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Car Towed With Girl Inside - Tow Truck Operators Charged
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Sometimes you get home and open up your package and find a little something extra in there. Sometimes it's a good thing, sometimes not. I think for tow truck drivers Jason Bryant and Derek Miller, what they found in the car they towed turned out to be a bad thing for them. They came across a car, double-parked, unlocked, and with the engine running, and proceeded to tow the vehicle without incident.When they got the car back to the yard, however, they discovered a two-year-old girl in the back. It seems the girl's mother had left her in the car while she ran inside to have a chat. Along came the tow truck and, well, that was that. And now, the two drivers are being charged with felony child endangerment.
If you ask me, it should be the mother who gets hit with the child endangerment charge. She's actually very lucky that it was a couple of honest tow truck drivers that took the car and not a car thief -- a car unlocked and running is a big temptation.
| The tow truck drivers -- they should have noticed the kid | |
|---|---|
| The mom -- she should have never left her daughter alone in the car | |
| Both -- they're both negligent and should be punished | |
| Neither -- it was an honest mistake and no harm was done |
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 2)
12-10-2008 @ 10:24AM
Mommacrystal said...WTH was the mom thinking?! She should be the one charged with child endangerment and quite frankly neglect. Leaving your unattended 2 yr old in a running vehicle while going to have a chat?? That's horrible!
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12-10-2008 @ 1:47PM
Sara said...Seriously? I am the first person to comment? How insane can a mother be? Once I left my baby in his carseat with my 7 and 5 year olds while I ran into a pharmacy 20 feet away with large windows giving me view to my children and a child safety worker approached me tsk tsking me to tears!! never again. This mother left the keys in the car and the car running! Absolutely SHE should be the one with the charges! Those poor tow truck guys may have acted too quickly on the job but they don't deserve the charges.
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12-10-2008 @ 12:30AM
ninainindia said...Definately the mom's fault but I think neither should be charged.
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12-10-2008 @ 10:12PM
Tracy said...In the state where I live, a female bus driver left her three children on her bus, one who was 2 years old, while she went to get the car to drive them home.
While she was away, the 2 year old wandered off the bus and was run over and killed by another bus driver who never saw her.
NEVER LEAVE A CHILD ALONE FOR A SECOND!!
12-10-2008 @ 12:41AM
queenoqueens said...Ok. You leave your child alone. In a car. Unlocked. Engine running. Go out of sight. Talk to someone and get distracted to the point of not noticing a TOW TRUCK TAKING YOUR CAR AND CHILD AWAY. Hmm, that's a toughie. Let the courts battle that one out!
When I heard ridiculous behavior, I always try to think of the scenario that would allow me to give the person responsible a "pass". Hard to think of it in this case.
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12-10-2008 @ 6:32AM
Sandyone said...So now tow truck drivers are law enforcement officers? I didn't know a tow truck could legally just up and decide to tow a car without the order coming from law enforcement.
I think something's missing.
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12-10-2008 @ 3:33PM
Oi said...The mother is at fault here, in my opinion. She should NEVER have left the child in the car, running or not, even for a second. While the tow truck drivers will probably check from now on, and possibly should have checked, but again, the fault, in my opinion, is the mothers.
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12-10-2008 @ 8:16PM
wooodley said...you NEVER EVER leave your kid alone for one second if he/she is under 7 years old!!! up to that point they canNOT take care of themselves!!!
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12-10-2008 @ 10:59PM
Joanne said...So, woodley, did you mean 7 or 17? How could a 7 year old have stopped a tow truck driver? or a carjacker? or some other driver from plowing into the car and killing him? Just curious~ Holy wackadoodle!
12-10-2008 @ 11:05PM
wooodley said...I meant 17 years old dang I cant type today
12-10-2008 @ 8:56PM
basketpam said...I owned a retail store until last year. We specialized in Thomas the tank engine items and you'd be shocked at the number of mothers who would leave kids asleep in the car and run into the store for "just a second" to buy something. My mother would get so mad. She would go outside and stand by the car to make sure nothing happened to the car and then she would say something to the mother. I'd tell the women about it when it happened on my watch. If something had happened with my luck they would have sued me, some how it would have been my fault. It's just like these parents who NEVER disclipe their children and then are shocked when they end up with spoiled brats, teenage pregnancies, drug addicts, etc. How did this world get so clueless?
