What a crate father! (Hold My Crate of Beer Alert!)

London Metro ^ | 18 Oct 2002

[UKCajun]

CANADIAN TRAFFIC POLICE were stunned when they pulled a dad over for letting his child climb about in his car only to find he had put a seatbelt around his crate of beer.

...'It was like this guy cared more for his precious beer bottles getting smashed than he did for his son going through the windscreen,' said traffic sergeant Cam Woolley, from Mississauga, Ontario.

[Glenn]

And the Lord said....

there will always be idiots among you.

[prisoner6]

Personally I don't see the problem. I came home from the hospital in a basket my mom held in her lap while dad drove the Plymouth.

Later I was unbelted and would climb from the back seat to the cargo area in our 58 Buick Invicta station wagon.

Later still I'd ride with my buddies in the back of a pick-up truck.

But if there was something that was fragile or posed a problem with it's rolling or boucning around it would be strapped down.

If you want your kids belted in fine, just don't make more laws to force other people to do so.

Same thing with helemts, kiddie seats, airbags, etcetera.

prisoner6

[Junior]

One's gotta have one's priorities straight...

[metesky]

Hey, the kid can recover, but once the beer is gone, it's gone forever.

[Revelation 911]

I have to laugh when I see this kind of stuff - mom and dad drove us to flori'duh (twice) letting us ride the entire way in the back section of the station wagon (unbelted), rasslin' as gramps chain smoked camels. Dad was a frazzle by the time we got there - but there was much fun to be had making faces at everyone on the road. Those were good days. Out of stubborness I still refuse to wear a belt - If I die - so be it - its on my own terms and Gods.

[billorites]

"Out of stubborness I still refuse to wear a belt - If I die - so be it - its on my own terms and Gods. "

That's fine so long as we're not in the same insurance pool and so long as my tax dollars don't have to pay for your kid's education and upkeep.

[SamAdams76]

Not only did my siblings and I bounce around the back of the family station wagon on annual trips to Alabama every summer (to visit family) but once we got there, we then rode around in the back of our uncle's open pickup truck all over northern Alabama. I remember one trip to Guntersville Lake where about 15 of us (all cousins) rode the back of a pickup while my father and crazy uncle sat in the cab sipping beers the whole way. Just wasn't a big deal in those days. I don't think I even learned to operate a seat belt until I started taking driving lessons at 16.

I remember my father getting a new car once and cutting the seat belts out with a utility knife because those "darned contraptions" just got in the way.

[I Luv Bush]

I still remember our "seat belt"--Dad stuck his arm out to keep us from going forward too far. Good thing, too, because the car had a metal dashboard....

[Revelation 911]

That's fine so long as we're not in the same insurance pool and so long as my tax dollars don't have to pay for your kid's education and upkeep.

Likewise for that tiny Camry/gocart that bounced off my SUV in last years blizzard - sure crumpled easily. Maybe that blonde who puts her makeup in the car ought to be in a separate pool too. Or that fat slob of a dump truck driver down the street whos always chokin hamburgers down - or maybe that cell phone user who didnt buy the required headset. - I hear what your sayin though and respect your opinion

[Revelation 911]

sipping beers

my dear friend - real men do not "sip" - they "slug", "down" or "toss" - "Sip" is something French people do with rotten grape juice ;)

[Revelation 911]

that explains the reverse NASH emblem on my forehead

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
This has come about after much badgering by you, my friends and extended family...

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A true story along same lines:

One night in college we were having a late-night card game when we heard a crash outside. We ran out and found a motorcyclist lying on the ground. His girlfriend was lying, moaning, a few yards away. The first words out of the motorcyclist's mouth:

"Is my bike OK?"

[Drawsing]

I have similar memories...going to sleep in the back window of the station wagon, thrilling rides in the back of pickups etc...And yet, and yet, seatbelts do save lives. I cringe at the thought of the discomfort my two boys experience as I strap them in for the five hour trip to my inlaws, but I know they are safer that way. Conservative cognitive dissonance alert!

[glory]

Now that is a verifiable "Hold mah beer alert". I gotta save this one for my hubby!

[Joe Driscoll]

That's fine so long as we're not in the same insurance pool and so long as my tax dollars don't have to pay for your kid's education and upkeep.

Your logic is flawed. Please don't use insurance costs to justify dictating what I can and cannot do. By your logic... In my state, there is an average of three hospital visits every Sunday morning by people attempting to split those frozen bagels. What law do you suggest?

Psst... Don't tell anyone (it's supposed to be a secret) but you already pay for my kids education.

[glory]

LOL--sounds like my hubby's recollection of their dad driving them to Vegas. At one point his dad threatened to "Leave you d*mn kids on the side of the road if you don't settle down"--they were teens at the time and took the threat very seriously!

[Revelation 911]

yeah - we used to get that - theyd even stop the car and open the door - we straightened up quick - especially when we'd passed a few roadside crosses. They call that psycological abuse now - they used to call it parenting

[Revelation 911]

Dad stuck his arm out to keep us from going forward too far

Sienfeld called this "stopping short" didnt he? - I think Georges Dad claimed the origin.