[DMCForum] Wrong-headed laws: Was: Child Car Seats In A Delorean

["cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My other favorite example of this knee-jerk, crying soccer-mom
crusader bull-$hit is the lobbying of a mommy in Maryland who lost her
teenager in a car accident in which the teen was driving the car. 

This woman is pushing to make the minimum -federal- driving age 18
years old. She claims that too many kids under 18 turn their cars into
"party-barges". As with most of these "I never want this to happen to
anyone else" types, she is hell-bent on foisting her guilt off on the
rest of us by passing a law to make herself feel better. 

Just because she didn't drill into her kid's head how important it is
to have your head out of your ass when driving a car, or because her
kid had a brain-cramp, I don't see why my 2 daughters should have to
postphone driving for 2 more years. I constantly drill into their
heads what it means to make the right choice and they're only 10.

And yes, before you ask: I love them both very much, but if one or
both died in an accident, I would feel horrific, I would believe it a
tragedy but I wouldn't shove my failures up the rest of the nation's
colective ass in an attempt to relieve my guilt over my own personal
failures as a parent.

These are the same morons who build those little "memorials" on the
side of the highway. In 15 years the whole interstate system will be
upholstered with them. So what? Honor their death at their gravesite
or the urn you keep on the mantle. Tragic? Yes. My sincerest
condolances. You're not "teaching" the rest of the motoring nation
anything by trying to creep us out with a white cross at a busy
intersection and you might just get plowed by a drunk motorist
planting flowers at that memorial.

I don't need these morons to protect me from myself while jacking up
insurance costs and the cost of my car because it now has to be
armour-plated like Princess Diana's limousine.

If I had my way, there would be a cut-out switch for every safety
system that's mandatory in a vehicle today. Along with helmet laws and
seat belt laws. It doesn't mean I wouldn't use any of them. I just
want the freedom to decide for myself.

Now there's a thought...the freedom to decide for myself.

Rich


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "wannadelorean" <mcquinlan@xxxx> wrote:
> Well, I was not asking because I intended on duct taping my kid and 
> his seat in the back.  I was asking because I'd seen a picture and 
> wondered how this was done and if it is an available system (Safe).  
> I don't see how you can dismiss this as dangerous or illegal if 
> there is a system in existence.
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