My parents used to leave me in the car- not for long periods of time, or on really hot days, but they did leave me in the car while they did stuff. I actually preferred that to going with them- I could sit and read, or think, or play, and not have to do whatever boring thing they were doing.
I’m sure a lot of people were left in the car this way with no ill effect, and they think “it didn’t hurt me, why would it hurt my kids?”
If I had kids, though, I would never leave them in the car, because I know that I have no sense of time. I’m always looking at the clock and thinking “how in the world did it get to be this late?” or “it’s only <whatever time>? Feels a lot later.” I’m also good at getting sidetracked- I will be doing something, and remember some other thing I’m supposed to do, and what should have been a 5-minute errand turns into 30 minutes.
I know these things about myself, so I would never leave a child unattended in the car. I won’t even leave my cats in the car in their carriers. I wonder if some of the parents who do this sort of thing have a lousy sense of time, like I do, but aren’t aware of it.
I can almost understand forgetting that the kid was in the car with you. My morning routine is done very much on autopilot, so I can see how that sort of thing might happen.
Now, people who knowingly leave their kids in the car when they go to do something that they should expect to take more than a few minutes (going to work, getting their hair or nails done, clothes shopping, et cetera), or leave kids in a hot car as a punishment- that’s quite different.
Fuck you you fucking cunt heads! There are some of us out there that can’t have kids and would gladly take these social-life-ruining kids off your hands . There are people who’s children die in purely tragic uncontrolable ways who would gladly swap places with you and be able to hold their own kids again.
You leave a kid in the car and htats murder. Why not mix in cyanide with their damn food if you’re going to be so fucking reckless! Or better yet, go shoot them now and put them out of their misery. At least they wont be sitting in an oven for half an hour while you get your pedicure and die in a slow suffering way. Fuck you.
How would youl ike it if you were locked in a car in the middle of the day with the windows up and had no way of getting out? Yeah thats right fucktards, you’d fucking hate it. So why do it to your kids? Because you’re selfish dicks that have ni right being alive yourselves.
And for those half wits that lock their kids in cars as puishment, FUCK YOU UP THE ASS WITH A RIFLE YOU SONS OF BITCHES! You dont lock kids in cars. I dont care if you’re about ready to kill them yourselves, you take a deep breathe, you count to ten and you talk. Put them in their room when you get home if you must. But locking your kids in a car? That is killing them assholes.
If I ever see a child, animal or obviously disabled person stuck in a car, I wont be thinking twice before I smash a window, pull them the fuck out and call the police, fire, ambulance, Family Services, news papers, tv networks and anyone else I can think of on your asses so fast that your fucking heads will spin.
FUCK YOU.
ps. sorry for the spelling errors, too angry to fix them.
Picked up at her home, child spent several hours in hot vehicle, West Allis police say
Posted: June 9, 2005
West Allis - On one of the warmest days of the year so far, a little girl died Thursday after being left for several hours inside a van serving a day care center, according to police and witnesses.
“I could see my daughter laying there not breathing or anything.”
This was actually an episode of CSI once. If I remember right, the parents thought the kid had some genetic disease that would kill it in childhood, so basically thought they were doing a mercy killing via the car.
(Of course, being CSI, the kid not not have the disease. More melodrama for the parents.)
Sorry, but I don’t see it as different at all. If the child is too young to be left alone, the child is too young to be left alone. Not for a couple of minutes, or a couple of hours. A child can die in the bathtub in the time it takes a parent to go answer the phone and come back.
I don’t have kids, I have no particular interest in things relating to kids, but this information is so pervasive that even I know it. Surely all parents know this by now, and yet babies are left in the car while the parents do something more important than looking after the child that they purport to love more than anything else in the world.
Something very similar to the grandmother story happened here a couple of years ago. The father, who didn’t normally drop of his son at daycare, was supposed to but forgot, and went to work. It was absolutely tragic. The parents were devastated, and obviously it was only made worse by the fact that it WAS his fault. (They weren’t charged with anything after a police investigation.)
The dumbass was supposed to drop off his six-month old daughter at daycare. Didn’t do it. Went straight to the fucking job and “realized” four hours - that’s FOUR HOURS in the hot, blazing Texas sun - later that the baby was still in his truck. There are no words to describe the punishment I’d like to see given to this donkey dick.
**“It’s a good family with good parents”, Bickerstaff said, noting the couple has two other children and has been involved in the community. ** “The community is really rallying around them,” he said. "Everybody in Maypearl is supporting them."
That’s the Maypearl Police Chief Nathan Bickerstaff. So, I guess that fucking excuses what the father did.
Granted it seems the children may have done this to themselves - but GEEZ (and I’m not blaming or exonerating the police for this one) but weren’t there some adults in the neighborhood that might have figured where the kids might be ?
Wow - this one may need a thread all its own.
Are child death’s in locked cars becoming an epidemc ?
Damn this is infuriating and sad and ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH !!! :mad:
The truly sad thing is that we know this shit is going to happen - ergo my OP - we have the media on our side (they do a good job of making the dangers very well known)…
…Yet we just shake with the anger of feeling powerless.
I started this thread and then avoided it, because it truly makes me sad.
There are so many convoluted ways innocent people are killed, and so many weird circumstances that lead to tragedy. The heat stress deaths are simple, stupid examples!
These heat stress deaths are examples where you truly have to wonder about just how stupid and ignorant you can be yet still survive. Instead of your stupidity eliminating you, it eliminates someone else.
Just saw it on the news a short time ago: Some woman in Riverside, CA, left her infant in a hot car while she went into a Norm’s restaurant. Somebody spotted the baby, called the police, the baby was taken to a hospital to be checked over. I’ve been Googling but haven’t come up with a link yet.
Well, fortunately the infant survived only because it wasn’t left too long, but really, one minute is too long!
JFTR, I know that it is (or it used to be, but I can’t imagine that it’s changed) Disneyland Resort policy to break the windows of cars to rescue dogs who are left inside. I would imagine the same is true of children left in cars, probably with an additional call to the Anaheim PD.
We have a cat, and our families are 800km away. We drive down a few times a year, and bring the cat with us. We cannot do the drive without stopping at least once to go to the washroom and gas up - maybe 15 mins total. When we grab food, we sit in the car to be sure that she’s ok, because if it’s too hot for us, we know it’s too hot for her. I worry SO much about going to pee while she’s in the car - usually one of us gases up while the other goes to the washroom, and then the other one goes in while the car and cat are watched.
Occasionally, in the winter or fall, we both go in together to get food, etc, but during the summer, I worry so much about it! It’s hard, though, because while you can carry an infant, or hold onto a toddler in line at a truck stop, you can’t do that with a cat, even if she’s in a cage. Same goes for dogs. And while I know that I only need a couple of minutes to pee and then I run back to the car, a passerby doesn’t know that and they might try and rescue her, and while I appreciate their concern (I’d do the same thing) I feel it’s somewhat unnecessary. My SO thinks I worry too much about it, but really, it does get REALLY hot in a parked car! And smart people know that, and know to try and save the animal/child.