OT: What Has The World Come To

[Atrocities]

The Following Is A Rant, Be Warned.


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What has the world come to when all the news channels have to report is that some guy left his two children in their locked mini-van to watch a movie while he went into Lowells to pick up some stuff?

Why is this news? We have all been left alone in the car while our parents ran into the store for something. Why now is this considered a "News Worthy" story?

Worse yet, why was the man cited and his kids placed into protective custody? He did nothing that has not been done before. It was not hot out, the kids were old enought to roll down the windows if need be, and all they were doing was minding their own business watching scooby doo.

Good god these ultra "protect you from your rights" fanatical lefties really need to step the hell back and seriously consider MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS!

And shame on the Channel 12 (Fox 12) for running the story as if it was major news. OMG how our news has degraded into TABLOID TV.

What do you say to people who report crap like this as news? I simply just cannot figure them out.

Now if he had left the car running or it was a hot day and no AC, then hell ya, bad man, but he didn't, and the children were 7 and 10.

*shakes head*

What has the world come to?
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[ April 02, 2004, 05:21: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

[Kamog]

Must have been a slow day for news.

[Atrocities]

They do this all the time. Someone was caught smoking the Clark County Court House a few weeks back and they ran that as a leading story.

Tablid Tv.

[DavidG]

WTF you can't leave 7 and 10 year old kids alone for a few mintues? When I was 10 we used to head off into the woods to play after lunch and not come back till dinner.

[tesco samoa]

AT it saves them from the real news...

Such as news about corperations and the enviroment.

When I was in the states i noticed it was a steady news of Poor people with guns, Black Males or Hispanics. Then these white people crimes such as locking the kids in a suv... Oh and beware killer bees or something like that.

I just thought that the media adjenda was to promote fear for the middle class.

I would rather see in the news Corporate Crime and decisions that affects thousands of people over some convenice store being held up.

But hey you cannot take some rich white haired white guy in his 50's and toss him around like a rag dog. ( just keeping in line with the sterotype) No one would watch... which would hurt product sales and hurt the corperation that is presenting the news.

[Sniper]

I should probably make myself scarce then, being one of those left wing types! lol

Seriously though, a slow media day is common here in England espc in the smaller counties (like were I live) and all kinds of social commentary gets put up without a hint of irony.

I dont have kids so I couldnt say wether I'd leave them alone in a car, my dad used ot leave me in the car alone all the time...on the other hand he was one of the worst parents ever, yet it is a fairly common practise... Jail terms and the like shouldnt be political currency.

[Yef]

I don't remember ever being left alone, but then, I come from a very large family, with 7 brothers, 3 sisters and 67 cousins out of my 5 uncles, and I am the youngest, so there was always a lot of older family members around me.

The point is that I don't know if what that guy did was justified or not, but it was definitively something that I will not do the day I have kids.
He should have left his kids with his family.

[Wardad]

In Arizona it is illegal to leave a DOG or Child alone in the car.
Of course, this makes some common sense in a HOT desert.
BUT... I do not know if the law is written in a common sense way.

My brother was visiting and one cool night we decided to run to the store. The dog jumped into the car with us, and since he liked the dog, we brought him along.
We shopped quickly and headed back to the car. Standing by the car were two ladies, and one of then was on the cell phone talking to the police! The other one started to scold us, and said "Do you know it can get above 140f degrees in that car in minutes?"
I rolled my eyes, looked at the sky, and said " I don't see how, it is night time, the sun is not going to heat up the car.
She gave me a blank stare, and started up talking again...
I said "Let me introduce my brother, the High School science teacher, I'm sure he can explain it to you."
The other one told the ploce never mind and hung up the phone.
We exchanged a few curtious words and left.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Where are involved the left fanatics in there ?
Did the news said they were ?

I don't get it.
Has it anything to do with the Patriot law (whatever name) squeezing away some freedom of yours ? I though the Patriot thing was a Bush creation ?

[geoschmo]

I'm pretty sure the Patriot Act doesn't cover leaving your kids in the parking lot of the home improvment store watching Dvd's.

Unless maybe they are watching "Bowling for Columbine" or something. There might be a clause buried in there for that.