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re: Did your mom leave you in car to run in to store growing up?
Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:55 pm to Midget Death Squad
Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:55 pm to Midget Death Squad
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, I also think parents should not leave their young children alone in cars given all that we know about child abductions and trafficking.
that is why i leave my .45 in the car when i need to make a beer run with the kid in the car
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Posted on 8/5/25 at 1:56 pm to Allthatfades
quote:corner store by the house had a sloped parking lot and gas pumps. Things got exciting when my cousin kicked the shifter of the econoline van into reverse. Stranger jumped in and put it back into park.
Repeatedly. But it wasn’t for long and the windows were down.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:00 pm to Dire Wolf
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that is why i leave my .45 in the car when i need to make a beer run with the kid in the car
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:01 pm to Cosmo
Yup. The kids these days now have that remote start so the mom can lock the vehicle and turn the car on (undrivable with the air blowing) for little Tommy buckled down in the back seat while she runs in for a pack of cnigs and 6-pack of High Life ponies. The only reason they outlawed that shite is because they got rid of the manual windows to cool that wagon down. Pussies.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:01 pm to Cosmo
In mama's defense, that was way before global warming.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:02 pm to Cosmo
One time my dad left me and my older brother in the car so he could go in the hardware store "real quick". My brother decided he wanted to know how hot the cigarette lighter actually got and convinced me to touch it. This was not the last time he would leave us in the car alone.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:04 pm to Midget Death Squad
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It's about the prominence of child abductions
That's a VERY misleading statistic since it's grouped with "missing children" term which is defined as "missing for more than an hour".
There really aren't that many kidnappings going on.
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So, of the 460,000 missing children — a scary number! — the report concluded (in a footnote), about 105 were “stereotypical kidnappings” – police-speak for abductions like you see on Law & Order. Most of those victims were teens. And 92% of them made it home safe.
Abductions are down. Social media posts are up.
Also, in falmily cases, it's the moms doing the majority of the kidnapping
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There are about 72 million kids 0-17 in America. And the number kidnapped by strangers is about 100. So the odds of being kidnapped are about 1 in 720,000 or closing in on 1 in a million.
You are five times more likely to have a co-joined twin.
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If for some strange reason you WANTED your child to be kidnapped by a stranger, how long would you have to keep them outside, unattended, for this to be statistically likely to happen?
750,000 years.
This post was edited on 8/5/25 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:07 pm to Cosmo
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Did your mom leave you in car to run in to store growing up?
Hell no. She let us play in the parking lot.
This was the 70’s.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:09 pm to Cosmo
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Did your mom leave you in car to run in to store growing up?
No
She sent me to the neighborhood grocer for her booze and smokes on my bike.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:09 pm to Cosmo
I used to choose to stay in the car, even in the summer without the car running. That's how much I have always hated shopping of any kind.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:11 pm to Midget Death Squad
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It's not about it being hot in the car in the same way as leaving pets. It's about the prominence of child abductions. While I think calling the cops is ridiculous, I also think parents should not leave their young children alone in cars given all that we know about child abductions and trafficking.
You can't be serious. Do you let your kids play in the front yard? Do you let them ride their bikes around the neighborhood. Or do you have eyes on your kids 24/7 to prevent them from being abducted by all these traffickers?Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:13 pm to Cosmo
Yes, but if I recall she always left a crack in the window. My mom would turn a 5 mins run in, grab something, check out and leave into 45 mins by talking to everyone. It seems like it was usually during the summer.. Because school was out, etc, but there was a lot of shite that I experienced that is no longer some type of "norm".
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:13 pm to Cosmo
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Did your mom leave you in car to run in to store growing up?
Not usually, but she'd typically let me run around the store unattended for an hour, creating my own adventure.
This post was edited on 8/5/25 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:14 pm to Cosmo
I’m sure my brother and I were left in the car at some point
But many times we were sent in - even to buy beer & cigarettes
But many times we were sent in - even to buy beer & cigarettes
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:15 pm to IAmNERD
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That it's mostly relatives or people the parents know that do the vast majority of kidnappings?
Exactly, social media has this country paranoid. Random stranger kidnappings are extremely low. Seriously, who wants some strangers kid?
About 72 million kids 0-17 in America.
The number kidnapped by strangers is about 100 per year.
Odds of being kidnapped are about 1 in 720,000.
You are five times more likely to have a co-joined twin.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:25 pm to Cosmo
I remember being about 5 pulling up to the convenience store in Altoona and if it was my turn to sit in the front seat*, mom would hand me a dollar and have me go in and buy her a pack of Pall Mall Golds. I could also get a candy bar, but I had to bring back her change.
* had to take turns with my brother (who would be about 7) on sitting in the front seat of my mom’s 1974 Buick Regal. I don’t know if it even had seat belts.
* had to take turns with my brother (who would be about 7) on sitting in the front seat of my mom’s 1974 Buick Regal. I don’t know if it even had seat belts.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:33 pm to Cosmo
Once I grew out of a baby seat and knew how to operate a car door and windows, yes, and the car would be running with the AC running.
Strapped in a seat with windows up and AC not running, that's a bad situation. Even by 80's standards.
Strapped in a seat with windows up and AC not running, that's a bad situation. Even by 80's standards.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:33 pm to Midget Death Squad
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It's not about it being hot in the car in the same way as leaving pets. It's about the prominence of child abductions. While I think calling the cops is ridiculous, I also think parents should not leave their young children alone in cars given all that we know about child abductions and trafficking. Maybe it was just as bad back in the 80s when my mom would leave me for a few moments and we just didn't know about it. But now we do know better, so we as parents need to take that extra effort to protect our children from the demons looking to prey upon them.
You’d make a great spokesman for Life360.
Maybe you could invent and market some sort of chip we could inject into our kids and spouses to track their locations, diet, drug and alcohol use. Then nothing bad would ever happen.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:37 pm to HeadCall
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Maybe you could invent and market some sort of chip we could inject into our kids and spouses to track their locations, diet, drug and alcohol use. Then nothing bad would ever happen.
How you get from a parent should bring their kids into the store with them to inserting microcips into their necks is beyond me.
Posted on 8/5/25 at 2:39 pm to Cosmo
quote:Never. We had law enforcement personnel in the family who had seen some bad things, so we were a bit different from most families.
Did your mom leave you in car to run in to store growing up?
quote:When I was a kid, the climate alarmists were selling the coming ice age as the weather related fear porn of the day. And car A/Cs were pretty pathetic. It was actually more common for us to be sent in a herd of bikes to pick things up at stores. Sometimes got a little bit of money to buy ourselves something for the trip.
Obviously this didn't happen in the summer when it was hot.
quote:Sounds like they were normal loving parents of their time.
Feel like I had good loving parents but maybe my mom was a monster idk, seemed like no big deal at the time
What happened to you?
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