It happens with alarming frequency: A parent or day-care worker, often busy or distracted, leaves a helpless child in a vehicle with the windows rolled up, and the youngster dies in the heat.Once again, they suggest leaving something 'important' in the back seat so you'll remember to take your child. What could possibly be more important than your child? A cell phone? A purse?So far this year, at least 36 children in the United States have died under similar circumstances.
Once again, Bill Maher (showing what a classy guy he is) misses the mark entirely. In the tragic death of an 8 month old boy last week, he finds a chance to needle SUV owners. SUV's seem to be the pet cause of his sugar-momma, Ariana Huffington. He has not been relevant or funny for some time, but this is low - even for him.
Posted by Vox at August 26, 2003 12:53 PM | generalI suspect the real cause is air bags. I have noticed a significant increase in these reports since the danger of putting infants in the front seat has been discovered.
If the kid is in the back, sleeping in a car seat, someone could easily forget. Yes, even their kid. Not often, but it doesn't take often to make the news!
John
Posted by: John Moore (Useful Fools) at August 30, 2003 10:16 PM