Authorities get hundreds of calls each summer concerning pets left alone in hot cars. Many good people walking by these cars have broken windows to save dogs, and it is illegal in many situations. A passerby can watch the animal die from heat exhaustion in order to preventing charges for the broken window. 

 

Lawmakers in California would like to change the existing law in hopes to avoid confrontations and tragedies like what happened in the video above by allowing people to break the window to save a distressed dog. One owner left a note in his car’s window to warn people not to break it. "The A/C was on and the dog had water. That went viral sparked debate about breaking a window.