We just touched on one father’s effort to raise awareness about never leaving your children in a hot car, and it sounds like the message is coming across — at least to passersby if not parents. So when shoppers noticed a car sitting in the parking lot with the windows up on a hot day, they took action.
According to a news report from KHOU 11, shoppers in a parking lot in Katy, Texas yesterday afternoon noticed that a small boy and girl were inside a hot Jeep with the windows rolled up, on a day with temperatures above 90 degrees.
One shop owner in the strip center stepped outside when he heard the kids and shot video of the subsequent rescue.
“The kids were in there crying,” he said. “I mean you would understand. It’s real hot.”
He says one man even used a hammer to shatter the car’s windows, but even then it was hard to get the doors open because of the child lock.
The children were eventually freed, with no apparent harm done to them. But the mom — who reportedly said she had left the kids there “temporarily” so she could get a haircut — pleaded with onlookers and asked them not to call the police calling it a “terrible mistake,” so no one did.
Again, while it’s unclear how long those kids were sitting inside, it doesn’t matter. No time stuck in hot cars for kids is safe. None at all. And if you do, you’re lucky if the worst thing that happens is a couple of smashed windows.
Shoppers smash window to save 2 kids in hot car [KHOU 11]
by Mary Beth Quirk via Consumerist
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