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12-11-2008 @ 3:30AM
mama4myahlin@aol.com said...I agree at the store I work at the same would happen to me
12-10-2008 @ 9:12PM
teresa said...Where I live, the mother would have been arrested, period! And as far as I'm concerned this mother should also be arrested, period!
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12-10-2008 @ 10:36PM
Henry C. Hannah said...It should be the mother who endangered the child. Obviously the tow truck drivers have permission to tow double parked vehicles and they did so. It is not their duty to search the car but quite the opposite. None of us would want tow truck drivers going through our personal things in our car. It is sad but they did not notice the child because they do not search vehicles. If they had noticed the tot they could have called the police. The tow truck drivers had no intent to tow a vehicle with a child inside but the mother had the intent to leave the child unsupervised in the car double parked and subject to any number of dangers.
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12-10-2008 @ 10:42PM
Jenny said...The mother should be charged, end of story. Not only did she leave the vehicle running and unlocked with her 2 yr old inside, she was also double parked. Someone could have ran into the back of her vehicle. She's lucky it was just a couple of tow truck drivers that came along and hauled off her car. Could have been a couple of crooks.
I really feel it wasnt right for the tow truck drivers to be charged, they were just doing their job. Removing an illegally parked vehicle.
And why didnt she see the tow truck hooking up to her car? She must not have been to concerned with the safety of her child.
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12-10-2008 @ 10:53PM
rosedjr88 said...I can't believe that they would charge the drivers. I worked for a wreck services and it is a standard order to remove cars that are double park. They are not allowed to hold up traiffic for a long period of time so of course they would not have checked the car until it was at the yard and it is not a fast thing to hook up to a car the mother should be facing charges.
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12-10-2008 @ 10:59PM
Teresa said...SHES NO MOTHER AT ALL, SHE DOESNT DESERVE TO HAVE CHILDREN..........WHO WOULD LEAVE A PRECIOUS CHILD ALONE, AND THEN TO TOP THAT IN A CAR AND RUNNING, NO BRAINS>..............
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12-10-2008 @ 11:32PM
Waycross48 said...How many more children have to die before parents finally get the message - YOU DON'T LEAVE A CHILD UNATTENDED IN A CAR - EVER!!!!! AND IT WAS UNLOCKED AND RUNNING WITH THE KEYS IN IT. WHY NOT JUST PUT A NEON SIGN ON IT - KIDNAP MY BABY AND STEAL MY CAR!!! She's so lucky that it was two idiot tow truck drivers who came along and not a car thief who may have just dumped the baby somewhere. How STUPID does a mother have to be. SHE SHOULD BE LOCKED UP FOR CHILD ENDANGERMENT!!!!
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12-10-2008 @ 11:43PM
qaqs9000 said...I left 3 kids in the car when I ran in to sign my new car insurance papers. They ( 3 boys all very little) were sleeping of course and it didn't seem to be a problem we live in a rural area and the insurance agency was in a private house on an alley. One of the children (the youngest) woke up and began playing with the gear shift. He knocked the car out of park and it started rolling down a long long hill. My wife and I saw it and ran down the hill following the car and the kids. We then watched helplessly as the car took off the front of the house at the bottom of the hill. Fortunately we had signed the new policy about 30 seconds before. I do believe that many parents are guilty of "young and stupid" not necesarily criminal acts. I love my kids and fortunately they all survived unharmed and wanted to do it again.
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12-11-2008 @ 3:39AM
Goddess said...I mean no offense, or judgement here....but if you and your wife were together, then why didn't one of you stay in the car with the kids while the other signed the papers? And....if it needed signatures from both of you, then why didn't you just take turns. I know all parents make mistakes, especially new or fairly new parents...but that just doesn't make sense to me. God bless your beautiful children, and thank God they were unharmed.
~Goddess~