Vent - Incident in supermarket car park!

Mk14:37

Sadly, this used to be a joke - I've made it PC:

A Money Saving Expert took her son fishing on a river bank when he fell in and began to struggle. A passer by dove in and after much effort, landed the spluttering boy several metres downstream. As his mother ran over to them, the gallant hero says, "Don't worry, he'll be fine."

The mothers says, "Yes - but what happened to his hat?"

What a tragedy that this has now become real life. Velcro beat me to the punch by referencing Jeremy Kyle - I think that's the long and the short of it though, some chav mother who sniffed a bit of 'compo' (compensation to those who don't speak chav).

qetu1357

What is interesting is that children from the lower social classes are most likely to die when young:-


http://www.cpag.org.uk/info/sp_briefings/0200childpov.htm

Is it poverty or something else!?

Gavin83

donnaessex wrote: »

I had this exact debate with my husband once who said that he would never go over to a child who looked lost in case of accusations of wrongdoing and I said I would. A week later I had the opportunity - a little girl of 2 or 3 was wandering around the entrance at Asda. I asked her if she'd lost her mum, she nodded and I put my hand out and told her to come find her mum with me. She did and we found her and the mum was very grateful. I know I could have come across a chav mother who screamed at me for touching her child, but I'd rather risk that than risk a little child walk off alone and scared.

Not being sexist in any way but I do think thats easier for you to say as a woman.

As a young(ish) man, if I was on my own I doubt I'd approach a child who looked lost. If I did I certainly wouldn't touch them. Frankly I'd be worried of what I'd get accused of. If I was with my girlfriend I wouldn't have a problem though. In a more life or death situation, I'd intervene anyway.

I'd help where I could, only the other day someone fell over in the shopping mall, everyone ignored her so I went and helped her up. However, when it comes to children I feel you have to be careful.

GEEGEE8

sagalout1954 wrote: »

Good debate to stay still with a lost child, or to walk off with it? I wonder where one might stand if the Mum insists the child wasn't lost, she just turned her back for a second and he/she was gone?

The fact is the child is safe! It's not about where they are then taken, as long as it's to a fairly obvious place, reception, helpdesk etc..

I'm sorry, but I'm not even a parent, so I wouldn't know where a parent would look for a child. I would only think to take them to someone in authority.

How can anyone ever be wrong for helping to keep a child safe.

Kaleidoscope27

A couple of weeks ago I found a little girl lost on our shop floor. I approached her but she refused to leave the area at the top of the escalators because that was where she had last seen her mum (smart kid really). In the end another staff member coaxed her to walk round with her and found the mum on the other side of the shop floor. The mum hadn't even realised she'd lost her child!!! She must've been missing for at least 10 minutes.

I've been told a story by staff who've been there longer than I have about a mum who ran up to a till point once frantic. She lost her PRAM containing her baby. It turned out she had left it parked whilst she shopped because the baby was asleep and then forgot where she had parked it. Luckily another staff member had found it and all was well.

Some people just shouldn't be allowed kids.

Dave101t

when in asda/lidl/netto, never help anyone! its a shame for the kid to be part of the chav family, yes, but its not your responsibility or duty to save them.
of course if you accept the duty of care, prepare for assault charges, compensation, a lenthly civil case and tho you will be completely acquitted by common sense, you name has gone through the dirt..

donnaessex

Dave101t wrote: »

when in asda/lidl/netto, never help anyone! its a shame for the kid to be part of the chav family, yes, but its not your responsibility or duty to save them.
of course if you accept the duty of care, prepare for assault charges, compensation, a lenthly civil case and tho you will be completely acquitted by common sense, you name has gone through the dirt..

We'll have to agree to disagree then. I couldnt give a rats chuff if someone screamed at me for looking after their (probably) scared witless child.

As a mother to two babies there's about as much chance of me walking past an upset child as there is me walking past a naked Brad Pitt offering to dump Angelina for me. I just wouldnt be able to do it.

Liz3yy

Last year I was preparing to leave for work (I then had to park overnight in a public open air carpark near my house) and as I drove away a kid on his bike came out of no-where steaming towards me without looking, I was able to stop quickly enough without hitting him as I was only doing about 5mph. The kid came off his bike but I was so mad I leaned out the window and let rip at him!

I didn't care if anyone saw me, I was so livid at the boy for not being more careful, I could have killed him.

It's not always the parents fault, the kids can be careless too.

Liz3yy

I also think that parents should teach their children what to do if they become lost or seperated from their Mum/Dad/carer...etc....

My partner when he was 6 years old, was out shopping with his Mum but somehow got seperated from her. Instead of walking around panicking he went straight to the Police station just as he was taught to and said he had lost his Mum. This was in the 60's. A policeman took OH out in his patrol car and drove around until they spotted Mum. She was so pleased with OH for his actions that he got a new toy that weekend

Becles

Liz3yy wrote: »

I also think that parents should teach their children what to do if they become lost or seperated from their Mum/Dad/carer...etc....

I have done!

When my eldest was 3, he was standing next to me while I packed the shopping bags at the supermarket checkout. Found out later he'd seen some plants for sale further down and had gone to look at those, then couldn't remember which checkout I was at.

Anyway, I realised he was gone so the cashier rang down to customer services to ask them to put a tannoy out. They said he'd just arrived there, so they'd hold on to him while I finished packing.

Got to the desk and apparantly he'd marched up and said "excuse me, I'm lost!" He'd sat and had a lovely chat with the ladies and they knew all sorts about me like what I'd had for breakfast and all sorts :rotfl: