Mother's shock after her one-year-old son finds GUN in rental car - Polidicks

[quote] A mother has warned she could have been burying her one-year-old son after finding him playing with a gun he found in a rental car. Jaymie Bates' son found the semi-automatic pistol in the centre console of the vehicle after the pair had driven home from the car rental firm Enterprise in Longview, Texas. Astonishingly, this was not the only weapon found in one of the rented vehicles at the site - a police report has revealed one of the firm's managers told officers he had found another gun in a different car on the lot. Matthew's mother said she found her son with the gun after the pair got home in the rented car. She told ABC affiliate KLTV that she stepped out of the car for a moment before getting back in only to find her son in the backseat playing with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. She immediately returned the car to the Enterprise where the manager filed a police report. Enterprise has said the safety of its customers is its top priority. It said when each vehicle is returned their procedure is to clean everything, check under seats, the glove compartment, the centre console and in door compartments. The company's spokeswoman Lisa Martini said the company was investigating what went wrong. She said the company will revisit with all of its service agents to make sure it doesn't happen again. It is unclear whether the gun was loaded, but a police report has said a manager at the site found another gun in a vehicle, according to KTRE. According to the police report, both guns were mistakenly left behind by the previous renters of the vehicles. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/28/article-2209841-153F42F0000005DC-684_468x286.jpg[/img] [/quote] [url]http://www.wsbtv.com/videos/news/national/mother-finds-toddler-playing-with-9mm-pistol-in/vfSXY/[/url] [url]http://www.nasdaq.com/video/video.aspx?vid=Mother-Finds-Toddler-Playing-With-9MM-Pistol-In-Backseat-517492276[/url] [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209841/Mothers-shock-year-old-son-finds-GUN-rental-car.html?ITO=1490[/url]

Dat title. [editline]29th September 2012[/editline] changed it, damn.

[quote]Texas[/quote] As a Texan, this isn't surprising

[QUOTE=Radley;37845805]Dat title. [editline]29th September 2012[/editline] changed it, damn.[/QUOTE] They've got a feature so that whenever you copy paste something from their articles it adds that to the selection.

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[QUOTE=TylerB;37845821]They've got a feature so that whenever you copy paste something from their articles it adds that to the selection.[/QUOTE] yeah, but unless you're using an automated script or something you should have noticed when you pasted it

For a second I thought they meant the game GUN.

[quote]She told ABC affiliate KLTV that she stepped out of the car for a moment before getting back in only to find her son in the backseat playing with a 9MM semi-automatic pistol[/quote] I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used, it's 1 million metres, we just say in terms of km really) and they meant mm.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;37845871]I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used) and they meant mm.[/QUOTE] it's the news. you should be happy they didn't call it an ak-47.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;37845871]I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used, it's 1 million metres, we just say in terms of km really) and they meant mm.[/QUOTE] That's an easy fault to make for people who never use the metric system.

You mean you don't get a free hand gun with every rental in Texas?

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;37845883]That's an easy fault to make for people who never use the metric system.[/QUOTE] dailymail (UK news source) called it a 9MM [editline]29th September 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=darkrei9n;37845896]You mean you don't get a free hand gun with every rental in Texas?[/QUOTE] not quite [img]http://i.imgur.com/deroh.jpg[/img]

I like how the hunting rifle part of the ad is twice as large.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;37845871]I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used, it's 1 million metres, we just say in terms of km really) and they meant mm.[/QUOTE] who CARES [QUOTE=koeniginator;37845879]it's the news. you should be happy they didn't call it an ak-47.[/QUOTE] whoever posts that picture is a gigantic unfunny dickhead

Relevent [video=youtube;ifvVPp1ldcE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifvVPp1ldcE[/video]

I can think of much worse things to find in a rental car. Used condoms, heroin needles, dirty diapers, a dirty diaper filled worth used condoms and heroin.

