Brickbat: When Seconds Count

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Lacey Guyton says her two-month-old daughter was "drenched in sweat" when she finally got her out of the car she'd accidentally locked her in during a recent hot summer day. Guyton's mother was able to smash out the back window. That was good, because a Waterford, Michigan, 911 dispatcher refused multiple requests to send a police officer or fire truck to help, offering instead to connect Guyton with a tow truck. Police Chief Scott Waterford says the dispatcher made a mistake and will face disciplinary action.

Comments

[Hugh Akston]

So they can't dispatch a cop to rescue a kid locked in a car, but they can dispatch a cop to arrest parents whose kids are fine in the car.

[Hank Phillips]

This is precisely what the Police Chief wanted done, hence the disciplinary action.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Perhaps the 911 operator was doing the caller a favor by offering an alternative solution that would involve her arrest.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Would not...

[supportnumber12]

This is the responsibility of the parents to take care of their children because a two-month baby cannot lock herself by her own, it was the parent's mistake who left her.
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[sarcasmic]

If the cops had been sent she would have gone to jail and her child would be in foster care, so the dispatcher unwittingly did a good thing.

[Kivlor]

No shit. This gal dodged a bullet, and apparently she is unaware of it.

[sarcasmic]

I'm sure she naively believes that the police are there to help. So that thought would never cross her mind.

[Longtobefree]

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[creech]

Maybe she should have told the dispatcher that a black family was about to use the public swimming pool?

[Hank Phillips]

Lucky for the child summers have become cooler in recent decades--according to unvarnished data taken from thermometer readings. A small clique of scientist-impersonators alters that data--past and present--to create hobgoblins with which governments frighten dupes into, for instance, a tax on exhaling. Just so, a government bureaucracy acted to further endanger that child by crude dereliction.

[Agammamon]

OK, so the dispatcher screwed up.

But what was the cop going to do? Break the window. So why call the emergency number? Just break the window yourself. Which she did anyway.

[Vernon Depner]

Have you broken a car window recently? It's harder than you might think. It's easy to imagine a petite woman without the right tool being unable to do it. On the other hand, police officers and EMTs routinely carry such tools for such emergencies, which the dispatcher should have know. I agree, though, with the commenters who have said she would have been at risk of arrest if the cops had come?you can't trust them to reasonable or even sane.

[Agammamon]

police officers and EMTs routinely carry such tools for such emergencies

Yeah, so do passers-by.

[IceTrey]

Next CPS takes the kid and the mother is arrested for child endangerment.

[crufus]

No reason that that can't still happen.

[Jimothy]

And shoots the family dog, for good measure.

[Fuck you, Shikha (Nunya)]

I really question if emergency operator was trying to do the lady a solid. It will suck if she is actually penalized in any way if her intentions were pure.