I need to contract this company to deal with the two entitlement cows who park in the fire line outside my building every day: Dallas Child Sleeps In Car As It Is Towed Away
I highly doubt it was "just a second"; the cows visiting my building take 5-10 minutes on an average day. It's a damn shame they arrested the tow truck driver for endangerment. That sends the message that the mother /wasn't/ endangering her child by leaving him in a car parked in a fire lane at night.
"It was a split second, just like that," she recalled. . . . parked her car in a fire lane while she ran upstairs to her apartment. She left her 7-year-old son . . . asleep in the backseat of the car. When [she] came back downstairs, her car and her son were both gone.
I highly doubt it was "just a second"; the cows visiting my building take 5-10 minutes on an average day. It's a damn shame they arrested the tow truck driver for endangerment. That sends the message that the mother /wasn't/ endangering her child by leaving him in a car parked in a fire lane at night.
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Surely it's more than "just a second"...
I don't know why the woman didn't park in a parking space since she was outside her own apartment building. She doesn't even have the weak excuse of "I don't live here".
As a kid, my parents regularly reminded us there was no reason for us to be left alone in the car. I remember that especially after news reports where parents left children in running cars for "just a minute" and a thief took the running car.
for being like five feet inside a bus zone.
not truly relevant, but it makes for a great story. i scared the shit out of the two truck driver when i popped up out of the folded down backseat/trunk . . .
How are bus zones marked there? The fire lanes in my neighborhood are marked with red curb paint so they're pretty hard to miss.
this tow truck driver should have been given some kind of verbal warning to check seats from now on but should never have been arrested/ lost his job.
don't get me started on the woman.
This morning there was a breaking news story about a woman who left two small children in a car on the side of the road after she ran out of gas. In the "about 15 minutes" she was not with her car, the police arrived. She wasn't arrested, but children's services was asked to investigate.
I would love to read the police report (if any) taken for the lady whose car was towed with her kid still in it, but I know from experience it won't yield much. I've ordered police reports from two local police departments; identifying details of most of the situation(s) and all parties are blacked out.
It's also pretty irresponsible of the tow-truck driver, but he came RIGHT BACK. I mean, given he made a mistake, he really couldn't have handled it better. He didn't endanger the kid at all, no more than any parents does when driving their kid around in a car, yes?
I am impressed that the truck driver turned around and took the car back. As another commenter said, if I was a tow truck driver I would have taken the car to the nearest police department.