Fatal Distraction

March 8, 2009 4:41 PM

How do you deal with killing your infant child by accidently leaving him or her in the car in a hot summer day? This heartbreaking story does not deal with the idiot parents in the news that can't find babysitting when they need to go to a bar. The parents in this story are by all accounts doting, conscientious, caring parents that due to a change in routine, stress, distraction, or all of the above, did the unthinkable. They killed their child by locking it in the car on a hot day.
posted by COD (9 comments total)

Yeah, this was posted yesterday. Sorry.
posted by Justinian at 4:42 PM on March 8, 2009

The author of that article also wrote a story about a famous violinist playing in a DC subway station. That story was posted to metafilter seven times. True story.
posted by delmoi at 4:42 PM on March 8, 2009 [2 favorites]

Gene Weingarten, Metafilter's favorite colmunist
posted by EatTheWeek at 4:44 PM on March 8, 2009

Not only did I search, I skimmed all the entries from today. It never occurred to me to go back in time and search before it was actually published. Damn Mefites, posting to stuff before it actually occurs :)

I thought about referencing the violin article but decided not to. The irony....
posted by COD at 4:46 PM on March 8, 2009

That other post even has the same post title.
posted by marble at 4:49 PM on March 8, 2009

Yeah - I'm reading it now. I searched on the URL - and because I used the all on one page print URL it didn't come up in the search. It's still weird to see an almost 200 comment thread on March 7 about an article with a March 8 byline.
posted by COD at 4:51 PM on March 8, 2009

My wife left some sushi (a salmon roll) in the trunk last summer, and the smell has never really left the inside of our car. That is a crime in my book.
posted by KokuRyu at 4:52 PM on March 8, 2009

With Metafilter's apparent ability to backdate, perhaps some of UserFriendly's punchlines were actually lifted by MeFites?
posted by gman at 4:57 PM on March 8, 2009

Apparently the WaPo's website creates infinite URLs for the same story, so Metafilter's duplicate link checker dosn't work, which is why the Joshua Bell article got posted so many times.
posted by delmoi at 4:58 PM on March 8, 2009