Infant Reported Not Breathing In Locked Car Turns Out To Be A Doll

[matcom]

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KIRKLIN, Ind. -- Rescuers responding to a report of an infant left alone in a vehicle arrived to find that she wasn't breathing.

No big deal, since the rescuee turned out to be nothing more than a doll in a car seat.

A woman had phoned the Clinton County Sheriff's Department shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday and said a baby had been left in a locked car in Kirklin, a town of 800 about 40 miles north of Indianapolis. The woman told the dispatcher she thought the child might not be breathing.

Sheriff's deputies, firefighters and emergency medical technicians raced to the scene and used a special device to unlock the car's door, said Sheriff's Department Lt. Joe Mink.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3941923/detail.html

[Metatron]

1. Ever noticed that half of all matcomnews comes from Indiana?

I am just so proud of this state I live in. :eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Woo!

It makes me feel good to be alive, I tells ya. Our fellow Hoosiers do us proud don't they?

[China_cat]

3. Some dolls are very, very lifelike

And so many reports of babies left in cars in summer that die of heat. It may be embarassing for that woman but what if she'd thought it was a doll and it had turned out to be a baby?

A little embarassment never killed anyone.

[shesemsmom]

4. I remember a baby

left in a car here in the early 80's that died a horrible death.Truly better to be wrong that have one suffer to death.

[Metatron]

5. Of course, it it not summer here in Indiana.

:)

[China_cat]

6. Hard to credit that

when I need air conditioning.

Still, better to be mistaken and embarassed than to later find out that it HAD been a baby who could have been saved if you'd made a call in time.

[Danmel]

7. Give the woman a break

You know what- better safe than sorry- my daughter is in middle school and they take home an animatronic baby- it is in a car seat, and it cries and looks quite life-like. If it had been a baby and she didn't report it and something terrible happened and she said "I thought it was a doll" we'd be on her for being so stupid. So she did the right thing- give her a break.