Tennessee toddler saves elderly man trapped in hot car.

[Lilyhoney]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee-toddler-saves-elderly-man-locked-inside-hot/story?id=24564932&google_editors_picks=true


A fast-acting 3-year-old came to an elderly man’s rescue in Tennessee after he spotted the man trapped inside a hot car as temperatures inside the vehicle reached over 120 degrees.

While waiting for his wife to come back from an event at the Vestal Baptist Church in Knoxville last Saturday, Bob King, 68, found himself trapped in his car after the doors automatically locked.

After numerous cancer treatments and having suffered from two strokes in the past six months, Bob King was described as “in very bad shape” and “could barely see anything” by his wife, Jenny King.




Can we please stop leaving our loved ones in hot cars.

[Generic Brad]

1. Thank goodness that 3 year old was left unattended and able to wander about

We need more free roaming children out there to protect us.

[niyad]

2. that story was from abc news? it sounds like it was written by someone totally unfamiliar

with the language: "afraid he was going to get a stroke" being but one example.

[Skittles]

3. offshoring

[freeplessinseattle]

4. Why would his wife leave him there in the first place, w/out a/c on, while at an event?

Whether or not the doors had the lock malfunction seems like a bad idea, in 90 degree weather no less!

Still pretty damn hot if he got the door open and was just hanging around outside the car, too.

[benld74]

5. I've heard similar locked in stories,

from car poolers no less. This was some time ago, when electric locks first came on the scene. The car was on the side of the road during rush hour in the summer. No cell phones either. Someone eventually stopped, but I was told it got hot inside for sure.