Baby baking season is here
Well, Baby Baking season 2005 is upon us here in the beautiful valley of the sun. It happens every single year. Never mind the fact that we are constantly bombarded by PSA's and newstories reminding us that it is not a good thing to leave children unattended in swimming pools or parked cars.
Yesterday a 26 year old woman "forgot" that her niece was in the back seat of her parked car for 5 hours. :rar: WTF!?!?! seriously, how do you forget that a child is still in the car? i might be able to understand a minute or two. "oh, hey i grabbed the groceries but where is the kid?" *runs to the car* but when it comes to "hey i need another bag of cheetos, i better get off my ass and go to the kitchen. come to think of it, i haven't changed a diaper yet today." *runs to the car* BS! BS! BS! BS! the only positive here is that these poor children do not have to suffer through long lives trapped with criminally irresponsible mother******s who shouldn't be trusted to take another breath without someone reminding them.
On the news last night, they ran the normal baby baking story with the heartbroken family asking that no charges be brought against the childkiller, because she has "suffered enough". bullf***ingsh*t! lock her in a car and let her go. she is a murderer whether she intended to or not. she is criminally stupid and should not be allowed back into this society even for a minute.
they had a blurb from a family friend imploring the viewers to not let this happen in their family. she went on to say babies need to be protected, don't leave them in the car. if you necessary -
"put something important in the backseat with the baby so you won't forget. like your cell phone." WTF?!?!?! put something "important" like a cell phone by the baby so you won't forget? cell phone = important. baby = ? DIE! save the oxygen for someone who can use it better and just die already.
I saw another one the other day somewhere in Texas, and the article went on and on about how people don't realize that infants are so much more susceptible to high temperatures and in 100-degree weather a car can become fatal in just five minutes, this is such a "hidden killer"... oh, except THIS child in question was left in the car for two and a half hours. But she's not irresponsible, it could have happened to anyone, only five minutes!
Sounds to me as though vehicles sold in Arizona need to have seasoning embedded in the upholstery so all that slow cooking doesn't go to waste.
:guinness:
and Bruce said I was sick... ;)
See you and raise you ...
On the upside, mommy's out of the gene pool now. Hopefully she has had her tubes tied.
Edit to add speculation: I wonder how many of the baked babies were intentionally left in the carseats in the sun? "At last I'm rid of the little bastard that's ruined my figure and ability to date." The distraught moms are always treated as objects of sympathy rather than with the contempt that they deserve.
I'm sure the next important baby supply is going to be some kind of a monitor that goes off if there is still weight in the carseat when the engine is shut off. Of course people still leave their lights and turn signals on despite such innovations ...
The article said the child had an internal temperature of 107 degrees when found. Unbelievable! I like the "leave something important" in the back with the child, too.
"Let's see, where did I leave my bong? Oh, yeah! It's back there with junior!"
I can't stand to leave an animal in a parked car in the summer, never mind a child. If I am traveling with a pet, you can bet I'll make the effort to find a shady spot, roll down all the windows a little, and put up the sunshade. Even at THAT, I rush through my errands with the doggie's or kitty's presence in my car nagging at the back of my mind.
And I have MEMORY PROBLEMS, for Christsake!
Forgetting about a CHILD?
A million years in prison with no parole!
Did you guys read about the guy in Cali who used his 15 month-old daughter as a human shield and then ran out at police and shot at them? Well, they shot back--and killed both the man and the toddler. Family of man and toddler are OUTRAGED that the police shot the kid! Outraged at the police??? It's not like they were trying to hit the kid--and WHO put that kid in danger? Oh, yeah, her loving dad. He only used her as a human shield once. Assholes.
I'd heard about that, can you link some articles?
Further info today said the father was "distraught" and had mentioned the possibiliy of killing his stepdaughter (who escaped) and the baby previously........of course good ol' Cali liberal journalists are blaming the whole thing on the cops.
