[The King of Elflands Daughter]

Although the world is certainly often unfriendly, the car seat business seems to be an urban legend:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/gangs/carseat.asp

as does the bit about the eggs:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/eggthrow.asp

Always nice to have a few less things to worry about!

—tkoed

[2harddrive]

Yep! The police are often the first ones fooled by these rumors.