Rob, I believe it's also a legal offense here to leave kids locked in the car.
In any case, leaving kids unattended in a car is dangerous. One of our neighbors (across the street) had an incident. She put her kids in the car and started it on her driveway. Then, she ran back into the house for something she forgot. One of her pre-school boys got the car into reverse and backed across the street and into the neighbor's house. And I'll bet we see 2K to 5K cars a day on the street! Regards, Bob S. On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Rob Studdert <distudio.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30/05/2010, John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> There is now legislation in Queensland making it an offence to leave a child >> under a certain age unattended in any vehicle, and a woman was prosecuted >> this week for doing so while shopping for jewellery in a pawnshop. The >> child was rescued after 40 minutes after a passer-by noticed he was >> suffering from heat stress. The woman was placed on probation for three >> years and required to undertake a parenting course. >> It has been recorded that, in a Queensland summer, the interior of a car can >> reach 60C after only ten minutes when the car is parked in full sunlight, as >> is often the case in suburban shopping centre car parks. It was fortunate >> in the case cited that the event occurred in our winter, otherwise the child >> would be either dead or severely damaged. > > It a $22k fine for leaving kids unattended in cars down here, that > includes the trip from the petrol pump (where law requires you to lock > the car) to the cashier. > > http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/lib100039/kids_cars_parentsignoring.pdf > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
