re: ATL - Toddler Left in Car

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This kind of event does happen but you know who it happens to 99% of the time? Trashy, ignorant people. I mean the most moronic of the morons. Somebody already Simple Jack dumb who has supplemented their already blatant ignorance with a meth addiction or alcoholism. That is who this happens to.

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This I do not agree with.

I would say that, invariably, it is likely to happen (when it's an "accident" and not premeditated) to those individuals who are extremely self involved. You can hear that in the explanations offered for why/how it can happen. All of them seem to revolve around the parent's own thoughts...work, their own schedule, personal issues, etc. I'd bet most of them will have been on their phone either talking, checking e-mails, texting, etc during the time they had their kids in the car and "forgot" they were there.

But I don't think this has to do with either being trashy or intelligent.

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If you were currently trying to kill your child in a hot car why would you google that?

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Cobb law enforcement source: Work computer for Dad who left child in car shows search for how long it takes to kill animal in hot car.

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W o w

This guy is toast

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If you were currently trying to kill your child in a hot car why would you google that?

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I would like to know IF he searched for this, was it before or after he went to the car at lunch..

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I would like to know IF he searched for this, was it before or after he went to the car at lunch..

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Why would that matter?

ETA: Dang, Salmon just clarified. Geez...something that sickening didn't even occur to me.

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the kid not being dead but suffering, and him leaving again...

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Someone put onions in the vents at work

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Me either

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I'm in denial about it. Not because I like this guy, I just don't want to believe it happened.

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Trashy, ignorant people. I mean the most moronic of the morons. Somebody already Simple Jack dumb who has supplemented their already blatant ignorance with a meth addiction or alcoholism. That is who this happens to.

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dumb.

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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? The wealthy do, it turns out. And the poor, and the middle class. Parents of all ages and ethnicities do it. Mothers are just as likely to do it as fathers. It happens to the chronically absent-minded and to the fanatically organized, to the college-educated and to the marginally literate. In the last 10 years, it has happened to a dentist. A postal clerk. A social worker. A police officer. An accountant. A soldier. A paralegal. An electrician. A Protestant clergyman. A rabbinical student. A nurse. A construction worker. An assistant principal. It happened to a mental health counselor, a college professor and a pizza chef. It happened to a pediatrician. It happened to a rocket scientist.

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