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Child jumps out of stolen car.

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sunfleurs · 15/08/2009 10:21

Here. I have posted before on all the things that could go wrong if you even leave your child in the car for a few seconds. I concluded I was a bit OTT and in fact a bit of a nutter , but now I feel totally vindicated. What a horrible experience for this little boy.

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cazboldy · 15/08/2009 14:26

Cyradis - Laeving them IN the car would be ridiculous - 99% of the time I pay at the pump, the rest of the time we are talking just a few mins while I strap in the youngest 2.

Princess I am not saying that at all - unless you leave your dc in the car

LilyOfTheMountain · 15/08/2009 14:27

See, iw ouldnt get them all out- Lock them in. One of mine is autistic and likely to dash in ront of cars, a garage would be a dreadful risk to him (he can undo harnesses). With 3 other children I couldn't watch him closely enough.

OTOH I'd never do a school run without them all out (well in relaity I don't drive to school but YKWIM, I never would do it anyway).

There is a vast difference- ability to see the car being the most particualr

LilyOfTheMountain · 15/08/2009 14:29

Caz that is very close to an attack opn princess! we're all different and make different risk assessments- even if you don't agree with doing it the risk is minimal its how you handle that minimal risk in your own life that differes

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sunfleurs · 15/08/2009 14:33

She was parked outside her sons school and was going into the school. I saw it on the news last night, so she wasn't standing talking to anyone or right next to the car.

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sunfleurs · 15/08/2009 14:37

I wouldn't ever leave my child or children alone in the car and the argument about having more than one child is irrelevant here, she didn't, she had the one. Personally I think she was an idiot for leaving the key in and the engine running, sorry but I do. Think what could have happened because she wanted to save herself a couple of seconds.

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oneopinionatedmother · 15/08/2009 14:40

silly to leave the engine running, as the little boy could have driven the car!

OTOH, something happening once in a country of 60 milion people, is hardly a major danger.

this theif was very stupid, as they were seen presumably by many people, and guilty of assault and kidnap as well as TWOC.

I think anyone who's worked on a forecourt would probably leave their kids in the car, as they know just how often people get 'bumped' by people pulling out. Under 18s aren't allowed to work in PFS or loading bays as the risk assessment wouldn't bear it out.

SomeGuy · 15/08/2009 14:42

she's a blithering idiot. Never leave your keys in the car.

As for this vindicating paranoid parenting, well not really, the thief wasn't actually interested in abducting the child, because child abduction is very rare and unlikely, whereas car theft of running vehicles is extremely common and likely.

blinks · 15/08/2009 14:46

it's obviously different if she walked away from the car with the engine running.

daftness.

the news article linked to indicated that she was next to or very near to the car.

that's a different story.

i think dragging five children out of a car to pay for petrol is madness also.

LilyOfTheMountain · 15/08/2009 14:52

ANd I also agree that leaving keys in car etc is stupidity

I expect she'slearned her lesson though, don't you? I dont think that seeing some people ojn a website (and you never know, she could MN) is much against the fear of what might have happened

SomeGuy · 15/08/2009 14:52

I'm sure taking five children across a forecourt is far more dangerous than leaving them in the car.

She left the car and apparently gave the impression to the thief that she had gone. Very stupid.

cazboldy · 15/08/2009 14:52

fgs Lily - i was joking - hence the .......

and as I have already said many times I very rarely drag them all out, but if I have to I will. Otherwise the youngest will be screaming for me, she is very clingy, and I wont take just one in and not the others. And as someone else said we all do things differently. if I an to take all of my children in it is up to me surely?

I don't get why it is more "mad" to take 5 children in than 2 for instance

LilyOfTheMountain · 15/08/2009 14:56

I don't think it is mad

I do think it is different- as a Mum of 4 myself I know that one of the biggest changes over 2 for me is the simple fact that I can hold the ahnds of 2, but not 4 (not trying to be obvious, when people ask the difference between 2 and 3 I always say with 3 you've got one more child than hand)

I get yu were joking but had I been on the end it would still have hurt.

cazboldy · 15/08/2009 14:58

agreed, but I don't hold my 12 or 9 year olds hands anyway

LilyOfTheMountain · 15/08/2009 15:02

AH see I do with my 9 year old (some SN issues you see)

8 year old is just daft as a bag of frogs, we actually ahve to leve home earlier on recycling day as he trips over all the boxes on the way to school

So am very obstacle averse

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sunfleurs · 15/08/2009 17:17

"As for this vindicating paranoid parenting, well not really, the thief wasn't actually interested in abducting the child, because child abduction is very rare and unlikely"

Well it is not only the fear of child abduction here that is the issue. The kid jumped out of a moving car to get away from the thief. Imagining that car moving just a bit faster or another one coming up behind. I can't bear to think about it. There is so much that could have gone wrong in this scenario because of her few seconds of idiocy.

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LilyOfTheMountain · 15/08/2009 18:09

What it vidicates is sensible aprenting- not leaving your keys in a car fro a start

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