Ahh…the irony
Thanks to my brother for bringing this to my attention.
For the past few years we’ve been reading about an upsurge in people leaving their children locked in cars…and often those poor children have died as a result. This is another in the long list of children lost this way.
However, this story (and others) have fixated on the fact that the mother was playing EverQuest while her daughter was dying in the car. There are many, many “reasons” why people make the mistake of leaving their children in the car…but the only one we’ve ever really heard about is this one. Once again, the media is trying to point out just how horrible computer gaming is, rather than focusing (as it should) on why children are “forgotten” in cars.
But that’s an argument for another day.
I couldn’t help but fixate on the fact that the mother was once an advocate of “Spouses Against EverQuest“. Here you can see several posts she made against EverQuest. It’s just so ironic that she fell “prey” to the game as well.