Couple finishes restaurant meal while child tied in hot car

[deadparrot]

Source: CNN

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (AP) -- Police in northwest Georgia have rescued a boy from a hot car where his mother's companion is accused of tying him up.

Ringgold, Georgia, police say a Cracker Barrel restaurant employee called police after seeing Raymond Minchew take the 6-year-old out of the restaurant and return without him -- then finished eating his meal. Ringgold is 13 miles southeast of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Police found the bound boy sitting in the car, crying.

Sgt. John Gass says the child was soaked with sweat and had a rope tied to one of his ankles. Gass says the temperature was in the 80s Saturday in Ringgold.



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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I understand the frustration of trying to eat with a wound up kid underfoot but

this is so very wrong.

[Delphinus]

2. Thankfully there was an employee

not afraid to get involved.

I hope the child remains safe.

[dogday]

3. Words fail me at this point

Those heartless soulless bastards... Well I guess I came up with a few words after all.....

[dogfacedboy]

4. Does the locale of this incident shock anyone? n/t

[Matsubara]

11. Hoohoo! Don't start on that track!

I posted a thread on this *exact same* story and it got locked, mostly because I called the couple "red state scumbags".

Geography has nothing to do with their decision to torture their child and risk his life in a hot car.



Neither does the fact that they irresponsibly leave a gun in the car, or that they eat at notoriously racist/homophobic restaurant Cracker Barrel.

We have no way of knowing that they vote republican (but I would be willing to put money on it that they are...)

[dogfacedboy]

19. I never said anything about how they vote.

I was ragging on the whole "spare the rod, spoil the child/treat the children like property" mentality. Seems more prevalent in places down south than it does up here.

[Holly_Hobby]

5. I was raised in a similar manner

My parents would put me and my brother in a locked car by ourselves if we misbehaved in church or a restaurant. Minus the rope. The windows would be down somewhat in warm weather. We didn't misbehave often, because we didn't want to spend time in the car. I'm from NW Ohio and my parents aren't rednecks. That's the way some children were disciplined in the '50's. No one thought twice about it. I'm not defending it, I think it's cruel and humiliating.

[blondeatlast]

6. Here in AZ, one can break a window in order to free a child or pet from a locked car

provided 911 is called immediately.

This is pathetic--TIED UP?

[Matsubara]

12. In Phoenix, it only takes about 5 minutes in summer for a car interior to hit 100 degrees.

I wouldn't be surprised if car interiors get well over 150 degrees on a typical Phoenix summer day.

That is a good policy for Arizona - I wouldn't hesitate to do so in any state.

[blondeatlast]

17. It would be a sensible law almost anywhere. Here--it's a necessity.

And sadly, several child deaths and a dozen or so pet deaths occur to this every year. :cry:

[Rockholm]

7. Things that make you go hhhmmmmmm....

Cracker Barrel. Lovely inclusive chain. Great "family" values.

[blondeatlast]

8. Excuse me, but that's all you got out of this story?

:wtf:

[Rockholm]

9. Well, heck no.

What I ultimately got out of the story is some dumb as shit white trash straight couple who could give a rat's ass about the welfare of their child, left it in the car while they had a meal.

There are the SOB-types who are fighting to stop equal marriage here in Massachusetts. The one's who believe that we gays are sinners and bad people. That we should not be parents. That we are not worthy of having equal treatment under the law.

Ultimately, that is what I got out of the story.

[Matsubara]

13. Their choice of restaurant tells us a little about the couple.

We know that they were either unaware of, or did not care about : the numerous lawsuits for racial discrimination that Cracker Barrel had to settle, or the boycott against cracker barrel because of their ban on hiring gay employees (a policy they finally ended in 2002).

I am not ready to go to cracker barrel. When I really think they've changed, I might, but I don't want to support that kind of mentality with my money. This couple obviously felt differently.

[lies and propaganda]

18. what you point out is true..

crappy ass restauraunt that wouldnt let gays work there in the late 90s.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. At least the kid wasn't interrupting other people's meals.

:shrug:

[blondeatlast]

14. I was thinking--better this one not get to the Lounge. Yikes! nt

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. I was thinking the exact same thing.

[proud patriot]

15. how awful

:(