6 adults fail miserably at $100 hot-car challenge
In a recent video, a non-profit offered adults $100 if they could sit in a hot car for 10 minutes. Would you do it?
If you were offered $100 to sit in a parked car for 10 minutes of an Arizona afternoon, do you think you could do it?
A non-profit challenged people to do the same — though not in Arizona — and six adults tried it out.
None of them made it the full 10 minutes.
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Video of the challenge started out with a young man beat boxing to pass the time and two women removing cardigans and blazers to cope with the heat. Eventually, they all hit the "emergency escape" button. One man dumped cold water on his head.
The video was filmed in Lakewood, New Jersey, on a day that temperatures reached over 90 degrees, according to the non-profit.
In the midst of summer, the video is a reminder of what it feels like for children and pets left in hot cars, an all-too-common occurrence.
Just last weekend, country singer Carrie Underwood tweeted about breaking a window to get into her car after accidentally locking her dogs and baby inside.
In Arizona, a Surprise woman left her 2-year-old in a hot car while she shopped earlier this month, according to police. The outside temperature was above 100 degrees.
On a sunny day in May that hovered near 90 degrees, Greg McKay, director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, did a demonstration to show how hot cars can get in the Arizona sun.
Within 10 minutes, the vehicle with its windows rolled up heated up to nearly 108 degrees. In 25 minutes, it was 124 degrees, according to a Republic story.
It is unclear where the $100-challenge video was filmed or if the participants were actors, but its message was clear: Think twice about leaving kids in cars.
The video was created by Kars4Kids, a New Jersey non-profit that accepts car donations and uses proceeds to help Jewish children and their families.
Its marketing for their new app, Kars4Kids Safety, which syncs with your Bluetooth-enabled car and sounds an alert when you leave the car. The app currently is only available for Android.
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