Did everyone hear about this story out of Racine this morning?

Baby found unharmed after car stolen

Racine - A 3-month-old baby was found unharmed this morning an hour after the unattended SUV he was in was stolen, police said.

The boy’s mother, Angela Giles-Barron, had left the vehicle running and her baby inside while she went to the door of her mother’s house in the 1000 block of Albert St. about 6:19 a.m., she told police. An unidentified man entered the vehicle and drove away.

Racine Police Lt. Dean Stanton said Giles-Barron immediately contacted police.

Police were about to issue an Amber Alert, a statewide notification of a suspected abduction, when the vehicle and child instead were found at 7:16 a.m. in the 900 block of Peck Ave., about a half-mile from where it had been taken.

Stanton called it a “crime of opportunity.”

“He saw a nice SUV running and the door open, so he took it,” Stanton said. “I bet he didn’t expect to find a baby in the back.”

Police were searching for the suspect this morning.

Well yeah, it’s a crime of opportunity. Take the baby out of the equation. A car running with the door open? I can’t say that I haven’t done it before (not with the door physically open, but the door was unlocked), but I’ve never done it in an area where I think I would have an even remote chance of someone taking my car. Maybe someone from Racine can tell me what kind of neighborhood the 1000 block of Albert Street is.

But then you add the baby in.

I don’t think I would EVER leave my baby in a car with it running. Regardless of the type of neighborhood I was in. If you need to go to your mom’s house and get her and you don’t want to take the baby out, honk. Or call your mom. Or yell out the window. I don’t care. Just an asinine move to leave a child in the car if you ask me.