BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 21, 2012 07:02PM
Did you read a couple days ago about the dumbshit parent who left her kid in
the car at a store parking lot in Albany? The Calapooia creek flash-flooded,
washed the car into the creek and the kid drowned. Fucking stupid. You'd think
with all the warnings about doing that crap everyone would know better by now.
Never, EVER leave a kid in a car. Ever! Not even for a minute! Not even for a
second! I can't believe how fucking stupid some people are.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 12:40AM
A bit on the over protectionist side there aren't ya Blah?
As kids it was common, with my kids less so, but on occasion I indeed left my 2
girls in a locked car while I went into the convenience store and neither my
sister, myself nor my 2 girls were ever any the worse for it.
Life is a crap shoot, things happen ... it's a given
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 01:50AM
I was 5, my little bro was 3, ma left us in the car...
he started fuckin around playin like he was driving, he kept grabbing the gear
shifter and I knew that was a bad idea. I told him to knock it off but he
didn't listen, he just popped it into neutral...oh yeah, the car was parked at
the top of a fairly short but sharply inclined driveway...we rolled backwards
across a 2 lane road and on out into a field...it was then that my brother
coined the phrase "no harm, no foul"...
another time he was standing on the front seat at 55 mph, someone ran a stop
sign and shot out in front of us...ma hit the brakes and his head hit the
windshield and cracked it...he sat down for the rest of the ride home..
ma was driving and my sister kept fucking with the door handle in the back
seat...I was standing on the front seat...we went around a corner and the door
flung open and out went sis, she tumbled off into the ditch...ma stopped and
walked back to her, helped her up, and berated her the whole way back to the car
for not listening to her about the damn handle...
we survived, but I agree with blah to some extent...we were lucky, there could
have been a cement truck barreling down the road when we rolled out into
it...
I'm not sure if the story I saw was the same as the one blah's talking about,
there was a man and a woman and 2 kids in a car, story was unclear of their
relationship with one another..the car was swept into a creek and partially
submerged under a small bridge, the man and his child got out, the woman and her
child did not...it's very sad but these things do happen
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 01:51AM
When my first wife and I divorced, she and the kids moved to the Chicago area
for a couple of years. I didn't find out about it until about 15 years later but
one cold day my ex went into a convenience store and left the kids in the car
with it running with the heat on so they'd be warm. My son, who was three or
four at the time, managed to drive the car into the store. He's got a three year
old himself now, heheheheh.
Oh, and thanks, p_j, I needed a nap and was able to get one while this pic
downloaded.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 22/01/2012 01:52AM by quasi.
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 02:00AM
haha you made me snort/laugh quasi..
quasi Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 03:49AM
My cousin did the same thing your sis did, p_j, but she did it with real class
- she tumbled out of my uncle's big black Packard. And one of my earliest
memories is of sitting on the front center armrest of that Packard so I could
see where we were going. Never hit the dash or the windshield though; or maybe I
did and forgot. Would explain a lot.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 04:53PM
I have been accused of being overly safety conscious but I don't believe there
is such a thing. I'm not OCD about it but if I see an unsafe situation I do or
at least say something about it. One thing I learned in the Navy is that almost
every accident could have been avoided and that thinking stuck with me my whole
life. Having worked a carrier flight deck drove the point in even deeper.
I admit I am VERY protective of my daughter and other children when they're
around. That's just how I am. I don't coddle her and keep her from having fun or
anything like that but I keep an eye on her.
It doesn't mean I never take chances but I am very careful most of the time and
I notice a lot of potential safety problems that other people don't. If that
makes me over protectionist then fine, that's me and I'm not about to change
now.
BlahX3 Report This Comment Date: January 22, 2012 09:39PM
When I was a kid I did some pretty stupid things with cars too. I was the boy
in the family so it was incumbent upon me to take on those duties.