Here are my 2 tips:

Where is my negligence? If anything, all of what you’ve learned about me shows my concern and desire for preparedness beyond what most find necessary.

I think this could happen to anybody, especially those arrogant enough to think it could never happen to them. Also, that is an absurd amount of vitriol for me when all I’ve done is suggest that maybe people aren’t doing this on purpose and an extra precautionary layer is a good thing.

How about this. Let’s concede, just for a minute, that if you forget your kid in the backseat, you deserve to get shot in the back of the head on the spot, with no trial. You are just that awful of a human being that you deserve to be deleted from existence immediately.

Sure, why not? If it helps prevent a single tragedy, it’s already worth it. Similar to the idea of placing something in the middle of the kitchen floor or right by the door when you don’t want to forget it on your way out.

Once I would have joined the people who chorus “It could never happen to me because I care about my kid!” And then I came across this article in the Washington Post, the same one cited by Michelle (but which I’ll lay odds most people here will never read):

If you feel a sense of unencumbered freedom when you get out of the car, you probably forgot your baby.

I’m guessing that for most, if not all of the parents, who have forgotten their children in cars that the idea of forgetting their child in a car was unthinkable until it happened.

Never had this problem, and my kids are finally of an age where we talk for most of the trips we take so I might be past this worry... but I absolutely do not have the arrogance to say that ‘I’d NEVER forget they are there!’. You don’t know for sure. You CAN’T know for sure.

It’s not that one’s more important than the other, it’s that one is more salient. If you sit down at your desk at work and don’t have your computer, you’re going to notice. If you sit down at your desk and you’ve already left your child in the care, you’re not going to notice.

I know both cars really well and I’ve always considered the Beat to be very much unadapted to north american roads... Even with cars I am selling, I tend to recommend the Cappuccino to americans. You have to think that the Beat, albeit sounding awesome, is a VERY slow car. It’s utterly torque less and the gearing…

Raising taxes to own the libs

Perhaps you meant, Escaladed.

Not a lawyer here.

Not a lawyer here.

I admire your comment, but stats disagree with you:

Absolutely. Do you think we should we add airbags and good tires to the list?

Add airbags and we are good!

Because the Eunos Roadster has a proper double-DIN radio slot.

God that is cheap petrol. We’re currently sitting at about £1.30 a litre unleaded. That’s about £4.95 a gallon, at current exchange rates $6.55.

For all the bullshit spewing from their mouths, that was an absolutely artful boulder drop onto a tiny target. Kudos to the bobcat operator.