car stolen with 10 month old baby inside

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This is the third incident of 'car & baby' theft in the last month. Not so rare then

I didn't say 'serves her right' I said she must have been out of her mind, different thing altogether.

Of course i have sympathy for what she must be going through but i still think she coud have easily prevented it happening

lol philippat!

I'm going now before it gets heated. I've always been chicken

Phillipat!

Sure, these show off people! mindless!

Talking about these things thee's a woman that parks her convertable car with the roof off out of the school and goes to pick up her children while leaving sleeping baby strapped in the car seat. Probably this is a safer way to show off, let the thief know the baby is there! (stupid woman)

I leave baby in car if asleep if I pop into somewhere.

dp always worried that something like that could happen.

he reckons at petrol station I should take her out of car seat and into shop with me (even if asleep) =- no way!!!!!

I leave baby in car if asleep if I pop into somewhere.

dp always worried that something like that could happen.

he reckons at petrol station I should take her out of car seat and into shop with me (even if asleep) =- no way!!!!!

What is valuable to you?

Chandra - now that is daft!

(Know I said I would be leaving this thread, but couldn't resist).

Flum, know what you mean. I am certainly not hauling 1 year old and 2 year old out of car seats at Petrol station forecourt

Oh no! I live in Bristol, where this happened. That's it, not even petrol without taking dd out of the car any more. Poor woman, she must be beside herself.

I have to admit that if I am at the petrol station and DS is asleep in his car seat I do not take him out while I pop in to pay. It's not ideal I know but then neither is waking him up. He's within my sight the whole time and the car is locked and alarmed. Think the risk of anything actually occuring is very low.
I just hope this baby is found safe and well and found soon.

I'm in leafy Wiltshire - so I guess pretty safe

and if she is asleep when I get home I leave her in car (window little open) in drive!!

or park buggy in garden til she wakes up. she could be plucked up by a passing buzzard too!

I would guess that the baby will be found safe and sound - but the parents must be going through living hell

The have just updated the news with the following:
Last Updated: Tuesday, 3 May, 2005, 10:16 GMT 11:16 UK

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Car stolen with child in the back
Police in Bristol are urgently trying to trace a car which has been stolen with a 10-month-old girl still strapped in the back seat.
The red Ford Ranger 4x4 was taken from outside a butcher's shop on Stapleton Road on Tuesday morning.

The pick up truck, registration number WN02 KRE, is believed to be heading towards south Wales.

The child has been named as Trinay Natasha Ferguson. Police are using the force helicopter in the search.

Trinay is described as black, with short, dark hair and was wearing a dark blue baby suit.

Avon and Somerset police spokesman Dan Mountain said: "It would seem her mother had popped into a butcher's store for matter of seconds.

"We are treating it as a stolen vehicle, that the offender took the pick-up, not realising a child was in it."

Oh poor thief! he had just commited non-intentional kidnapping so he's just dealt with as if he only had the car! what the police is waiting for, for the thief to respect the rigths of the baby, don't they think that a thief is an unpredicatable person who may not be safe around a small child???

You have to watch for those pesky buzzards Flum!

handlemecarefully - where you. am moving to near Marlborough this month

I'm with handlemecarefully. If ds were sleeping (when he was a baby) and I were able to park right outside a shop, then I too would have left him.

And I always leave him in the car to go and pay for petrol

I'm so neurotic that I don't go to get petrol with the kids in the car unless I can 'pay at the pump'. I go when I'm on my own or I send dh out in the evening to do it!

I'm mad, I know.

I hope they find the poor baby soon - OMG, I'd be hysterical - poor, poor mummy

Oh fgs, it was only 2 minutes, I don't blame the woman at all! Lots and lots and lots of people leave children in the car while they pay for petrol. I won't any more though.

this makes me feel sick. When I take ds1 to nursery I will often leave ds2 aged 10 months in the back seat if I can find a space in the nursery car park. I don't leave him on the road but I don't think twice if I am literally popping in and leaving him in the drive. I will think twice about this now. I hope they find this baby soon the poor mother must be going through hell.

Now that's an idea GDG - send dh out of an evening to fill up. Yes, I like that....

Oh no, I feel sick for that Mummy now after reading that news report...

Just thinking about if that happened with ds3 in the back - he's 8 months - I'd be seriously losing it

Flum - only just over Wiltshire border, small village called Landford not far from Salisbury.

Bosscat - I do that too - I'm not logical am I? I won't leave him at a petrol stn but I'll leave him in nursery car park??? Never again i tell you.

I leave my children in the car for a few minutes and I consider myself to be in my right mind, thank you. OK, my children are a bit older now, but when your child is a small baby, you have more reason to leave them IMO, if they are asleep. Also, I have never seen anyone take their children out of their car at a petrol station and that is just as likely a place to have your car stolen as the high street I would have thought.

The poor mother. She must be out of her mind with worry.