Interfering old biddy

[ailbhe]

Me again, I'm afraid.

We went to the supermarket yesterday (urgh) and bought fooooood. On the way in, through the car park, we saw two different cars, one parked in the shade, and one parked in the sun (that one had an open window). Both cars contained two screaming children, each, and no adults.

Linnea and Rob waited outside with the trike, because she wasn't interested in being well-behaved in a supermarket, and Emer and I went in. So I told the security guard inside, and he went out. I don't think he did anything but he may have watched to see whether the children had adults coming out from the shop. Rob said what he saw for each car was an adult coming out of the supermarket with shopping, getting into the car, and driving off - I couldn't see the cars from inside the supermarket so I didn't know until I'd gone back out to Rob.

So everyone was fine, but that sort of thing gives me the willies. I do feel like an interfering old bag, but I may never recover from the night I spent sitting up wondering what I'd tell those boys' mother because I didn't go out to them in the car before the man drove them away (they were found safe later on; he'd dumped them at their grandmother's address).

Comments

[gloriap.livejournal.com]

Your concern may have been justified. Every summer in Colorado's 100+ deg.F heat, a number of small children are "forgotten" in their carseat when their parent goes to work/drink/shop/hang out with friends, etc. These children die.

It's sad enough when it happens to a dog, but a CHILD? In hot weather it's worth a call to police.

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

In Perth the police will break into (and have broken in to) vehicles that have been left with children or pets inside. Can't remember now, but there were moves to make it illegal to leave either in a car for any length of time. It doesn't take long for a child or pet to die if left in a car in the summer in Perth.