The case of the woman who forgot her child in the car. Depressing [DP]
Gun show sale restriction bill defeated [WP]
Cirque de Soleil is coming to JPJ [SE]
A local group sets up a website to stop promote a new traffic light. [WCAV]
That porn shop in Staunton? Yes. Well the employees are getting sued too. [NBC29]
Popularity: 3% [?]
Tagged as: Central Virginia, Charlottesville
it seems to me that the burnley folks actually *want* a light installed, realize though they do the potential pitfalls of installing a light at that intersection. eh, they can’t spell ‘divulge’, so what’s it matter anyways?
(kidding, kidding. i’ve been up since 4:30 and am only on one cup of coffee)
one of my professors was called for jury duty for the child-in-car trial. he’s been bitching about it all week - it’s sad, but i don’t think she needs to go to jail. be prosecuted, yes, but serve community service rather than time in prison. i imagine she’s suffered enough already.
Thor - the group actually wants the light at Burnley Station Road and US29 to be built faster. VDOT has scheduled them to become operational by December.
not a single one of those is a complete sentence! THIS IS THE LAZIEST FRIDAY EVER.
I lazy.
I also retarded and can’t read… fixing the post.
Parlie, I got a gap in my work schedule and I beg to differ. Im trying to take up some of the slack here…
/no love for the wicked and bored.
i got your love right here (grabs crotch)
Chill, pizano.
Is it Irish love?
(clears throat) i got your irish right here…(grabs…)
so, bukbuk, pull up a chair and tell me more….
I can’t believe that woman “forgot” her child. Just like I don’t believe people “forget” to eat a meal. That’s what people say when they want to show off how important or skinny they think they are.
I have two kids and trust me you forget them whenever possible
lilith - according to my bitter professor (who hates cell phones, so this was merely fuel for his fire), it came out that she was on her phone when she was parking her car, and she may have been sufficiently distracted by whatever the conversation was. not that that at all excuses what she did; it still seems improbable, but i do believe she didn’t truly intend to leave her child in the car.
and, um, i’ve forgotten to eat in the heat of the moment. erm, while in a fury of paper-writing, that is. i love food too much to intentionally bypass it!
if you don’t have children it’s hard to understand how sleep deprived one may be, making some very forgetful. I’m with Buster, I think it was a terrible terrible tradgedy, and one she will have to live with forever. Before I had a kid I would’ve been like, Jesus lady WTF, How does one forget their kid in the car, but after having a baby and losing half my brain somewhere, I can sympathize.
as someone who is crazily protective and concerned about her dog, i can’t even begin to comprehend how you leave a baby in the car and go about your day. distracted or not.
@15 - to immediately backtrack, you’re right, caroline. i also can’t even begin to comprehend what it’s like to have a child. i don’t think she intentionally left her kid in the car, it just kind of boggles my mind that these things happen. it’s horrible for everyone involved.
Trillian, if your name is inspired by Hitchhiker’s Guide, then we have to be best friends. Otherwise, we’ll just have to be kind-of friends. And I agree, I really don’t understand how you can forget your child in a car. I can see getting distracted and ignoring them for a moment, but to forget they are in the car for 7 HOURS is a bit absurd. I’m sure she’s suffered enough though…prison won’t help.
I once left a tuna fish sandwich in my car on a hot summer day. That was an accident.
tim - it is indeed! i’ve read the whole series i don’t even know how many times. douglas adams was brilliant.
Now that I think about it, my parents did forget to pick me up from stuff. Or maybe I was never loved?
Ever put the cereal in the fridge or the milk in the cabinet. Think of how absent minded you can be in the morning and then add more distraction to it. I just feel bad for this poor woman. Imagine being in a courtroom reminded everyday of how you killed your baby because of a little brain fart. Not to say this event is little. But with how the brain works, forgetting a quiet child in the backseat works the same way you forget where you put your keys. My heart goes out to whatsherface and husbandguy
First person that can point me to a logical, well-constructed argument as to how a porn shop causes any harm gets a cookie.
But cereal, milk and keys are inanimate objects which are only in your life for a short period, and nothing really happens to them when you forget. A child is a living thing, and you have a much more personal connection to one. How do you forget it for so long?
Marshall, if you lose the keys to the cuffs, it gets a bit uncomfortable waiting for the locksmith.
i also can’t even begin to comprehend what it’s like to have a child.
Try it this way, it means sometimes you cant stay and eat more spinach balls at crush and the go to x lounge, flirt with pretty women, argue about wes anderson and ditch doof with the bill. It means instead you drive out to wood-f’ing brook and drop your son off at basketball practice, and try to chit chat with the most “normal” parents of other kids before, even though you yourself are a freak, So you claim “errand” and run around the corner and sit all alone at that tiny bar at amigos and have a bad beer and contemplate your mortality.
There some good parts to procreating too, though. But sometimes… Im just sayin…
That was supposed to block quote part of comment 17. my html-fu is weak.
@26
You are me yo
or i am you
That is pretty much my night tonight
Something to keep in mind: Charlottesville’s Commonwealth Attorney Warner D. “Dave” Chapman is an elected official.
Except that I am single and have a biological urge to flirt with pretty women.