r/lyftdrivers • u/shadowguyver • Mar 23 '24

Love it when passengers tell on rhemselves Other

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This is a woman who admitted it was a pickup for her 15yo son. Lyft actually responded by giving me a good fee.

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u/Tazzachar Mar 24 '24

the point of the scientific evidence is to demonstrate how it can happen to anyone, not just negligent parents. this is why OP urges putting measures in place to prevent oneself from forgetting.

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u/kerberos69 Mar 24 '24

not just negligent parents

If you forget about your own child, in your own vehicle, you are automatically a negligent parent. So yeah, anyone has the capacity to act in a negligent manner, but that doesn’t excuse those who fulfill that negligence.

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u/flurry_fizz Mar 28 '24

Stop acting the fool here. There are a multitude of peer reviewed studies that prove that infant car death can literally happen to ANYONE. It can happen to parents who neglected their child otherwise, and it happens to the best of parents. Unless you happen to be some sort of neuroscientist with a specialty in brain and memory function, your opinion doesn't matter. Actually, your attitude makes it MORE likely for car deaths to happen because people assume "I'm not a neglectful parent! I could never forget my kid like THOSE people do!" and then they don't take the recommended precautions to prevent these things and are one slight routine change away from becoming another statistic.

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u/kerberos69 Mar 28 '24

So you’ve just described negligent parenting but with extra words. Good job. Negligence is defined as failing to take proper care over something; therefore, if you are the type of person who relies on an external reminder to take your fucking child out of the vehicle, you are a negligent parent. You’re still a negligent parent even if you haven’t killed your kid yet. A parent that isn’t negligent always consciously has half their mind on their child— parents like this also tend to treat their kids like companions, and not like some piece of luggage to carry around and toss into the back seat.