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To: org.whodat

Where I lived in America everybody I knew drove around with the kids in the back of the truck.

People don’t do that anymore?


23 posted on 08/09/2009 4:32:58 AM PDT by Prodigal Son
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To: Prodigal Son
Where I lived in America everybody I knew drove around with the kids in the back of the truck.

People don’t do that anymore?

Mexican day laborers even here in NY and when I was out west in parts of AZ, you would see a whole family of Navajos, sitting up against the back of the cab to keep the wind from blowing off those bowled out cowboy hats

26 posted on 08/09/2009 4:39:48 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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After generations of kids rode in the back of pickups, it’s now against the law in Texas. All passengers in a vehicle must wear seat belts, and there aren’t any in the bed of a pickup.


28 posted on 08/09/2009 4:40:53 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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I take it you haven’t heard of the seatbelt laws?


29 posted on 08/09/2009 4:41:11 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Prodigal Son

Even after the safety warnings all over them not to do so?

“It will never happen to me” goes in all directions on this one only the kids heartbreakingly had no choice.

Proceed at your own peril rules apply every time you walk out the door. It is just the liberal mindset that the government is there to protect us from everything that always get people into trouble.

Granted, it breaks my heart that four young lives were needlessly lost because of the stupid actions of the best in our society/sarc but the police are in a no win situation whichever way they act.

So those of you who blame only the police can just take a powder as far as I’m concerned.

Better yet, just call them up right now and put your residence and/or business on the do not respond list just in the event you happen to need them one day and stupidly make the 911 call in shear desperation.

You know, kind of like a living will.


31 posted on 08/09/2009 4:45:07 AM PDT by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: Prodigal Son
Where I lived in America everybody I knew drove around with the kids in the back of the truck.

Same here. We all drove in the bed of dad's pickup, held on, popped our heads up over the cabin and loved it!

People don’t do that anymore?

Only of you want to be on the cover of America's Worst Parents magazine.

Sigh...

126 posted on 08/09/2009 8:49:29 AM PDT by Drew68
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