Re: [DMCForum] Re: Child Car Seats In A Delorean

[DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also that kid is too small to be facing forward, the rule is either 
40lbs or one year old to face forward and that kid is not either one.

Mark V


On Sunday, July 25, 2004, at 08:56  PM, wannadelorean 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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> Here is a pic:
> http://www.entermyworld.com/custom/efset2.html
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> But your reply is so typical of people these days who believe that
> laws are passed to protect us.  For the most part that is just a
> load of crap.
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> How is it that you and I have to go to expense and trouble of having
> car seats when kids ride on a school bus (or any mass transit for
> that matter) every day with not even a seat belt.  Car seats do save
> lives but the reason they are required by law has more to do with
> political lobbying than rational thinking.  So the fact that
> something is "illegal" doesn't immediately make it a bad idea.
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> A good example of stupid laws that are meant to protect us:  Safety
> fences around swimming pools.  There is a lady in Florida who is
> trying to make these mandatory for everyone in the U.S. who owns a
> pool.  She was already successful in getting the law passed in
> Florida for all new construction.  Funny thing is, more kids die in
> toilets than pools.  250 children a year die in swimming pool
> drowning.  Is it really rational to make 10's of millions of pool
> owners spend thousands of dollars each to protect 250 children?
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> A Likely senario is that a person who doesn't watch their kid around
> the pool probably will be too lazy to take the fence down and put it
> back up every time they use the pool.  As with car seats they only
> work when properly used.  Most people don't use them properly
> anyway.  Auto accidents are still the #1 killer of children.
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> If you really wanted to save children you'd put a fence around your
> toilet, ban the manufacturing of 5 gal buckets and make riding in
> cars illegal for children.  (Many children who are involved in
> serious accidents die regardless of the seat.  Forces in a crash do
> serious brain and cord damage and no seat can prevent this).
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> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxx> wrote:
>> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "wannadelorean" <mcquinlan@xxxx>
> wrote:
>>> Anyone ever seen a child car seat put in the read of a Delorean?
>>
>> Do you mean the rear of a DeLorean? Like the back shelf?
>>
>> Dangerous and illegal. Don't do it.
>>
>> -Ryan
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