Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Of course...you can't blame the *parents*... <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_child_left_in_cab" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...t_in_cab</a>
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney I saw that, and as a parent I would never do this. But it is interesting that the cabbie takes the fall, not the parents. How do you leave your child behind???? How do you not realize they are missing????
Originally Posted By RockyMtnMinnie I saw this, this morning and it is insane! Why is the cabby responsible and the parents are not charged with anything???? If I left my purse or camera in the cab, I would blame myself, not the cab driver. I could see that happening. But I could never see the day that I would leave my son in the cab... on accident. OK, I'm really just kidding there.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I almost forgot my daughter once on a table...she was newborn and I found my keys and just started out of the house, until someone said, "Hey, what about the baby?" I wasn't getting much sleep around that time.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 They wanted to revoke his license for not checking his van after dropping the passengers off. What about reprimanding the parents for not checking they had everything before paying the taxi drivers?
Originally Posted By Ursula You know, normally I would ask for the parents to be shot. But having watched an interview of a parent who accidentally left a child in a car on a hot day (and the child passed away), I can honestly say that mistakes happen. It isn't the cabbies fault, but the parents. But, the parents shouldn't be chastised for long. Parents with kids and even newborns have little sleep, and they tend to get into grooves. In the case of the interview I watched, the lady usually didn't drive her child to daycare. On this day, there was an issue so she put the kid in her, intending to go to daycare, and instead, drove to work like she usually does, and started her day. As awful as it sounds, I can totally see this happening. How many times have any of us driven home from work and found ourselves not recalling the last three stop lights? It is a form of auto-pilot. I'm sure with the parents in this thread, they probably got back from a trip, were exhausted, and were in the mode of "get home, get inside."
Originally Posted By Mr X ***You know, normally I would ask for the parents to be shot.*** Geez, what's with you and wanting to shoot everyone!?
Originally Posted By Ursula I'm just doing my gun-toting Sarah Palin impression. (And guess what I think of her? Yes, she should be ...)
Originally Posted By beamerdog Dear Moderator, Remember Ursula, that fun-loving, full of great quips, clever, and (may I say) gun-toting lper? She comments in Community and presto-chango you fling her off to WE. Take a moment. Take a breath. Let it be. Please do not port this thread to WE, or worse Play Pen. With great respect, beamerdog
Originally Posted By Mr X I dunno...this smells like a WE topic to me. (ya'll didn't realize I'm secretly a moderator who enjoys messin with the minds of the Community folk, did ya?)
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Shoosh, all of you...I will not have my rare "serious 5BR" threads be put in that godforsaken place!
Originally Posted By Mr X Actually, if I *was* a mod, I would shuffle conversations back and forth between Community and WE depending on the level of discourse. I think it's a shame that some very important and relevant topics are automatically shunted to WE where many folks refuse to tread (topics that could be discussed very civilly in Community if given the chance). But, it ain't my website.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin I'm so anti firearms that I must object to this wanton shoot-em up attitude that has prevailed around LP recently. It hurts me to think that so many LP could just carelessly talk about shooting people. Ropes are a lot less messy and leave a reminder to others who might forget a child.
Originally Posted By Disneydanny if a parent can be this crazy they obviously are not fit to have children. what do they thiink the cabbie is.A babysitter???
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>what do they thiink the cabbie is.A babysitter???<< Not at 40ยข a mile or portion thereof.
Originally Posted By lynne30 Although I can see this happening if the parents were very fatigued to blame the cab driver is ridiculous. The responsibility lies with the parents.The cab driver wasnt hired as a babysitter.
