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To be shocked by this...

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AlleyCat11 · 03/03/2015 16:03

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?

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Trickydecision · 03/03/2015 17:48

Thefairycaravan, having been locked in our car by absentminded DH, I can assure you that you cannot get out. You have to sit there with the alarm blaring looking ridiculous and getting furious.

FayKorgasm · 03/03/2015 17:49

In some areas they seem to call those infant car seats that you can remove and carry around a carrycot or a carrytot so possibly that's what she is referring to.

Royalsighness · 03/03/2015 17:59

Traffic is traffic I suppose

Rollonpayday · 03/03/2015 18:06

My first deletion too! Wowzer! This story just seems so far fetched ! Saying that , if it is true I can't believe someone could sit back and watch these events unfold like this! Omg!

Rollonpayday · 03/03/2015 18:08

And yes, would definitely have confronted the dad!

ObsidianEagle · 03/03/2015 18:10

are we allowed to say we don't think the OP is a troll, but we don't believe the story and think its made up?

TheFairyCaravan · 03/03/2015 18:14

Tricky my car automatically locks when I've driven a very short distance, as does DS2's, the last 6 cars I have had have done this. I can assure you I can get out. I like to have all the doors locked on DH's car and DS1's car when I am in them, surprisingly I can get out of them too without setting off any alarms or unlocking them!

minionmadness · 03/03/2015 18:20

I don't think not being a parent lets you of the hook OP.

Before I became a parent I would have intervened the second I saw the older child attacking the baby simply because instinctively I would have known the baby could get hurt. I appreciate you say you were at work, but you seemed to be able to watch the whole situation unfold from your vantage point. Lets say somebody was being attacked on the street, would you stand and watch or intervene?

You don't have to be a parent to get that

DinoMight · 03/03/2015 19:42

My car locks like that too thefairycaravan as you drive off it locks, however the last few cars I've had also have a child lock feature where you can immobilise the internal sensors and lock the car, then the child doesn't set off the alarm moving around inside but the car doors can't be opened from the inside or out.(without the remote/key)

Who knows, if this happened perhaps the fella did set the lock but it failed?

CupidStuntSurvivor · 03/03/2015 19:52

You watched a baby being attacked by a 3 year old for 10 minutes because you were busy working? A three year old doesn't need to have you break into the car to stop them. All you had to do was rap on the window to let her know an adult was watching, then wait for the parent to come back and let them know they need to get the baby checked in A&E.

Frankly, work isn't an excuse and you should be ashamed of yourself.

ohbollocks2u · 03/03/2015 19:59

Dear God , I hope that little baby is ok ......

ragged · 03/03/2015 20:02

I could have left the 2 of them at it, not known what to do. It's such a weird situation. Must be nice when you have a ready perfect response to every unexpected situation.

CupidStuntSurvivor · 03/03/2015 20:04

Must be nice that you're not capable of processing a concept as simple as not sitting and watching a baby get attacked for a prolonged period.

Fairenuff · 03/03/2015 20:13

Why would that be nice Cupid?

CupidStuntSurvivor · 03/03/2015 20:20

Was in response to ragged's last comment.

MNHQ

TheOnlyOliviaMumsnet · 03/03/2015 20:25

Ahem

NerrSnerr · 03/03/2015 20:27

My friend has a 3 year old and a baby and the eldest is going through a violent phase. If he got hold of his brother he would hurt him without doubt.

Of course he was unreasonable for leaving them but you should have done something.

Fairenuff · 03/03/2015 21:25

I understand that it was in response but, still, why do you say it would be nice to not be able to process a concept?

Ragged's 'Must be nice when you have a ready perfect response to every unexpected situation' comment makes sense but yours doesn't.

CupidStuntSurvivor · 03/03/2015 23:14

That's because mine was sarcastic fairenough

Trickydecision · 03/03/2015 23:28

Fairy and Dino, I think that sort of locking is different. DH got out to pick up some stuff from a shop, and as he wandered off pressed the lock on the key. I was sitting there happily, but must have moved which set the alarm off. Doors wouldn't open, he had the key and took a lot longer in the shop than he had promised. LTB crossed my mind as I sat there amidst the din, getting funny looks from passers by.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 04/03/2015 08:57

Why are you all jumping on the OP. It was their father who left them unsupervised in a car, not her.
The 3 year old ran out of the car. I shudder to think what could have happened.

Davsmum · 04/03/2015 09:03

As that panicked me more than the fighting, tbh

Fightng? It wasn't fighting!! A baby was being attacked.

I just can't believe ANYONE could witness that and do nothing.

The Father was totally out of order to leave them, but the OP watching this and then coming on here to ask whether we would have said something is unbelievable.

TheSingingMonkey · 04/03/2015 16:11

Why are you all jumping on the OP

Because she did nothing about it apart from watch.

Maryz · 04/03/2015 16:46

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