There was much discussion recently about incompetent parenting and someone mentioned kids dying from being left in cars. Since the time of the gorilla incident, multiple incidents of kids dying in cars have occurred and the most recent was near here yesterday. (RT: Texas dad charged with manslaughter after leaving baby in scorching car)
The charge of manslaughter is rubbish as it's more accurate to describe the crime as negligent homocide. For some measure of the Darwinian effect, the loving father put the kid in the refrigerator in an attempt to revive her.
The contract with a child is losing one creates a seriously bad chance that child will end up dead. The parent knows this so any neglect of that contract is tantamount to murder. Manslaughter is not sufficient.
It's more interesting to follow the news for the Hot for Teacher stories in which the young female teacher goes crazy and corrupts her male student. That's prime time rock for any high school boy but the mothers go, oh, oh, oh, it's horrifying. Meanwhile they go, gee, let's read the details of what those filthy monkeys did.
Those stories are much better but sometimes we have to break off for things y'all think are significant and we're not parents so we just scratch our heads when we see people doing things which get their kids killed. Hardly any of them take responsibility for it, we do see that much.
It's legal in some places to break the windows on a car when a dog is trapped inside it. That won't work with a kid because you probably won't see the little tyke. Even if the kid is not swaddled, the childproof locks on the doors mean it's not just difficult to get out, it's impossible. Probably a young kid will quickly run out of energy to bang on windows. (Unknown if those locks release when the engine is off)
These stories probably don't mean anything. It seems about a hundred kids have died in Texas due to being left in cars in the last fifteen years so the incidence is not all that high whereas I think about a thousand people have died on Texas highways so far this year alone. Therefore, from the standpoint of loss of life, the kid locked in the car is not newsworthy, we're just horrified if it happens and news channels love the horror stories.
That bloodlicking horror of the news is a large part of why we don't watch or even read CNN that much anymore. The important thing isn't so much news as getting another picture of Kim Kardashian's fat ass. Previously the great fancy had been getting a picture of Lindsay Lohan's genitals but CNN moved on so apparently this is Around the World According to CNN and Wolf Blitzer.
It would be much better if news provided information rather than contrived horror.
The charge of manslaughter is rubbish as it's more accurate to describe the crime as negligent homocide. For some measure of the Darwinian effect, the loving father put the kid in the refrigerator in an attempt to revive her.
The contract with a child is losing one creates a seriously bad chance that child will end up dead. The parent knows this so any neglect of that contract is tantamount to murder. Manslaughter is not sufficient.
It's more interesting to follow the news for the Hot for Teacher stories in which the young female teacher goes crazy and corrupts her male student. That's prime time rock for any high school boy but the mothers go, oh, oh, oh, it's horrifying. Meanwhile they go, gee, let's read the details of what those filthy monkeys did.
Those stories are much better but sometimes we have to break off for things y'all think are significant and we're not parents so we just scratch our heads when we see people doing things which get their kids killed. Hardly any of them take responsibility for it, we do see that much.
It's legal in some places to break the windows on a car when a dog is trapped inside it. That won't work with a kid because you probably won't see the little tyke. Even if the kid is not swaddled, the childproof locks on the doors mean it's not just difficult to get out, it's impossible. Probably a young kid will quickly run out of energy to bang on windows. (Unknown if those locks release when the engine is off)
These stories probably don't mean anything. It seems about a hundred kids have died in Texas due to being left in cars in the last fifteen years so the incidence is not all that high whereas I think about a thousand people have died on Texas highways so far this year alone. Therefore, from the standpoint of loss of life, the kid locked in the car is not newsworthy, we're just horrified if it happens and news channels love the horror stories.
That bloodlicking horror of the news is a large part of why we don't watch or even read CNN that much anymore. The important thing isn't so much news as getting another picture of Kim Kardashian's fat ass. Previously the great fancy had been getting a picture of Lindsay Lohan's genitals but CNN moved on so apparently this is Around the World According to CNN and Wolf Blitzer.
It would be much better if news provided information rather than contrived horror.
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