# Parents throw baby out of moving car **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 11, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565 "2005-02-11T11:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/1 "2005-02-11T11:58:21Z")
[Disturbing story](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=490104) Fuck. Just fuck. I can’t even think of an appropiriate punishment. ---
**Author:** ![Bitterness\_Comes\_Standard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b19c9b/32.png) [@Bitterness\_Comes\_Standard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bitterness_Comes_Standard)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/2 "2005-02-11T12:29:19Z")
This doesn’t make it any better, but the story on CNN said that the two young people in the car looked to be arguing. They could have been arguing about the stated action. I would expect one of them to come forward, must likely the one trying to convince the other not to do it. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/11/newborn.tossed/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/11/newborn.tossed/index.html) Thank goodness they are idiots to do what they did with someone following them, otherwise that poor child would have died if not found. With all the options, it amazes me that this was the one they chose. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/3 "2005-02-11T12:29:50Z")
Throw the thrower out of a moving car. Yes I’m serious too. ---
**Author:** ![Bitterness\_Comes\_Standard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b19c9b/32.png) [@Bitterness\_Comes\_Standard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bitterness_Comes_Standard)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/4 "2005-02-11T12:38:55Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Throw the thrower out of a moving car. > > Yes I’m serious too. I’ll drive, and I won’t be slowing down to 5mph either. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/5 "2005-02-11T12:47:00Z")
Fortunately for all involved it’s been my experience that babies generally bounce. I’ve never tossed one out of a car, though. That’s pretty fucked up. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/6 "2005-02-11T13:27:32Z")
One of my close friends worked at the children’s hospital in Palm Beach County near where this baby was found, and after some of the stories she’s told me, I’d believe anything now. How the hell can anyone do this to a newborn baby? It’s horrible. Especially when there are so many people who WANT babies, but can’t have them? Instead of throwing him out the window, couldn’t they just have left him at a hospital? I’m with **World Eater**. Let’s throw THEM out of a moving car. E. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/7 "2005-02-11T13:31:51Z")
Difficult to believe an infant could survive being thrown from a car, even at slow speed nto grass. Why did the rescuer take him to the cops and not an emergency room? ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/8 "2005-02-11T13:41:20Z")
I honestly can’t believe, in this day and age of Safe Havens, that this sort of thing continues to happen. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/9 "2005-02-11T13:46:27Z")
> [@Bitterness Comes Standard](#): > > I’ll drive, and I won’t be slowing down to 5mph either. I’ll spring for the gas, and testify that you guys were somewhere else. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/10 "2005-02-11T14:07:53Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > I’ll spring for the gas, and testify that you guys were somewhere else. :mad: I’ll run interference and keep the road ahead clear so you can go as fast as you want when the door opens. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/11 "2005-02-11T14:16:13Z")
Don’t forget to do it on a very hot day with the perpetrator being naked. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/12 "2005-02-11T14:25:19Z")
> [@Evil One](#): > > Don’t forget to do it on a very hot day with the perpetrator being naked. You lost me there, Oh Evile One. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/13 "2005-02-11T14:29:23Z")
Didn’t this same thing happen a few weeks ago? Or am I just in the deja vu from hell? ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/14 "2005-02-11T14:36:50Z")
Yes. In that case, the baby was strapped into a carrier. I hope the baby in this situation ends up in a good home. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/15 "2005-02-11T14:37:49Z")
Nothing about what happened to the bathwater? Damned sloppy journalism, if you ask me. Sorry, I’ll go away now. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/16 "2005-02-11T14:46:50Z")
> [@Evil One](#): > > Don’t forget to do it on a very hot day with the perpetrator being naked. I’d wait for midnight on a freezing cold, bone chilling windy day at midnight in the middle of nowhere, though I agree with the naked part. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/17 "2005-02-11T14:47:10Z")
Thanks, **El\_Kabong** , for the laugh. I needed that! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/18 "2005-02-11T15:04:06Z")
> [@Elza B](#): > > Instead of throwing him out the window, couldn’t they just have left him at a hospital? Yes. In Florida, as in most states (46 of them, I think—what the hell is wrong with the other four?) a baby up to three days old can be dropped off, no questions asked, at any hospital or place that provides medical services. Which again brings up the question, which has already been asked here, why are babies still being left in dumpsters and thrown out of cars? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/19 "2005-02-11T15:06:58Z")
> [@yellowval](#): > > Which again brings up the question, which has already been asked here, why are babies still being left in dumpsters and thrown out of cars? Humans. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565/20 "2005-02-11T15:36:31Z")
Let’s have some compassion for _all_ of the victims here. I’m sure once the authorities find track the person took the term ‘_bouncing baby boy_’ a bit too literally, they’ll come to find it was either the child’s Mom; suffering post-partum depression, or the Dad; suffering [neo-begetter syndrome](http://www.stampandshout.com/_gfx/_bst/_ex/bullshit.gif). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-throw-baby-out-of-moving-car/289565.md?page=2)