Rumorsville: Was a Dad Arrested For Leaving his Kid & Dogs in the Car While Shopping at the Food Coop?

Our anonymous tipster snapped a photo after the dogs were taken from the van.

It's been quite a week for Park Slope parents. While many of you thought that leaving your kid at YMCA while you get a mani/pedi was not cool, at least those parents made sure SOMEBODY was watching their bebes. Apparently another Park Slope dad had some alternative ideas about childcare: i.e. just lock your kids up in the car!

An anonymous tipster sent along the following account: 

I was walking down Union on February 3rd around 1PM when I noticed some major commotion. A firetruck and two cop cars were near the Food Coop. They had a "slim-jim" and were frantically circling a parked van. At first I thought, "Oh, thats nice to see Tax dollars hard at work! A firetruck and three cop cars just to help some idiot get the keys out of their car?!" Then one of the firemen crawled in through the driver's side door. He unlocked the sliding side door and out came two frantically barking dogs on leashes.  I thought to myself, "that's so fucked up that you would leave your dogs in the car while you run into Union Market!"

Then it got worse. 

The fireman then pulled a screaming 4(ish) year-old girl from the car. I was floored. The fireman said to her, "How would you like to see the inside of a firetruck?" I hung around for a few minutes to see if the girls parents would materialize, but nada. No one showed. I had to run an errand up the road, but I passed by again a short while later. A man in his late 30's was sitting in the back of the cop car, though I couldn't tell if he was under arrest. Then two men pushing Coop shopping carts passed by me. One said, "Did you hear what just happened?" And the other said, "Yeah, some guy went in to do some shopping at the Coop and left his kid and dogs locked in the car." 

I'm not sure how long he was in there, but clearly it was long enough for the police to get involved and for a group of angry Park Slope do-gooders to gather. 

DAYM. 

I know nothing about nothing when it comes to kids, but even I wouldn't do something so dumb. 

A few more tipsters have written in over the weekend, claiming they saw the dad get arrested. Anyone else see this go down?