BABY LOCKED IN CAR!
Throughout my over 60 years in the leisure industry including Butlins Entertainments Manager in Filey & Skegness and Pontins General Manager at Brean Sands before moving to Cornwall where Louise and myself started our Car Boots Cornwall in 1989, in effect I/we have handled millions and millions of customers seeking Entertainment or Leisure of some sort, then add to all of that the millions who have supported Car Boots Cornwall either as buyers or sellers plus plus plus all the 100s of thousands of kids brought by their parents to enjoy our Community events but this incident has never happened previously in all those years! The last time the Police were involved with Car Boots Cornwall was in the late 1990s!!
Yesterday 07/05/2023 SUNDAY at TRURO Car Boot Sale, Lou was walking around the Car Park at the front of the complex meeting up with Nigel who told her about “a baby being locked in a car” a red Peugeot, she immediately contacted me, I went to the vehicle to learn that there was a baby who was in the car strapped into his car seat, he was screaming and sweating up, there was no air in the car with all windows and doors locked. An interfering member of the public asked Nigel what are you going to do about it to which Nigel replied, ‘I am waiting for the woman to come back to the car’ He said ‘well I am going to call the Police’ which is when I arrived. I told the man, thank you and that I was now in charge of the situation but he continued his call. He was shouting to the Police on the phone mainly for the benefit of passers-by and his personal ego trip. I told him it was now none of his business so fro which was pretty tame for me!

Louise in the meantime was busy going around the buyers and sellers advising about the incident and trying to find the owner of the car. I had every confidence that the owner and mother of the car could and would be found. The Police arrived asked a few questions when they decided to smash the drivers car seat window, the police woman opened the door, got the baby out of the car just as the mother with her very polite ten year daughter arrived. It is fair to say that the mother did not have an English accent and probably was not aware of the serious risks of leaving a young baby alone in the car especially without any of the windows being open with fresh air circulating. I can only imagine that when they arrived at the Car Boot that the baby was asleep so they decided to lock him in and go look for some bargains which to all of us is totally irresponsible. Baby and mother reunited the Police had a serious talk with mother, I do not know if she was charged. Apparently she did not have a pushchair which she was hoping unsuccessfully to buy one at our Car Boot.
In summary, The mother was totally wrong to leave the baby, she seemed an intelligent person but if the baby was asleep when she arrived at Truro and she did not have a pushchair to carry the heavy babe then I think that the serious admonishment that the Senior Police Lady Officer gave her is enough for mother to remember for the rest of her life. Full and total thanks and compliments to the Police for their professional handling of the situation, the baby is safe which is all that matters now!
However, “I would have been very confident of locating mother and car owner ‘without calling the Police’ which has been proven by the fact that mother arrived back to her car just as her window was being smashed in by the Police”
Geoff Says!

Do not leave CHILDREN in your Car alone! at all! EVER! NO!!
Do not leave DOGS in your Cars without at least two windows open to circulate the air.
Do not leave Grannies at Grampies in your car without sufficient AIR AIR to breathe, I know you would like to but you mustn’t! The dear of them all fs!

Geoff Says!