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Heatstroke can kill both humans and animals. It gets sad to read news about people or pets that die because someone left them locked in a car that was not ventilated properly. It is not easy writing about the topic either, so do no think that editors do not get affected by this at all.
This time, someone made a mistake and called the police after seeing what appeared to be a child with long hair sleeping in the back seat of a Honda Civic Coupe from the mid-1990s.
Its owner was not present, and the car was parked near an elementary school in Suffolk, Virginia. The pedestrian decided to call the police to help the child in what appeared to be a matter of life and death.
Officers arrived at the scene in the unexpectedly hot day in the Hampton Roads area in Suffolk, and they managed to get the owner of the vehicle on the phone. Surprisingly, she reported that she did not have any children, and she did not understand what may have happened that brought a child in the back seat of her vehicle.
Jasmine Turner, the owner of the vehicle, told the news reporters that she was shopping for supplies with her boss while she received the call regarding a child stuck in her car.
As WAWY News noted in their report, the owner of the vehicle asked the responding officers to wait for her as she made her way from the Walmart to the parking lot where the car was left.
Unfortunately for the driver, the responding officers did not wait at all, and she found her car with a broken window. Without any surprise to her, there was no child in the vehicle, as the unidentified pedestrian mistakenly identified a wig and a few towels tossed next to it as a child.
The owner of the Honda Civic now claims that the fix will cost her “hundreds of dollars,” and she is visibly upset because local police representatives do not want to fit the bill. The police told her to contact the risk management department of the city to get her vehicle fixed.
While we do not fix cars for a living, we know that getting a replacement window for a mid-1990s Honda Civic Coupe will not cost “hundreds of dollars,” so we would take that claim with a grain of salt.
Its owner was not present, and the car was parked near an elementary school in Suffolk, Virginia. The pedestrian decided to call the police to help the child in what appeared to be a matter of life and death.
Officers arrived at the scene in the unexpectedly hot day in the Hampton Roads area in Suffolk, and they managed to get the owner of the vehicle on the phone. Surprisingly, she reported that she did not have any children, and she did not understand what may have happened that brought a child in the back seat of her vehicle.
Jasmine Turner, the owner of the vehicle, told the news reporters that she was shopping for supplies with her boss while she received the call regarding a child stuck in her car.
As WAWY News noted in their report, the owner of the vehicle asked the responding officers to wait for her as she made her way from the Walmart to the parking lot where the car was left.
Unfortunately for the driver, the responding officers did not wait at all, and she found her car with a broken window. Without any surprise to her, there was no child in the vehicle, as the unidentified pedestrian mistakenly identified a wig and a few towels tossed next to it as a child.
The owner of the Honda Civic now claims that the fix will cost her “hundreds of dollars,” and she is visibly upset because local police representatives do not want to fit the bill. The police told her to contact the risk management department of the city to get her vehicle fixed.
While we do not fix cars for a living, we know that getting a replacement window for a mid-1990s Honda Civic Coupe will not cost “hundreds of dollars,” so we would take that claim with a grain of salt.
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— WAVY_News (@WAVY_News) October 21, 2016
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