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car stolen with 10 month old baby inside

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cupcakes · 03/05/2005 11:02

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handlemecarefully · 03/05/2005 12:05

The baby will be found. Car thief very different animal from child killer....Still, horrifying though isn't it

WideWebWitch · 03/05/2005 12:05

Imagine coming out of that shop and finding your car stolen, you'd think it was a huge PITA but not the absolute end of the world but if your baby was in it, bloody hell, you'd be distraught.

FLUM · 03/05/2005 12:06

oh well maybe i will meet you one day then.

bundle · 03/05/2005 12:06

i never leave my girls in the car when paying for petrol, i have even woken them up in the past

ScummyMummy · 03/05/2005 12:06

Poor family. I hope the babe is found safely soon.

Who cares about the rights and wrongs of leaving the baby in the car? Seems a bit like blaming women who walk down dark alleyways with short skirts on for being raped to me.

handlemecarefully · 03/05/2005 12:07

That would be nice flum

FLUM · 03/05/2005 12:09

yeah handlemecarefully, we could leave the kids in the car and go for a coffee and cake.

handlemecarefully · 03/05/2005 12:10

PMSL

QueenEagle · 03/05/2005 12:11

Take the kids out of the car at the petrol station??? No fear!!

You're just asking for trouble. If you manage to get across the forecourt without getting run over, your at risk of dropping the baby whilst trying to juggle getting your purse out of your bag at the same time as trying to sign the credit card receipt and also trying to hold on to your toddler who has spotted the chocolates on display. And then you've still got to get back to the car dodging the cars pulling off from the pumps, strap the baby in whilst trying to stop your toddler running off etc etc....

Must be out of their minds!

lockets · 03/05/2005 12:12

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JanH · 03/05/2005 12:12

If she popped into the shop for "a matter of seconds" then she must have left the keys in the ignition for the car to have been taken so quickly, and that really is stupid, regardless of the rights and wrongs of leaving a child unattended in a car (which I always did when mine were little).

WideWebWitch · 03/05/2005 12:13

There was a huge discussion about this a while ago, I'll see if I can find it.

hunkermunker · 03/05/2005 12:13

Chandra, they are totally respecting the rights of the baby - if it was put out as a kidnap, the penalties for that are FAR higher, the thief would know this and is more likely to do something irrational. Their main aim is to get the little girl back safely, not the look of the thing, atm.

I don't leave DS in the car at petrol stations - feels wrong somehow. But I did leave him when I went to get a pay and display ticket today - he was a few yards away in the car. And I've sat in the car with him while he's slept in it outside the house - it made me do a job I needed to do (thank you cards after his birthday!) without the lure of MN

Gobbledigook · 03/05/2005 12:14

That's true Jan - presumably he didn't have the time, or the discretion in the middle of the street, to hotwire it so he must have had the keys??

HRHDuchessofPeahead · 03/05/2005 12:14

it is a ford pickup jan, it could have been hotwired in seconds, security not a high point. although if she left the keys in as well I agree that is MINDLESS

WideWebWitch · 03/05/2005 12:14

blimey it was in 2002! The rights and wrongs of leaving children in the car while you get petrol

JanH · 03/05/2005 12:14

Some people leave the engine running while they "pop", I've seen them

Gobbledigook · 03/05/2005 12:15

now that is mindless!!

soapbox · 03/05/2005 12:17

Baby has been found safe!

Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of it, bet that Mum never leaves her alone again!

JanH · 03/05/2005 12:17

There have been more recent ones as well though, www! Time hasn't flown quite as fast as that!

(Not about petrol, just about leaving children - there was that couple in NY not so long ago - will try to find that thread.)

WideWebWitch · 03/05/2005 12:18

Oh phew, more here

puddle · 03/05/2005 12:18

I do leave my children in the car while I pay for petrol but never when I go into a shop. Thinking about why I make this distinction it's because:

  • At the petrol station I can keep an eye through the window on the car all the time. I'm just paying, not looking at shelves or selecting anything else.
  • there are cameras in the petrol station and I'd have thought it's the last place you'd steal a car from - you are highly likely to be captured on film doing it.

I do usually choose pay at pump services though so I don't have to do it at all.

bundle · 03/05/2005 12:18

it's all about risk-taking imo. i wouldn't walk down a dark road on my own at night, would always get a cab and ask them to wait for me to get inside house before they go (since dh was mugged at the bottom of our road). wrt children in cars, it seems that many people have taken on board the message re: not leaving valuables like computers, phones, handbags on view, and obviously children are more "valuable" than those things..and sadly these cases do seem to be getting more common.

janh "popping" with engine running

JanH · 03/05/2005 12:18

Oh good! phew!

QueenEagle · 03/05/2005 12:19

IMO it's a totally different matter if the keys are left in the car - that really is irresponsible. I have nipped to buy a newspaper, leaving the car right outside the shop, taking the keys with me and locking it with alarm on, on many many occasions; something I wouldn't think twice about. If I couldn't see the car from the shop window I would never consider it.

I sincerely hope the baby is found safe and well, regardless of the circumstances of her being left my thoughts are with the parents.