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Sitter charged after taking baby on ride in back of pickup
This ones right up there with body in the pool for 3 days... "It's not like they give you a handbook or anything," she said.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/19/sitter-charged-after-taking-baby-on-ride-in-b...
Anyone else click on the link, and then while the page was loading kept hoping that this wasn't in your state?
i was relieved to see it was in FL.
T.J. wrote:Anyone else click on the link, and then while the page was loading kept hoping that this wasn't in your state?
i was relieved to see it was in FL.
It's always Florida.
wow.. (this is the opposite side of the wow coin from the Ferrambo)
who honestly thinks that riding in the back of a pickup is safe? Especially when you are supposed to strap young kids into babyseats that are securely strapped into the car they are in.
What...no Brat jokes?!
mad_machine wrote:wow.. (this is the opposite side of the wow coin from the Ferrambo)
who honestly thinks that riding in the back of a pickup is safe? Especially when you are supposed to strap young kids into babyseats that are securely strapped into the car they are in.
I grew up riding in the back of pickups between fields. never saw a thing wrong with it. Still don't.
but, I agree, if still in a car seat. buckle them in.
off road.. I agree.. riding in the back of a pickup is decently safe and a lot of fun.. but I would not do it in traffic.
I grew up riding in the back of pickups between fields. never saw a thing wrong with it.
Chances are you weren't 8 months old like the baby in the story, though.
stuart in mn wrote:I grew up riding in the back of pickups between fields. never saw a thing wrong with it.Chances are you weren't 8 months old like the baby in the story, though.
i'm sure i rode around in the back of my grandpas pickup when i was around that age- i know i was at around 3 years old (some of my earliest memories are of riding around in the back of that truck with my cousins) and i don't recall ever being scared or thinking it was a weird thing to do.
of course, that was the mid 70's and people weren't so uptight about stuff back then.
Osterkraut wrote:T.J. wrote:Anyone else click on the link, and then while the page was loading kept hoping that this wasn't in your state?
i was relieved to see it was in FL.
It's always Florida.
Florida, California, Ohio, and Indiana.
She doesn't get the farm people exemption
novaderrik wrote:stuart in mn wrote:I grew up riding in the back of pickups between fields. never saw a thing wrong with it.Chances are you weren't 8 months old like the baby in the story, though.
i'm sure i rode around in the back of my grandpas pickup when i was around that age- i know i was at around 3 years old (some of my earliest memories are of riding around in the back of that truck with my cousins) and i don't recall ever being scared or thinking it was a weird thing to do.
of course, that was the mid 70's and people weren't so uptight about stuff back then.
Yeah, that would have been pretty normal in my neck of the woods, too.
My older brother rode in the back of Grandpa's pickup when we all went camping.
I still remember looking through the back window into the covered bed and seeing him sitting on a folding lawn chair (bolted to the middle of the bed) with a pair of headphones on his head. When I turned back to the front, I saw the twisted remains of some cars/trucks left over from the St. Helen's eruption as the folk's camping site used to be near there. It was a bit surrealistic as it was the mid-eighties and things were still steaming up there.
My grandmother used to haul my sister and I around in the back of her Scout II when we were rugrats. No seatbelts, seats, carpet, or even much of a floor after it all rusted out. Mum didn't like that at all, but we did.
I'm reading this while watching "The Waltons" on TV. They all ride in the back !
novaderrik wrote:stuart in mn wrote:I grew up riding in the back of pickups between fields. never saw a thing wrong with it.Chances are you weren't 8 months old like the baby in the story, though.
i'm sure i rode around in the back of my grandpas pickup when i was around that age- i know i was at around 3 years old (some of my earliest memories are of riding around in the back of that truck with my cousins) and i don't recall ever being scared or thinking it was a weird thing to do.
of course, that was the mid 70's and people weren't so uptight about stuff back then.
^This
Just the other day I was fondly remembering "my seat" in my Dad's old station wagon. Until I was too big, I rode sitting on the armrest on the front bench seat.
When I was 16 my mom had an '84 Toyota van, cargo style with no rear interior at all other than a carpet. I proceeded to put an old recliner and a bean bag chair back there. Good times. 8 months might be a bit young to be riding in the back of a truck though.
Guys, the kid was 8 months old and in a stroller, the stroller was placed in the bed of a pickup, not tied or secured. No way it would have stayed there if the brakes were applied forcefully. It was caught on police cam
http://www2.wspa.com/news/2011/aug/19/1/woman-put-baby-stroller-back-pick-truck-ar...
Not acceptable even in the dark old days
There's a world of difference between an 8 month old being dumped into the back of a truck in a stroller these days and our collective "Good Old Days". I mean, I grew up in the South. I've been in the back of trucks in traffic and up and down highways before when I was a teen. I doubt seriously any parent I knew would have let someone younger ride in the back like that.
A role model for the gimme bennies, texting, cell phone driving what's your damn problem generation.
I'm so proud.
I enjoyed this from Jalopnik.
I think Will's reaction pretty much sums up my feelings on the mater.
I'm not positive but I think this happened in Volusia county, the home of GRM
bit of a sad story... a friend of mine's little cousin is the reason the no kids in the bed law was passed in FL...
drunk daddy lets 3 y/o (or so) girl sit in the bed of the truck IN her new plastic pool (you know the little kiddie pools)... for whatever reason a gust of wind picked up the pool and the girl inside and well... the rest of the story is kinda obvious :-/....
oddly not all states have laws against riding in the bed of a truck...
that being said... as a kid I loved riding in the bed of trucks... and rarely did they have a cap (the law in FL lets you ride back there if it's enclosed as long as its not limited access road)
Not only was it Volusia County, it was Daytona... and yes, GRM World HQ is situated in the greater Daytona metropolitan area. Woo, us!
Also, since it's local, I've seen the full story. The babysitter had her ARM RESTING ON THE STROLLER, so it's cool. Ain't no way that baby was gonna go anywhere.
Margie
