“He left his granddaughter out there? Wow...”
What a low life. Cartoon was spot on,,, but that’s disgusting to flee and leave his granddaughter out there with him.
Lauren B wrote: "Anyone with an ounce of integrity would have risked life and limb to ensure the safety of a (any) child. But no, he lives in a house with a panic room and thinks of himself first." Initally I had the same reaction as above when reading that Westergaard did not have time to collect the child from the living room, but then I actually used my brain and thought, "wait a minute - I wasn't there!" Maybe this man was just seconds away from being bludgeoned to death when he realised that he could not possibly get past the much younger, much stronger axe-weilding maniac to get to the child. Maybe she was on the other side of the house and maybe he knew that he had no chance of being a hero and maybe he thought that she would hear the commotion and, being a tiny child, she could hide which would give her a better chance of survival than if he drew the maniac's attention to the fact that she was in the house. And maybe he didn't think it would be good for the child to witness her grandfather being hacked to death before her eyes. So maybe we should suspend judgment until we are in the exact same situation?
To which I would say "I can quite categorically state that if I had found myself in the same position and did what he did, I would quite rightly be deeply ashamed of myself and would remain so until the end of my days".