Tragic

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Weather channel reports that nine kids have died in hot cars this month.

[Rye Miles #13621]

What is wrong with these people? 😡

[Subdeacon Joe]

A couple of years ago,  heck,  maybe last year,  one news show had a tip to help prevent that.....

 

Put Something Important, like your cellphone or laptop in the backseat so you will see the kid when you reach in to get that  Something Important. 

 

What the heck is more important than your kid?

[Cypress Sun]

It happens a couple of times a year in Florida. I just don't understand how you can forget your kid and leave them in a car...in any temperature.

 

It happens with dogs here also. About every two weeks, you see that cops had to break a vehicle window to save the dog. Some live, some don't.

 

Idiots.

[Rye Miles #13621]

My 2022 Encore reminds to check in that back seat. It only does it when it’s really hot or really really cold . I don’t know the temperatures it’s programmed for but it only goes on when it’s extreme. It also tells me watch for icy roads when it’s really cold.

[watab kid]

this should never happen these days , its been in the news and most states use their funds giving PSAs about this as if we are stupid ....but then apparently some of us are 

 

i never wanted to accept that in the past , i only knew people that were not stupid , but as a grew older i started to realize i was naïve , there are stupid ;people out there , i guess when i was a kid these type folks didnt survive well , until we started lawyering them into the genepool now im convinced we are also working hard to maintain that by not educating well , i guess i was way to optimistic of the general american population and our government 

[Rip Snorter]

This is not new, but seems more prevalent in this modern age.  There used to be a gadget, I think it attached to car keys when kids were in the car.  It required an extra step to disengage.  Can't recall the details, someone will.  Might need to be resurrected.

[Pat Riot]

My parents left us in the car all the time. We rolled the windows down because we could. Cars today don’t have manual windows. 
That was also a time when cars couldn’t be locked with a fob. Each door to be locked had to be addressed individually. 
 

Rather than make cars simpler the car companies, probably under government mandates, will create sensors and interlocks that keep morons from locking kids and animals in cars. This will cost more and be just one more system that fails and needs maintenance. 
 

EDIT: They left us in the car to go shopping, pay bills, etc. We weren’t accidentally left in the car. 
 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

4 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

My parents left us in the car all the time. We rolled the windows down because we could. Cars today don’t have manual windows. 
That was also a time when cars couldn’t be locked with a fob. Each door to be locked had to be addressed individually. 
 

Rather than make cars simpler the car companies, probably under government mandates, will create sensors and interlocks that keep morons from locking kids and animals in cars. This will cost more and be just one more system that fails and needs maintenance. 
 

EDIT: They left us in the car to go shopping, pay bills, etc. We weren’t accidentally left in the car. 
 

Back then nobody worried about some guy coming along and stealing the kids. It happened but wasn’t something folks were aware of.

[John Barleycorn, SASS #76982]

If you see this BREAK A WINDOW! Then call 911. I don’t know a single cop that would say anything other than good job.

ps try all the doors first. 

[Pat Riot]

One of my wife’s relatives left his dog in his crew cab pickup with ALL the windows Fully Open and some whack job lady called the cops on him. The dog had cold water and it wasn’t a hot day. 67 degrees F.
This lady went ballistic on him. Some nasty words were exchanged and he left. 
 

Some people are absolute imbeciles in regards to this issue. 
 

As @John Barleycorn, SASS #76982said, if I see a kid or a dog or anyone in danger, I will bust a window. 
 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

20 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

What is wrong with these people? 😡

They are born without brains.

 

Every year we hear of kids and pets...and even one or two elderly folks who die in closed and over-heated cars. Horses  and pets die it pastures without shelter from the sun and no food or water.

 

These are all criminal deaths and the people responsible should be arrested and charged with manslaughter.  If they are a parent they should be neutered, too and not a single one should be allowed to have so much as a doll or teddy bear in their possession or home ever again.

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

These are all criminal deaths and the people responsible should be arrested and charged with manslaughter.  If they are a parent they should be neutered, too and not a single one should be allowed to have so much as a doll or teddy bear in their possession or home ever again.

No, they should be put into the same conditions their victims had and left there. 

[sassnetguy50]

19 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:

This is not new, but seems more prevalent in this modern age.  There used to be a gadget, I think it attached to car keys when kids were in the car.  It required an extra step to disengage.  Can't recall the details, someone will.  Might need to be resurrected.

There was a device that linked to smart phones.  Set off a proximity alarm if you walked away from the car with a baby in the car seat.

[John Kloehr]

10 hours ago, John Barleycorn, SASS #76982 said:

If you see this BREAK A WINDOW! Then call 911. I don’t know a single cop that would say anything other than good job.

ps try all the doors first. 

If the doors work, great, no reason to take on civil liability for broken windows if the doors are unlocked. This is a reasonable action.

 

But considering this in todays world, wether the doors are unlocked or after breaking a window, call 911. It may not completely fix stupid, but will at least call attention to it. This is also a reasonable action.

 

Interesting sign I saw a few years go on a sheriff vehicle (limo-dark tint on windows) in the grocery store parking lot:

 

K9 in Vehicle.

Call 911 if engine is NOT  running.

For your safety, do NOT break glass!