Never leave children in a car unattended, even for second. She walked in to pick up her order,

[Effete Snob]

58. I came in on the tail of these three posts

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"It's a stupid habit."

"Leaving a car running and unattended is against the law..."

"...it creates a public hazard. ...Then you get to explain your negligence to a judge."

Along with the OP misquoting the story to make it "her order".

This woman's child is missing and DUers want to point out that she's a stupid, negligent criminal.

I responded to a string of invective against the victim. But you don't have an issue with those other statements, do you.

The police statement to the effect of making sure "it never happens again" is pretty clear where this is going.

I believe that she was trying to make a living in a 2010 car she had just purchased (the temporary tag) to try to earn some money and not freeze her kids.

And, I'm sorry, if it is some mystery to you why someone in a newly-purchased twelve year old hooptie wagon is picking up DoorDash, then I'll put that down to maybe not appreciating what people do to get by these days. It was less than a block away from the last DoorDash carjacking on that street. It is why the perp was sitting in the restaurant waiting for a DoorDash driver to pick up an order. It is an extremely common method since, yes, DoorDash drivers tend to leave the engine running as noted in any article about DoorDash carjackings.

A child is missing and, yep, three posts in a row condemning the victim just pushed me over the edge to mock them. These people want her locked up. Absolutely, that set me off.

The torchbearing mob will be happy when the other one is taken away from her - precisely the tenor of "explain it to the judge".

A lot of what goes on in social media consists of the public stocks in which the vegetable throwers demonstrate their moral superiority by having a throw at whomever suffered some dreadful consequence of an error in judgment, a momentary loss of good sense, or some other affliction of their perceptual and inhibitory mechanisms. The "Darwin Awards" are a good example of that. Someone does something "stupid" and we feel better by calling them stupid than sympathizing with someone who, yes, did something stupid, as we all do at times.

There was a time when things like empathy and compassion were important values on this side of the political spectrum. That no longer seems to be the case.