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29 Jul 2009, 10:29 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_ ... eft_in_cab



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29 Jul 2009, 11:14 am

I can imagine myself in a situation like that. Definitely as the driver. As for the Dad? I don't know, I don't have kids so I don't know, but I am pretty sure I would remember bringing my kid with me and to take him.



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29 Jul 2009, 12:10 pm

I'm just happy it was resoveld before the child was hurt. I've been frazzeled before but have never left a kid in a car, in the house yeah my older son didn't sleep at all for about 8 months as a young child and very little for a long time before and after that for years. I made it out to my car keys in hand before I realised Alex was still inside and I was still in my night gown... I skipped getting the milk and bread from the store and put in a movie for Alex and took a much needed nap. lol



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29 Jul 2009, 6:45 pm

Good article. With 39 years experience, the hack definitely should have been obeying the law and checked his van. It's part of his job (besides being the law). He's lucky he got away with a warning rather than a suspension.

I’m glad he wasn’t carrying some hoodlum who dropped his gun on the seat and then (without checking) the hack went and picked up a family with kids who decided to play with the “toy gun”.

The whole reason that law exists is so things like this don’t happen.


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29 Jul 2009, 6:58 pm

ViperaAspis wrote:
Good article. With 39 years experience, the hack definitely should have been obeying the law and checked his van. It's part of his job (besides being the law). He's lucky he got away with a warning rather than a suspension.


No! If anything, the parents should be ordered to meet with a social worker and to be supervised until they prove they are not going to leave their CHILD in a city cab, for God's sake.

It is not the world's job to parent children! It is the parents' job!



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29 Jul 2009, 7:09 pm

sg33 wrote:
ViperaAspis wrote:
Good article. With 39 years experience, the hack definitely should have been obeying the law and checked his van. It's part of his job (besides being the law). He's lucky he got away with a warning rather than a suspension.


No! If anything, the parents should be ordered to meet with a social worker and to be supervised until they prove they are not going to leave their CHILD in a city cab, for God's sake.


"No!" yourself. He must obey the law. That's why he got a warning and almost a license suspension. If there is negligence on the part of the parents, they should face charges too. The parents were not charged. Social workers have better things to do and people make mistakes. Sometimes big ones. Doesn't make 'em bad parents. Like the police said, I'm happy the baby was returned safely.


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30 Jul 2009, 1:25 am

Mistakes sometimes just happen. It's not like he deliberately didn't check - 99.9%+ of the time nothing happens.

The parents need to be a bit more careful in future IMO.