Exactly what type of moron do you have to be...

[mrsltg]

Hi All-

I went with dd5 and my mother to Sesame Place this weekend. We had a nice time and the weather was perfect. While the place isn't Disney, it was a lot of fun.

Ok, at about 6:30 mom, dd, and I are walking toward the park exit. We were probably 200 feet or so when I notice a baby in a wagon by the park exit with not a soul around him. He was just watching people walk by. I kept my eye on him the whole time because something just didn't feel "right". When we got to the baby (about 15 months or so) I bent down and said "hi" to him. He looked at me and looked around. Still no one with him. I saw a SP employee and told him this baby seemed to be alone. The employee walks to a security guard, in the meantime the baby starts climbing out of the wagon. I picked him up (what was I going to go, let him walk out the gate?). He was friendly though he was trying to get down so I put him back in the wagon. He didn't want to be in the wagon so I picked him up again.

At this point the security guard walks over and starts talking to me. Now, tons of people are leaving the park at this point. About 5 minutes have passed at this point and no one has approached this child. Again, we're talking about a non-verbal toddler here. I'm still holding this now very squirmy baby when a child of no more than 5 walks over to me and says, "his mommy is over there," pointing outside the gates to a woman looking through her stuff. She's not looking at me. Hasn't even noticed the stranger holding her child at the exit to the park. Another child comes over and the baby really wants to get down. I guess it was his sibling. I put the baby back in the wagon and the two kids start to wheel him toward the gate and then, finally, the mother comes back and gets the baby. It was a solid 7 or 8 minutes. I was at the exit with her baby, holding him most of that time. I could have walked out with him and she never would have known.

So I ask, what variety moron do you need to be to stop paying attention to your child for that long and to be on opposite sides of a theme park entrance/exit area? What would possess you to leave your toddler in the park while you left? My mother and I couldn't believe it! I wanted so badly to say something to this idiot but Mom told me not to. I'm sure this wasn't the first time she did something like this and I'm sure it won't be the last. I hope she won't be surprised when something (sadly) happens to that child at some point.

UUUGGGHHH - vent over. Please watch your children.

 

[cinmell]

WOW! Some people just have no brain at all.

 

[Jeanny]

and the security guards did what to find the parents????

 

[mrsltg]

and the security guards did what to find the parents????

Security guard did nothing. I was expecting him to take the baby from me once I identified that I was not responsible for this baby in any way. Once the older kids came for him the security guard walked away.... comforting...

 

[N&B'smom]

That is extremely frightening. She may learn the hard way that you never EVER let your children out of your sight. I pray that whatever children she has will be safe. Lord knows she's not doing anything to keep them that way.

Shelby

 

[budbeerlady]

People always shock me! I would love to say something to these morons but for some reason Dh always stops me. I think its because we dont have bail money in our budget.

 

[Charade]

There are different kinds of morons? Who knew!

 

[cardaway]

Good example of why I would like to see some kind of investigation after every missing child or rescue operation is concluded. If people were negligent then they should be responsible. IMO that kind of action is the only thing that will make people pull their head out.

 

[mrsltg]

There are different kinds of morons? Who knew!

Oh absolutely! Let me educate you...

There are just plain old regular morons for whom life is a real challenge, they just don't know it.

There are the people who are occasionally moronic - it happens to all of us at one time or another.

Then there are people who should just be lined up against a wall and shot. See my example in the first post....

 

[Charade]

Oh absolutely! Let me educate you...

There are just plain old regular morons for whom life is a real challenge, they just don't know it.

There are the people who are occasionally moronic - it happens to all of us at one time or another.

Then there are people who should just be lined up against a wall and shot. See my example in the first post....

 

[Froggyswife]

Some people shouldn't have children apparently this is one of them. I can't believe that the park security didn't do anything about it though that is really scarey.

One time I was at a local festival/carnival type thing with a civic organization doing a booth for a fundraiser. I had been there since 5 am and it was about 3pm when I was ready to go home and rest. My dd was 5 at the time and another of the ladies there had a 6 yo and my dd wanted to stay. I said no of course but the lady kept on saying she didn't mind if she stayed to play with her little girl ect ect (this lady and I went to school with each other so we weren't strangers.) She and dd finally talked me into it. I went home came back about 3 hrs later. I found the "lady" and her friend getting off one of the rides and asked where my dd was. She said oh she and her dd went off to play!!!!!!!! I searched frantically for them found them in the "lady's" car in the parking lot ALONE!!

Needless to say I needed bail money!

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

This is the same type of moron who will swear that they only turned their back for a second while the baby was being injured/kidnapped and then turn around and sue the park for millions of dollars.

 

[olena]

It's situations like that where babies go missing and you see the Mom crying on the news that she only turned her back "just for a second".

 

[princesslibby]

We were probably 200 feet or so when I notice a baby in a wagon by the park exit with not a soul around him.

I'm still holding this now very squirmy baby when a child of no more than 5 walks over to me and says, "his mommy is over there," pointing outside the gates to a woman looking through her stuff. She's not looking at me. Hasn't even noticed the stranger holding her child at the exit to the park. It was a solid 7 or 8 minutes.
I was at the exit with her baby, holding him most of that time. I could have walked out with him and she never would have known.

You were his angel that day!

 

[olena]

Actually, on reflection, I saw LOTS of this in Las Vegas. We were at the Circus Circus and at the area just adjacent to the casino floor, there were was an army of strollers parked against the wall with children strapped in them. No parents or adults close-by. I'm assuming they were on the casino floor pumping money into machines and keeping half an eye on their kids when it was convenient. I guess since there were so many kids parked there, the logic must have been 'safety in numbers'.

 

[luvwinnie]

I am speechless.

 

[UnderTheMistletoe]

HOLY (insert explitive here)!

That's unreal. Hopefully, there will always be people like you nearby when this type of thing happens to protect him from someone else with less honorable and desirable intentions. Unbelievable.

 

[Luv'sTink]

That is so sad

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

That is truly sad! What scares me even more than the mother is how the security didn't seem bothered by this.

I saw the same thing happen in Disney this past Sept. Me and DBF were exiting BTMRR. Just as we got outside I saw a stroller facing the "rocks" with a little girl strapped inside. She was in very little shade and it was very hot out. Just as I noticed this a man and a little boy were strolling up the exit. I overheard him asking the little boy were mama parked the stroller. The little boy said at the top in the shade. The father acted like this was completely normal behavior. Who in heck just leaves their child alone in a theme park, in the summer, strapped in their stroller for heck knows how long?

 

[RUDisney]

My DH always says that God watches out for these children since their parents don't. I truly believe when someone says that they turned their back for a minute. It seems to be the careful ones who get snagged. Not the idiots.

We were in Houlihan's in the King of Prussia Mall about 6 or 7 years ago. There was a mother with her toddler at a table in the center of the room. She kept getting up and leaving the restaurant to make and take calls on her cell phone. Every time she'd leave, the boy would be alone at the table. The restaurant became abuzz about this moronic woman. She was having some sort of car trouble or something similar and was trying to coordinate help. She'd have needed a lot more help if someone had stolen her son because of her stupidity.