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Sadly enough you hit the nail right on the head, How the hell can you have some many distractions in your life that you forget you have a kid with you.
This guy was a high school chemistry teacher? Unbelievable. It's horrible enough that he left her there in the hot car but trying to revive her by putting her in the refrigerator is just plain moronic. An educated person should know better.
There ought to be a test given before people can be allowed to breed.
A lot of the newer generation grew up without unstructured play. When all of their time is scheduled, hovered, play dated, there isn't a lot of freedom to sniff the air, smell the flowers, have one's antennae up to read, absorb, experience, to understand that chilled water does the job better than chilled air. And they apparently weren't around during a time when people cautioned their young about the dangers of refrigerators either.
This is a tragic story, but I laughed when I first read this. What a moron. When I read these stories I don't buy absent-mindedness as an excuse. There is no excuse.
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Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child . . . well, who can blame them? What kind of person forgets a baby?
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I think this is an important part of the second article.
I remember my car seat when I was a toddler. I actually loved it, and it probably wasn't the safest if we had ever had a serious accident. It was sort of like a highchair seat that hooked over the front seats. It had a play steering wheel, with a bright red button in the center that mimicked a car horn. I would sit right next to my mom and pretend to drive.
No matter what happened, she never forgot me and left me in the car. Even if she had momentarily let me slip her mind, once she got up without taking me along, I would have seen it, and started to cry.
Maybe the industry needs to rethink where babies should be placed in cars. Ive read where adults have been trapped and killed by airbags, so maybe a second look should be taken with them too.
I watched a program the other day that some female engineer has come up with a device that sends a signal to your cel phone if you get a few feet from your car with the toddler still occupying the seat in the rear.
Ain't it wonderful? Now we're reduced to developing "apps" to replace good old fashioned common sense parenting!
Next up...an app to remind you to take a freak'n bowel movement before you crap yourself.
Two decades ago, this was relatively rare. But in the early 1990s, car-safety experts declared that passenger-side front airbags could kill children, and they recommended that child seats be moved to the back of the car; then, for even more safety for the very young, that the baby seats be pivoted to face the rear. If few foresaw the tragic consequence of the lessened visibility of the child...
My thinking, too. And I would add that with these now ridiculously high headrests almost coming up to the inside roof, plus heavily-tinted backseat windows, a person can barely see into the backseat when exiting the car.
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