Sometimes you can’t get between a fanboy and his movies.
In Salt Lake City, a father left his two-year-old strapped in the car while he went to go see “The Dark Knight” this past summer entered a guilty plea this past Wednesday.
Why so serious? Because while suspect David James Farnham claims that his son was asleep when he left him to go see the movie; when bystanders discovered the baby an hour later, the inside of the car was 87 degrees. The child was allegedly awake and crying at this point.
Farnham was being charged with reckless endangerment, and the baby is currently with his mother. The kicker is that the police interrupted the screening to arrest him. Party foul!
In all seriousness, this is very un-heroic behavior. We all know Batman’s a much better parent than that–
…Sigh, I give up.
[Via Salt Lake Tribune.]
December 1st, 2008 at 9:55 am
I suppose, when a movie has drawn as many different people as TDK has, something horrendously stupid by someone too stupid to live, was bound to happen at a showing somewhere. The movie isn’t what’s important here, however, as stuff like this seems to (sadly) happen all the time.
I’m as liberal as can be, but this guy’s parental rights oughta be terminated, pure and simple. His child could’ve died. Hopefully the child’s OK after this ordeal, and it makes you wonder what other neglectful parenting this idiot’s guilty of.
But, yeah, there’s sad irony in that the moron was attending a Batman movie. Does the guy have any idea what Bats, if he were real, would’ve done to this guy for endangering his child like he did? As David points out, how incredibly un-heroic.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:45 am
That story actually happened over the summer (thus the 87 degree temps…)
The guy pleaded guilty to the charges last Wednesday…
December 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
I hadn’t even thought about that… Then again, having never been to UT I have no idea how it can get there this time of year. TDK probably isn’t playing that many places anymore either, save second-run, budget theatres.
Still an awful thing, no matter what time of year.