You know what, I left my daughter in the car by accident once. She was about 3 weeks old and I was picking up a NY Times at Wawa. I made it almost to the door of the store before I realized I had forgotten something . . . .
Now is a different story of course with my kids old enough to go over to friends' houses and whatnot. But when they were toddlers & younger our entire freakin' lives revolved around getting those kids fed, put to bed, etc. The disconnect that would have allowed us to casually read or watch TV or something and not notice that all of a sudden there wasn't a baby doing his best to climb up a bookshelf would be unimaginable.
I have never forgotten my stepkids in the car (half the time I even find myself walking over to the passenger door to get them out when they're not even with me...)
But I often forget while I'm driving that they're with me, all the time. I talk to myself in the car pretty compulsively--at other drivers, and people I'm going to see later in the day, and people I just saw who I wanted to say a particular thing to but didn't--and it always scares the crap out of me when the three-year-old pipes up with, "Who are you talking to?"
Just today, in fact, I yelled "GO!" at the top of my lungs at this moron in front of me who was sitting at a green light. I felt so horrible when I heard this little voice in the back say, "I AM going..."
OMG I totally laughed out loud at your post Clod, I do this ALL the time, and my now 2.5 yr old replies to me too. Or worse, repeats what I say...Beats ME where she learned that language... :blush:
at a recent event for my firm, they went around and videotaped kids as they asked questions. i turned a little red when my son answered the "what does daddy say most when he gets home at night?" of course, my son replied "DAMMIT DAX!" dax would be the boxer puppy.
too funny clod! i'll find my self swearing when plt jr is in the car. i can't go from point A to point B without having some idiot do something stupid in front of me and sometimes i, well, say things that an almost 4 yr old shouldn't hear. "Fuurrrrrrriggin' GO already!"
when plt jr. was an infant i wouldn't even leave him in the car to go into a stop & go for a pack of smokes. of course the heat had nothing to do with it. more like auto theft. there are at least 3 or more episodes a year where that happens here in H-town. so not only do the degenerates get charged with auto-theft they also get charged with kidnapping.
I can't even begin to put words to this. Lookout123 pretty much nails it. WTF is wrong with the parents? Criminally stupid. They're all diving in the shallow end of the gene pool.
We didn't let the InchInchInch out of our sight for almost a year, and then even his grandparents were suspect until they had proved a reasonable degree of reliability and observing of toddler protocol.
This just bums me out.
and Bruce said I was sick... ;)
But cute....don't forget, but cute. :love:
Locally we had a million people looking for three little kids, for days, that were in the the trunk of a car.....RIGHT THERE. :mad:
I also didn't leave rugrat in the car when I ran into the stop and shop for a gallon of milk, or to pay for gas. Cars getting stolen arent as common around here, and my taurus isn't exactly a top 10 most wanted, but I just didn't want to risk it. I had this weird fear of setting her on the car, and then driving off...tho of course I never set her on the car. I do it a lot with sunglasses, cups of soda (pop), you name it :smack: so maybe that's where it came from.
i'm trying to remember, there was a show, (the man show?) where they fastened a baby carrier to the roof of the car with a doll in it to see how many people would let them know......everyone freaked out, it was hilarious!
Jackass. (not you - the show.)
Two thoughts on the LA baby shooting. First off, does the LAPD not have three or four snipers capable of taking out a loonie without hitting the baby?
Second...I can't understand why anyone would be surprised the the LAPD would shoot someone using a baby as a human shield. Hell, in LA they shoot people for not covering their mouths when they sneeze.
Things changed the minute the guy shot at the cops. He was holding the baby up at his head through most of the standoff, if I read the news reports correctly. There was no clear shot greenlighted. They had him talking ... up until the point where he started shooting ... then you're allowed to shoot back.
He didn't have the baby with him when the 911 call came in (from his ex who now denies she made the call) - he ran over to her house, said gimme the baby, ran back to the dealership and started firing. Even fired at his own stepdaughter.
