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Shopping couple allegedly leave kids alone in cart

Tue Dec 1, 2009 3:58 PM EST
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Associated Press
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COMMERCE — A Georgia couple got so carried away with snagging Black Friday deals that authorities said they left their kids alone in a shopping cart. Banks County Sheriff Charles Chapman told WSB radio that a 35-year-old man and and 31-year-old woman were charged with reckless conduct.

Chapman said the two left their 9-year-old and 9-month-old children in a shopping cart at the Banks Crossing Walmart so they could go shopping.

Chapman said he figured the couple thought the kids would slow them down. The children were not harmed.

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Information from: WSB-AM, http://wsbradio.com/

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Lissa Rose

Define left in a shopping cart please.

I can understand if it was to step just a few steps away, but once the cart is out of eye sight and ear shot, it is a problem.

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Reply#1 - Tue Dec 1, 2009 4:55 PM EST
Pazalea

A NINE year old watching the 9 month old, in a shopping cart with Mom & dad a few feet away. Call the Sheriff. Well, my Mom would have a rap sheet a mile long if the Sheriff was called everytime she did that to me & my siblings. We were trained well to look out for one another & never speak to strangers as kids.

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Reply#2 - Tue Dec 1, 2009 5:39 PM EST
grammaKaren-1414458

What!? A NINE year old looking after the baby. So what? Big deal. Do we have to call the cops for EVERYTHING? We have turned into a great big , huge, pre-school tattletelling society. We don't need Big Brother. We ARE Big Brother.

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Reply#3 - Tue Dec 1, 2009 6:00 PM EST
Jim420

maybe they figured that Wal-Mart's "code Adam" all employee's stop and look for child policy counts as day-care

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Reply#4 - Tue Dec 1, 2009 8:30 PM EST
Lissa Rose

Maybe (lol), but I would like to know how far away from their children they were. This could either be completely serious, or it could be completely ridiculous.

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#4.1 - Tue Dec 1, 2009 8:53 PM EST
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Lissa Rose

I found a slightly different article that gave the answers I was looking for. This should help clarify any other questions (hopefully).

I can definitely say that these parents should have planned it better. You have to cooperate with other family members or hire a sitter.

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Reply#5 - Tue Dec 1, 2009 9:03 PM EST
Pvt-Public
  • One witness told Channel 2 Action News that Walmart employees paged the parents for more than 45 minutes before they used store surveillance video to track them down.

If no one showed for the pages, how could Wal-Mart know what the people looked like to use video to find them? Other witnesses who's description probably went "he was about average height, average weight, wearing a blue shirt". Describes half the people at Wal-mart. They would have been better off just leaving the kids at home. No one would have noticed them there. By the time I was 7 yrs old I was walking myself and younger brother to school making us lunch and had a key to the house to let us in, both parents worked.

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Reply#6 - Wed Dec 2, 2009 6:54 AM EST
Jim420

easy... all the cameras are "DVR'ed" to a hard drive, you start with the cart with kids in it. rewind until the point where the parents were with the kids and cart, then go forward following them, and switching to cameras that follow them around the store until you find where they are at present... then have security approach them.

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#6.1 - Wed Dec 2, 2009 9:16 AM EST
Pvt-Public

Sorry I guess thats what i get for placing fingers in gear, without first engaging brain. DOH;)

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#6.2 - Wed Dec 2, 2009 10:53 AM EST
Jim420

no problem, I watch too much CSI, and NCIS, they use a technique like this almost every show. lol

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#6.3 - Thu Dec 3, 2009 8:04 AM EST
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Nan-813417

But they got some good bargains, right? That is what is important.

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Reply#7 - Sun Dec 6, 2009 10:12 AM EST
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