I think you're forgetting about the possibility that something happens to you that makes you unable to get back in "10" minutes. And why is leaving a kid unattended even up for debate? even in good weather you shouldn't leave a child in a car. But anyways heres a couple scenarios that could happen.
Scenario 1: You get out of the Starbucks after buying your frappacino machacino and slip on some ice and get knocked unconscious. You're not going to be able to tell anyone that your kid is in the car slowly freezing to death.
Scenario 2: You meet a person on the street selling super awesome stereos at a low price because their manager accidentally over stocked their white van. Now 10 minutes turns into 30 minutes and you obviously forgot about your child because if you are stupid enough to leave a kid in the car unattended you probably have a terrible memory.
Scenario 3: Someone steals your vehicle. (Actually happened to a family member at 7-11 in Bridgeland with 2 yr old in truck)
Scenario 4: Accident in parking lot that impacts vehicle with child in it.
Really depends on how long they were gone for. I would say that leaving your kid in the car in cold weather for 10 minutes or less actually keeps the child warmer then getting them out of the car seat carrying them outside and then putting them back in the seat. But if you have enough time to call the police and for the police to get there it was probably negligence.
If it was Cardel Place, the police station is across the street.
Scenario 2: You meet a person on the street selling super awesome stereos at a low price because their manager accidentally over stocked their white van. Now 10 minutes turns into 30 minutes and you obviously forgot about your child because if you are stupid enough to leave a kid in the car unattended you probably have a terrible memory.
I cannot even begin to estimate the number of times this has happened to me
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Scenario 2: You meet a person on the street selling super awesome stereos at a low price because their manager accidentally over stocked their white van. Now 10 minutes turns into 30 minutes and you obviously forgot about your child because if you are stupid enough to leave a kid in the car unattended you probably have a terrible memory.
Even worse if they're cool with taking a small child as collateral, which would totally suck because you'd have to run all the way back to the car to get the kid, instead of having him with you in the first place.
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Scenario 5: You leave kid in car while getting the mail from mailbox 5 feet away from car. While getting mail from said mailbox, manbearpig runs up and attacks you. Kid freezes to death while manbearpig eats you.
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If you have the kid bundled up in your car in a car seat, I can see locking it and running into the QuickTrip to grab a coffee or whatever if it's cold and the kid is asleep. I wouldn't leave the engine running though. However, in hot weather it's inexcusable. You hear about people locking their kid in a car (or their pet) with the windows shut in over 100F degree weather. Some stupid crack head left her baby in a car last summer in Missouri and went into a bar for a couple of hours, and the kid was literally cooked. And, I saw some guy on TV who never drove his kid to daycare, and that day his wife asked him to drop the baby off at daycare and in the middle of his hectic morning he completely forgot the kid was in the back seat and went to work, worked half the day until a co-worker said they parked beside him and saw his baby in his car, and the baby was dead because of the heat.
Scenario 5: You live kid in car while getting the mail from mailbox 5 feet away from car. While getting mail from said mailbox, manbearpig runs up and attacks you. Kid freezes to death while manbearpig eats you.
I've left Pux Jr. sleeping in her car seat and ran into Mac's to grab milk. The only way I do this is if I have direct visual with her the whole time.
Unfortunately my liquor store has a crappy window, so in she goes with me. She's only 2 1/2 years old and knows that the bat is the mascot for Bacardi. She says hi to him every time we go in.
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