[ASLplease]

$1:

It was fortunate that her husband Michel had access to a hammer.

packing a hammer is much easier than packing a spare set of keys

[Brenda]

ASLplease ASLplease:

If they were concerned about their child, why was he locked inside a vehicle in the first place?

At least she didn't go shopping without taking the kid out of the car.
Luckily, this was just an accident.

I don't understand why it was not an emergency tho...

[ASLplease]

did they take all reasonable and legal steps to prevent this from happening? I think child protective services should be called.

[kenmore]

ASLplease ASLplease:

did they take all reasonable and legal steps to prevent this from happening? I think child protective services should be called.

accidents happen.. .its not like the guy in Alberta who went to the bar and left the kid in the car... situtational crises is quite different.. jeeze!

[GreenTiger]

ASLplease ASLplease:

If they were concerned about their child, why was he locked inside a vehicle in the first place?

Depending on the car and the cars locking system sometimes it can be very easy to do.

[EyeBrock]

Not a well handled situation by Police dispatch but;

These people are stupid. Bash the window in or call for a towtruck. Police don't carry spare keys or car door opening tools.

Leaving a kid unattended in a car is what stupid people do.

I see the enlightened CBC posters are pretty good at blaming the cops on it though. Imagine that!

[BartSimpson]

Rethinking this, the majority of people have an aversion to busting glass. I've never figured it out. It always amuses me to go to someone's home and see a steel reinforced door with a serious deadbolt at the front door while there's a window right next to the door and then there's all sorts of windows and sliding glass doors around the house. Really, does anyone think that a determined criminal will be stopped by a sheet of glass? Yet it seems people are always shocked and surprised when some perp just tosses a rock into a window to gain entry to a home.

[EyeBrock]

I know. It's like people thinking that their car is some thief-proof mobile safe and then being amazed that their lap-top, camera and purse were stolen as some scrote caves in the car window and nicks it all.