dad?

Why can't one of my fellow Tennesseans ever make Fark for doing something intelligent?

/sigh

You knew it was Wal-Mart before you even clicked, didn't you?

The link is not going to the story. Any other farkers having this issue?

mmagdalene: You knew it was Wal-Mart before you even clicked, didn't you?

Isn't everything either a Wal-Mart or associated with Wal-Mart these days?

http://www.wsmv.com/news/14978488/detail.html

There you go. It's that extra backslash on the end that's screwing it up.

Is it even that cold in Tennessee?

I'm bored. I'm going to Wal*Mart.

But they found a skull too!

Randal2477: associated with Wal-Mart

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Wal-Mart associate. :)

Bek: Is it even that cold in Tennessee?

RTFA (in the link TripcodeMel provided).

It got down to 27 degrees.

While I don't like being watched all the time, I think this is a good argument for why we need complete camera coverage.

If you're against the so-called "nanny-state", you seem to also be
against the safety of children.

I'm against the safety of children.

27 degrees? They were INSIDE a car. BFD!

/Nanny State

I Said: The link is not going to the story. Any other farkers having this issue?

Subby foolishly left an extra slashy at the end of the link.
That's better. (new window)

//an extra slashy!

Maybe he was just participating in the "No Child Left Alive" act.

Did he think the surveillance cameras were going to stop anything bad from happening to his kids?

I Said: The link is not going to the story. Any other farkers having this issue?

Apparently the proper link got left in the car.


/It's too bad there isn't some sort of method for previewing your FARK links to make sure that they work . . . .

When I was 6 and visiting family up in Connecticut for Christmas, my grandmother left me in the car while she went shopping because I had a cold and she didn't want to drag me through the store. There was a foot of snow on the ground and she left me in the car for almost an hour.

No, I didn't cry at her funeral 10 years ago. I won't cry at my parent's funerals either. :bird:

mmagdalene: Randal2477: associated with Wal-Mart

I am not now, nor have I ever been a Wal-Mart associate. :)

I see what you did there.

/It's too bad there isn't some sort of method for previewing your FARK links to make sure that they work . . . .

Many of those local news websites operate like Blogs, so when a new story is posted on the main page the older stories get bumped down and can only be accessed thru their own permalinks. It's a common mistake, but nothing to freak out about, unless you're on FARK.

My parents left me in the car during a picnic once. (I was getting over the mumps and the hostess decided she didn't want to risk me infecting anyone.) Yep, three hours sitting in the car alone, in June, under the sun.......

Oh nos, left in the frigid bone numbing cold of Tennessee. I don't even put on pants till it hits the teens, give me a break. If the kids were dressed like normal people(IE: long pants and socks and a coat), then why is this a big deal?

Noone wants to cart some whining sniveling begging piece of shiat along in the store. Maybe if the little farkers behaved once in a while, they would have gotten to go in.

pestluvr: Bek: Is it even that cold in Tennessee?

RTFA (in the link TripcodeMel provided).

It got down to 27 degrees.

Which is positively frigid for Tennessee. The whining starts at 40 and gets progressively louder the colder it gets.

/Used to live there
//Glad to be back in Indiana

come back till u c ur son is a farking icecube.

27 degrees? Pfft.

/Uncle lives in Fairbanks

neongoats: Noone wants to cart some whining sniveling begging piece of shiat along in the store.

Just because your mom didn't...

I know that area. The kids were safer in the car than in the Wal Mart.

That's a new one on me: The Big Brother is Watching the Baby defence. Not clear on the concept of Nanny State is they?

mmagdalene: neongoats: Noone wants to cart some whining sniveling begging piece of shiat along in the store.

Just because your mom didn't...

Hey I always got to go in, specifically because I wasn't a whining, sniveling, begging piece of shiat.

It helps to have a dog in the car. Somebody will call the Humane Society.

neongoats: mmagdalene: neongoats: Noone wants to cart some whining sniveling begging piece of shiat along in the store.

