Cops: Mass. bargain hunter took home TV, left tot
Shoppers line up to purchase items in the Gap on Fifth Avenue during the Black Friday sales on November 23, 2012 in New York City. Shoppers filled stores in search of the many potential bargains on offer during the traditional yearly sale,…
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Posted: 11/23/2012
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Police say a Massachusetts man left his girlfriend's 2-year-old son in a car while he went shopping for Black Friday bargains, then went home with his new 51-inch flat screen television and left the toddler behind.
Police, alerted by store security, found the boy asleep in the vehicle in a Kmart parking lot at about 1:30 a.m. Friday.
They forced their way into the car and took the boy to the hospital as a precaution.
Meanwhile, they tracked the man to his Springfield home.
He told police he lost the boy while shopping, panicked and called someone else for a ride. The boy's mother was working.
The 34-year-old man was not arrested and not immediately charged, but police say they expect to charge him with reckless endangerment to a child.
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