All too often we hear of stories of parents leaving their children in cars. Sometimes it’s tragic, sometimes all escape unharmed. But what if it wasn’t enough to just leave your baby in the car? What could be worse than that kind of oversight?
What about leaving your baby in a bank?
A bank vault.
That’s right. At a Wells Fargo branch outside of Atlanta a 14 month old child somehow got trapped inside a bank vault. An employee had their daughter and her baby at the bank as they were closing up shop for the day. The baby wandered off and after searching for the child concluded it must be in the bank vault.
My favorite part is that someone would have had to close the vault door. So they closed it with the baby inside. No conspiracy, just stupidity. Because these vaults have timed locks it took first responders three hours to get the vault open again. They pumped in fresh air and could hear the baby crying. A spokesman said the kid was safe the whole time.
I think what he meant to say was the kid was IN the safe the whole time.
Photo: Lance Fisher
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