To be shocked by this...

[AlleyCat11]

I looked out the window, at work, to see two kids inside a Range Rover parked outside. On a busy High Street. Then I noticed that they were alone...
The little girl, about three years old, climbed on top of her baby brother, who was in a carry cot, & started attacking him. I remember doing the same to my baby brother when I was that age.
But there was nobody there to stop her, so she punched, scratched & shouted at him for ten minutes non-stop.
Then she climbed into the front seat, opened the car door & escaped... I ran out into the street in the lashing rain. She was nowhere to be seen. I went around the corner. No little girl.
Then I see her running alongside a man (Dad?) who jogs up to check that baby is in the car, nods & buggers off again, with her.
Another ten minutes pass & Dad returns with little girl & big brother. He bundles the wet children into the car & drives off, not a glance at the baby.
I'm not a mum, so I never usually comment on parenting. But, bloody hell... Would you have said something to him?

Yes I would have.

In a none judgy way. I'd have said something like "just to let you know, the little girl seemed to be a bit anxious and was pestering the baby a lot"

You watched a baby get punched, scratched and shouted at for 10 mins?

You watched a baby getting punched for 10 mins?

By another baby, Talkin. It's not down to me to break into someone's car & sort out their kids.

Yes I was just wondering g too how you stood and watched the full show without doing anything. You could at least have gone down and banged on the window or told a security guard or something.

I'd have hammered on the car windows to try to stop the girl hitting her sibling then called 111 to report it

Why didn't you call the Police? You watched a baby be attacked for 10 minutes, not only that you saw a small child run off down the street alone, and then saw a baby be left in a car for another 10 minutes.

Sorry, I'm shocked at you!

Are you sure it was an actual baby and not a doll. Also you absolutely do have a responsibility not to watch a child attack another child for 10 minutes!

Remember, I'm in the middle of work. I only ran out when the child got out onto the street. As that panicked me more than the fighting, tbh.

And you did nothing....?

You sat and watched a child attack a younger child for ten minutes and did nothing? Nothing! YABVVU!
You could have called 111 or banged on the window or both.

I'd have gone out there and rapped on the car window to stop her.

It's difficult with other people's kids OP, you never get thanked for interfering, don't feel too bad.

Unless you are a surgeon in the middle of an operation I don't care that you were at work. You should have done something by calling the police.

He left two small DC in a car by themselves and one of them got out. You should have taken his number plate and bloody reported him!

It was not by another baby you said a 3 year old child.
lots of things that go on in the world are not technically other peoples business but some people are bothered to do something about them.

Yes, you should be shocked. But it would have been better if your shock had led you to actually doing something about it.

I can't believe you did nothing, what the hell?

Are you sure the "baby" wasn't a doll? Most people have their babies in infancy car seats and not carrycots in the car. It would seem a bit strange if the mAn has transferred the baby out of the car seat and into a carrycot whilst he was parked

You say that there was no one else around to stop her hitting the baby. Yes there was. You.

I'm still shocked at the Dad leaving them. I would say / do something in future. Just not sure whether it's okay to intervene with other people's kids. Now I know.

Also, how could you see the baby was a boy?

And you did nothing?

Really?
Wow, that's just incredible.