I drove past a carseat, I didn't stop...

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This is probably going to sound really odd but I'm not really sure who else to ask.

I was driving relatively late last night, around 9:30pm, through a country road, so it's very quiet and surrounded by lots of trees. I saw a carseat, which looked quite new, it definitely wasn't just dumped there.

I couldn't see inside it, as there was a blanket. I'm not sure if anyone else has heard of the thing where people use their small children or pretend there's a carseat with a child in it or whatever so someone goes and helps? But then gets raped? I have heard of it before, I don't remember when but I do know my mum told me about it as a teenager.

All I thought about was that and wanted to get off that road asap. I get home and thought about it a couple of times and thought there's no way would someone actually leave their baby there and if it wasn't some kind of trap, it was obvious that maybe it was just dumped. I drove past there this morning, it was gone... Nothing there. Now I am worried that a) it was a child and has now been taken, to a safe or unsafe place. Or b) it was a trap and that it will be out to get more people.

Honestly, am I just completely blowing this out of proportion?

I'd drive by a car seat because I don't want a baby but I always check cardboard boxes because the sister of a friend of my friend at school once found some kittens abandoned in a cardboard box.

Not sure if you're joking or not? Nobody says you have to keep either if you find one.

I'm not in the rape/murder/robbery business but I think there are easier ways to come by victims than to put a child seat by the side of a quiet road and wait for a lone woman to notice it and stop.

Nobody says you have to keep either if you find one.

That's fair enough. I'm just saying that though I definitely wouldn't want an abandoned baby, I'd probably keep one or two out of a litter of kittens.

I'dd drive by a car seat because I don't want a baby but I always check cardboard boxes because the sister of a friend of my friend at school once found some kittens abandoned in a cardboard box.

I'd be interested if there's a link to a news article about Ruby's friend.

I have 12 children and I found most of them abandoned in new car seats in lay-bys.

Have you thought of getting a minibus YellowShockedFace?

Going back to a point on page one Id be surprised if it was a dumped stolen car seat that the police could get prints off it. It needs to be a smooth/glossy surface.

Unless there's a brand of car seat that thinks such a finish would be a good idea on something used by a small child

I just keep them in a pile in the boot.

it was in the Cheshire chronicle in 2014, how do I do a link thingy if I find it ?

Ruby I live in Cheshire too. I don't think there's a Cheshire Chronicle, but there's definitely a Chester and a Crewe. If you know which it is would be easier to link.

opensideno7 The will. I suppose in their defence it probably looked abandoned.

I do hope they got covered in puke and it made their car stink though (and I don't care that that makes me rude!)

yeah I'm sure that happened.

YellowShockedFace
I keep them in the boot the babies or the car seats?
If you mean the children, then wouldn't a shoe be more appropriate?

sorry it was the chester chronicle, it happened very close to where a footballer lives.... que village rumours that they were probably lying in wait for him

Do you have a link to it please?

There was a car seat at the top of my road recently. At the very quietest part, next ti the woods. In the dark....covered in vomit.

Yep, no hoax. No trap, just upchuck. I figured it was a parent with more money then sense who couldn't be bothered to clean a £200+ car seat. Or a parent who just flipped.

i've lost count of the number of times I've seen this "story" or versions of it on Facebook from all parts of the UK.