Just because your mom didn't...

Hey I always got to go in, specifically because I wasn't a whining, sniveling, begging piece of shiat.

What happened? ;)

skwerl: There was a foot of snow on the ground and she left me in the car for almost an hour.

When I was a kid, we got left in the car regularly while our mom did her Commissary shopping...at about 90F OUTSIDE the car. We were hunkered down on the floorboards so the MPs wouldn't see us and get our mom in trouble.

Don't cry to me. My kids are outside playing at a balmy -7F right now. In the dark. With flashlights and sleds. Even the 2yo can handle this weather, 27F is farking balmy.

/Interior Alaska, FTW

The biggest danger to those kids was if they'd had access to the keys, or been able to put the car in neutral and roll it away accidentally.

he felt his children were safe because of surveillance cameras on the parking lot

Surveillance cameras don't make us safe? Someone should tell the brits.

mmagdalene: neongoats: mmagdalene: neongoats: Noone wants to cart some whining sniveling begging piece of shiat along in the store.

Just because your mom didn't...

Hey I always got to go in, specifically because I wasn't a whining, sniveling, begging piece of shiat.

What happened? ;)

Adulthood in America, can turn even the best natured of us bitter =p

I thought it was only HOT CARS that you couldn't lock your kids up in.

/dang

Nanny state rocks. Put those folks away for life.

/was left in the car regularly starting at age 5-6. Probably because I was able to comprehend what "stay in the car, keep the doors locked. Do not get out until we get back or I will kick your ass. And, if anything happens lay into the horn and scream your head off." meant.

//also understands that nanny state doesn't understand the value ass kickings today, much less asking permission to leave the table after dinner. So I'll be expecting those folks to lose their kids for life.

This is a public service announcement. The video surveillance cameras installed on private property are NOT FOR YOU. They're for the people that own the place. Do not assume they can help you find a lost wallet or babysit your kid. They may not even be real.

Ugh, I need to get my eyes checked, I read that as "kids left in cold war while parent shops".

Uh, being left in a car on a hot day is one thing. Being left in a car in the winter is better than having to get out of the car.

Boo farkin hoo.

My dad used to leave me in the car while he and his fishing buddies went the the pub. It's not quite as bad or as traumatic as everyone makes it out to be.

Around the corner and down the street from where I'm stationed. W00t!

Not surprising. Millington has 500 farking barbecue restaraunts and no bookstores.

so you can't leave your kids in the car on a hot day, you can't leave them unattended in the car when it's cold? just when is it "ok" for me to leave my kids alone unattended?

I bet the kids would sit there until they froze to death.
They would not open the truck door and get out to move around.
And how many days would they survive in the wind-sheltered interior of the truck?
The offspring does not have any survival instincts any more.
It must be the intelligent design taking over evolution.

Maybe the guy should have left the car running so the kids would have been CO-choked before they died...

My mom left us in the car all the damn time. For hours. Cold, hot, didn't matter. If it was cold we usually had a blanket to hide under so passerby wouldn't call the cops on unattended children.
When I was 2 1/2 year old and I managed to pop the car into gear and roll off an embankment into a golf course. That still didn't change her attentive, mothering ways.

Dad would do the same thing, but leave us unattended in bowling alleys while he went to the bar next door to play pull tabs. Three white, blonde, blue-eyed girls under ten years of age all alone in a skeezy bowling alley. What could possibly go wrong?

You can't leave your kids in the car for hours at a time when it's hot.

You can't leave your kids in the car for hours at a time when it's cold.

What's next, you can't abandon your kids when it's room temperature either?

Ladies and gentlemen, your fascist liberal police nanny state logic at work.

PocoFark: I know that area. The kids were safer in the car than in the Wal Mart.

THIS

Bek: Is it even that cold in Tennessee?

RTFA (in the link TripcodeMel provided).

It got down to 27 degrees.

It was 14 here two days ago.