Current Events > another idiot has own children killed by leaving them inside hot car

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Nine News reported the girls mother had tried to rush the toddlers inside to cool their bodies.
It was claimed she desperately tried to splash water on them after finding them.
Neighbours also told the Sunday Mail they believed the girls had been in the car about 6.30am, seven hours before they died.

this keeps happening here. if it not kids its pets. how are some people so fucking dumb they don't realize their pets/kids missing for HOURS. on top pf being dumb enough to leave them in the car to begin with.

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Goddamn, seven hours....
Theres absolutely no excuse for that.

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How do people forget about the pizza/coffee they had just carried, in their hand(s), to their car, and drive off with it still on their roof?

I also used to think these people were idiots but I read a good article about how it's happened to people of virtually all educational backgrounds and everything. It's kind of freaky actually.

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Some people should not be parents. Sadly, this was one of those times.
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The news warns this almost daily in the summer, and for winter weather too.

Same with driving through high water.

But people do it anyway.

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my grandparents did stuff like this. not literally the same thing, but they would not check on kids for hours. one time my uncle when he was like 3 years old, got outside and was walking down a road for a long time in his diaper. until cops picked him up. and my grandparents never even noticed he had been missing

I seriously think they do this because they hate children

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No fucking excuse.
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I don't see how it's possible to forget your kids in the car. I mean no matter how distracted you are, that has to be always in your mind. If it isn't, your children are clearly not your priority in life.
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Educate y'selves: https://www.parents.com/baby/safety/car/youd-never-forget-your-child-in-the-car-right/

"Whenever an unintentional hot car death hits the media, the public response is the same: How could a parent leave her child in a hot car?

In most instances, the child had fallen asleep, so there was no sound to remind the parent to take him out. And if a baby was in a rear-facing car seat in the backseat, there was also no visual cue: The baby's head might not have been visible over the top of the seat.

This is a relatively new problem. Prior to the early 1990s, children were routinely placed in the front seat, where it was obvious that they were in the car. In fact, from 1990 to 1992 there were only 11 known deaths of children from heatstroke after being left in a car. After that, car seats were moved to the back. This is when airbags became common and kids riding in the front seat were being killed by them63 kids in 1995 alone.

But backseat riding isn't the only factor in heatstroke deaths, and safety experts stress that the backseat remains the safest place for children. Another major contributorone that's more difficult to comprehendrelates to the brain. "These are not negligent parents who have forgotten their kids," says David Diamond, Ph.D., a neuroscientist in the psychology department at the University of South Florida, in Tampa, who has reviewed the details of many hot-car deaths and has spent time with dozens of parents who unintentionally left their child in the car.

Understanding what they did, he says, requires grasping how two very different parts of the brain work. First are the basal gangliathe "background system" that controls our habits. "It allows us to do things without thinking about them," Dr. Diamond says. When you're training in sports, for example, you repeat an action over and over to fine-tune your skills. Once it's time to compete, the action is automatic. "Your basal ganglia take over and you don't have to think about how to bounce or shoot the ball."

Then there are the parts of the brain that control new information: the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus. The basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex essentially compete with each other, Dr. Diamond says. When you change up your routine and do something different, then the new details have to be processed by the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex to override the basal ganglia's strong desire to perform actions out of habit.

The basal ganglia play a big part in driving. "Once you've driven from Point A to Point B enough times, you can do it without thinking," Dr. Diamond says. "You might not even remember the trip." If new information enters the picture (say, your partner calls to ask you to stop at the store and buy milk), your prefrontal cortex and hippocampus have to kick into gear to incorporate it. "But it's common to drive right past the store and come home. When your partner says, 'Where's the milk?' you feel flustered because you remember the conversation, but for some reason you came home instead." Why? Because you were on autopilot. "The basal ganglia actually suppress the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus from bringing that memory to your consciousness," explains Dr. Diamond.