[QUOTE=koeniginator;37845879]it's the news. you should be happy they didn't call it an ak-47.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L52qeI-j4jM/Sr0k4ki3_iI/AAAAAAAAA0o/7oNaOb3eMyU/s400/journalists-guide-to-guns-1.jpg[/IMG] Sorry, it had to be done :v:

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;37846057]I can think of much worse things to find in a rental car. Used condoms, heroin needles, dirty diapers, a dirty diaper filled worth used condoms and heroin.[/QUOTE] or god forbid a gram of DEADLY MARIJUANA

[QUOTE=racerfan;37846067][IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L52qeI-j4jM/Sr0k4ki3_iI/AAAAAAAAA0o/7oNaOb3eMyU/s400/journalists-guide-to-guns-1.jpg[/IMG] Sorry, it had to be done :v:[/QUOTE] no it didn't

I wonder if it was just left there absentminded by a legal gun owner or if it was a criminal that previously rented the car... [QUOTE=Terminutter;37845871]I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used, it's 1 million metres, we just say in terms of km really) and they meant mm.[/QUOTE] Yay, let's be pedantic about units on a news broadcast! MM and mm are used interchangeably in common english. It's a fact of life. It's something you just need to get used to.

[QUOTE=koeniginator;37845946]dailymail (UK news source) called it a 9MM[/QUOTE] The daily mail hates the metric system though. It's like their third least favourite thing behind immigrants and journalistic integrity.

[QUOTE=TestECull;37846837]I wonder if it was just left there absentminded by a legal gun owner or if it was a criminal that previously rented the car... Yay, let's be pedantic about units on a news broadcast! MM and mm are used interchangeably in common english. It's a fact of life. It's something you just need to get used to.[/QUOTE] Probably a criminal, I'm a gun owner myself and will be the first to admit that we're all far too paranoid to just forget one of our guns somewhere.

why is gun in all caps i thought that her son had found the highly acclaimed western shooter GUN by neversoft games, and was shocked at the welcoming surprise in her vehicle

[QUOTE=koeniginator;37846068]or god forbid a gram of DEADLY MARIJUANA[/QUOTE] I knew this kid who went somewhere with his mom and grandma in a rental car. Later the grandmother told me "He said he found a roach in the ashtray, but I looked in there and there was only a cigarette butt. When I asked his mom what he's talking about they both laughed. What was that about?" So I had to explain to her, trying not to snicker.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;37845871]I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used, it's 1 million metres, we just say in terms of km really) and they meant mm.[/QUOTE] MM could technically mean megamolar (although that's an unofficial unit; it should be Mmol/L instead). Still completely incorrect for a calibre though.

[QUOTE=koeniginator;37846068]or god forbid a gram of DEADLY MARIJUANA[/QUOTE] this post scared me so bad that i just had a heart attack [editline]29th September 2012[/editline] he could've gone a murderous rampage on the quest for munchies then overdose

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;37847239]Probably a criminal, I'm a gun owner myself and will be the first to admit that we're all far too paranoid to just forget one of our guns somewhere.[/QUOTE] Actually what you are is a [i]sensible[/i] gun owner, who would never leave any of his guns in the back seat of a rental car. There are plenty of people with no sense. So yeah, this could have been a criminal, but it could also have just been a careless guy who rented the car to take to the range. It'd be relatively easy to run the gun's serial number to see who it's registered to and if it's been reported stolen.

Ban the space under car seats so firearms can't be put there.

[QUOTE=joeboe242;37852943]Ban the space under car seats so firearms can't be put there.[/QUOTE] now that's not a bad idea. I hate trying to clean out all the shit that gets pushed under there

[QUOTE=Terminutter;37845871]I'm going to sound really pathetic, but they used incorrect units. MM means nothing, Mm means megametres (rarely used, it's 1 million metres, we just say in terms of km really) and they meant mm.[/QUOTE] does it really [I]matter[/I] you read "9MM" and your first thought isn't "what is a MM" or "that means megameters so thats a huge fucking gun", you think "that means 9 millimeter" despite the unit being not-perfect and you get an idea of what kind of gun it is (a small handgun) it's retardedly pedantic to point out the difference because the difference is entirely unimportant here