The New Mothers
An idiot leaves her baby alone in a parked car in Kits and goes shopping. Ditz in Kits.
Firefighters arrive and the woman is "warned" by the police.
Why not charge her with criminal negligence? Because we don't want to fill up our jails? Because we don't want to deprive the child of such a caring, thoughtful parent?
Last summer, I was in the middle of exactly this situation.
Spotting an infant alone in a van, I called 911.
About 5 minutes later, as I waited for the police, the "mother" stepped out of a tanning salon. When the police arrived, one officer stood with me and one with the lovely mother. Apparently, the officer with the mother thought I was as funny as the mother did. Apparently, I was a busy-body old fool minding other people's business. Apparently, leaving an infant alone in a van is a sit-com. Who knew?
How is this any different from the cardiologist and his G.P. wife who left their 3 children under the age of 4 to go have a quiet romantic dinner while on vacation in Portugal?
Why not just dump your babies face-down in public toilets? That's being done too, so it must be alright.
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Earlier in the week I was giving a transplanted Saskatchewan friend, now living in Victoria, her first real tour of Vancouver. We came across a little baby in a stroller sitting outside of a snack shop in posh Yaletown. Beside the stroller was a mid-sized dog.
We looked around but saw no adult. So we when peered inside. A man saw us looking at him and rushed outside. He was her father. The exchange that followed was polite but we walked away commenting about what a mindless fool he was. He was convinced that the dog would protect his daughter. I seriously doubt that. Furthermore, where he was standing in the shop, he didn't even have a direct line of sight to his girl.
Mandatory licensing for parents?
Oh, my God...will this never stop?
Idiocy abounds...
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