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many are not wrong, per se

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of heat for the mom. When I was a kid it was perfectly safe to leave kids or a baby in the car to for a quick store run. Would also walk to the store alone in elementary school at age 5. In safer countries women leave babies in strollers on the front steps to put their groceries in. Those countries are disappearing and those times are gone. She apparently thought Georgetown and its million dollar realty prices were safe.

I’m 45 years old and grew up in upstate NY, and it was never acceptable to leave a 4 month old unattended in a running vehicle while you go shop for perfume.

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Even if you thought it was okay to leave a kid in the car while you picked up dry cleaning, no one was leaving their baby in a running car while they went shopping.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

This.

A child or car or any thing should be able to exist without fearing that it will be taken. That does not mean parents should leave kids unattended. But when a car with a baby in it is stolen…. It is the thieves fault. Not the parents.

Would I personally want to risk this? No. And yet, have I left my five year old in the car to go grab a prescription when they were sick? 100%.

The type of errand does not change the morality of anyone involved.

Anonymous wrote:I hate it here.

I do too. I have been here almost all of my adult life, decades. I thought some floor would be put in the situation.

I just saw DC is now #2 city for stolen cars (separate from carjackings).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

This is different, tho, because the car was seemingly left unlocked and running.

Just too tempting for those joyriding youths.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

heartwarming? kidnapping an infant and then abandoning it outside?

They stole a car. I sincerely doubt they knew the baby was there.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

This is different, tho, because the car was seemingly left unlocked and running.

I hate it here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

It's a rollercoaster of a story. They did do the right thing. Still feel horrified by the mom. some witnesses commented that she took her time smelling all the candles at La Labo, ran out clutching one when she saw her car was gone, and then came back in to talk to the Police there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

heartwarming? kidnapping an infant and then abandoning it outside?

Anonymous wrote:Thought exercise: if you had just stolen a vehicle, and wanted to leave a baby safely somewhere without getting caught, what would you do? Where?

"Within about an hour, an unknown person dropped the child off at a house in the 1500 block of 28th Street SE, the police said."

Anonymous wrote:This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

This is a really heartwarming turn of events. They did the right thing.

This is wild. Sounds like they knocked on the door and left the baby on the porch.

Glad it ended well. Wonder if the car will be torched on the PG border.

Anonymous wrote:I’ll say it. I left my child in the car when she was a baby to run into the dry cleaners or other similarly-quick things. The car was always off and locked. It wasn’t smart, but parents of young kids get desperate sometimes.

This is a bit less sympathetic in that it was a perfume store, not mom picking up dry cleaning she needs for work. But still.

I don’t get it at all. I have three young children and have never felt the need to do this. Also if anything a four month old is EASIER- just pick up the bucket seat and take it in the store with you.