Bless her heart! I think she is in need of some remedial gun safety and handling classes. I am available any time for some private lessons. I am sure she needs a LOT of training, too, so I will make myself available for a while.
Just a service to you all because, well, that’s what I do for my fellow freepers!
In all seriousness, it sounds like she was in a hurry, likely on the phone and simply forgot all about it. She had the thing for 2 hours before getting another vehicle, so it could have been that she was having car problems and was on the phone with the rental company and was in a hurry to get somewhere and forgot it was in there. That is a simple, albeit stupid, mistake. Granted, if it were MY $2000 tricked out AR, that would be the FIRST thing I would make sure was out of the car, but being a rich NFL QB’s wife, she probably has several tricked out firearms.
Hard to fault her too much, even though it was careless. She had it in a case, it wasn’t loaded and it was in the back seat, so she pretty much did everything right except take it out of the car.
IMHO, the rental company is more to blame than anyone else. Tells me they don’t do much in between rentals. Add to that the dumbass libtard NY princess losing her lunch at the mere sight of a firearm and the idiots AFTER Lauren left the rifle in the car, to me anyway, are more to blame for all of this than anyone else. Yes, precious little Snowflake was so traumatized by the sight of one of those “eeeevill” guns that mommy had to take a picture of it and call the press to help her get over it before taking it to the poeleese. Nevermind she says she saw the name tag on the case. I guess it never occurred to her to call the OWNER and tell them that she found the rifle.
Idiots.
“Idiots.”
Idiots with an Agenda is more to the point.
You also made a VERY good point about the Car Rental Agency. Evidently they did no turn around inspection before taking their car back into their possession. That’s lousy business practice in and of itself.