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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts) Fri Nov 23, 2012, 01:14 PM Nov 2012

Massachusetts man takes home TV, leaves kid during Black Friday shopping

Published November 23, 2012
Associated Press

Police say a Massachusetts man left his girlfriend's 2-year-old son in a car while he went shopping for Black Friday bargains, then went home with his new 51-inch flat screen television and left the toddler behind.

Police, alerted by store security, found the boy asleep in the vehicle in a Kmart parking lot at about 1:30 a.m. Friday.

They forced their way into the car and took the boy to the hospital as a precaution ...

He told police he lost the boy while shopping, panicked and called someone else for a ride. The boy's mother was working ...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/23/massachusetts-man-takes-home-tv-leaves-kid-during-black-friday-shopping-cops/

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Massachusetts man takes home TV, leaves kid during Black Friday shopping (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2012 OP

Well you have to prioritize 4th law of robotics Nov 2012 #1

Plus making a new kid is more fun than earning the money to buy a tv mythology Nov 2012 #5

"told police he lost the boy while shopping, panicked and called someone else for a ride." edbermac Nov 2012 #2

See reply #1 struggle4progress Nov 2012 #3

We have that happen regularly at the local casinos. What's wrong with people? HopeHoops Nov 2012 #4

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)

1. Well you have to prioritize

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 01:17 PM

Nov 2012

you can always make a new kid.

But saving 15% on a 51 inch tv that will be obsolete this time next year!?!? You can't pass that up.

What was he supposed to do, stick it out with his current 50 inch tv? What kind of hell would you subject him to?

mythology

(9,527 posts)

5. Plus making a new kid is more fun than earning the money to buy a tv

Reply to 4th law of robotics (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 05:39 PM

Nov 2012

But to be fair, the kid is probably better off with somebody else if this is how the guy treats him or her.

edbermac

(15,942 posts)

2. "told police he lost the boy while shopping, panicked and called someone else for a ride."

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 01:25 PM

Nov 2012

WTF? He didn't think of checking his car? Or with store security? Or the police? But he managed to drive away with his new TV? This sounds very weird.

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)

3. See reply #1

Reply to edbermac (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 01:30 PM

Nov 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

4. We have that happen regularly at the local casinos. What's wrong with people?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Nov 23, 2012, 01:30 PM

Nov 2012

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