Unattended young kids in car - would you have done anything?

sharnad

penguingirl wrote: »

This happened to my colleagues in the summer-they saw a small baby in a car and it was on a particularly warm day (apparently there was one?!). They rang the police who in turn got customer services to do an announcement for mum. Apparently she came out with a trolley full of stuff and said she had only 'been 2 seconds' and was thoroughly abusive to everyone. The police seemed happy to give her a good rollocking and thanked my colleagues so I would do the same thing.

Over 30 children in America die each year due to this , eithe they pop out for 10 minutes and something happens or they dont take child out of car while they pop out get back in car get home and leave hem in car. Don't think it has been hot enough to happen in uk

sharnad

sharnad wrote: »

Evan miller mam went to atm in shop hopefully he's been found - I know there was a few where children were missing from years ago and one where they ound the remains but new stories come up first

He was found the next day left in car hidden away down an alley I think it was thank god. Though he could have died from the heat of the worker hadn't found him

pulliptears

None of those are British though are they?

notanewuser

sharnad wrote: »

Nit calling you for it as its easy to understand how it can be hard to get them in and out all the time, but if you go into a shop how do you keep an eye on them frOm the window. Ate you not going into shop or do you just walk up to the counter and ask for something wo
Without looking away from the window

Local shop's front wall is completely glass and all the shelves are 4ft tall or below, so wherever I am I can see outside. More often than not I'm only popping in for milk, so I'm in and out in about 2 minutes.

sharnad

pulliptears wrote: »

None of those are British though are they?

10 November 2 year old taken wih car from benfleet

sharnad

October 18 month old taken with car in Liverpool

Homeagain

RainbowDreamer wrote: »

I wouldnt of thought even 5 minutes being left in the car would be safe. What if the eldest climbed into the front and stood on the hand brake? What if a child tried to escape the car seat and strangled themselves?

I experienced exactly this scenario a few years ago. I noticed a car parked outside a chemist and there were two toddlers alone in the car, not strapped in or anything. Suddenly the car started reversing and I noticed that one of the children was playing with the handbrake. Fortunately the windows were wide open and without thinking I stuck my hand through the open window and pulled up the handbrake thereby stopping the car from reversing any further (it would have eventually reversed into a very busy road). I got such a fright though. I went into the shop shaking and asked the chemist to see whose car this was. He found the mother and gave her a real blasting I must say. Very foolish, anything can happen.

pulliptears

sharnad wrote: »

10 November 2 year old taken wih car from benfleet

sharnad wrote: »

October 18 month old taken with car in Liverpool

Both returned unharmed, not raped and murdered as your scaremongering would suggest

moomoomama27

pulliptears wrote: »

Both returned unharmed, not raped and murdered as your scaremongering would suggest

Thank goodness, but who would take the chance that they could be returned unharmed!!!

pulliptears

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Thank goodness, but who would take the chance that they could be returned unharmed!!!

Dont get me wrong, I wouldn't leave my children in the car, but having them kidnapped and murdered would be low down on my list of reasons why.

Perceived crime and actual crime are 2 very different things. As Sharnad can't give me an example of an English child taken from a car and murdered I think its probably a very unlikely scenario in the UK don't you?