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  It's really sad. People need licenses to drive cars, but not to have children.
context: These parents had some other man in the car too. They had no diapers for the two year old kid, cockroaches were crawling on him, he smelled like poop, and they couldn’t remember when they last changed him or fed him. All while the car reeks of weed, weed is loose in the car, and they’ve got a handgun under the seat. What horrible neglect. I hope he gets placed in a good home and these nut jobs can get themselves right. They shouldn’t have their child until they do. >
  
  They shouldn’t have their child period >
  
  As someone who's family does a lot of foster care, there are cases where really neglectful parents turn their lives around and become proper caretakers. It's rare, but it happens. >
  
  Glad to hear there are some people who get their act together. Those neglected children should be taken care of by more responsible people in the meantime though. >
  
  More responsible other people just not me. I mean right? 20k kids in foster care in every state. Millions of families zero who really give a damn. Why the outrage its not like anyone else wants those kids. Just being real. >
  
  It's a tough nut to crack. Bad parents are easy to hate, because they shouldn't have had kids in the first place. Responsible people mostly either choose to have their own kids, or not have any kids. Should people who know they don't actually want kids be adopting? That doesn't seem like it's in anyone's best interest. Should people feel guilty because they want to have, you know, their own kids? By your logic many people should be taking up the responsibilities of other grown adults, not to mention the unknown histories and psychological/biological histories and predilections of some random child that you know has been subjected to bad conditions. Just wanting a child doesn't mean you're the right type of parent to raise a potentially highly problematic child, that doesn't even share your biological traits. Does this mean people shouldn't condemn the actions of unfit and irresponsible parents? Hardly.
  I'm not saying that I have a good solution. But you haven't offered one, either. Again, tough problem to crack. >
  
  Yeah, not sure that falls into the category of "good solutions" to this problem. I share your hopes for this kid and others like them. >
  
  Oh, our lawmaker is crazy to think this would work or that it was even ethical. I should have clarified this. >
  
  Sounds like a good way to make sure people with a drug problem don't seek help. I know a couple that had their kids taken away because they had a drug problem. Their kids were taken care of and nobody even knew they had a problem until they sought help to get clean. 4 years later, they still haven't been able to get their kids back. They got screwed for trying to do the right thing. >
  
  The sad part : 
  If they didn't find the weed and gun, the toddler would still be living in a car with cockroaches and reptiles. >
  
  Honestly I'm unfortunately surprised that this gets CPS attention, when I was with my ex-girlfriend in my early 20's, her brother and his wife were basically running a crackhouse with an elementary school aged child. They had CPS called on them 4 times, the kid was always hungry, never bathed, constantly skipped school, their house was like walking through a minefield of used needles and broken bottles. The only way that kid even survived was because his Grandmother actually took care of him a couple days a week.
  CPS saw all this and never did a single fucking thing multiple times. Blows my mind to this day how ineffectual they were for what might have been the worst parents I'd ever seen firsthand. Sometimes I wonder how that kid was doing, he was always starved for attention and would talk my ear off the times we'd babysit him that I'd genuinely spend more time letting him info dump his favorite things on me than with my girlfriend. >
  
  As someone who for reasons has taken that need to infodump and tendency towards social isolation into adulthood, good on you for indulging it a bit but a little coaching may help too >
  
  This was a long time ago man, I haven't seen or talked to that woman or her family in over a decade. >
  
  I was mostly posting for the benefit of any readers, didn’t mean it as a dig >
  
  We need to start increasing parent education classes and stiffer penalties for this type of crime as well as pedophilia. The weapon alone in this case if it turns out to be unregistered should net 25 years >
  
  You don’t register guns. The dad was a felon and hence is prohibited from owning guns. You also can’t concealed carry a gun without a permit in several states— Florida being one of them.
  While parental education classes are a good idea in general I don’t think it would’ve changed anything for these low lifes. >
  
  More of this will happen as abortion continues to be restricted. >
  
  Yea just kill it, solved >
  
  Prevent it from being born. >
  
  Snuff its life out >
  
  Pretty sure you have forgotten what this thread is about…. The kid…. In a car…. In America…. Being abused and neglected >
  
  Nah i just want to help >
  
  Are you planning to adopt this child? >
  
  Yes but im busy adopting dogs because im also anti dog-fighting. And its hard because ive givenup everything i own because im anti theft too. You see i only criticize crimes im fully commited to solving. Thanks for asking >
  
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  I’m appalled that the lizards weren’t described in more detail. We talking crazy iguanas or a panther chameleon? They were probably feasting on the roaches… >
  
  Right?! Were they their pets?? Or those pesky wild iguanas people are driving around trying to hunt?? We’re said reptiles just running around the car willy nilly? What happened to them? What was their fate??
  So Many Questions?? >
  
  And how big was the car?!? >
  
  Jesus Christ…. How much fucking lead is in the drinking water to explain the amount of crazy shit happening in Florida?! >
  
