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To be furious at the idiotic woman who left her child in the car on a retail park car park ...

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Plonker · 17/04/2009 22:58

...alone and with the windows fully shut?!?

Hmf - I know that I'm not, I just want to rant!!

This afternoon, some barmy mother left her small child (I'm guessing around 3yo) alone in a boiling hot fucking car on a retail park car park

A shop assistant was frantically running around the shop asking customers if anyone owned a *** car. It turned out that shop assistants in all the shops on the retail park where doing the same thing. We came out of the shop and the assistant was stood outside the car. I asked if she was ok (she was visibly upset) and she showed me the little boy.

He wasn't crying when I went over. He just looked rather confused and very hot. A lady had been stood with him and had managed to get him to take his t-shirt off and we showed him where the roller was to wind down the window. He managed to wind it down about an inch but wasn't strong enough to wind it further.

We stayed with the little boy for a good 20 minutes before one of shop assistants ran out of a shop saying they'd found mum. Over she strolled, opened the door and asked him if he was ok, got in the car and drove off.

Unbelievable

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belgo · 22/04/2009 08:28

My dh locked me and the children in the car a couple of years ago, only for 10 minutes or so, but it was scarey and got very hot very quickly.

I think the best thing to do is to call the police if you ever see a child alone in a locked car and no parents close by.

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shinyshoes · 22/04/2009 08:30

YANBU and I would have called the police not even bothering looking for the mother if she's idiot enough to have left her child she obvioulsy dosen't give a shit.

There is a man that regularly comes into where I work leaving his children in the car. We have often taked about calling the police but they are about 8 and 10 years old and it's around 6.00pm so the children aren't in any kind of danger and if they were they are old enough to get out of the car themselves.

He leaves them for ages, a good 1/2 hour 45 minutes. It's not right.