Babies Alone in the Car!!!!!

I honestly would have called the cops on her and taken down her license plate number in the event the cops did not get there before she came out to the car. Don't these people read these horror stories of babies left in cars dying from the heat or carjackings and/or god knows what else!!

Well in my opinion that was just a lazy piece of pooh. Why in gods name would anyone put a child in danger that way? Like you said anything could have happened.

welll ... hmmmm,.,, maybe ,, she made a splash and dash to the gas station... n maybe . .. she locked the car properly n maybe ... she . didnt think ... anything can happen to her children as there were many people ... n maybe ... soo there are loads of probalilties ... u cant make a judgement without having all the info :)

People are basically naive I think. They think nothing bad will never happen to them or their children. Unfortunately, sometimes they need a tragic wake up call first. Next time call the police, maybe if they give the parents a good talking to, they might think twice the next time.

I find that grossly irresponsible. I have heard of babies dying in a car because they were left all alone by their parents who didn't think any better. I don't even leave my 5 & 2 year old daughters sleeping by themselves, if I could help it. LIke you, i just dont understand how some parents could be so careless.

I have a response that is not going to be popular but I will give it anyway because to many kids die because of stupid parents. Also I have it from law enforcement what I am about to suggest is legal and encouraged. If you have a cell phone call the police right away or if you do not have imediate access to a phone take down the license plate, time of day and how long you saw the children alone for and report it to the police or child protective services. Exsecially in places like Arizona. I have spent some time there and it does not take long to be over taken by heat even on a milder day. there is a reason they tell you to always have a water bottle with you. If you see something that you know is wrong you can speak up and do something about it. No one ever has to know it was you. There are to many drive throughs out there to say I had to run in to the gas station to justify leaving your kida alone in a car.

It was a good thing you were there. That 'lady' probably saw that you were looking at the van and decided to get out there right away, realizing that she had done something wrong in leaving the babies alone. But she wanted to show that she really did not care, that she had done wrong, because that guilt that she had was buried so deep in her heart that she refused to show it. Wait until she gets home, and starts thinking, then she will realize that you could have had evil designs on her babies, that the temperature might suddenly go up, that she may have had to wait in line for her purchase or to pay her gas, and her babies might be no more. I do not understand parents not acting as parents, especially when there are so many wanting to be, who cannot.

i dont know how did she do that coz i cant leave my two kids alone... its so shocking...really

I would have been up in this woman's face, and she wouldn't have been able to ignore me. I've witnessed parents leaving their kids alone in cars and isolated areas a few times, and each time I've felt obligated to say something. Once I was at a restroom area at a public park with my son. We were sitting on the benches outside the washroom areas enjoying a soda. A woman walked up with her baby in the stroller, left her baby outside the washroom and went inside to use the facilities! There was a handicapped washroom right there, so there's no reason she couldn't have taken the child in with her. The baby was only about 5 months old. Of course, I felt obligated to stand there and wait until she'd come back out. She was in there for 5 minutes! And then I told her that she needed to be more careful with her child, that if I had wanted to, I could have simply walked away with her baby and loaded the child into my car and she never would have seen him again. The woman looked absolutely shocked, like she'd never considered the possibility that anything bad could happen. Another time was at a Tim Hortons coffee shop near the US/Canada border. I pulled up and got out and noticed a child (of maybe 1 or 2 years) sleeping in only a pair of shorts in the back seat of the car next to me. It was pretty cold outside, so I have no idea why the kid was only wearing shorts. There was no adult present in the vehicle. I waited a few minutes, then told my husband to wait by the car and keep an eye on it while I went inside. I asked around and found the father sitting alone at a table eating lunch! When I told him how I felt about the child being alone in the car, the guy actually had the nerve to smirk at me and act like I was making a big deal out of nothing. I was furious. I don't think you should be afraid to say something when you think somebody is doing something wrong. Every time we say nothing, we silently give permission to people to act a certain way. I think if you'd gotten in her face and let her know that what she did was inappropriate and dangerous, she might have thought twice next time she just wanted to run in for a quick shop.

Well personally I think that no matter the weather this should be a crime of neglect. The only reason people leave their kids in the car is they are too damned lazy to get them in and out of it for a few minute trip into a store. Now if her kids had been gone when she came back, she'd have been screaming bloody murder and blaming everyone but herself. Too many bad things can happen. Kids are killed, die or are abducted way too often out of a car. I wish the laws were more stringent, so an onlooker could call the police and have the (cough) 'woman' charged. I feel the same way about pets, but at least a pet can run or bite to protect itself from abduction though it is helpless against the heat or cold. A child is strapped in (hopefully) and helpless. I'd like to strap such people into a seat in a car and leave them for a day or three to teach them a lesson, preferably on a nice hot day. Unfortunately it doesn't take brains to have babies, only working 'equipment'. These people, imho, do not qualify as parents, they are only progenitors. I often took my nephew with me to town when he was young, yes it took ten times as long to unload him and then load him back into the car for a two second trip into a store, but I was not about to leave him in a car alone.

wow i dont know why some people do that. It may be they to lazy to take them or or to much in a hurry and think it easeir to leave them in the van. Was it running? was the air on did they have the door lock?

looks like she is not worry if somebody took her babys.

That kind of thing makes me mad ! ! Babies can't fend for themselves. That is something I could never do because you never know whats gonna happen, there are some weird people out there and theres that possibility that someone can take your kid or kids. ARRGGGHHHH Some people . . .

i dontknow what i would have done i probally wouldnt confront her,i know you didnt either,maybe i would have called 911 and got the license plate number because she would probally be gone before police arrived or maybe give her license to a news channel,i also live in arizona and leaving your kids in the car is just wrong but you know how they cover stories like that on the news there they probally would have tracked the mother down and confronted her on camera and would have gotten police in charge(who knows)anyways waht part of az do you live? ive lived in az 19 years now,it just sucks,its fall but you wouldnt know it here. i lived in bullhead city now mesa.

and the other day i heard on the news as well a parent from Australia drove a car with his children init and drowned them he went to jail for that how can someone do that to there children that is cruel children are so important

Another thing that parents don't think about - what if something were to happen to them when the kids are alone. They think they are running in to do a quick errand (like 3 minutes) but what if they had a heart attack inside the store, or a stroke, knocked unconscious, or if they were abducted? No one would know there were kids in the car...