Parents... Please Please..don't leave your kids in the car while "you just run into the store"

[SoCalDem]

just for a minute..

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Had this mother had her baby with her, she would have NEVER confronted the carjackers, and that little 4 month old baby would have its mother..

Who knows? Has they seen her with a baby, perhaps they would not have even tried to take her car..

and all to pay a stupid cell phone bill :grr:.. I hope they catch those bums..

[AspenRose]

1. How sad

And it scares me to death....there's a trend of thugs targeting mothers with small children in parking lots, it seems

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Or they might have taken her car but she wouldn't have needed to confront them.

If someone wants my car bad enough, they can have it.

[SoCalDem]

3. amen.. I'll give 'em gas money too..just don't hurt me or my kids

To show you how paranoid I used to be..

we lived WAAAAY out of town on a spooky little road..in a house all by itself..

I went so far as to pin a note to the bulletin board in the kitchen, in case we were ever robbed..

It said.. Please do not let the cat out..Take all you want, but don;t let my kitty out..

My husband finally made me take it down.. :rofl:

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. I always say that my dogs and cat are the most valuable things in my home.

It's probably true anyway, since practically everything here is at least 10 years old.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

5. I remember

When a woman left her son in the back seat of her SUV, she left her keys in the car in front of a donut shop with the car running while she ran in to buy a snack. A man came along and started to steal the car - the mother ran and got the boy part way out of the car but he was hung up in his seat belt and the man kept driving - the little boy was dragged to death. It was so horrific and so terrible I will never forget it. I think it happened around 2000? Anyway - it stuck in my head.

I am pretty paranoid about kids in cars or even around cars. I have a 7 and an 8 year old and have never left them in a car....

I can't imagine how horrible everyone involved in the above OP's story must feel... (except for the criminals) And yes, I hope they are found and locked up soon.