Parenting is hard, and I don't want to have to do it!

I find it interesting that feckingmorons will try to force women to give birth if they get pregnant, but he sees no crime in abandoning a child.

I'm no supporter of eye-for-an-eye justice but sometimes I'd like to see these folks left in their car for awhile...

/Not proud of myself for thinking that way but there we are.

Uncle Darwin missed this time, but he'll get them next time.

I work in retail. sometimes I wish people would leave their precious little snowflakes in the car to melt.

/Why am I in this hand-basket?
//Is it hot in here?

Lorelle: GAT_00: I find it interesting that feckingmorons will try to force women to give birth if they get pregnant, but he sees no crime in abandoning a child.

Human life is only important when it's in the fetal stage, don'tchaknow??

Preborn, you're good. Preschool, you're farked.

Potentially three less children to fark up somebody's dinner out.

Every time stories like this get posted to Fark, I am immediately reminded of the quote from Parenthood: "You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive a car - hell, you even need a license to catch a fish. But they'll let any butt-reaming asshole be a father."

In this case, switch out father for mother.

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How come the article has tomorrow's date on it?

Why doesn't it have the date and time of the incident?

What was the temperature when this happened?

Who called the cops?

Journalism is dead. Or maybe just absent from the internet.

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Hee in Texas it is against the law to leave any child < 15 years old in the car, unattended, for more than 5 minutes. No "proof" that "harm occurred" necessary.

I'll be the first to say that "news" rarely gets the story right (no fact checking or follow up; rush to scoop; presenting a non-story, etc), so take this story with a bolder of salt.



If, for some reason, ths story is mostly complete and true, this mom will soon have lots more time to shop, work, lounge about the house and go clubbin' to her heart's content, without having to deal with those little burdens...

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Ahhh! Allison Pill has 3 kids!?

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Ah yes, the new Donna.

"the 3 year-old is a handful and it's just easier to leave them in the car"



"You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point."

Or, to put a finer point on it, it's just easier to dump them in a ditch.

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Plucked and farked?
check.
Defiant glare?
check.
Porcine snout?
Check.
Shouldn't be breeding?
Check.
Shiatty tats?
Left to be seen.
White trash?
Definitely.
Fine her harshly and how her this thread..

I've seen this happen twice when I was stationed in Texas. 100+ degree temp, kids locked in the car in direct sun while the Parents Of The Year are in Wal-Mart shopping.

You'd be amazed at how much property damage you can get away with by telling a 911 dispatcher, "I'm a combat medic. The kid appears to be in distress, I'm knocking the windows out. Send an ambulance."

GAT_00: but he sees no crime in abandoning a child.

They weren't abandoned. They were in the car. Right where she left them.

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Ahhh! Allison Pill has 3 kids!?

What happened to her face?

Bunch of farking busy bodies. Those are her kids, she should be able to do with them as she pleases. Let's keep the government out of our cars and out of our private lives.

Land o Lakes, so rich and buttery!

/hot buttered car children
//i'll be locked in a car in hell's flames

Damn Best Buy employees cock-blocking Darwin.

FirstDennis: How come the article has tomorrow's date on it?

It's being published in tomorrow's Tampa Bay Times genius.

Damn, kids are needy.

Ellen Page has gotten fat.

Um, anybody interested in the facts of the matter?

I live a couple miles from where this happened. TFA states that it happened on Tuesday morning. Well... on Tuesday morning, we were still getting rained on from T.S. Debbie, and the temps were in the mid-70's here. Repeat, mid-70's here. These kids were in no real danger from heat. The afternoon high was about 85 in Tampa, but about 80 degrees here.

Yes, they've criminalized leaving kids in cars unattended, and for some very good reasons. But the kids in this one particualr case were not going to suffer. The windows were up because it was raining and very windy. IMHO, leaving the windows down would have been child abuse.

She was arrested, and will have to face the consequences, but the kids are just fine except that they are terrified about having their momma taken away. After the rough treatment from a southern judge, this gal won't be doing ths again any time soon.

Nadie_AZ: This has killed kids here in Arizona.

We lose at least 2 or 3 kids in Texas like this every year.

To be fair, this was in Port Richey.

It's like the white person ghetto

"Wanamaker-Miller, of Port Richey, was arrested and charged with child neglect. She was released Tuesday night from the Land O'Lakes jail after posting $5,000 bond."

She'll obviously get away with it by buttering-up the cops.

RoosterCogburn: To be fair, this was in Port Richey.

It's like the white person ghetto

^this^

These things are grey, and law enforcement generally treats them as grey until local media gets involved, and then they get all enforce-y about it.

The numbers aren't huge, ~500 kids dead since 1998 (and that's for the whole US, not just Florida). But of course kids can't defend themselves from parental stupidity, so if you don't have a law combined with disproportionate media attention then I guess you end up with higher statistics.

People are idiots. (shrug)

Some stats here:
http://www.safekids.org/our-work/news-press/press-releases/children-a l one-in-vehicles.html
http://www.safekids.org/safety-basics/safety-guide/kids-in-and-around - cars/never-leave-your-child-alone.html

Lost_in_Oregon: "Wanamaker-Miller, of Port Richey, was arrested and charged with child neglect. She was released Tuesday night from the Land O'Lakes jail after posting $5,000 bond."

She'll obviously get away with it by buttering-up the cops.

Came here for the butter ref, leaving oh so satisfied.

mmmm.....butter

devildog123: GAT_00: I find it interesting that feckingmorons will try to force women to give birth if they get pregnant, but he sees no crime in abandoning a child.

Yes, because I'm sure if you told this story to an anti-abortion group, they'd be fine with letting the kids cook in the car.

Those people only actually care about fetuses, not kids. The same people who are anti-abortion also want to remove any kind of safety net, which tends to disproportionately effect poor, single mothers.