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For all the pathetic drama that is unfolding in the "Taser" thread with the police-bashing and those that seem to feel that those who serve don't have the right to state how they feel about the average Canadian, etc, I give you a tiny little story in the Ottawa Sun that won't get picked up by any other media and just shows the kind of pathitic creatures that must be dealt with day in and day out.
Notice after all the heart-wrenching work that must have gone on and the absolute hatred anyone would, IMO, justifiably have towards these two
Suffer the children.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/11/24/4681229-sun.html
Toddlers left in freezing van
By KENNETH JACKSON, SUN MEDIA
The Ottawa Sun
Bylaw officer Jim Walton could have easily written up a parking ticket, put it under the windshield wiper and kept on going.
It's York St. It's cold and the car has no parking receipt on its dashboard.
But he's a nice guy. He figures maybe the owner paid for parking and the receipt blew off onto the floor or into the middle console.
He peeks inside the van.
He doesn't see a ticket. But he sees something move in the backseat.
"The back windows were all tinted really dark and I thought I saw a hand move ... I came to the back and cupped my hands to the window and saw two babies in there," he tells the Sun.
The van isn't running, the doors are locked and at about 11:20 a.m. yesterday, the temperature outside was -6C.
"My heart just about jumped out of my throat," said Walton, a big guy who's dressed warmly for his shift walking through the Byward Market issuing parking tickets.
He goes around to the front of the van and puts a bare hand on the hood. It's "stone cold."
He calls dispatch for police and they arrive minutes later. So do fire and paramedics.
The parents are not there. Everyone is wondering how long the children have been locked inside.
Wasting no time, emergency responders shatter the driver's side window and pull out an infant and a toddler.
They're fine, but are taken to CHEO as a precaution.
Police later said the children were in the van for at least an hour, maybe more.
A woman who works nearby said she saw the van parked there when she arrived for work. Cecilia Rivera-Williams said she's "100% positive" the van was parked there at 10:30 a.m.
"I have a seven-month-old at home and you don't do that. I saw the cops there and thought maybe somebody was dead or there was an animal inside. I never expected it to be two kids," she said.
"I had to leave because it was too disturbing."
Another person who works nearby, but who didn't want to be named, is just as adamant the van was there when he arrived at work at 8 a.m.
When the parents returned to their van after 12:30 p.m., police were waiting.
They went to CHEO, where they spoke with police investigators and CAS workers.
At 2:15 p.m., the parents left the hospital, carrying their children and their carseats and asking to be left alone.
Police and CAS are investigating. No charges have been laid. The parents did receive a parking ticket. If they pay early, it's only $35.
Notice after all the heart-wrenching work that must have gone on and the absolute hatred anyone would, IMO, justifiably have towards these two
the police et al can just stand by and watch them walk away with a parking ticket.Tommy said:window licking mouth breathers
Suffer the children.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/11/24/4681229-sun.html
Toddlers left in freezing van
By KENNETH JACKSON, SUN MEDIA
The Ottawa Sun
Bylaw officer Jim Walton could have easily written up a parking ticket, put it under the windshield wiper and kept on going.
It's York St. It's cold and the car has no parking receipt on its dashboard.
But he's a nice guy. He figures maybe the owner paid for parking and the receipt blew off onto the floor or into the middle console.
He peeks inside the van.
He doesn't see a ticket. But he sees something move in the backseat.
"The back windows were all tinted really dark and I thought I saw a hand move ... I came to the back and cupped my hands to the window and saw two babies in there," he tells the Sun.
The van isn't running, the doors are locked and at about 11:20 a.m. yesterday, the temperature outside was -6C.
"My heart just about jumped out of my throat," said Walton, a big guy who's dressed warmly for his shift walking through the Byward Market issuing parking tickets.
He goes around to the front of the van and puts a bare hand on the hood. It's "stone cold."
He calls dispatch for police and they arrive minutes later. So do fire and paramedics.
The parents are not there. Everyone is wondering how long the children have been locked inside.
Wasting no time, emergency responders shatter the driver's side window and pull out an infant and a toddler.
They're fine, but are taken to CHEO as a precaution.
Police later said the children were in the van for at least an hour, maybe more.
A woman who works nearby said she saw the van parked there when she arrived for work. Cecilia Rivera-Williams said she's "100% positive" the van was parked there at 10:30 a.m.
"I have a seven-month-old at home and you don't do that. I saw the cops there and thought maybe somebody was dead or there was an animal inside. I never expected it to be two kids," she said.
"I had to leave because it was too disturbing."
Another person who works nearby, but who didn't want to be named, is just as adamant the van was there when he arrived at work at 8 a.m.
When the parents returned to their van after 12:30 p.m., police were waiting.
They went to CHEO, where they spoke with police investigators and CAS workers.
At 2:15 p.m., the parents left the hospital, carrying their children and their carseats and asking to be left alone.
Police and CAS are investigating. No charges have been laid. The parents did receive a parking ticket. If they pay early, it's only $35.