  There is a law in Florida that makes them report all cases to make it national news. This kinda shit also happens in other states you just don't hear much of those. >
  
  Ah so it's the sweeping their own problems under the rug while pointing fingers at those who don't. >
  
  It's a shame we don't have enough programs and assistance ro help these people.
  They found weed in the car which will probably be legal a year from now.
  The gun possession by a felon is pretty bad, ngl. >
  
  It's all pretty bad, but it's not a sign of "moral decay" in the country as FauxNews paints it. It's a sign of moral failure. A failure to create a society that doesn't shun and dehumanize the poor and addicted. These people likely had similar upbringings caused by generational poverty and cycles of neglect and abuse.
  And Fox is directly involved in that. >
  
  
  These people likely had similar upbringings caused by generational poverty and cycles of neglect and abuse.
  
  And they thought the right thing to do would be to ensure there would be another generation to enjoy the suffering??
  No sympathy..for the parents >
  
  That's easy to say when you have been given the tools to view it that way.
  Some people are just fuckups, or actually do break out of a a cycle of abuse or poverty or whatever, but most are in large part a product of their environment, for better or worse.
  There would be more breaking of the cycle if we admit that there is one, instead of breaking down a complex situation into "no sympathy."
  In this case, I'm not saying the parents here are good parents, they are decidedly not. But that didn't happen in a vacuum, and they were likely once the kid in the car, failed by both their parents, and the society they were born into. >
  
  You sound like a smart person I agree with your sentiments >
  
  Dumb as the rest, just fairly experienced at said stupidity. >
  
  I hope they also arrested the toddler. He had guns, drugs, and illegal pets. >
  
  Gotta start them off early >
  
  That’s unironically the plan in those areas where cops are posted to schools and will arrest kids, least far as I can tell >
  
  So, you're saying, by the transitive property, the own is to get kids to start criminal behavior early by posting cops in schools to arrest them? 
  Say what now? >
  
  The what now? >
  
  Thank God the kid is young enough to only have fleeting if any memories of this.  I hope the kid gets a decent home >
  
  The brain remembers. This poor child will likely have so much trauma and issues associated with neglect. >
  
  I lived in a similar situation until I was 5. I'm 53 and I still have the memories. I just hope they are fuzzy or come in fits.  And they get lots and lots of therapy. >
  
  I mean, he needed the gun to fight off the cockroaches... obviously. >
  
  Why the most bizarre things happen in Florida? >
  
  They don’t, it’s just that Florida has really lax reporting laws that dictate how much information you can put into a headline. 
  Nebraska might go “four injured in crash” and Florida will go “Florida man age 43 hijacked delivery truck, sprayed bullets into a crowd with unlawful firearm, before crashing into a school bus”
  Both things could happen in either state but one will be much less… specific. >
  
  It's our Sunshine laws which make all police reports public information, which leads to crazier and more bombastic headlines. >
  
  This isn't oniony.  This is just Florida. >
  
  Doesn’t seem like an Onion story at all though. >
  
  All kids deserve parents but not all parents deserve kids!!! >
  
  Chrystal and Chris Methanny >
  
  Someone should start a sub called r/darkflorida.  r/floridaman won't take anything sad like this. >
  
  Shit like this is why I want to foster so bad >
  
  I don't think a child should be taken from their parents just because their parents are homeless, but guns and drugs while they're homeless and obviously hoarders? Sure, yeah.
  But these sort of things have always happened. Unfortunately, it isn't a sign of some new corruption. Well, maybe if we had better Healthcare, but even then there would still be these stories, albeit fewer of them. >
  
  It wasn’t about being homeless, it was about extreme neglect of that child. They were obviously unable to provide basic care and so the state had to step in to stabilize the situation. CPS doesn’t take kids if the only issue is lack of permanent shelter. >
  
  Right. They don’t even know when they fed him  or changed him last. >
  
  I'd like to say Florida man, but I new a California kid that grew up in a car. >
  
  Some people live in vans and campers just fine, but without cockroaches, reptiles, drugs and guns. >
  
  No this was a car, she and her brother in back, mom and boyfriend in front. Around 10 years old, 13 year old brother got wandering hands. No, a family in a car is not healthy. >
  
  Looks like Sam bankman freed is out on bail >
  
  Cassian Andor in real life. >
  
  When I visited California a retired cop I met told me
  I should have a gun in my truck. He was very concerned and was going to loan me one of his which I declined.
  I was under the assumption everyone had a gun in their car. Standard equipment. Spare tire, jack, gun, baby, Florida = responsible parents..? >
  
  I mean, that pretty much describes the entire state of Florida. 
  Only thing left out of the car is a freedom-fighter, evangelical “Christian” who hates mandates and the government but wants to force you to give birth. >
  
  
  Only thing left out of the car is a freedom-fighter, evangelical “Christian” who hates mandates and the government but wants to force you to give birth.
  
  It's Fox News, so we get that part with the newscasters. >
  
  You just KNOW they are going to argue this is about their rights as parents.