Need a tan?!

So when Kennedy and I were getting our hair done, our hairdresser told me that last week two women left their kids in their cars while they went to tan at the tanning salon next door. There were 4 kids ages 3 weeks up to about 2 years! One of the ladies in the hair salon called the cops... who took over 10 minutes to respond.

When the policeman arrived he found one of the cars running with the doors unlocked! One of the toddlers was rolling all over the car and the cop found a knife under the front seat! What if the child had found that knife?! Makes me shudder to think about it.

So the cop pulled the two ladies out of the tanning salon and asked what the heck they were thinking... their response? They didn't have a choice because their husbands are in Iraq. (And Heaven forbid they don't have a TAN!) The cop then told them he hoped that tan was worth it because they were both under arrest. Only then did one of the mothers get upset.

I can't imagine their husbands getting THAT message from their commanding officer: "Soldier, your wife has been arrested for child endangerment for leaving your child alone in a hot car, which was running... unlocked... while she got a TAN." They must be so proud.

You can read a little about it here and it turns out, this wasn't the first time in Clarksville this year.