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meezercat

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Idiots, all around:

Cabbie cited for child left in cab

HIGHLAND PARK, Oct. 25 – A Highland Park couple apparently forgot their three-year-old son when they were dropped off by a taxi driver at their home after a trip from O’Hare International Airport late last night.

The boy was sleeping when taxi driver Arshad Aziz dropped them off at home. Neither the parents nor Aziz remembered he was in the cab. The parents remembered once they got inside their house and called police. They found the boy – still sleeping in the cab – back at the O’Hare staging area and he was reunited with his parents. Chicago police officer Michael Scornavacco says Aziz was cited for failing to check his cab after dropping off his fare. No citations for the parents.
 
What the hell?! It's not the cabbie's responsibility to check his freakin cab! How the hell can parents freakin forget their kid in a cab?! And THEY are not being cited?! That's just freakin rediculous!

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
 
Exactly! And this after TWO incidents in the Chicago area in the past month where people have forgotten to drop their kids off at daycare and the kids have died in the car in their parents' work parking lot b/c it got so hot in the car.

Neither of THOSE parents were charged either, by the way...

Sigh...

<font color="#000000">[Edited by hermanm on October 25, 2000 (edited 1 time)]</font>
 
Is there something in the air in Chicago or are people there just *not* smart?!

Those parents need to be freaking charged with abuse, neglect and MURDER!!!

How can they not be held responsible for this?!

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
 
This is why, generally, I hate people. Stupidity just *bothers* me. Well, I guess I don't hate people. I hate stupidity, but the two seem to go hand in hand. ::sigh::

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip

<font color="#000000">[Edited by liltaz on October 26, 2000 (edited 1 time)]</font>
 
Well, the town this family lives in is a VERY well-to-do suburb. Based on what I've heard so far, I think these people treat their child as just another possession--"oops, we left the boy in the cab, we best get him back"

I feel sorry for that kid.
 
Blame it on O'Hare airport.
That place is <FONT size="4">CRAZY!</FONT s>

(I do think some people should not be allowed to breed.)
 
I used to work at a day care and a lot of the younger workers also babysat on weekends for these people...well this one girl went to babysit for this family with this precious kid who was about 1 year old, but not quite. As his parents left, they said "If he starts screaming and/or crying when you put him down, turn the music in his room up loud and close the door so it doesn't bother you." While later, same paretns, kid keeps coming to day care sick. Finally day care owner stops her in the parking lot as she brings said kid in and says "you can't bring him in until you take him to the doctor as I've been telling you to do for a month and a half" mom gets mad but makes doc appt. Doc looks at the kid and immediately sends him to the hospital, where heh is for more than a week because what he has is a) VERY contagious and b) VERY developed.

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
 
You know Taz, I don't particularly want to have kids because I don't think I'd make an especially good mother...but hell even I would be better than that!
 
I would hope so...I think I'd make a great mother...just not right now..

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
 
This happened AGAIN over the weekend! This time a woman got a cab home from the Greyhound bus station...told the cabbie in her driveway to wait and she'd be right back for her kid, and when she came back the cab/kid were gone.

Luckily the cops found the kid unharmed at the airport. Sigh.
 
why the #@^#%^#@ did she leave her kid with the cabbie while she ran inside?!

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"No man can be condemed for owning a dog.
As long as he has a dog, he has a friend;
and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."

- Will Rogers


Loyalty and love are the best things of all, and surely the most lasting. -- My Dog Skip
 
Here's the scoop on the second one of these:


CHICAGO, Posted 10:00 a.m. EST October 30, 2000 -- A cab driver dropped off a passenger and drove away with a 3-year-old in the back seat -- only a few days after another child took a similar trip.

The latest incident happened Saturday after a woman said that she got out of a cab holding her infant daughter, and told the cab driver she would return for her 3-year-old son and other belongings, officer Alice Casanova said.

"I guess he didn't hear her and thought she had removed all her items," Casanova said. "He drove off."

The cab was tracked down at Midway Airport and the child was reunited, unharmed, to his mother. No charges were filed against the cab driver or the mother.

On Oct. 22, a cabbie was ticketed after driving off with a dozing 3-year-old in the back of his cab. The parents were busy unloading luggage and were confused over whether the husband or wife had the child.

No action was taken against the parents. On Friday, Police Superintendent Terry Hillard said that he will recommend that the ticket be dismissed.

A city ordinance requires that cabbies make sure their vehicles are cleared out after dropping off a passenger.
 
That's exactly my thought, Taz.

In today's Chicago Tribune were a ton of letters to the editor about the first incident, people apalled that the driver was cited and not the parents, the driver was named in the media and not the parents, and if this had happened on the South Side of Chicago and not the North Shore (wealthy) suburbs, the kid would have been taken from his parents and placed in the custody of the state, etc etc...which is all true.

I'm just dumbfounded at this.
 
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