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I think most of us feel that way, BUT...
Which is why I think preventive measure is important to look into, like the alarm on the phone I mentioned previous page. Drs have patients who are forgetful with their life saving meds do this. If you forget despite a loud alarm going off with a message of WHERE IS YOUR kid at the time he should be at the daycare, then there are some serious issues there beyond I was distracted and forgot..
Maybe I am just tuned a different way but when I'm in a car, the only way a kid stays in the car is if there is traffic to be concerned with or some thing immediately outside the car where danger is. I don't care if it is 100+ degrees outside and we are coming home with a couple pails of ice cream that needs to be put in the freezer. Kids get out first and moved into a safe location. Again, maybe I'm tuned different and I genuinely feel bad for the times parents' mistakes cause their child to die but that is not me 110% guaranteed.
There was a local story where this happened. Husband dropped his kid off at elementary school every day, and his wife dropped their infant off at day care. That was their routine. One day, the wife had some sort of appointment so the dad agreed to take both kids. He dropped the older child off at school and was just on auto pilot. Drove straight from there to work, just as he'd done every day for a year. Baby was asleep in the back and didn't make a peep. Didn't realize his tragic mistake until he came out to his car at the end of the work day. Absolutely gut wrenching.
We all have routines that we feel 100% locked in to. You do things right 100,000 times in a row but one mistake can lead to disaster. Everyone has had a huge mental lapse at times and usually we are lucky it doesnt lead to catastrophe
Did read it. We'll just have to agree to disagree. All I know is that if kids are in my car, they are priority in my mind at all times. Again, maybe I am just tuned in differently.
I'm still adamant it could never happen to me - I would never work so hard that I forgot about my kid in the car. At least one positive of being quite possibly the laziest man in all of Los Angeles county, which would place me high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide.
I am scared ####less something like this could happen to me. Just today my four year old slipped and fell in a pool. Granted he was only under for a few seconds because I was nearby looking back every few seconds just in case, but the slightest lack of attention and a number of very bad things can happen that you could have stopped. I can't imagine I'd ever forget them in a car, but outright dismissing it? That's how a mistake like that could happen.
I can see something like this happening, and I can't see ever being able to live with myself after that. Good lord.
“dead peasants insurance” pretty much says it all.Rohn Jambo said:One fifth of all life insurance sold is in the form of COLI policies. Did the government do something about this? Yes, they made sure to benefit too.NCCommish said:I'm not sure I understand why this is even legal to do.Rohn Jambo said:Apparently more companies do this. I am sure most employees would not sign up if their letters say:"Dear Peasant, You're worth more to us dead than alive."http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/april_19.htmPatsWillWin said:WALMART takes insurance policies out on normal employees.I wouldn't sign up for that. If anyone is going to get paid for plotting my death it will be my wife as nature intended.I'm just a regular, disposable employee. I received a confidential mail from the company explaining that it is legal and I have option to sign up or not. The consent form said the face amount of the policy will not exceed $7.5 mil.That does seem odd. What reason did they give for taking out the policy? You usually only see that with people who have ownership stakes or are the inventor of what they sell, something like that.I forgot what they call it. The part that I don't fully understand is they get to collect on the policy even if I leave the company. Do I need to worry?
http://insurancenewsnet.com/oarticle/2009/05/26/obama-tax-proposal-zooms-in-on-coli-policies--a-106472.html#.U7n4Z2t5mSM
Yes accidents do happen. And no one will ever punish that dad more than he will himself.
It is sickening... I haven't watched any coverage since I read about the kid being covered in scratches. This poor little kid, makes me so sad...
I don't think anyone around here buys any of his story - everyone is way past wanting a max sentence for him and onto figuring out what the wife's role and punishment should be.
Hang her too.
Has Nancy Grace not found these women yet?
Some of these quotes are so ridiculously insane that they seem fictional.The monster wife said this at the child's funeral:
I would think they would be able to build in some sort of sensor in the car to remind the driver there is something in the back seat. Perhaps a pressure sensor in the seat.
Given my boys are 13 & 11, I'm going out on a limb and say it won't happen to me.
How about the simple solution of a warning when the car is turned off. On my old truck, if you leave the lights on and open the door there is an audible tone signifying that the lights are still on. You simply incorporate that into car seats and connect to power of car. Instead of an audible alarm a simple, 'hey stupid ####, quit looking at your GD smartphone and take your kid our of the car seat' recording.
True. But realistically, no matter how tragic it is, there are only a very few cases (maybe 1 or 2 each year) where this happens, out of tens of billions of trips taken by parents with children each year. In the end, you can't make life totally safe.
Read a series of articles about the topic a couple years ago and the number of normal, seemingly caring people this has happened to scared the #### out of me. It has made me even more diligent and focused when it comes to my kids and the car.
This and the backing over tragedies. We are super paranoid about it and have checks and double checks. I worry more about my teens now making these kinds of mistakes with our toddlers around.
Great idea.
After it happened to one of their own the local NASA guys developed a device to do that.
I can't find the story where I read it, but that option was turned down by car corporations in fear of, you guessed it, lawsuits on malfunctioning devices.Edit: in their defense, by the sounds of these two animals, they would've deactivated the device and sued Hyundai. So I can understand their point.
I think they mention it because it's a possible reason a child could be forgotten in a car (I'm guessing it's been the reason given in many cases like this). And I don't know if it's common knowledge among childless folks that until about 2, babies/toddlers face backward and are (somewhat) invisible from the driver's seat.
The upside to my 3-year-old never shutting up is it is virtually impossible to forget he is back there. I need to remember to hug and thank him for being so chatty when I pick him up from daycare today!
I do it by accident--since his older sister programmed all the games on my phone our son immediately takes it when we're together.
What's odd to me is that you don't forget a 22 month old, especially since you just went to breakfast together 5 minutes ago. I could reason why someone could forget an infant ... but a 2 year old boy who's moving, chatting etc? Very suspicious.
When I was in high school, a friend of mine used to pick me up because to get a parking pass to park in the school's parking lot you had to carpool.
I have been driving down the road and all the sudden I am home and I couldn't really tell you how I got there. Mind going a million miles an hour about other things and just working on habit.
You can drop them off at any government building, nobquestions asked , not even your name. No reason to abandon a baby thst could be kidnapped and abused
