Why you don't leave a child or animal in a car during high temperatures.
Submitted: Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 at 18:58
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Member - Kim M (VIC)
I left work today to go to a meeting around 4.30pm. The temperature gauge in the car, after ten minutes on the road still indicated an ambient 43C.
The fridge also has a dual temperature gauge. Both internal, and ambient within the car. Here are the results:
Car temperature=71.5C (160.7F)
Fridge internal temperature=57.9C (136.2F)
The fridge was facing away from the afternoon sun.
Even allowing for a significant margin, and the fact that the car was partly under shade...... the heat was very high.
PS Hope I've got my conversions right.
Regards
Kim
Reply By: Truckster (Vic) - Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 at 23:23
Thursday, Jan 10, 2008 at 23:23
I dont believe this story that a chick from einsteins work told us, but any cops on here may answer it
Apparently there was an incident recently at Bunnings Cranny, where a kid was left in the car (xmas/boxing day timeframe so 38 outside car probably 60 inside), someone walked past the car, saw the kid, called 000...
Cops turned up, fireys turned up, even a helicopter circled above!
~20-40 mins later kid was still in car cause bacon isnt allowed to remove the kid? WTF
Apparently the parents saw the cops and stuff round their car and did a runner..
Good parents, probably had the kids handed back to them without being shot...
So, are the cops NOT allowed to remove kids from a 60+ degree car, or do they have to wait until the kid is dead?
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Follow Up By: Member - Kim M (VIC) - Friday, Jan 11, 2008 at 00:07
Friday, Jan 11, 2008 at 00:07
Truckster
Like you, I'd have a bit of a problem believing that story.
I came out of the Carrum Downs shopping centre a couple of years ago and watched the Fire brigade getting a kid out of a car.
There was no naddy paddy about it. They smashed the front windows and took the kid out.
Due credit to these fallas, they don't mess around.
Regards
Kim
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Follow Up By: Stephen M (NSW) - Friday, Jan 11, 2008 at 15:45
Friday, Jan 11, 2008 at 15:45
Hi Truckster, I believe they are allowed to smash the window/s to get the child/animal out. I wouldnt give a sh#t who's car it was, if I saw a child or an animal I wouldnt hesitate smashing the window myself and getting the child or animal out then I would call the cops myself and tell them what Ive done and no doubt they would attend. Would I be in the wrong I would say so for sure, would I do it again bloody oath. There was a poor dog (Collie) left in a car just up the road from me for week in a
carpark, no one noticed it and the owner was going overseas and asked the other person to take the animal out and feed it look after it. I believe it was trained by the jail. Bit like a copper and his work dog take them
home etc.Anyway long story but obviously he didnt and she had no idea until she got back and saw it in her car when she went back to work. True Story was in our local rag and the bloke that was suppose to get it out was charged with cruelty. Steffan probably read about it as
well. Regards Steve M
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