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AIBU?

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Should I stay with this baby?

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BooChunky · 31/03/2015 14:24

I'm at a theme park... A family consisting of 2 adults, 2 children around 9/10 and a baby around 1 in a buggy have just pushed the baby towards a railing, left their child in it, and all gone off to queue for a ride that's at least 30 minutes queuing time and out of sight.

(I know this because my DD and her godfather are in the queue and I've already been waiting 30 minutes.)

I can't believe people would do this??

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Iwasbornin1993 · 31/03/2015 16:44

OP I would definitely call the Police. Then they can find out if there is CCTV (which I can imagine there will be) and if they can identify them somehow. I just can't believe anyone would think that this is ok that poor baby!

TessDurbeyfield · 31/03/2015 16:47

Could they definitely understand English? A smiling 'no thank you' sounds like something you would say if you couldn't understand what was being said. (Not that that affects the seriousness of what they did but it might explain the casualness)

mindthegap79 · 31/03/2015 16:49

Please call the police. You absolutely must.

Namechanged101 · 31/03/2015 16:49

Reading this thread has made my stomach turn how fucking careless can some people be?! So angry on your behalf too they literally did not give a shit! I'd try and report to police if you can they will be able to get the CCTV not sure they'd do anything but I would hope they would be able to track their car reg and flag up to relevant social services etc?!

Aeroflotgirl · 31/03/2015 16:50

That is shocking. I would have called the Police. Yes if course the 'parent' did not want to hear the reality, idiot!

WorraLiberty · 31/03/2015 16:51

I can't see the police bothering to trawl the CCTV and trace the car for this

I think the ship has sailed really and the OP should have called them ages ago

Still, she wasn't to know the theme park managers would have such a lax attitude I suppose.

maliaki · 31/03/2015 16:52

Report to the police. They will do it again perhaps with a tragic outcome. Parents as irresponsible and cavalier about safety like that don't deserve children. Shame on them for acting that way and then not caring when you all spoke to them.

glittertits · 31/03/2015 16:52

Ring the police, please. They need checking out by SS.

PiggyMummy · 31/03/2015 16:55

You should report it.

In the same situation I would also have hesitated but I think I would have called the NSPCC Helpline for advice, and let them decide if it's worth escalating to police.

RueDeWakening · 31/03/2015 16:59

Thing is, the theme park involved let you switch & ride, so one adult can stay with children too small to ride but still get a turn themselves.

(It's Legoland I believe.)

Hillingdon · 31/03/2015 17:19

I suspect up and down the land people leave kids at home on their own at all ages, work reasons or just out and about enjoying themselves thinking no one will ever find out, they are asleep etc.

Until the worst happens....

madreloco · 31/03/2015 19:07

What doyou think the police are going to do without at the very least a name? Hint......its nothing.

PuttingouthefirewithGasoline · 31/03/2015 19:15

whoever you spoke too has not got it right you need to email or call and speak to someone higher up, if you had not been there but a staff member saw abandoned pram then they need protocol to deal with it.

PuttingouthefirewithGasoline · 31/03/2015 19:16

not saying its something they dont get involved in! for instance what it the baby was fake but stuffed with bombs?

anything abandoned one would like to think the staff are told to investigate!!!

SneakretSanta · 31/03/2015 19:25

Dear God - I was at a theme park today with DS and didn't like sitting on a bench with him behind me in his pram (trying to keep him out of the wind while he slept) so ended up sitting twisted round . Just hated the idea someone could wheel him off while I was busy mumsnetting people watching! This actually beggars belief. Don't know why I'm surprised though - I very briefly worked at a theme park when I was a teenager and had a baby handed to me on day 1 when I intervened to stop it's mother carrying it onto the ride. She got a bit stroppy when I insisted she couldn't take it on (one of those swing boat things) then thrust the baby at me, got on the ride just as it started and left a perfect stranger holding her child!!

SuperMumTum · 31/03/2015 19:34

The police won't do anything now the moment has passed.

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BooChunky · 31/03/2015 19:36

Sorry, I've been doing dinner / bath / bedtimes...

Their english seemed clear and he didn't seem to have an accent but they did actually have a luggage tag on the buggy... So perhaps I'm wrong. (I have one on mine too I still haven't taken off since October )

The theme park customer service specifically told me there is no protocol for this. In those words.

And in sorry I didn't call the police but I'm sure they would have told me to just locate a member of staff, which I did, and later on what could they do?

I don't know who they were.

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