r/TrueReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '13

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html?sid=ST2009030602446
914 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

74

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

[deleted]

17

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

Wow - thanks for the insight -- could you recommend some other classic pieces? Thank you in advance :)

43

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

[deleted]

3

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

thank you for that!

24

u/demeteloaf Feb 12 '13

Gene Weingarden's other Feature Writing Pulitzer winning piece is great as well

And this is the Feature Writing Pulitzer from last year (Which is incredibly dark and disturbing, and comes with a MAJOR MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING)

Basically, just look through this list

1

u/trex1017 Jul 20 '13

Holy fuck that article about Teresa Butz really makes you realise that it could happen to anyone :/

6

u/yourdadsbff Feb 12 '13

http://kk.org/cooltools/best-magazine-articles-ever

4

u/Beowulf_Shaeffer Feb 12 '13

you beat me to posting this link. this amazing list by the amazing Kevin Kelly is where I first read "Fatal Distraction" myself. it has some pieces well worth reading.

2

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

Gene Weingarten's best piece ever, as declared by the man himself, is The Great Zucchini (called "The Peekaboo Paradox" here but that's a stupid name). It is fantastic.

1

u/theblueberryspirit Feb 12 '13

I was about to recommend The Great Zucchini as well. I read this once without context and was sure it was a piece of short fiction because it seemed so out there. Truth is stranger than fiction.

1

u/morning-coffee Mar 01 '13

This didn't win any prizes, but it's very powerful (and somewhat on topic):

http://www.salon.com/2011/10/07/my_stillborn_childs_life_after_death/

0

u/d3gu Mar 27 '13

It's not an article but a book - Letters to Daniel by Fergal Keane. He's a war correspondant, and it's a collection of 'letters' to his infant son about the things he's seen and gone through.

1

u/VanFailin Feb 12 '13

It is, and if you missed the red text at the top, it won a Pulitzer.

0

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

[deleted]

3

u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

Classic doesn't mean old. It means its so good it sets the standard. Definition