# Good Samaritan saves baby - in spite of security guard's warning. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291 "2014-09-23T01:42:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/61 "2014-09-24T16:32:44Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > But logic suggests, since we’ve uniformly seen that time discrepancy in all cases, that lots of people are dangerously bad at this. It took me years to understand that the reason one of my brothers was never on time for his curfew once he was old enough to start going out by himself, is that he can’t calculate time worth shit. The whole process of “I have to be home by 1, so I need to leave the club by 12:45, so I better set the alarm for 12:30 and then I have time to pee and say my goodbyes” was and remains a mystery to him; he also can’t fathom that if it’s been taking him half an hour to walk from his house to Mom’s for the last six months it’s not because the street mysteriously stretches, it’s because it takes half an hour to walk from his house to Mom’s. It seems to be one of those knacks that either you have it or you don’t, and many people don’t. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/62 "2014-09-24T17:48:41Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > At 6y, my parents used to put me and my sister (7y) into the car to sleep at night, to make it possible to get an early start in the morning without waking us. I’m shocked! How could your parents have a seven-year-old when they were only six themselves?! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/63 "2014-09-28T22:10:06Z")
> [@grude](#): > > Who the fuck leaves a baby in a locked car whole they go in a grocery store?! … A _whole_ baby? Nobody. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/64 "2014-09-28T23:05:01Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > A _whole_ baby? > > Nobody. [Ha!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17754878&postcount=14) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/65 "2014-09-28T23:22:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [Ha!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17754878&postcount=14) Exactly! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/66 "2014-09-28T23:27:21Z")
For every good Samaritan there’s a bad one - [Man refuses to move his car to make room for a medevac helicopter landing](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/28/james-allen-helicopter-wouldnt-move-car_n_5895606.html). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/67 "2014-09-29T00:46:55Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > For every good Samaritan there’s a bad one - [Man refuses to move his car to make room for a medevac helicopter landing](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/28/james-allen-helicopter-wouldnt-move-car_n_5895606.html). I hope they moved it anyway. Too bad if it got dinged up a bit in the process. I’ve seen pictures of cars parked by fire hydrants that got their windows broken out so a hose could be thread through the car. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/68 "2014-09-29T12:13:38Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > A _whole_ baby? > > Nobody. SIGH, I started posting using a tablet with horrible and annoying autocomplete, there are so, so, so many such errors in my posts where it goes and changes cromulent words I type that I just started ignoring it. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/69 "2014-09-29T13:28:47Z")
Locally we had a [doctor arrested](http://www.wkrn.com/story/26015143/doctor-trying-to-save-baby-in-hot-car-sues-after-arrest) after freeing an 8-day-old baby from a car with the parent’s permission. StG ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/70 "2014-09-29T16:56:38Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Locally we had a [doctor arrested](http://www.wkrn.com/story/26015143/doctor-trying-to-save-baby-in-hot-car-sues-after-arrest) after freeing an 8-day-old baby from a car with the parent’s permission. > > StG Crikes! Do they specially recruit dumbasses to be cops? ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/71 "2014-09-29T17:04:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Crikes! Do they specially recruit dumbasses to be cops? Yes they do: > **[Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops](https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836)** > [@](#): > > A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. > > The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision that the city did not discriminate against Robert Jordan because the same standards were applied to everyone who took the test. > > “This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class,” Jordan said today from his Waterford home. “I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else.” > > He said he does not plan to take any further legal action. > > Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took the exam in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training. I’ve also seen the claim higher IQ individuals start applying discretion, or find certain kinds of police actions futile etc. So yes, they don’t want smart people. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/72 "2014-09-29T17:55:51Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Surely that is a typo. I spent most of my life indoors at 72F. 🙂 Don’t know how I missed that response, **CP** , but a late touche is better than no touche I suppose. So, touche! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/73 "2014-09-29T18:06:46Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Don’t know how I missed that response, **CP** , but a late touche is better than no touche I suppose. > > So, touche! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291/74 "2014-09-30T10:42:43Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Locally we had a [doctor arrested](http://www.wkrn.com/story/26015143/doctor-trying-to-save-baby-in-hot-car-sues-after-arrest) after freeing an 8-day-old baby from a car with the parent’s permission. > > StG > [@](#): > > … Metro police did not take disciplinary action against Officer Pyle as a result of the incident. … well that’s not fair. he didn’t even get to go on paid leave. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-samaritan-saves-baby-in-spite-of-security-guards-warning/699291.md?page=3)