{"id":75326,"date":"2024-05-03T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/?p=75326"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T03:00:49","slug":"mom-thought-she-was-doing-the-right-thing-by-hanging-this-sign-on-her-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inovatestory.com\/mom-thought-she-was-doing-the-right-thing-by-hanging-this-sign-on-her-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Thought She Was Doing The Right Thing By Hanging This Sign On Her Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style='\"font-size:'>Mom Thought She Was Doing The Right Thing By Hanging This Sign On Her Car\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Summer comes and, a few parents forget that their child is in the car when they leave to go shopping or clock into work. When this happens, the news is flooded with tragic stories about how babies d_ie in hot cars as temperatures soar, due to climate change.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>One mother named Bonnie Engle, however, feels it is totally fine for her to leave her baby in the hot car while she goes shopping and even leaves a note in the car window to let worried passersby know that she left her baby in the hot car on purpose because she did not want to go through the hassle of taking the child out of the car seat to go shopping with her.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The handwritten note has sparked furious debate after an image of it was shared online. This told people that she would \u201cbe back soon\u201d and that her baby had everything the child needed to care for themselves while mom was having the time of her life shopping without the burden of a young child.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The sign read: \u201cMy baby is OK. He has his snacks and his drink!! I\u2019m in Target.\u201d She made sure to heavily underline the words \u201cOK,\u201d \u201cTarget,\u201d and \u201cBe back soon\u201d so people would not get the wrong idea and try to rescue her baby from the confines of the boiling hot car.\n<blockquote class='\"instagram-media\"' data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink='\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CpdhLP7ASJI\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\"' data-instgrm-version='\"14\"' style='\"' background: border:0 border-radius:3px box-shadow:0 rgba margin: max-width:658px min-width:326px padding:0 width:99.375 width:-webkit-calc width:calc>\n<div style='\"padding:16px;\"'> <a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.instagram.com%5C/reel%5C/CpdhLP7ASJI%5C/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading%5C%22" style='\"' background: line-height:0 padding:0 text-align:center text-decoration:none width:100 target='\"_blank\"'> \n<div style='\"' display: flex flex-direction: row align-items: center>\n<div style='\"background-color:' border-radius: flex-grow: height: margin-right: width:>\n<div style='\"display:' flex flex-direction: column flex-grow: justify-content: center>\n<div style='\"' background-color: border-radius: flex-grow: height: margin-bottom: width:>\n<div style='\"' background-color: border-radius: flex-grow: height: width:>\n\n\n<div style='\"padding:'>\n<div style='\"display:block;' height:50px margin:0 auto width:50px><svg width='\"50px\"' height='\"50px\"' viewbox='\"0' version='\"1.1\"' xmlns='\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"' xmlns:xlink='\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\"'><g stroke='\"none\"' stroke-width='\"1\"' fill='\"none\"' fill-rule='\"evenodd\"'><g transform='\"translate(-511.000000,' fill='\"#000000\"'><g><path d='\"M556.869,30.41' c554.814 c553.148 c558.924 c560.59 m541 c535.114 c530.342 c546.887 c551.658 c532.1 c524.886 c549.9 c557.115 m565.378 c565.244 c563.803 c561.058 c557.607 c549.944 c533.003 c525.979 c521.94 c518.846 c517.244 c516.479 c516.448 c516.755 c518.197 c520.942 c524.393 c532.057 c548.997 c556.021 c560.06 c563.154 c564.756 c565.522 c565.552 m570.82 c570.674 c568.659 c564.297 c558.743 c550.169 c532.853 c525.438 c519.376 c514.368 c511.834 c511.035 c511 c511.326 c513.342 c517.703 c523.257 c531.831 c549.148 c556.562 c562.623 c567.633 c570.167 c570.966 c571>\n<div style='\"padding-top:'>\n<div style='\"' color: font-family:arial font-size:14px font-style:normal font-weight:550 line-height:18px>View this post on Instagram\n\n<div style='\"padding:'>\n<div style='\"display:' flex flex-direction: row margin-bottom: align-items: center>\n<div>\n<div style='\"background-color:' border-radius: height: width: transform: translatex translatey>\n<div style='\"background-color:' height: transform: rotate translatex translatey width: flex-grow: margin-right: margin-left:>\n<div style='\"background-color:' border-radius: height: width: transform: translatex translatey>\n\n<div style='\"margin-left:'>\n<div style='\"' background-color: border-radius: flex-grow: height: width:>\n<div style='\"' width: height: border-top: solid transparent border-left: border-bottom: transform: translatex translatey rotate>\n\n<div style='\"margin-left:' auto>\n<div style='\"' width: border-top: solid border-right: transparent transform: translatey>\n<div style='\"' background-color: flex-grow: height: width: transform: translatey>\n<div style='\"' width: height: border-top: solid border-left: transparent transform: translatey translatex>\n\n\n<div style='\"display:' flex flex-direction: column flex-grow: justify-content: center margin-bottom:>\n<div style='\"' background-color: border-radius: flex-grow: height: margin-bottom: width:>\n<div style='\"' background-color: border-radius: flex-grow: height: width:>\n\n<p>\n</p><p style='\"' color: font-family:arial font-size:14px line-height:17px margin-bottom:0 margin-top:8px overflow:hidden padding:8px text-align:center text-overflow:ellipsis white-space:nowrap><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.instagram.com%5C/reel%5C/CpdhLP7ASJI%5C/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading%5C%22" style='\"' color: font-family:arial font-size:14px font-style:normal font-weight:normal line-height:17px text-decoration:none target='\"_blank\"'>A post shared by Bonnie Engle (@bonnie_engle)\n\n\n<p><script async src="%5C%22%5C/%5C/platform.instagram.com%5C/en_US%5C/embeds.js%5C%22"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Engle lives in the United States, where too many babies d_ie from heatstroke after being forgotten by their parents and left in a hot car for hours at a time. Hot car d_eaths are too common in the United States, but Engle did not fear judgment from other people when she decided to leave her son alone without supervision in the hot car while she went into the air conditioning inside the Target store in her community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Engle posted a video to Instagram that said, \u201cPlease no judgment. He is safe and well.\u201d She is a mother of three children who have all survived past their baby years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">However, Engle then panned the camera to the front of the car, where she showed that her husband was still in the vehicle drinking an iced coffee. He was also chomping on a bag of popcorn and did not seem to be having as much fun as Engle at the internet prank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Bonnie Engle\u2019s video quickly went viral on Instagram and attracted more than thirty million views in a short period of time. Other parents on the social media were prepared to launch into criticism of Bonnie until they realized it was all a big prank on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cFor a second, I was about to get really upset\u2026 I was not expecting that,\u201d another mom wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Another person wrote, \u201cMy heart dropped, and then I (laughed).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Many people saw the fun in Bonnie\u2019s prank post on Instagram, yet there were countless other people who found her prank to be downright offensive, given that too many babies die in hot cars every summer across the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t joke about leaving a baby alone in a car,\u201d a critic wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Another person added, \u201cHonestly, this is so tasteless.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Do you think this mom\u2019s joke about leaving her baby in a hot car is funny or offensive?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom Thought She Was Doing The Right Thing By Hanging This Sign On Her Car Summer comes and, a few parents forget that their child is in the car when they leave to go shopping or clock into work. 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