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

["wannadelorean" <mcquinlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, I could agree more.  

I had not heard this story but it mirrors the pool story.  This 
woman in Florida is trying to get the pool fence law passed because 
her son suffered brain damage and eventually died from a pool 
drowning.  She stated that she never thought she had to think about 
pool safety because she didn't own a pool.   Her son drowned at a 
friends house while she was there for a party.  She also claimed 
that she wasn't negligent and that she was watching her child.  I 
don't see how this could be unless she watched him drown.  

I do own a pool and I know I have to think about pool saftey so why 
penalize me because people who don't own pools don't think they have 
to be concerned about them. 

I think in many cases these type of laws do more harm than good.  
These pool fences make parents complacent about there pools and feel 
that pool safety is taken care by the fact that they have the 
fence.  This just isn't true.  Kids are creative and if they are 
left unsupervised to where they could drown in a pool, then they 
probably have enough time to figure out how to get around the 
fence.  I say let natural selection work it out for us, not our 
legal system.  Sounds harsh, I know, but I'm tired of the masses 
having to pay for a few idiots mistakes.

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> 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.
> <snip>

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