It was one of those terrible summertime scenarios you read about from time to time. It was early September in San Antonio, Texas. The thermometer stood at 99 degrees. A woman accidentally locked her 10-month-old niece inside a parked car. Quite frantically she and her sister, the baby’s mother, ran around the auto in near hysteria. A by-stander tried to help. He attempted to unlock the car with a clothes hanger. Soon the infant was turning purple and had foam on her mouth. It was becoming a life-or-death situation.

At this point Fred Arriola, a wrecker driver, arrived on the scene. He grabbed a hammer and smashed the back window of the car to save the small child from certain death. He was successful. Now, let me ask you a question: Was Fred heralded as a hero? Not by the aunt who acciden…