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re: Hammond baby dead after being left in vehicle
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:16 pm to LSUtigerME
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:16 pm to LSUtigerME
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it’s not as difficult as it is typically perceived to be.
You basically wrote the post I had been formulating in my head while reading the thread. Now with only the facts in hand I'm on the fence but I guarantee this has happened to some people by accident.
I remember one time 10 or so years ago I left work early to file some papers personally because they were so important I just didn't feel comfortable having a clerk file, even though they had never failed this task before. I was just a block away when there was an accident right in front of me where the car ahead of me was t-boned by a person that ran the red light. I was calling 911 and checking to see if both drivers were "OK" (and no I didn't give them my card but I did give them my personal number in case a witness was needed). I was out of the car maybe 5 minutes, when I got back in the car I proceeded HOME, I happen to notice the papers on the passenger floorboard, I guess they slipped off under heavy braking and turned around and with a little sprinting I made it to the clerk's office by 5:00. No, it wasn't a sleeping infant but it was an 8 figure case and if you had ask me 5 minutes before I would have sworn short of a zombie apocalypse or a nuclear strike there would be no way I would have forgotten it. I was literally freaked out for days because I had lived my life thinking I was immune to the level of "humanness".
I see some of these that are likely 100% like a parent spending 4 hours mid-day in August in a truck stop casino. Others I am not nearly as certain about.
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Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:18 pm to indytiger
Guardian? This kind of thing is usually blamed on a "break in routine." Did she take the child to the sitter often enough for it to even be routine? If not, how could she possibly forget that she'd loaded up the baby that morning?
Never say never, but it's hard to understand how this can happen in any scenario. Many times I caught myself turning out of the driveway toward daycare instead of toward work when I didn't even have the kids in the car with me. Not once did I turn toward work when I did have the kids in the car. The routine was ingrained: get ready for work, get in car, head toward daycare. If the routine is set, it's hard to understand how someone can drive straight to work and never realize the "daycare" destination was left out of the drive.
So sad. RIP baby boy.
Never say never, but it's hard to understand how this can happen in any scenario. Many times I caught myself turning out of the driveway toward daycare instead of toward work when I didn't even have the kids in the car with me. Not once did I turn toward work when I did have the kids in the car. The routine was ingrained: get ready for work, get in car, head toward daycare. If the routine is set, it's hard to understand how someone can drive straight to work and never realize the "daycare" destination was left out of the drive.
So sad. RIP baby boy.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:22 pm to WW
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Yeah, hit her where it hurts!
Not sure exactly what you mean by that, but if I am an employer, I damn sure don't want employees that are that irresponsible. That's probably why the damn ice cream machine never works.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:29 pm to indytiger
How can ANYONE NOT know that they have a child in the vehicle????? Horrible news but still.... that poor baby....... 
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:36 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
That's a bullshite excuse......
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:38 pm to dukke v
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That's a bull shite excuse......
ok peej. its so simple. people just go around deliberately leaving sleeping babies in their vehicle every year like clock work.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:39 pm to Sid in Lakeshore
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When school started this year, I got half way to my office before I or either of my 2 children realized I was not going towards their school. They are 10.
It happens. People get in a rut, minds wander on the way to work, getting mentally ready to face the day.
It sucks.
Everyone has spaced where they were going, or missed an exit because they weren't focused enough in that moment, but like in your example....never once did you forget your children. That's the part I don't buy. You can space out and forget to go to the daycare on your way to work....but at some point you realize it because you see/think about your child. When my child is quiet for a long period I look back just to verify that she is sleeping.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 3:41 pm to LSUZombie
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Unless it's happened to you, I don't think you can know what it feels like.
As a dad to a toddler, I hope I never do. I can't imagine how they must feel, nor do I want to try.
I honestly think I would kill myself if I accidentally did this to my son.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:01 pm to Obtuse1
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No, it wasn't a sleeping infant but
Shortened your little story for everybody to not read.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 4:58 pm to Chad504boy
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ok peej. its so simple. people just go around deliberately leaving sleeping babies in their vehicle every year like clock work.
Did I say anything remotely close to this?????
Posted on 10/12/17 at 5:36 pm to Chad504boy
Would not happen. How many times a day do you think about your family and if you do not then why do you have a family?
Posted on 10/12/17 at 6:33 pm to indytiger
How hard would it be to integrate a carbon dioxide sensor and a thermostat with the lights and horn of the vehicle to sound an alarm to prevent this kind of tragedy? Surely with today's technology something could be invented.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 6:40 pm to LSUtigerME
No. I'm a fricking grown up that knows where I'm going and doing at all times.
This post was edited on 10/12/17 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:01 pm to ShoeBang
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Just don't understand it.
Won't say it will never happen to me, just don't understand how it could.
Because you're a decent person who cares for their kid
This is a very rare happening. The odds of this happening to a thoughtful, caring, sober parent are virtually non existent.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:04 pm to Chad504boy
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ok peej. its so simple. people just go around deliberately leaving sleeping babies in their vehicle every year like clock work.
How many times a year does this happen in the USA? The odds are incredibly small that a normal parent will forget their kid for a day. So small as to be damn near impossible
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:12 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Yeah, I’ve caught myself halfway to work some mornings when I was supposed to drop the kid off at daycare. And we’re usually singing Frozen together, so I can see how it could happen. That said, everytime this happens it seems it turns out it was on purpose. I’ve heard when it does happen, the smell is absolutely atrocious. I don’t buy that she didn’t realize until she got to the daycare.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:14 pm to indytiger
Global Warming is to blame. No way it should be this warm mid October.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 7:14 pm to colorchangintiger
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I don’t buy that she didn’t realize until she got to the daycare.
Normal people who have a brain fart will realize before they exit the car in the morning.
These all day incedents are shady as hell
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:10 pm to idsrdum
My truck bings the message to check the back seat when I shut it off. I thought it would get where I would ignore it after a while, but it still bings and my mind still says check the back seat.
Posted on 10/12/17 at 8:27 pm to indytiger
She's going to prison.
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