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A 3-Year-Old Boy Faints Locked In BMW In Heat For 1+ Hour – Mom Doesn’t Want Firefighters To Break BMW Glass

By Paula Mooney
Published on: 02:34 PST, Jul 14, 2015

There’s an article making the rounds in social media that has folks outraged. As reported by Yahoo, a mother didn’t want firefighters to break the windows of her BMW with her 3-year-old toddler trapped inside, but she preferred to wait for a locksmith to arrive. When the heat in the BMW caused the boy to begin to faint, firefighters took matters into their own hands and broke the window themselves.

A crowd eventually gathered as the woman refused to have her trapped son immediately saved due to the expense of the BMW’s windows. The melee occurred in Yiwu City, which is a massive city with a population of approximately 1.2 million people. Located in central Zhejiang province of the People’s Republic of China, the city became known on social media as the spot where the unnamed mother accidentally had her BMW lock itself with her 3-year-old inside.

Once the mom couldn’t open the BMW’s car door, and the young boy began crying and grabbing at the windows of the locked car to try and get out, that’s when concern grew over his condition — along with outrage at the mother’s refusal to have her BMW windows broken. With a lack of oxygen, the boy began to faint, and that’s when emergency personnel decided to ignore the mother’s wishes and break the BMW window to free the boy and save his life. Certain online reports claim the mother and father were shopping nearby and had left the child in the car when he was accidentally locked inside.

As expected, the mother’s refusal to break her expensive BMW car windows — which seemed more important to her than her son’s life — is being reported around the world on sites like Toments to Caijin, which states that the little boy was locked in the car for more than one hour.

The reports of the mom’s reactions are being used as a warning to the public. Even if the temperature outside isn’t terribly hot, the temperature inside a car can be a lot hotter, especially with no windows rolled down.

“It’s very dangerous to leave children inside cars, especially in such heat. It can threaten a child’s life in a short time.”

As reported by the Inquisitr, car heat was a factor for a man who left his young daughter locked in a car for 16 hours on Father’s Day while he went drinking. This latest report of a child locked in a car has brought reactions from commentators who’ve seen other mothers refusing to have their car windows broken with a child locked inside.

As written by “Missile Man” on Yahoo, he has seen a similar situation during his days in the military.

“When I was stationed in the Air Force at Robins AFB back in the 80’s….I broke the window out of a car to get a baby out of the back seat. I called base security and had them go looking for the mother in the Base Exchange. When they brought her out….she was hysterical over the broken window and never once asked about the condition of her baby. She went into a screaming fit and the SP’s arrested her on the spot. The father was called and he escorted the baby to the hospital in the ambulance where it was admitted for dehydration. She actually called me at work a couple of days later and wanted me to pay for the broken window. I told her to F herself with some of the broken glass.”

Pic shows: People seeing emergency services trying to save the son inside the car. A woman has incurred the wrath of netizens across the country after she refused to allow firefighters to break her car window to save her trapped son because the vehicle was too expensive. After her three-year-old son became stranded in the back of her BMW, the unnamed mother from Yiwu city in east China's Zhejiang Province stunned onlookers when she told firefighters not to break the car window to rescue the boy. Reports said the BMW had locked itself, with the mother unable to open the car door. The trapped boy was heard crying inside the hot vehicle and clawing at the window. However, instead of allowing rescuers to break the glass, the mother said she wanted to wait for a locksmith instead, so as not to damage her expensive car. Firefighters finally took the initiative several minutes later when the boy began to faint inside the oxygen-deprived car. They smashed in the window and rescued the boy. One of the firefighter was quoted as saying: "It's very dangerous to leave children inside cars, especially in such heat. It can threaten a child's life in a short time." Netizens took to various social media platforms to criticise the mother, with one netizen saying: "It looks like the car is her real son." Another netizen said: "The mother shouldn't have left her kid in the car in the first place. Even if the car did accidentally lock itself. What happens if someone breaks the window and abducts the kid?" (ends)

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