living with the loaded gun

[the_siobhan]

Last post of the day. I swear.

This kind of shit drives me bug-fuck. It was not a fucking accident. Nobody accidentally leaves their young children in a running vehicle and then fucks off to run errands.

I feel the same way about stories of drunk driving "accidents". Nobody accidentally makes the decision to drive a car to a location where they know they are likely to be drinking. Or accidentally has those drinks when they know that the car parked outside is their only way home.

Makes me want to "accidentally" plant my boot in somebody's ass.

Comments

[machineplay.livejournal.com]

No one could imagine it? I remember a lot of stories about kids doing just that. Who leaves their kids alone that long? Long enough for one child to wake up, one to fall asleep, the first child to nearly kill herself, a stranger to come get her out and run for help, and then the mother to come back out. How long was that? 15 minutes? Longer? This is as far from a tragedy as you can get. It's neglect causing death.

[ravensee.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to imagine the feelings in that mom right now.

[digital-space.livejournal.com]

What the Hell was wrong with that woman! Fuck!

[mathochist.livejournal.com]

Isn't it illegal there to leave kids alone in a running car?
It is here.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Yes. No idea why she wasn't charged.

[sharkskitten.livejournal.com]

Even worse: the brother is either going to grow up blaming himself because he unbuckled her...or someone else will. Displacing the blame will be easier than blaming the adult.

i'll help you do some stomping. Rightly pisses me off. i mean, kids in those age range hardly slow you down when you're doing errands. It's not like she had two in a stroller!

[planktonnn.livejournal.com]

"Makes me want to "accidentally" plant my boot in somebody's ass"

Get the lube out, I'll be round in 10 ...

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[http://users.livejournal.com/cincinnatus_c_/]

Makes me want to "accidentally" plant my boot in somebody's ass.

Well, to be fair, I think that would be "makes me want to plant my boot in somebody's ass, with the possibility that in so doing I would accidentally rupture that person's internal organs in such a way as to cause that person to die."

[planktonnn.livejournal.com]

"makes me want to plant my boot in somebody's ass, with the possibility that in so doing I would accidentally rupture that person's internal organs in such a way as to cause that person to die."

Get the lube out, I'll be round in 10 ...

d

[freefloat.livejournal.com]

What happened, exactly?

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Mother leaves kids in running van while going to "run errands".

6 year-old boy unbuckles 2 year-old girl from car seat. They play for a few minutes. He falls asleep.

2 year-old girl climbs up on door and presses the electric window control. Gets her head trapped in the window. Loses consciousness.

Passerby sees her, frees her from the window and runs to find a phone and call 911.

Mother returns, assumes girl is asleep and buckles her back into carseat. Drives home. Realized when she takes children out of the car that she's not breathing.

Child is pronounced dead upon arrival to hospital.

I think the mother should have been charged with criminal negligence.

[freefloat.livejournal.com]

I agree. That's just stupid.

Aren't children taken away from their parents for being left unattended like that??

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Normally yes. Parents have lost custody (at the very least on a temporary basis) after leaving kids alone where there was no injury or death involved.

It seems like a pretty clear-cut case to me. I'm not sure why this mother wasn't charged.