Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Dogs And Children Die In Hot Vehicles

Over the summer of 2014 I encountered numerous hot car deaths in my news. I remember a few years back ,mothers were killing their children by driving into lakes. Now, people are leaving their children and beloved pets in hot vehicles in 100 degree weather. Stories of such tragedies currently still flood the news. In my travels to New Mexico, I read in the newspaper that police officers have a heat sensor that can identify living things in hot vehicles.
The New Mexico newspaper told me that the temperature inside a hot car can exceed 10-15 degrees more than the outside temperature. So, in my frustration I decided to conduct an experiment.
I purchased two "Four Loko" malt liquor drinks, and sat in my hot caravan, while I did my laundry. It was about noonish in 100 degree weather. I started sweating profusely as soon as I rolled my windows up, and shut the sliding doors. No ventilation in or out. A couple minutes past. I slammed about half of my "Four Loko", and it was unbearable. I rolled down the windows halfway and slammed my first "Four Loko". By that time I went inside to check on my laundry, and it looked like I took a sweat bath, and to my delight, I was purely intoxicated. I put my clothes in the dryer, and went back outside to my Dodge Grand Caravan to torture myself for fifteen minutes more. I slammed the last "Four Loko", and finished my laundry. I finished my little experiment, and accomplished my task of getting intoxicated.
I guess the moral of the story is to never leave your children and animals in a vehicle. Even when I know I don`t have my children with me, deep down i shudder, and look in the empty car seats before I leave the vehicle. Because apparently, it is easy to forget you have children with you. Oh, and don't drink and drive kids!