On 30/05/2010, John Coyle <jco...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > There is now legislation in Queensland making it an offence to leave a child > under a certain age unattended in any vehicle, and a woman was prosecuted > this week for doing so while shopping for jewellery in a pawnshop. The > child was rescued after 40 minutes after a passer-by noticed he was > suffering from heat stress. The woman was placed on probation for three > years and required to undertake a parenting course. > It has been recorded that, in a Queensland summer, the interior of a car can > reach 60C after only ten minutes when the car is parked in full sunlight, as > is often the case in suburban shopping centre car parks. It was fortunate > in the case cited that the event occurred in our winter, otherwise the child > would be either dead or severely damaged.
It a $22k fine for leaving kids unattended in cars down here, that includes the trip from the petrol pump (where law requires you to lock the car) to the cashier. http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/lib100039/kids_cars_parentsignoring.pdf -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
