Reason #1234567890 against going into store alone while kids are in car

[IDrinkaRum]

9-year-old foils carjacker because he didn't want his siblings to get hurt/killed.

Mother left her children ages 9, 3, 19 months, and 4 months in her car when she went into a convenience store to get a drink.

Carjacker tried to get into car. 9-year-old fought him off. Carjacker even slammed kid's head into door.

Carjacker eventually fled. But tripped in local parking lot and was still there when local police came to find him.

[Princess-Snake]

It's not that the mom left the kids alone in the car while she went in for a convience store for a minute for a drink. My parents did that ever since I was seven. It't that she left the damn keys in the car! That's where the fail comes in.

[IDrinkaRum]

If I was left alone in the car (it started happening once I turned 12 or 13), my parents did take the keys with them. You're right Princess Snake.

Also, the locked the car doors too.

The mother wasn't thinking. But still ... there are parents who leave their kids in the car, the keys in the car and the doors unlocked. It's still scary though.

[Mr Slugger]

I seem to recall there being a news show that did a story on this. I think they actually had someone that would jump into the car and pull it just out of window view to get the parents reaction, and interview them afterward. The sad thing is how many times they were able to do it all day long.

[Plaidman]

Plaidman has seeen several parents leave their kids, babies in the car while they meandering through the store, wondering what beer they can afford. Sometimes even kept the car running.

Never seen a carjacking yet. Sometimes hope I do if its a SC who is screaming at me because he forgot his ID, and he swears he turned 21 last week.

But I never want to see it if theirs kids in the car, and I doubt I could control my ownself from leaping through the store and atempting to stop it.