Son Causes Father’s Death After Locking Him in a Hot Car
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
So a man, Theodore Pressman, leaves his elderly parents in the car for three hours while he goes and finishes his bus route in New York. What happens? Oh, not much - just that his father dies.
Hello?? It’s July for crying out loud! The temperature got up into the mid-80’s that day. What do you reckon the temperature inside that Sazuki got up to? ‘Gimme the over on three digits.’
Why didn’t the parents just get out of the car? Well, Detective Sgt. Eric Johansen of the Peekskill Police Department says, “It appears they did not have the physical or mental capacity to deal with the situation.”
Ouch.
So the mom is okay, but the dad is dead. Pressman faces charges of reckless endangerment right now but could face even more: the death has now been ruled a homicide. Johansen, however, does not think that Pressman meant to harm his parents.
This brings to mind an interesting point: As children, we depend on our parents to take care of us. As time goes by and we all get older, the roles often reverse. It happens to some people sooner than others, and while I won’t pretend to know what this guy was going through in his daily life, it seems like he could have left his parents somewhere INDOORS where there was some A/C if he had to go finish work! Neighbors of the family said that Pressman often left his parents in restaurants when he would go to work; why the hell would he leave them locked up in a car…
in JULY?
What an asshole.