.. to think this would blow some minds?

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….. standing next to my van, loading my stuff into it when a black Volvo pulls up behind me and the female driver asks if I’m leaving. I tell her no not yet so she thanks me and reverses back a little and stops and asks if the two men in a van (having a tea break) are leaving. They tell her the same thing, so she asks if it’s okay to leave the car in front of the van as she only needs five minutes. They say it’s fine and she says great, I’ll leave the keys in it just in case they need to leave and then off she pops.
Two minutes later, a car opposite starts up and the driver can’t manoeuvre out. as her car is in the way. Van driver jumps out and gets in her car to move it. At which stage, two startled heads pop up in the back. She had left the keys and her two young kids in her car.
Van driver lets the other driver out and neatly parks Volvo in the now vacant space.
Could you see this happening in the UK? By this time it was about 10 minutes - I wonder what she thought as she came back to the car park and saw her car wasn’t sitting where she left it?

Country?

She left her keys in the car with two children in the car? Bloody hell.

I know someone who did this (not in UK). Left her baby in an unlocked car as she was “just popping in”.

The car was stolen.

It's monumentally stupid and irresponsible, no matter what country it took place in.

I'm not sure it matters what country it is. Leaving two children and the keys in the car is spectacularly stupid and pretty terrible parenting.

Fucking hell that’s insane.

Oh no! What happened the baby?

Thankfully the baby was fine, slept through the whole thing.

The car thief abandoned the car a short distance away on discovering the baby. The poor Mum was very, very shocked of course.

Denmark or another Scandinavian country?

People leave their babies in prams outside shops and their bikes at the bus stop for the day while they work in the city.

When I was at a waterpark there, a woman sent her primary age DD on a slide with me while she changed her baby.

Normally in cases when a car is stolen with a baby inside (in whatever country) the thief hasn't realised there was a baby in there and they dump the car and unharmed baby. Nightmare though.

What country?

As well as the children which is awful it’s ridiculous to drive a car without insurance or she could have accused them of attempting to steal it.

Which magical country doesn't have car theft and nonces?

I miss those days. We’d send a child into the loo with another mother.

It'll be the same Neverland where the posters live who never lock their doors, not even at night.

At least one person involved would have called the police in this situation in the UK. We can’t cope with things like adults here.

They leave their babies outside shops when they go to work for the day? Seems a bit neglectful.

OP will probably refuse to tell us as it "would be outing."

Yes! We can identify you amongst 30 million people 😂

Well she wouldn't have been surprised if the car had been moved, surely?

The population of Sweden is about the same as London. Denmark and Sweden together, about the same as London. Sweden and Norway are both double the size of the uk.
I would expect it to feel safer, to be honest. More accountable.

apparently this happened in France

Ah yes, that mythical land........

They hang their jewellery on the bird table in the garden and it never gets stolen. They leave the keys in the car and have done since 1995. The external doors are never locked. In fact they often remove all external doors as it's just a faff closing and locking them as it's so unnecessary

It is France. Chamonix town centre.

I’ve lived in 2 places where this would be totally normal. Channel Islands and Oman.
not saying it’s right, just that it wouldn’t raise a single eyebrow.
no idea where this happened but it’s f it was a small village where everyone knows everyone I can see how this would happen.