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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:
I can agree on the seatbelts, but again not on leaving your kids in the car. I mean most people would be horrified if you locked someone in an oven and cooked them to death with it....but when you do it accidently in a mobile greenhouse they shrug it off?

The law does need to be sensible, obviously. Locking them in at night isn't a threat for example..most of the time, but those cases would be covered under other things.

My understanding was that this was a 7- and a 9-year old, and no sun was mentioned in the original example IIRC. Any 9-year old (or even 7-year old I would think) should be able to open windows and doors. If the car doesn't let people out then it is severely mis-designed, but I really doubt there are cars that let you imprison people in them to smother to death. Supposedly (and I'd like to see an actual article) the parent was cited for not just leaving their children alone. It's hard for me to imagine a neighborhood where it would be unsafe to leave 9-year-old kids in a grocery parking lot (assuming no deadly sunshine ) yet there are enough police to justifiably harrass people.

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