Posted on 08/29/2016 12:04:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 25-year-old man is expected to face charges after he left two young children in a car while he gambled at Detroit’s Motor City Casino.
Detroit police were called to the parking garage at 11:25 a.m. Monday on a report of kids left unattended in a vehicle.
According to police, a concerned citizen broke into the car and rescued the two boys, who are 5 months and 2 years old.
Police said the children seemed to be physically OK and were turned over to casino security before police arrived. It’s not known at this time how long they were in the car. The father, police said, was later located on the casino floor.
Investigating officers remained on the scene after noon, with Child Protective Services and the police department’s child abuse units called to assist.
It was not immediately clear if the kids would be handed over to their mother or where she was at the time of the incident.
Any possible charges against the father are pending. His name was not released.
“IN a parking garage” suggests this was not a car parked in the sun. I wonder why it was necessary to break into the car. Can a five year old not unlock a door.
I think calling authorities may have been more prudent, assuming my inferences above are correct.
I think it reads a 2-year old and a 5-month old
Sorry, my bad about the ages. Still, if it was a covered parking garage, I’d have gotten in touch with security rather than broken into the car. If it was in a sun-drenched parking lot, well, seconds matter.
If you are on the top floor of the parking garage, there is definitely sun. And if the heat is enough, it doesn’t have to be in the sun.
“Can a five year old not unlock a door.”
Story says it was a 2 year old and a 5 month old, so no I don’t think either was capable of getting out if they needed to.
Remember the ‘don’t tailgate, show dogs on board’ signs dog owners put on their rear windows? These morphed into ‘baby on board’ signs, which became comically ubiquitous. So much so, that some TV comedian went around busting out the windows of parked cars which had the sign up but no child aboard. He was ‘saving those babies.’ LOL
Yeah, I”m such a binary thinker, I see the word “IN”, and apply it more literally than maybe I should...
Ha! I remember that!
I also remember people getting busted in HOV lanes because they thought the sticker would make cops think there was a kid in a car seat.
Related: I was pulled over in the hov lane once when I DID have a child in a car seat. I’ve always hated hov lanes. But I live in Kentucky now, where there is no such thing. :)
Those signs were there to alert first responders when the parent was not able to do the job. Just in case.
In California, a pregnant woman was ticketed for driving in the HOV lane. She fought the ticket successfully claiming that her fetus qualified as a passenger.
And Wiki says ...
While some believe it’s to alert emergency vehicles, and it might also help with that, that was not the intended purpose.
Only if the fetus is in its last trimester.
Never understood the “baby on board” signs. As if that’s going to prevent someone from crashing into them. I’d buy one if it said dust bunnies or old french fries on board.
Some of the parody signs were...
Mother-in-law in trunk
Baby I’m Bored
Baby carries no cash
Then there’s this ...
Baby on board stickers ‘cause one in 20 accidents’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9599881/Baby-on-board-stickers-cause-one-in-20-accidents.html
The Samaritan was probably so pissed off at the irresponsibility of the parent that he thought a broken window would be the least he could do to dish out a little street justice.
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