Stress worsens this phenomenon, he adds. "It affects how our prefrontal cortex functions and makes it more likely we'll do something out of habit." And those factors, ultimately, are what allow otherwise responsible parents to leave their child in a car. In every hot-car death Dr. Diamond has studied, something was different about the routine that day. In some cases, Mom made two stops instead of her usual one. In other cases, Dad drove the baby instead of Mom or there was some other extra stress. And the basal ganglia won control."
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imagine putting a kid in the car and needing a sound to remind you to check that the kid was taken out

tldr summary of the article = shitty ass idiot parents

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https://preview.tinyurl.com/w6pnh2d

the family has been reported to child protection multiple times before but surprise surprise aus gov agency did jack shit until too late

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we are all god's children and he left us in his hot car

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Schwarz posted...

This is a relatively new problem. Prior to the early 1990s, children were routinely placed in the front seat, where it was obvious that they were in the car. In fact, from 1990 to 1992 there were only 11 known deaths of children from heatstroke after being left in a car. After that, car seats were moved to the back. This is when airbags became common and kids riding in the front seat were being killed by them63 kids in 1995 alone.

Pretty interesting, never knew this
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How a person can forget a living being in a car is bizarre, and the people defending those people are equally as bad.
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ModLogic posted...

imagine putting a kid in the car and needing a sound to remind you to check that the kid was taken out

tldr summary of the article = shitty ass idiot parents

Reminds me of a PSA I heard after one of these deaths.

"To help remind you to take your child out of the car, leave something important in the back seat with them like your phone or house keys"

It's like something important?!
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Have these morons never gotten into their car after it's been baking in the sun for even an hour? How do people keep leaving their children/pets in the car for extended periods of time, absolutely disgusting how in the year 2019 people haven't learned a car can get really hot even in fall.
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Schwarz posted...

The basal ganglia play a big part in driving. "Once you've driven from Point A to Point B enough times, you can do it without thinking," Dr. Diamond says. "You might not even remember the trip." If new information enters the picture (say, your partner calls to ask you to stop at the store and buy milk), your prefrontal cortex and hippocampus have to kick into gear to incorporate it. "But it's common to drive right past the store and come home. When your partner says, 'Where's the milk?' you feel flustered because you remember the conversation, but for some reason you came home instead." Why? Because you were on autopilot. "The basal ganglia actually suppress the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus from bringing that memory to your consciousness," explains Dr. Diamond.

This shit happens to me so much and my wife never understands it at all.


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Some people are just not fit to be parents.
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Happens. Over reported imo.
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Awesome posted...

How a person can forget a living being in a car is bizarre, and the people defending those people are equally as bad.

Don't be a buffoon. No one defends it, but there is a more comprehensive explanation for why this happens than "because shitty parents".

https://youtu.be/uayYUgNws9Q

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Awesome posted...

How a person can forget a living being in a car is bizarre, and the people defending those people are equally as bad.

can you quote who did ?

i cant find it
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GiftedACIII posted...

Some people are just not fit to be parents.

if they cared more it would prevent this from happening. always take everything out of the car.
it's also the reason why it's a good idea to leave your pets at home unless you're doing an activity with em.
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Lock these stupid motherfuckers up

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Esrac posted...

Don't be a buffoon. No one defends it, but there is a more comprehensive explanation for why this happens than "because shitty parents".

There's a more comprehensive reason that all shitty things happen then "because shitty people". But they're shitty whether or not we explain exactly what in the brain makes them shitty.

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Damn, that's a fatal mistake the parent will never be able to live down.

That said, some of you really need to educate yourselves regarding why these sorts of mistakes happen.

Lock these sorry excuse for humans beings up forever, not just for these crimes but so they can never reproduce again.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Esrac posted...

Don't be a buffoon. No one defends it, but there is a more comprehensive explanation for why this happens than "because shitty parents".

There's a more comprehensive reason that all shitty things happen then "because shitty people". But they're shitty whether or not we explain exactly what in the brain makes them shitty.

Perhaps, but "because shitty people" isn't useful in the first place.