Dad Obsessed with Running, Locks Toddler in Car During 5-Hour Marathon

Some people simply aren't cut out to be parents. By now, it should be common knowledge that leaving animals or children in cars, regardless of the weather, is abusive. Cars are not playpens for kids. Parents who don't understand this basic principle shouldn't be parents at all. Take, for instance, the case of a thoughtless father who, obsessed with running, locked his 5-year-old child in a car while he participated in a 5-hour marathon.

From Oddity Central: 

A recently divorced woman denounced her husband’s obsession with running, claiming that he once left their 5-year-old daughter locked in a car for hours so he could run a marathon.

In an angry post on Chinese social media, Zhao, a woman living in southern China’s Hunan province, said that her former husband’s obsession with running ended up destroying their family. Although he never really admitted he was obsessed with running, Zhao claims that it was always his number one priority. At first, she had encouraged him to run in order to preserve his health, but soon it became the only thing he cared about. In the end, it caused a rift between the spouses and one of the husband’s desperate actions convinced the woman that she was better off on her own.

According to Toutiao News, Zhao wrote in her post that her ex-husband once left their 5-year-old daughter alone in a car for several hours, just so he could do what he loved most, run. The woman did not observe this herself, but her daughter later told her everything. Apparently, her ex-husband bought the 5-year-old girl breakfast, gave her his phone for entertainment, locked her in a car, and went to run in a marathon.
Confronted by Chinese media after Zhao’s post went viral all over the country, the father, Peng, admitted to leaving his daughter alone in the car so he could run in the marathon. However, he claimed that he only ran a short distance before returning to the girl.

Not only is this guy a bad father, but there’s something wrong with anybody who likes running THAT much, right? Weird.