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I remember me and my cousin used to do this to see which one of us could stand it the longest. Neither one of us made it past 15 minutes. I think we were both about 12 years old. Our moms were not too happy about it when they found out. LOL

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/...h-carolina/12468881/

 

 

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A North Carolina man is taking to social media to try to prevent another child from dying in a hot car.

"I'm sitting in the car with the windows rolled up cause I want to know how it feels to be left in the car," explains Terry Williams in a YouTube video.

Williams posted the video, challenging people to experience what it's like when parents leave their children in a car, even if only for a few minutes.

"As you can see, I'm sweating, like I can barely breathe out here, but my system is stronger than these little kids systems," Williams says in the video.

 

On the day Williams started the hot-car challenge, it was 90 degrees outside but the temperature inside a car can rise as much as 20 degrees in 10 minutes.

A child's body temperature can increase three to five times faster than an adult's. That means only minutes left alone in a car can be fatal for a child.

"This is not a game, this is serious," Williams said.

Williams' video has already been seen on YouTube nearly 2,000 times. Dozens of people are taking his challenge and posting their own videos on Williams' Facebook page.

"Terry Williams in Greensboro inspired this," said one man from New Bern, N.C.

"This one is for your Terry Williams, and all the little kids that didn't get to live their wonderful life because someone forgot and left them in the hot car," said another man from Hampton, Va.

"We have sweated through our clothes, we can't breathe, it's hot in here and to imagine what children as well as animals go through, is mind blowing," said a woman from Atlanta.

Williams is happy people are paying attention to his plea; he just hopes those who need to hear it are listening.

"People think it can't happen to them, but it can happen to anyone

 

 


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"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality." Edgar Allan Poe.

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That guy that's being charged with killing his son by leaving him in the car had done searches on his computer pertaining to kids dying in hot cars, he says because he was afraid it might happen to him and I'm thinking knowing that info would make you hyper vigilant and aware so that it didn't happen to you.

For the people who do it accidently, you just have to feel sorry for them because they have to live with it.

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