Police break into hot car to save... a doll

kamik86 · Sep 2, 2015

http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/189997/police_break_into_a_hot?ct=piping_hot_1

I wonder if the police have to pay for this since nothing illegal was done...

MickeySP · Sep 2, 2015

Probably not. They acted in good faith as that doll looks very lifelike. If they had hestiated & it was a real child the story would be way different.
Lesson don't leave "reborn" dolls in car seats so they look like real babies

fly girl · Sep 2, 2015

Why would the person leave the doll in a car seat? Anyone walking by would be alarmed. That's just a bonehead move on their part.

I don't blame the police officers, they were doing the right thing.

ronandannette · Sep 2, 2015

fly girl said:
Why would the person leave the doll in a car seat? Anyone walking by would be alarmed. That's just a bonehead move on their part.

I don't blame the police officers, they were doing the right thing.

Maybe not everyone behaves as if they're under constant surveillance. The owners of the car did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong. It was a kid's toy left in the car...the fact that it was more "realistic" looking than an American Girl or stuffed Elsa wouldn't have crossed my mind either.

3Gsandme · Sep 2, 2015

No one on either side did anything wrong. The owner of the car is free to leave whatever they like inside and the police acted in good faith.

gwynne · Sep 2, 2015

MickeySP said:
Probably not. They acted in good faith as that doll looks very lifelike. If they had hestiated & it was a real child the story would be way different.
Lesson don't leave "reborn" dolls in car seats so they look like real babies

And I think it's really sad that even has to be pointed out.

ronandannette said:
Maybe not everyone behaves as if they're under constant surveillance. The owners of the car did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong. It was a kid's toy left in the car...the fact that it was more "realistic" looking than an American Girl or stuffed Elsa wouldn't have crossed my mind either.

Legally wrong? Nope. Weird to the max to strap a lifelike doll into a carseat and leave it there? Yep.

mom2rtk · Sep 2, 2015

OK, that seems to be more than a kid's toy. Sort of makes me think they put it there to punk people. And if that's the case, they deserve what they got.

MickeySP · Sep 2, 2015

ronandannette said:
Maybe not everyone behaves as if they're under constant surveillance. The owners of the car did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING wrong. It was a kid's toy left in the car...the fact that it was more "realistic" looking than an American Girl or stuffed Elsa wouldn't have crossed my mind either.

Noone said the were under constant surveillance but people buy these dolls because the look real. They do not look like AG dolls at all. People need to exercise a bit of common sense. They didn't do anything wrong just kinda stupid.

cluvsdisney · Sep 2, 2015

My first thought when I saw the doll was that it was being used to fake out cops so they can use the HOV lane with just one real person in the car.

Thankfully, it was a doll and not a real baby.

mjkacmom · Sep 2, 2015

That looks much more like a real baby than a doll - those people are idiots.

Jaya · Sep 2, 2015

Some of the extreme fans of these "reborn baby" dolls go to great lengths to treat them like real babies. You'll see them in grocery stores with the dolls in a cart seat, they spend thousands of dollars on clothing and accessories and they take them on vacations. I was reading the Cruise Critic boards about a woman who takes her dolls on cruises, insisting that they have a bed of their own and their own chairs in the dining room. I'm not surprised that they would have one in a car seat but I AM surprised that they would leave it in a car. Those things are expensive and, as I said earlier, the fanatics treat them like real children.

Turn the Page · Sep 2, 2015

gwynne said:
And I think it's really sad that even has to be pointed out.

Legally wrong? Nope. Weird to the max to strap a lifelike doll into a carseat and leave it there? Yep.

I think there have been threads on here before about reborn dolls.

I have to say that some of those dolls are creepy looking. The sleeping dolls really look like deceased babies to me. They really weird me out.

I guess some adult women use them almost as surrogates for real babies and treat them almost like real babies, hence the car seat and strollers and things like that. However, if you're going to do that, you have to realize that as realistic as they look if you leave the doll in the car don't be surprised to come back to find your window smashed because someone thought it was a real baby who was in distress.

Turn the Page · Sep 2, 2015

Jaya said:
Some of the extreme fans of these "reborn baby" dolls go to great lengths to treat them like real babies. You'll see them in grocery stores with the dolls in a cart seat, they spend thousands of dollars on clothing and accessories and they take them on vacations. I was reading the Cruise Critic boards about a woman who takes her dolls on cruises, insisting that they have a bed of their own and their own chairs in the dining room. I'm not surprised that they would have one in a car seat but I AM surprised that they would leave it in a car. Those things are expensive and, as I said earlier, the fanatics treat them like real children.

Aren't there stories like this just about every year? Police or passersby see a baby locked in the car in the summer and they smash the window to get the baby out only to find out it's a doll?

