Florida Inmates On Work Duty Rescue Baby Girl Trapped In Hot Car

When it comes to our interaction with other human beings, it’s very easy for us to judge a book by its cover, so to speak. However, most people have a lot of good in them, and they can often demonstrate that to a stranger when it’s needed the most.

This was the case in a recent case in Florida, where a group of prisoners in striped suits broke into a locked car for the best possible reason – to rescue a one-year-old baby trapped inside.

As part of their rehabilitation, the four inmates were performing labor repairing road medians outside a courthouse in New Port Rickey, Florida on Thursday. Their working day was going as normal, when they saw a crowd gathered around the hot car and the child’s panicked father.

This is where a certain set of skills came into play. Armed with just a coat hanger, the ‘low-risk’ inmates were able to unlock the SUV in a dramatic rescue that was captured on video and posted to Facebook by the child’s mother, Shadow Lantry.

You can watch the amazing rescue take place below:

According to Lantry, the girl’s father had accidentally locked the keys inside the SUV after securing his daughter in her child seat. It’s the kind of thing that could happen to anyone, but it was so important to act quickly to get the infant out of the got vehicle.

Luckily, someone in the crowd had a coat hanger, for whatever reason, and the inmates knew how to use it to pop the SUV’s locks open. I bet they never thought they’d be using that skill for the good of society!

(We were) surprised when somebody had a wire coat hanger, (and) we were able to get the door open enough to get it in there, unlock the door,’ Richard Stranger, a spokesman for Pasco County Sheriff’s Office told WFTS.

As the prisoners worked to get the door open, police deputies can be heard telling the girl’s father to ‘pop his head in the window’ occasionally, so his daughter does not get alarmed by all the ‘strange faces.’ This was good thinking on the part of the officers, and it was a great team effort by everyone involved.

It took approximately two minutes in total for the inmates to get the door opened. Once they did, the celebratory moment was punctuated by the SUV’s alarm going off.

‘Thank God for the criminals in the world. I respect all y’all,’ Lantry jokes in the video. Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco commented that the situation was unique and inmates rarely get the chance to break into cars for the right reasons. He then spoke on society’s attitude towards convicts in general, echoing the sentiment that there is good in almost everyone:

“There’s only a very small percentage of those criminals out there that want to fight us and want to attack us, but a lot of them, like these individuals, they know they made bad mistakes, bad choices, but they want to do the right thing in life,” he said.

Thank goodness they were there to do the right thing this time!

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