and this is just plain stupid


http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5348692

That link didn't work for me :(

10 bucks says he was on his cell phone.

short version

Mom goes to bar to meet babysitter at bar where she work and drinks beer while waiting , kid left in car in 94 degree heat.

she forgot her kid while she was waiting for the babysitter?

that's just plain stupid...not just anyone should be allowed to have children

This happens all too often and it makes no sense. On another board (a ttc/pregnancy/parenting board) I simply asked the question:

HOW IN THE HELL CAN YOU FORGET YOUR CHILD IS IN THE CAR???
Ya usually would think (well for women at least): keys-check, pocketbook-check, big assed weight of a child hanging from my arm or in the stroller-check, check and check

Well I had people jumping all over my shit when i asked about it. One of the excuses was sleep deprivation. Of course I got the "you are not a parent" card pulled on me by some skank (thanks, asshole...this was said a few months after my own miscarriage) :rolleyes:

Still my question is "how in the hell do you forget your kid in the damn car?"

Waiting for the flames from parents here... :eek:

As far as the TN woman who needed to get her drink on while the kid was roasting in the car. The bitch needs to go under the jail

aint that much forgetfulness in the world.....

I have never forgotten my child in a car. Keys, yes. Purse, yes. ID for work, yes. 10 year old child, no. Almost 2 year old child, no. Sorry, there is just no excuse for forgetting your child in the car.

period.com

That's what VandalShyster said. We are kidless but he doesn't understand that if he can think about what a pet is up to during the day (or me even), that someone wouldn't wonder what their kid was up to during the day.

I also thought that if the day care had called and said "Little Jimmy isn't at daycare today, and you haven't called in to say he is ill or that he wasn't coming in." perhaps the baby would have been found in time. I worked for a day care as a teenager, at least 10 years ago, and we always called if we didn't know the status of a child. Granted it was mostly related to custody issues, but I think it is a good policy.

I said that also, but a few of my co workers (who have kids) said that most of the time, that isn't the case with daycare calling parents to check on absent kids....

usu they don't call, in my experience.

The schools are likely to call if your child isn't there and you didn't call them in as absent. However, I never had a day care call. Logically, since I would have to walk them in the building and sign them in, I'd know that I didn't do that so I'd know they weren't at school.

I have been in automatic pilot where I drive my usual routine even I was supposed to do something differently (like go somewhere right after work). I usually catch it pretty quickly though. I keep trying to think if I could have done this back in the day of my kids being that little. There may have been days where I was so sleep deprived that I forgot that I was supposed to drop them off at day care but I caught it within a mile of going the wrong way. I could TOTALLY see my ex-husband doing this though and we're kinda lucky he never did, I think. He's the most forgetful person I know and I think he could forget a child in the car with him. He often leaves his keys in the front door of his house. The next morning, he'll be searching all over for them. Open the front door and there they are, hanging from the lock still. <rolling eyes> Yeah, he could forget a kid.

I'm horribly ashamed to admit this (and trust me, my son never lets me forget about it, it's become a running joke in our family), but when my 3rd son was an infant, our neighbors across the street invited our family to dinner, so with casserole in arms and kids in tow, we went across the street and had a lovely, if boisterous dinner.

At the end of the night, we packed up our casserole and kids are trudged back across the street to our house, and put the kids to bed. WELL, a few minutes later, my neighbor came across and said, "I think you left something at our house."

I had left my baby sleeping peacefully in their bed.:eek:

We had been so preoccupied with packing up the other two sleepy kids, and the casserole:rolleyes:, that I honestly completely forgot him.

Anyway, I THANK GOD, never left a child in a car (or a pet), but unfortunately, I can see getting so distracted that I forgot my child!!! I know, I'm a terrible mother!!!:o

I have put it down to 3rd child syndrome, once they outnumber you, it gets harder to keep track of them.

I'm not trying to defend this guy by any measure, it is horrific and I cannot imagine the pain that he and his wife and family are enduring and will endure forever, I just can understand how it can happen - doesn't make it ok, just that it happens.

So today I went to pick up the Friday night takeout. Sure enough, in the same parking lot, there were 3 kids left in an SUV. I wouldn't have noticed except for the blood curtling scream. I guess one of the children was hitting the other. Yes the windows were open and it's not too hot out today. Yes we live in a generally safe community, but is it necessary to shop at a Kitchen Center on a Friday night with your kids in the car alone? When I was pulling out of the lot, one of the kids was taunting another family walking to their car. I actually came online just to vent this.

Geez. At what point are people going to learn you CAN'T LEAVE LIVING BEINGS INSIDE F'ING CARS!! :mad: