Worthless Human leaves 21 month old son in Car for 6 hours while he gambles

[Bertuzzied]

This is just insane. Why not just leave him at home? At least you can neglect him there without having to goto jail. The guy is 50 years old too. If you don't want your son you can always give him up for adoption. So angry reading this. And don't leave your dogs in the car in the summer either!

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ar...167/story.html


Calgary police have arrested a man after he left his 21-month-old son alone in a car outside a casino for six hours - in below-freezing temperatures, officials said Monday.
Police said they responded to a call to the Silver Dollar Casino on 42nd Avenue S.E. just after midnight Monday morning after a patron noticed a child crying in a car. Officers said they arrived to find the car - windows covered with blankets to prevent people from seeing inside - with a toddler inside.
The boy, according to police, was very lightly dressed, with no shoes or socks. He was fastened to a rear seat child restraint, was cold and crying, and had thrown up on himself.

[CMPunk]

Did he at least win at the casino?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by CMPunk

Did he at least win at the casino?

NO ONE wins in a casino when you are in there for 6 hours.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

NO ONE wins in a casino when you are in there for 6 hours.

Frank Sissons does.

And yes, this guy should be shot and left for dead - 6 hours in the cold with barely enough clothes!

[ok, ok,....I get it]

Licence needed to own a dog, cat.....but any a$$ can have kids........

[Ford Prefect]

Originally Posted by Madman

Frank Sissons does.

And yes, this guy should be shot and left for dead - 6 hours in the cold with barely enough clothes!

Frank Sissons no longer owns the Silver Dollar. He sold a few years ago and is slumming down in Florida or someplace like that.

[Fobulous]

Heard this on the radio this morning and it made me sick to my stomach.

I second the vote that they need to license individuals prior to letting them have kids..

[burn_this_city]

I hope if he did win that he at least split it with the kid.

[REDVAN]

I'd like to know more information, like where is the mother?

I've been to the casino many times, if you are there for 6 hours, the only reason is that you are drunk and/or losing. In fact, I've never been at a casino for that long unless I've been in a poker tourney or in Vegas.

Sad for the kid, but he won't remember when he grows up, so as long as he is healthy and happy in the future, it was good that he got taken from the deadbeat dad.

[FlamesKickAss]

Originally Posted by Ford Prefect

Frank Sissons no longer owns the Silver Dollar. He sold a few years ago and is slumming down in Florida or someplace like that.

the kilt & caber in mckenzie towne!

[KTrain]

This case seems to be pretty cut and dry about what the situation. Especially, since I heard that he might have actually been checking up on the kid periodically.

However, I read this article a few weeks ago and now when I hear about a child being left in a car I make sure I get as much info as possible before passing judgment on the parents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022701549.html

The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn't want any sedation, that he didn't deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die.

The charge in the courtroom was manslaughter, brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. No significant facts were in dispute. Miles Harrison, 49, was an amiable person, a diligent businessman and a doting, conscientious father until the day last summer -- beset by problems at work, making call after call on his cellphone -- he forgot to drop his son, Chase, at day care. The toddler slowly sweltered to death, strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours in an office parking lot in Herndon in the blistering heat of July.

It was an inexplicable, inexcusable mistake, but was it a crime? That was the question for a judge to decide.

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by KTrain

This case seems to be pretty cut and dry about what the situation. Especially, since I heard that he might have actually been checking up on the kid periodically.

However, I read this article a few weeks ago and now when I hear about a child being left in a car I make sure I get as much info as possible before passing judgment on the parents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022701549.html

The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table. In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn't want any sedation, that he didn't deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die.

The charge in the courtroom was manslaughter, brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. No significant facts were in dispute. Miles Harrison, 49, was an amiable person, a diligent businessman and a doting, conscientious father until the day last summer -- beset by problems at work, making call after call on his cellphone -- he forgot to drop his son, Chase, at day care. The toddler slowly sweltered to death, strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours in an office parking lot in Herndon in the blistering heat of July.

It was an inexplicable, inexcusable mistake, but was it a crime? That was the question for a judge to decide.

Oh God, that's heartbreaking.

[Reaper]

Baby needs a new pair of shoes?

[Kipper is King]

This story is so sad on so many levels.

I hope the kid is alright, and that he can grow up with someone who can support him. His dad clearly is not that person.

[The Goon]

A gambling addiction really devastates those around the addict more than the addict him/herself.

[Finny61]

There is only one good thing that comes out of this story, at least he didn't bet his kid on red. It seems like the world is heading down the road of stupid sometimes.

[RougeUnderoos]

Slightly related... there was some kind of gambling junket/bus from who knows where at the Stampede Casino before lunch this morning. Nothing like a Monday morning gambling excursion to get the week started right.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Slightly related... there was some kind of gambling junket/bus from who knows where at the Stampede Casino before lunch this morning. Nothing like a Monday morning gambling excursion to get the week started right.

Probably old people. My grandfather goes every thursday on a seniors bus that takes them to the Casino for a few hours.

[Resolute 14]

I like that he covered the car windows in blankets. So basically, this ######bag KNEW what he was doing was wrong, and not only did it anyway, but also tried to cover it up.

Cases like this one, I'd throw a charge of attempted murder out there.

[iggnuef]

I "BET" he will regret this decsion when the charges go through!!!