Have you ever forgotten your baby was in the car? (page 2)

Dorktacular

I see people do stupid crap like this all the time. I see people run into stores and leave their kids in the car, sometimes with the engine running! In metro Atlanta, at least once a month we hear a news story of how some woman ran into a convenience store to buy beer, cigarettes, tampons, condoms, monistat 7 and some lottery tickets with her food stamps while leaving the kid in a running vehicle. Invariably, some illegal alien crackhead jumps behind the wheel, takes off without even knowing the kid is in the back and either abandons the car with the kid in it a few miles away, or throws the kid out of the car and drives off. It has happened enough times around here that everyone should be PARANOID about leaving ANYTHING in a car, much less your child! But, never underestimate the stupidity of the general public! We've had several children around here die from being left in hot cars. Hell, one mother left her kid in the car on purpose! She started a new job and didn't want to pay for a baby sitter, so she left the little girl in the car in the middle of summer, and the kid died in the parking deck of her new job!

For the first 5 years of my child's life, I was a single dad. I would never, ever, EVER leave my child alone anywhere for any length of time. When my daughter was a baby and we were taking trips out of state to see family, I would stop for gas only at places that had gas pumps that accepted credit cards, that way I wouldn't have to leave my daughter in the car by herself. Hell, I wouldn't even stop to pee because I didn't want to leave her alone while I used the rest room and I didn't want to drag her in a gas station men's room. Try driving for 11 hours without peeing! I think I tied my weiner in a knot that time!

The point is, a good parent can not and will not forget about their child. The child is the center of your universe. I think people that leave kids in cars unattended should die just like the the kid died. We should lock them in a hot car out in the hot sun and wait for them to die. We should all probably be in an air conditioned convenience store drinking an ice cold soda watching them as they die, too! Just my opinion.

purplesofa

I left my youngest son at the grocery store once.

I got home, put the groceries away,,,,,,,,,always pass out treats.........

Well, when I came to his treat, (after passing out to my other four kids)

he was not around!!!!

I said where is R? kids all look around,

OMG, I left him at the grocery store

I drove there and there he was sitting on the counter eating candy

luckily we lived in a small town of 2,500 and everyone knew us.

The people at the store were not alarmed, they just understood

young mom, five small kids at the store.

Today if that happened, probably all my kids would have been taken away from me.

hmmmmmmmmmm, interesting.

purps

poppers

I just can't imagine the guilt that will play out the rest of the parents' lives for causing the death of a child in such a way. I am afraid they will never have any sort of peace again, all because of being careless or distracted.

REBORNAGAIN

And that in a major city too. Some people really are dingy. I have 4 kids and NEVER left them alone either. One thing that annoys me though, in Germany, I'm guessing, it is NOT against the law to leave a child home alone. Back in the late 70's, a cousin of mine over there, him and his wife would go out for a few hours at least once a week, and left their (then) 2 yr. old alone while he slept. I questioned him about that and his reply, "If he's sound asleep, what can happen?" GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I once read, that a child can wake up during that time, cry for it's parents, cry for a long time and then out of exhaustion cried itself back to sleep. The parents come home later and with a smile on their faces see how peaceful their child is sleeping. If they only knew. Then there is a danger of a fire, even from a toaster or radio. I still doubt that they made it a law.

LINDA

journey-on

It's unimaginable to me. I've got to think the parent must be highly medicated to forget something like that!.

megsmomma

My mom left us in the car ALL the time. We would be screaming and fighting...the whole car would be shaking....People would look at us...I am surprised she wasn't arrested!!

I have never forgotten that I had my baby with me. I don't know how it happens either. How do people have babies that are so quiet??

FadingAway

I'm overly cautious when I have the kids in my vehicle. Plus my kids are so rowdy that they would never let me forget they're back there.

ex-nj-jw

Nope, never left any of my 3 kids in the car. Not even to run into the store. I can't imagine how you could forget a child is in the car and go into work for 8 hours!

There was a story here about 4 years ago, some guy that worked in a church, his child went to the day care there. He got out of the car, went into work and the child died! It was in the middle of August!!! When someone from the day care asked if the child was sick he then remembered but it was too late.

I once put my 17 year old (oldest son) out of my car and made him walk home because he was being disrespectfull to me! He deserved it.

nj

sweetstuff

How could anyone forget their child in the car? Ok your boyfriend or husband, yeah, easy mistake, your CHILD??? Hell no.

REBORNAGAIN

Leaving kids alone in cars or anywhere is just wrong and here is a case of a 9 yr. old girl, in Germany who got back at her stupid JW mom. To this day, I still have to laugh:

The mother would go downstairs (3 flights of stairs) to the local bakery and local grocerystore which was less than a block away. But before departing, she would ask her daughter if she would be ok for a 1/2 hr or so, until the mom returned. The daughter said YES! So, now the mom leaves and as soon as she is down the stairs, out the door and walking down the street, her daughter opens the window and yells out, "HELP, MY MOM IS LEAVING ME ALL ALONE UP HERE!" On one hand I felt sad for the mother to have such a braty kid, but....on the other hand maybe it taught the mom too, not to leave her child alone. Nice impression to the neighborhood of a JW, huh?

LINDA

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