Terry Bartley sits in a hot car with the windows rolled up … and records himself.
“I wanna know how it feels to be out in the car and sitting in the back seat, strapped into a car seat with the windows up and doors probably locked. … I can barely breathe out here.”
He wants others to join him in the “hot car challenge” to raise awareness about the dangers of leaving children in vehicles under a broiling sun. Bartley, a North Carolina father of three, was motivated by the death of 22-month-old Cooper Harris and similarly horrific stories about other children.
But even though Bartley and others are well-intentioned, do their videos make a difference? Or are they just dangerous?
“What starts out as a way to make a dramatic point about something we are very concerned about and does it in a very visually powerful way can also backfire,” said Nadine Kaslow, a psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor at Emory University.
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