Oh Yeah -- I Have A Pizza

How distracted does a driver have to be on a hot summer day to forget that there is a 3-month old baby in the back seat of their car? So distracted that when they arrive at their destination they hop out and that's that, until a few hours later when they return and there's a dead baby back there.

I try to imagine what could be so distracting and I come up empty, unless it's that when you arrive at your destination the Lord Jesus is waiting there and greets you by name. Or maybe all four Beatles are performing on the street, including John and George back from the great beyond. Or maybe when you park your car, balloons and confetti surround you and there's a crowd of people applauding because you are the one-millionth customer at that particular Walmart and you just won a trip, all expenses paid, to Tahiti and there are TV cameras filming the whole thing.

Otherwise, are you kidding me? Yet here we are again, with a dead baby found in the back of an SUV yesterday, outside of a Morgantown, West Virginia daycare center, which makes it all the weirder. Did the driver work at the daycare? Hmm, seeing all those children would definitely remind me. Or did they come to drop off the baby and then think, huh, why am I here again, and go for lunch instead?

In 2023, that situation occurred 29 times. Authorities suggest that parents put something in the front seat to remind them that their child is in the back seat, like a diaper bag or a toy. Or maybe they should put a big pepperoni pizza in the back with the baby; everyone would remember the pizza.