I completely sympathize with the LAPD, who have only fatally wounded TWO innocent captives in THOUSANDS of standoffs in the last umpteen years (source= L.A. Times, so may be a bit biased, though those freakin liberals usually side with the "victims" so I tend to believe this stat). I commend them and don't fault them one bit for this tragic scenario. It was a matter of the greater good - take him out before he took out any innocent bystanders. The baby was a sad, sad addendum.
To paraphrase an old chestnut:
A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been shot at yet.
The baby was a sad, sad addendum.
Maybe that phrase will replace collateral damage. :eyebrow:
I agree with your post 100%, btw.
One of the amazing cast of characters tonight was a woman about whom I thought, "You know, if she had a car, she would have left the kid in it and then she wouldn't have been taken from this walking incubator and placed in foster care."
The Walking Incubator at one point was complaining about the $60 a week she was spending on cell phone minutes on the THREE YEAR OLD'S CELL PHONE so the child could call her from fostercare.
I mean, hell, that's $60 she could have put into the crack budget.
I've had my dog for 10 years. Just a year ago, I brought him outside and got impatient waiting for him to "go", so I tied him to the fence.
2 1/2 hours later, I heard him barking.
I felt SO guilty!! I love this dog to death and I would never do anything intentional to hurt or mistreat him. I don't know when I would've remembered him if he hadn't barked. If it had been January, he probably would've died out there.
Now, if I leave him outside, I set a kitchen timer for 5 minutes.
This was the woman's neice- not her own child, so she wasn't taking care of the baby everyday. Maybe she was stupid and forgetful and she definitely should never watch a child again, or even get a dog, but it was an accident- a terrible, tragic accident, but still an accident.
And if you're mind wanders and you tend to forget very important things, then it IS a good idea to leave little reminders. If I had to watch a kid, I might tie a string around my finger so every time I looked at my hand, I would check on the napping/playing child...
I actually write myself a note every single morning with stuff to do on it, which actually says "walk dogs". (Yeah, I could forget) and "shower" (so that I don't remember at the last minute when I don't have time anymore.)
If I couldn't have a pad of paper and pen at work, I would have to quit because I couldn't possible get my job done. Luckily, I know I am this way and I write evrything down, and I check my notes all the time, so I actually forget less than normal people.
I'm sure that this woman has received all the punishment she deserved, by the way. She will live the rest of her life knowing that she was responsible for the death of that child. She will never have a self esteem, she will probably suffer from depression until the day she dies. I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up killing herself. What you are doing right now is beating a dead horse.
I guess it's a difference in upbringing or something. Even as a teenager occasionally called on to babysit, I knew that you don't leave kids or dogs in cars. And a child less than 2 can never be left alone for any reason, for any amount of time. Kids that age are just accidents waiting to happen.
I agree Dar. I don't smother her or limit her freedom, but my two year old is NEVER out of my line of sight, unless she's sleeping (in her crib, where she can't get into anything when she wakes up). I know this woman has suffered the wrath of many, but I say she deserves it. She murdered someone elses child. I can't forgive that and I can't feel sorry for her.
staceyv, while i understand your well written and thoughtful post, i will disagree that the aunt has suffered enough. there is no punishment severe enough for someone who leaves a child baking in a 150 degree car for five hours.
I have to agree with lookout123 - I have nephews and have watched them as babies and toddlers and I think if anything, I remembered them maybe even more than my own - if that's possible! - because I was not used to having that responsibility. I just cannot imagine forgetting my own or anyone else's little one that I had taken responsibility for......
Along this line of thinking - I have a friend whose 8 month old daughter somthered to death on their adult waterbed. It was just a couple of months after the death - back in 1989, when I saw the first TV commercial telling folks to "never put an infant on an adult waterbed". The guilt (and loss) they suffered then, and still now has changed their lives forever. There has been SO much in the news everywhere in the past years about NOT leaving a child in a car that I do not see how anyone could forget!!!