Sleeping baby gives car-thief second thoughts

[grace0418]

WOW. Words fail me...

http://tinyurl.com/29ok5a

MONTREAL (AFP) - A car thief in Montreal alerted police of his misdeed after discovering a baby sleeping in the back seat of the vehicle, then fled, authorities said Tuesday.

The mother had left her 14-month old daughter asleep in the sports-utility vehicle with its engine running while she stopped to visit her sister Monday afternoon in the Montreal neighborhood of Outremont, said Constable Miguel Alston.

Moments later, a man jumped into the driver's seat and drove off, only to abandon the vehicle a few blocks away and call police from a pay phone, Alston told AFP.

Police located the sport utility vehicle with the little girl still asleep in her seat, he said.

[triguy46]

1. why was the baby left in the car? That is a frickin crime.

[grace0418]

2. Exactly. The mother is worse than the car thief IMHO.

If they don't charge her with something she's getting off easy.

[Shine]

3. Funny how things work out sometimes.

Interesting story. I'm glad that man's conscience compelled him to do the right thing.

Too bad the mother's didn't, but maybe she'll learn her lesson from this experience.

:hi:

[grace0418]

6. I hope she learns her lesson too.

How she could make that error in judgment in the first place is beyond me.

[SeattleGirl]

4. The mother left her child in the car???

To me, that's far worse than steeling the vehicle (though thank goodness the guy called the cops when he discovered the child).

I will never, ever understand parents who do stuff like that. Don't they care about their children?

[grace0418]

5. I know! It's like she was trying to win a contest for how many things one person can

do wrong in the span of five minutes. She leaves the baby in the car unattended. She leaves the car running. She goes away. Was she hoping someone would come and kidnap the baby or something?

Maybe she should've parked it on a steep hill with the emergency break off too. Or left a lit cigarette on the seat. :eyes:

I think the police should've immediately arrested her for child endangerment.

[rug]

7. Bye bye thief.