On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Paul Sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately it's not just parents that do this. We're had several cases > in MKE, in both summer and in the dead of winter, where the driver of a day > care van has forgotten to off-load a child. For those folks they're > considering an alarm that can only be disarmed by physically deactivating it > at each and every seat in the van, thus, theoretically, making sure each > seat is checked to make sure no one is left behind.
While I've never driven a bus, I did have a chauffeur's license at one time, issued by the State of Missouri. (I was allowed to drive vehicles without air brakes for the purpose of transporting passengers. It's mostly issued to taxi drivers.) One of the rules was to check the vehicle for "stow-aways" before parking it. Had I left a passenger in my vehicle I could have been charged with at least one crime, and possibly several depending on the outcome. Why in hell would a bus driver not do a quick walk through before leaving his vehicle? Now that I've said that, I'll eat some crow. Two summers ago, while traveling cross-country in a rented GMC Acadia, we stopped at a cousin's house for a visit. Christie and our younger daughter got out, but Molly, the youngest was asleep. So I checked that the doors were all unlocked, left the car running with the AC on, and got out to chat with my cousin and smoke a cigarette. A few minutes later we heard a click. The doors had locked! So we hung around outside in the heat for another 30 minutes until the locksmith showed up. Molly slept though it all. Since then, if I'm stepping out of the car for even a second, I make sure at least one window is down far enough for me to reach the lock. D'oh! -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
