Children unrestrained in cars...
Feb 25th 2010, 9:35 am
#31
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
I get the impression that that may have a detrimental effect on myself also... Especially when I don't know whether they even breathe....
I just tried inhaling through my mouth deeply, so as not to give the idea away then quickly exhaling out through my nostrils...
Unfortunately, I can only surmise that they had a lookout placed right at the bottom of my nasopharynx, thus warning his colleagues to grab the nearest mucous membrane...
I just tried inhaling through my mouth deeply, so as not to give the idea away then quickly exhaling out through my nostrils...
Unfortunately, I can only surmise that they had a lookout placed right at the bottom of my nasopharynx, thus warning his colleagues to grab the nearest mucous membrane...
Feb 25th 2010, 9:52 am
#32
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
I'm a KG teacher, and one of my parents told me last week that she never lets her child eat sweeties because it will damage her teeth..I then observed her driving away from school with 3 children under 5 years old stood up on the back seat...priceless
Feb 25th 2010, 10:04 am
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
I like the way you see the adults buckled up in their seatbelts and the kids running riot all over the car.
Now that's logic!
Of course, more frequently you see the adults without a belt on either.
Now that's logic!
Of course, more frequently you see the adults without a belt on either.
Feb 25th 2010, 11:16 am
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
It used to piss me off too. But it's someone else, endangering their own kids, and it's someone else's problem and it has nothing to do with me.
Otherwise you go nuts.
Otherwise you go nuts.
Feb 25th 2010, 11:29 am
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
I see that everyday at Regent school, I could murder the woman who turns up with her son on her knee in the front seat everyday
Feb 25th 2010, 11:48 am
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
see it a lot in Singapore too which is amazing considering its such a nanny state
Feb 25th 2010, 4:02 pm
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
One of my Bahraini colleagues told me about a woman he knows who survived a reasonably fast head-on collision despite the fact that she wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Investigators concluded that she survived because the young child on her lap (also not strapped in, obviously) "acted as an air bag", cushioning her from having her own rib cage cracked open by the steering wheel............
Investigators concluded that she survived because the young child on her lap (also not strapped in, obviously) "acted as an air bag", cushioning her from having her own rib cage cracked open by the steering wheel............
Feb 25th 2010, 4:44 pm
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
One of my Bahraini colleagues told me about a woman he knows who survived a reasonably fast head-on collision despite the fact that she wasn't wearing a seat belt.
Investigators concluded that she survived because the young child on her lap (also not strapped in, obviously) "acted as an air bag", cushioning her from having her own rib cage cracked open by the steering wheel............
Investigators concluded that she survived because the young child on her lap (also not strapped in, obviously) "acted as an air bag", cushioning her from having her own rib cage cracked open by the steering wheel............
Feb 25th 2010, 4:44 pm
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
this infuriates me no end, kids not strapped in 
saw a woman the other day with a baby in a chair in the front seat, front facing as well!!! there is a guy called Adam Kechil who is visiting all schools trying to educate people about road safety. He has a group on facebook too 
saw a woman the other day with a baby in a chair in the front seat, front facing as well!!! there is a guy called Adam Kechil who is visiting all schools trying to educate people about road safety. He has a group on facebook too Come to think of it; where's City7 gone???
Feb 25th 2010, 8:04 pm
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Feb 26th 2010, 3:40 am
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Feb 26th 2010, 7:04 am
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Re: Children unrestrained in cars...
I totally agree with this point of view. I really couldn't care less. However, my wife uses a strong counter agruement ... you would probably feel guilty if you caused the accident...