 \ and \ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/26 "2003-05-27T21:11:47Z")
Had something similar happen last winter. I pulled up to the local grocery (one in a pretty bad part of town, we jokingly call it "crack grocery if that gives you any idea). This kid, about 7 or so, maybe a bit younger was sitting in the front passenger seat of a new-looking mini van. And the van had been left running! I can’t remember what I was doing, but it took me a few minutes to get ready to get out of the car, I waited, thinking that the person had just popped in for a moment, but then my outrage got the better of me and I picked up my cell phone and called the police. After I called, I made a few more phone calls and waited for either the parent, or the police to show up. I sat there for a good 15 minutes and neither showed. I finally went inside the store and after I came back out, the dad, a sloppy careless looking person came wandering out. Unfortunately he made it before the cops, fortunately I had given them the time, location and license plate number. I don’t know if he was ever questioned, and I don’t know about other states, but it’s illegal up here. And as someone else said, I wouldn’t even leave my 10 year old (who is now 12) alone in a vehicle. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/27 "2003-05-27T21:37:07Z")
😉 Hmm, for the record, I never implied that the car would be turned off while the parent ran the errand. For example, I’ve sat in the car with a friend’s baby in the summer while she ran inside on a quick errand. She left the car on, and the air conditioner going, so we wouldn’t get hot. One time, I had to shut the car off, get the child out of the car, lock it up, and go inside because she got caught in a LONG line, and the car was overheating. She understood though. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/28 "2003-05-27T21:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racinchikki \* > \*\*I told the little girl (maybe 2) that I was going to go get her mommy, went back in the store, got on the loudspeaker and asked for the owner of the car to come up, told her her little girl was crying for her, and she rolled her eyes (yes!) and said “She was _asleep_ when I came in.” \*\* Ah, so the little girl is not only alone and at a high risk of being stolen, now she’s also scared because she wakes up in the car, disoriented, and Mommy’s nowhere to be seen. Gawd, these people sicken me. They just don’t think about what they do. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/29 "2003-05-27T23:30:25Z")
I have never understood it. I have decided against an errand because Darby is sleeping in the back, what errand could possibly be more imporatnt than your child? I reported a guy last year at canadian Tire for leaving his dog in his sealed-up black Jeep Cherokee. It only took minutes for the dog to obviously overheat. I had him paged multiple times, to no avail. When he finally came out? “I didn’t think it would be more than five minutes.” well, the first part of that statement is right, you didn’t think. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/30 "2003-05-28T00:08:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zabali\_Clawbane \* > **😉 Hmm, for the record, I never implied that the car would be turned off while the parent ran the errand. For example, I’ve sat in the car with a friend’s baby in the summer while she ran inside on a quick errand. She left the car on, and the air conditioner going, so we wouldn’t get hot.** That’s not a very good idea either. Idling a car with the AC on is a good way to overheat the engine or start a fire if not caught in time. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/31 "2003-05-28T00:11:15Z")
Well yeah, **Jeff** , but **Zabali** went inside when it started to overheat. It’s only really awful if no one’s there at all - at least with an adult there’s a little safeguard. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/32 "2003-05-28T00:19:47Z")
Sorry, must’ve missed that part. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/33 "2003-05-28T02:34:00Z")
I still can’t believe how many people in this thread left their child in a _running_ car. Doesn’t anybody know that bored little kids start pushing buttons and moving levers? Like the one that says, “Reverse / Park / Drive / 1 / 2.” Great way to lose a kid, your car and the whole shooting match. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/34 "2003-05-28T02:43:02Z")
I live in a nice residential neighborhood – except for the foulmouthed \*\*\*\*\* who lives across the street who deals drugs. The whole neighborhood knows she deals drugs, and repeated attempts to report it to the authorities have come to naught. Either she’s paying off somebody (which is highly possible, considering our sheriff’s department), or else they’re using her as bait. (Calls to Child Protective Services have done no good, either, even though she deals with her kids standing there WATCHING.) But what really kills me about her is the way she stands there and just WATCHES her toddler child (not over 2) run out into the street, with traffic coming, and does NOTHING. Most of the folks who live here know to drive by her house at about 2 mph because we NEVER know when the kid will come running out from behind a “customer’s” car. But there are folks who use this street for a cutoff and go racing through here at 40 mph. I really hate to see a small child get killed because his mother is too stoned to pay attention. Stupid crackhead. ---
**Author:** ![Searching\_For\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Searching\_For\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Searching_For_Truth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/35 "2003-05-28T03:41:30Z")
**dantheman** , didja miss this? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ego\_Mk2 \* > \*\*That’s the sign of a truly clueless breeder. \*\* He was being silly but making a point. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672/36 "2003-05-28T09:42:24Z")
Nah, I didn’t miss it. Still seemed incongruous. No hard feelings, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-god-woman-can-you-really-be-that-stupid/177672.md?page=1)