Rhombus · Sep 2, 2015

For starters, any adult who puts a doll in a carseat is a nutjob. Any adult who leaves the doll there is an attention seeking nutjob hoping to get a reaction.

kamik86 · Sep 2, 2015

Rhombus said:
For starters, anyone who puts a doll in a carseat is a nutjob. Anyone who leaves the doll there is an attention seeking nutjob hoping to get a reaction.

See when I read the article I assumed it was a little kids toy. Maybe the doll of an older sister who had a younger sibling that wasn't out with them that day and put the doll in the seat.

When I was younger I had a few kind of lifelike looking baby dolls I would bring places. I also had neices who were young enough for car seats and my mom would sometimes have the car seat in teh car (say we were going to pick them up to watch them after our shopping trip) I would sometimes want to put my baby doll in the car seat if the baby wasn't with us... Just like how I would often buckle my dolls that looked older (like my american girl doll) in when it was sitting next to me.

So I could see me doing this and putting my doll in the car seat then when we get to the store mom asking if I want to check out the toy section and me being all excited to go that I leave the doll in teh car.

I didn't even think of the possibility that this wasn't a child's toy that someone was carrying around for some other reason.

Turn the Page · Sep 2, 2015

Rhombus said:
For starters, anyone who puts a doll in a carseat is a nutjob. Anyone who leaves the doll there is an attention seeking nutjob hoping to get a reaction.

This is likely true.

Jaime4004 · Sep 2, 2015

It would be helpful to have both sides of the story. An adult strapping a doll in a carseat might be a little creepy, whether it was to fool people, use the carpool lane, etc. A child strapping a doll in a car seat they are vacating is normal. My kids have strapped dolls and stuffed animals in when we'd leave the car, never thought twice about it.

gwynne · Sep 2, 2015

Rhombus said:
For starters, anyone who puts a doll in a carseat is a nutjob. Anyone who leaves the doll there is an attention seeking nutjob hoping to get a reaction.

kamik86 said:
See when I read the article I assumed it was a little kids toy. Maybe the doll of an older sister who had a younger sibling that wasn't out with them that day and put the doll in the seat.

When I was younger I had a few kind of lifelike looking baby dolls I would bring places. I also had neices who were young enough for car seats and my mom would sometimes have the car seat in teh car (say we were going to pick them up to watch them after our shopping trip) I would sometimes want to put my baby doll in the car seat if the baby wasn't with us... Just like how I would often buckle my dolls that looked older (like my american girl doll) in when it was sitting next to me.

So I could see me doing this and putting my doll in the car seat then when we get to the store mom asking if I want to check out the toy section and me being all excited to go that I leave the doll in teh car.

I didn't even think of the possibility that this wasn't a child's toy that someone was carrying around for some other reason.

The doll in the picture is one those very expensive "real life" dolls. Heavy, breakable...they aren't for children. They are designed and painted to look (and weigh) as real as possible.

It's nothing like a child's well loved dolly.

Turn the Page · Sep 2, 2015

kamik86 said:
See when I read the article I assumed it was a little kids toy. Maybe the doll of an older sister who had a younger sibling that wasn't out with them that day and put the doll in the seat.

When I was younger I had a few kind of lifelike looking baby dolls I would bring places. I also had neices who were young enough for car seats and my mom would sometimes have the car seat in teh car (say we were going to pick them up to watch them after our shopping trip) I would sometimes want to put my baby doll in the car seat if the baby wasn't with us... Just like how I would often buckle my dolls that looked older (like my american girl doll) in when it was sitting next to me.

So I could see me doing this and putting my doll in the car seat then when we get to the store mom asking if I want to check out the toy section and me being all excited to go that I leave the doll in teh car.

I didn't even think of the possibility that this wasn't a child's toy that someone was carrying around for some other reason.

Good point.

Years ago my boss at the time had a 9ish year old daughter who liked the reborn dolls. They didn't buy her higher end models but they were still between $100 and $200 and I thought it was ridiculous to spend that much for a baby doll but hey, to each their own.

But you bring up a good point, that is a valid possibility that it was a little girls toy and she put it in the car seat because she didn't want to carry it around in the store.

kamik86 · Sep 2, 2015

gwynne said:
The doll in the picture is one those very expensive "real life" dolls. Heavy, breakable...they aren't for children. They are designed and painted to look (and weigh) as real as possible.

It's nothing like a child's well loved dolly.

Ok I didn't realize that... I don't really have kids and my nieces aren't of the age where they would have life like dolls (the 2 year old doesn't care what her dolls look like really and the 13 year old stopped playing with them a while ago) The picture wasn't enough for me to realize it wasn't one similar to the one I had as a kid that I could dress and had this little bottle you coud put to its lips that would slowly drain all the liquid into the cap as if the baby drank it.

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