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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Fatman on December 15, 2008, 04:44:38 PM
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Boy, 4, breaks into Texas store, plays with toys
1 hr 49 mins ago
BEAUMONT, Texas – Police called to a variety store by a burglar alarm overnight found a toddler inside, playing with the toys. Police said store surveillance video showed the unidentified boy trying to open one of the front doors to a Family Dollar store about 3 a.m. Monday, only to find it locked. But the second door was unlocked and the child went inside.
That triggered the silent alarm.
Detective Randy Stevens said the child apparently unlocked a door at his nearby home, got out, then crossed a multilane street to reach the store.
A canvass of the neighborhood turned up a family member searching for the child.
CPS spokeswoman Shari Pulliam said Child Protective Services claimed oversight of a 4-year-old boy during a review of the incident. The boy will be allowed to stay with other relatives, not the parents, during the CPS review period.
On face value, there's nothing going on here that smacks of any reason to take this child. My kids used to get up and do all kinds of crazy stuff, one was a sleepwalker. She went outside and tried to light the tiki torches on the porch once. Good thing Shari Pullam doesn't live around here.
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Bare minimum, the parents need to add a chain to their exterior doors that the child can't reach. As for the employee that left the door unlocked at the Family Dollar... good luck in the job search.
Swoop
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Just good dumb luck that the store was left open. If the kid hadn't gone in to play, no tellin what could have happened to him.