• @rigamarole
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    -33 months ago

    Why leave the kid in the car at all? My kids go inside with me if the wife isn’t there wanting to stay in the car. Doesn’t matter if I’m going in a store for 2 minutes.

    The crazy thing is that the news here in the Midwest tells people each year to put something important, like their phone, in the car seat to remember the kid.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      103 months ago

      Nobody INTENDS to leave their kid in the car to die.

      Fatal Distraction is a Pulitzer Prize winning article that examines how the mind works and why this sort of incident keeps happening over and over again.

    • @lmaydev
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      53 months ago

      It’s usually they haven’t slept for days and the kid is asleep in the back.

      I saw one where they drove past their kids school and went to work.

      No one plans to do this. It’s not hugely common but it does happen.

      I was left at the supermarket once. These things happen. But sometimes the consequences are just much bigger.