My baby (4 months) was accidentally locked in the car when I was getting everything in the car after her second set of inoculations. I must have hit the lock button then closed the boot not realising the keys were still in the buggy where I'd chucked them in my sleepless haze.
I am a very cool, calm and collected person and properly freaked the hell out as soon as I realised I couldn't get to her. She was asleep but it was June and about 20 degrees. My phone was in the car as well - luckily I was at the doctors surgery and they had my partners contact information. Unluckily he was across town and about forty minutes away.
I properly panicked like I've never done in my life. The doctor's receptionist called the police and they were there in less than five minutes. She wasn't distressed so they asked what I wanted them to do. We called our breakdown cover people because they could have accessed the car without breaking a window but they said twenty minutes.
Obviously I got the police to break one of the front windows. They do it with a touch force hammer so it didn't explode all over the seat.
Even thinking about it now makes me shudder. It was probably about fifteen minutes from beginning to end and she was asleep the whole time until the car alarm went off but it was probably one of the longest fifteen minutes of my life as I watched her getting clammy, sweaty and hot.
The thought of someone intentionally doing this and not giving it a second thought makes my stomach lurch.