Posted on 01/02/2012 9:36:11 AM PST by DogByte6RER
This looks the same as Washington’s State’s law. I didn’t see the problem nor did the kids. I’ve never heard of the “over-eight” part of the law being enforced.
You realize that all the non-Californians think we are kidding, right?
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I would never kid about midgets! LOL.
(ok mostly because I barely make the height requirement to not be a midget).
AFA, nothing is too outrageous for California to pull, except maybe to go conservative.
And for those who are wondering, midgets have specially modified cars with longer pedals or hand controls and raised seats.
Fat kids are exempt.
Sounds like my mother, I remember going around a curve at age 5 or 6 and the door flying open with me hanging on to it. Sure freaked mom out, but I hung on and all was well.
Again, not kidding. :-(
Well, we'll always have Reagan, won't we?
My mom was swinging into the driveway one time and my little bro went rolling out across the grass. He stopped when he hit the front steps and all was well. He musta figured we were close enough to home to let go.
Lol, probably, but from then on I made double sure the door I got in was closed. True to this day and I am 60+ but I always check the door.
Me too. I think we all have a “kid falling out the back door” story somewhere in our past. We have several, in fact. LOL
Nailed it.
My parents were not big on child safety, lol. I remember my first bike, with training wheels. Dad took me up to the top of the small hill our driveway was on. Gave me a 2 minute briefing on how the brakes works (like I even knew what a brake was) put me on the bike and gave it a shove. Mom said all she heard was 45 seconds of screaming and then a crash when I hit the house. She was not at all happy with dad.
Hahahahaha!!
Yes, but sadly that was a lifetime ago. The state has changed so much since then and not for the better.
No, the purpose is to get more revenue in an already over taxed and bankrupt state. If they truly cared about kids, they'd enforce DUI laws.
Dad raised race horses, brother John was too big to take them around the training track so guess who got the job of taking a two year old Thoroughbred horse around the track at a full gallop? Wild ride let me tell you. Brother John stuck with the horses and I think will make it into the hall of fame as the great Zenyatta’s trainer. Mom put and end to my wild rides when she heard what dad was up to. Like I said, child safety was not my parents first concern and I and thankful for that. I had a lot of fun as a kid.
My dad is like that.
Working with him one day and he breaks out the oxy/acteylene torch and is searching for the striker. He turns to me and asks if I have a lighter. Apparently he had both gasses on cause when I flicked my Bic, with the angle he was holding the torch, that 6000 degree flame burned the back of my finger off. He just looks at it and says “I’ll bet you never do that again” LOL
Lol, I’ve heard that line once or twice myself. Good one. The line that always stuck fear into my heart as a child was “if you keep crying I will give you something to cry about.” That always shut me up.
Yeah. Another time I dislocated my shoulder. “Pull your elbow across your chest and it will pop back in” he tells me (pulling) “Now get back to work”
Excepting a tour in the USMC, I think the horses were the most dangerous for a kid. And I don’t mean exercising the race horses, but losing control a mile or two from the barn and hanging on when the horse decides it’s chow time and makes a mad run for the barn. Stopping a 1000 lb Thoroughbred that got spooked and really wants to go home is not an easy thing for a child to do. More then once all I could do was just hang on and duck all the tree limbs hoping the horse did not loose it’s feet. Had my teeth kicked out once and Dad had his back broken once. I don’t fear horses but I do have a lot of respect for them. But I got to be an English riding instructor part time in Marines so that was nice.
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