Friday, August 15, 2008

Deja vu of the worst kind

Didn't this happen a few weeks ago in Florida?
In Houston a woman drove to work at 6:30am and left at 3:30pm, only to find that her son is inside her truck unconscious. Turns out he had been dead for hours, which is not surprising given how quickly a closed car can heat up to well over 100 degrees in Houston fucking TEXAS! Apparently, "Cameron's mother was supposed to drop off her son at day care around 6am, before heading to work at the hospital, but forgot." Forgive the all-caps here, but HOW THE FUCK DO YOU FORGET TO DROP YOUR CHILD OFF AT DAY CARE?!? This is enraging! How are people so irresponsibly stupid?!?

I'm simply at a loss right now.

2 comments:

techcommdood said...

It's worse. There's the one you linked to, and if you follow the track back to previous articles, you find this one:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/17187553/detail.html

This kid was saved in time:

http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/26373789.html

As was this kid:

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3333733/

The US isn't the only country with negligent parents:

http://daily.iflove.com/world/2008-07/16/content_6852365.htm

Protective services should have kept the kids in this case:

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/19710414.html

I could go on and on, but it's making my own blood boil, and I'm in a cool office. I really feel horrible for kids with sack of shit parents. Hell, even on my normal commute to work I'm in the habit of doing a double-take in the back seat before locking the car.

Parenting isn't easy, but it's not difficult either. Some people are just too damned irresponsible to have kids, and cases like these should not be taken lightly.

Anonymous said...

it's hard. I want to be sympathetic because I can understand people getting busy and scatter brained and I can imagine she must be going through some serious shit right now after losing her child.

but...sometimes I just want to kick people in the head.

Did you read about that local 18-year-old who dropped her baby on the head and drove off drunk? She's the reason we need to incorporate public caning.