Monday, July 27, 2009

We're the Only Ones Supplying Enough

Washington Officer's Gun, Gear Stolen from Car [More]
Who needs "gun show loopholes" when we have "Only Ones"?

[Via Harvey]
Posted by David Codrea at 7/27/2009 12:01:00 PM

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This should have been posted a while ago, on the item which related how a police dog died of hyperthermia after being left in a police car.
Hyperthermia is a polite word for being baked to death.
While I agree entirely with the purpose of the "Only Ones" category on this blog, I think it's necessary to state that such deaths, be it animals, or worse, children have increased many times starting from the time children (or pets) were required to be left in the back seat of vehicles for fear of airbags.
Gene Weingarten has a long article on the prosecution of one such child death in the Washington Post back in March. There was another recent incident reported on VosIzNeias.com more recently.
Read Weingarten's article. It shows
how such incidents, while, inexcusable, happen.
I don't recall seeing and adequate discussion of recommendations for ending such disasters.
Lawrence Gonzales in his later book Everyday Survival (not in general, quite as good as his Deep Survival) has a brief discussion on the tricks of memory and changes and routine that lead to this.
Most people learn to drive well before becoming parents. We need to develop routines to cope with this. (A reopening of the airbag requirement might be in order too)

7/27/2009 11:01 PM

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