Texas dad tried to save baby left in hot car by putting her in fridge - Polidicks

[url]http://myfox8.com/2016/06/22/dad-tried-to-save-baby-left-in-hot-car-by-putting-her-in-fridge/[/url] [quote]According to the warrant issued for Michael Thedford, the McKinney father told investigators that he took his 5-year-old and 3-year-old children to daycare at about 9 a.m. Tuesday. When he went home, he forgot his 6-month-old daughter was in the car and went inside the house to take a nap. The warrant states that when he woke up a few hours later, he said he discovered the baby was in the car and ran outside. He found her unresponsive and took her into the house. Thedford told police he placed his daughter in the refrigerator “for an undetermined length of time prior to calling 911.” The warrant goes on to say Thedford told officers he called his wife and 911 while trying to perform CPR on the child. When deputies arrived they found the baby dead in the kitchen.[/quote]

I can sort of see the logic, but fuck, what a horrible thing to happen.

What kind of fucking stupid reaction was that. If she is unresponsive then you could have called 911 you dumbfuck. Putting her in the fridge of all places is the worst thing possible.

What a very responsible father.

[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;50571816]What kind of fucking stupid reaction was that. If she is unresponsive then you could have called 911 you dumbfuck. Putting her in the fridge of all places is the worst thing possible.[/QUOTE] Not advocating or defending his actions, just theorizing, but perhaps he was panicked and afraid to call 911 initially because of the associated punishment for leaving a child in a hot car. Still dumb though, yes.

[QUOTE=GhillieBacca;50571816]What kind of fucking stupid reaction was that. If she is unresponsive then you could have called 911 you dumbfuck. Putting her in the fridge of all places is the worst thing possible.[/QUOTE] Panic a massive amount of panic. Which most people tend to do in the event of something really horrible unless there trained to out do the panic.

imagine the horrible feeling he must've had in his stomach when he woke up and suddenly remembered

Just recently having a child born, these stories hit me harder than when I had no children. I felt the gut-wrenching horror just sitting here reading this, I could only imagine how I would feel if this happened to me.

How do you forget your child

[QUOTE=wallyroberto_2;50572290]How do you forget your child[/QUOTE] Get tired. Get distracted. Get so use to the child that you forget they are even there (and don't act like your ma never forgot you, when you were a little one, just not on this level) Stupid poor asshole. I feel bad for him, has to live with that for the rest of his life, and his daughters will know their dad killed their baby sister. I mean fuck. I'd just hang myself rather than live with knowing I killed my own little girl.

I think we can determine he probably wasn't the brightest bulb when his first reaction is to put it in the fridge

[QUOTE=Daddy-of-war;50572323]Get tired. Get distracted. Get so use to the child that you forget they are even there (and don't act like your ma never forgot you, when you were a little one, just not on this level) Stupid poor asshole. I feel bad for him, has to live with that for the rest of his life, and his daughters will know their dad killed their baby sister. I mean fuck. I'd just hang myself rather than live with knowing I killed my own little girl.[/QUOTE] I can't possibly imagine just forgetting your child

[QUOTE=Kylel999;50572541]I can't possibly imagine just forgetting your child[/QUOTE] It's bound to happen at some point to anyone. When me and my brothers were little, my mom and dad forgot my middle-elder brother at home (i'm the youngest of the 2) at the door when we went to go shopping. Luckily he was just waiting at the doorstep until one of the close neighbours saw him and took him in and waited until we were back, they couldn't call us since cellphones wasn't a thing at that time.

[QUOTE=Kylel999;50572541]I can't possibly imagine just forgetting your child[/QUOTE]I can see myself doing this and it terrifies me, I'm somewhat forgetful so I have a checklist for everything under the sun just to keep the habit up. I felt uncomfortable reading this, I feel so bad for that family.

I'm so used to doing literally everything for my son that the idea of just... forgetting him somewhere, especially in a hot vehicle, is entirely foreign to me. How do you fuck up that bad? That said, I feel terrible for the father. He's an idiot, no doubt, but he and his entire family didn't deserve this. The guilt he now carries will haunt him for a long, long time.

Rarely back when I was a kid my mom would accidentally leave me in the car seat when she parked in the garage because I would fall asleep and be basically dead silent. I can see how he forgot.

why the fuck was he charged for manslaughter lol, do they think he did it on purpose, get real.

[QUOTE=ashxu;50572748]why the fuck was he charged for manslaughter lol, do they think he did it on purpose, get real.[/QUOTE] Isnt the definition of manslaughter that its not murder? Aka not on purpose?

[QUOTE=ashxu;50572748]why the fuck was he charged for manslaughter lol, do they think he did it on purpose, get real.[/QUOTE] But manslaughter is used for accidents.

[QUOTE=Daddy-of-war;50572323]Stupid poor asshole. I feel bad for him, has to live with that for the rest of his life, and his daughters will know their dad killed their baby sister. I mean fuck. I'd just hang myself rather than live with knowing I killed my own little girl.[/QUOTE] That seems punishment enough

[QUOTE=ashxu;50572748]why the fuck was he charged for manslaughter lol, do they think he did it on purpose, get real.[/QUOTE] do you not know the definition of manslaughter? the very definition of manslaughter is that it's the taking of another human's life without malice aforethought, therefore it's not [b]murder[/b], which is probably what you're thinking of.

Man, talk about bad memory.

This man has condemned himself to a life sentence of misery.

- "How did she die?" - "I forgot her in the car." :speechless:

How can you forget a baby in a car?

[QUOTE=Judqment8;50573018]How can you forget a baby in a car?[/QUOTE] Considering how often it happens that's not really the question to ask here, I think it's more important to ask why the fuck he put the baby in the fridge.

[QUOTE=gk99;50573333]Considering how often it happens that's not really the question to ask here, I think it's more important to ask why the fuck he put the baby in the fridge.[/QUOTE] There's a fuckload of people in the world. He might just be not very well educated. You also have to think of how many times this happens and goes unreported. It happened in the US, but it could happen, I dunno, several times a day in a country with a huge population, such a China and India, and we'd never hear about it. Shit like this is more common than you think.

[QUOTE=Maximo13;50573525]There's a fuckload of people in the world. He might just be not very well educated. You also have to think of how many times this happens and goes unreported. It happened in the US, but it could happen, I dunno, several times a day in a country with a huge population, such a China and India, and we'd never hear about it. Shit like this is more common than you think.[/QUOTE] You're right, but still, the baby-in-the-car thing makes news every summer and it's un-fucking-believable to me that it's so common. I mean yes forgetfulness is a thing but it should be your fucking duty as a parent to find a way to remember not to leave your baby in the car even if you have to modify your fucking door of your car to emit a voice saying "grab the baby" every time it's opened.

[QUOTE=gk99;50573578]You're right, but still, the baby-in-the-car thing makes news every summer and it's un-fucking-believable to me that it's so common. I mean yes forgetfulness is a thing but it should be your fucking duty as a parent to find a way to remember not to leave your baby in the car even if you have to modify your fucking door of your car to emit a voice saying "grab the baby" every time it's opened.[/QUOTE] Maybe people don't think that could ever happen to them, until it does. Heck, the number of people in this thread saying something like "how could you ever forget your kid in the car!?" kind of attests to that mindset existing.

Rapid cooling of the body is the way to respond to heat strokes. Not sure if the refrigerator was the best way to go about it though.