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no one is exempt from an absent-mnded moment.
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Running over your child with your car is a pretty serious 'absent minded moment.' I wonder how many times alcohol or another drug was involved?
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Shit hapens to everyone and not everyone deserves it ask Job.
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Steve Job(s)?
Sorry... bad joke.
Sorry... bad joke.
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Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Crackpot wrote:Are chuldren expected to be held on to by parents at all times? Should they lose the ability to play outside?
My kids played outside and went up the street to friends houses.
But when in parking lots or crossing the street they held onto my hand.
As an aside, my grandson got a good tanning for breaking away from my daughter's grip one day while crossing the street.
Good parenting like bad parenting is generational.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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I have only once been in a car with those reversing cameras. Gee it was cool.
When I have money that I feel like tossing around on a car, I would love a hybrid variety vehicle with that nifty camera. It would also be useful for checking for stupid chickens and dumber dogs.
When I have money that I feel like tossing around on a car, I would love a hybrid variety vehicle with that nifty camera. It would also be useful for checking for stupid chickens and dumber dogs.
Bah!
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One could say these types of accidents weed the gene pool, I suppose.
Seems like the back up alert beeping should have been enough, but that's been around a while and obviously hasn't solved the issue. Neither will cameras; people will have them and be too busy checking for text messages to bother with the camera screen.
Here's an absent minded parenting moment I never could grasp: folks who drive to work and park, forgetting baby is in the backseat, going in to the office to work all day, leaving baby to cook to death in a hot, locked vehicle.
How do you load your kid into the car for daycare and forget s/he's there?
The infant mortality review I did was of a 3 year old run over by his great uncle (not an old man) because mom & dad let him run ahead, unattended, in the parking lot of an outdoor wedding site. You can imagine the horror an entire family experienced that day due to parental absent mindedness; but it's the uncle who has to live with killing the kid, and he did nothing wrong.
I knew a family in NY in which grandpa backed over a toddler with a riding lawn mower, killing the child in gruesome fashion, because parents let him run out to the yard, where dangerous, loud machinery was being operated, alone.
I knew better when I was a 14 year old babysitter. I guess there is something to be said for growing up with worriers.
Seems like the back up alert beeping should have been enough, but that's been around a while and obviously hasn't solved the issue. Neither will cameras; people will have them and be too busy checking for text messages to bother with the camera screen.
Here's an absent minded parenting moment I never could grasp: folks who drive to work and park, forgetting baby is in the backseat, going in to the office to work all day, leaving baby to cook to death in a hot, locked vehicle.
How do you load your kid into the car for daycare and forget s/he's there?
The infant mortality review I did was of a 3 year old run over by his great uncle (not an old man) because mom & dad let him run ahead, unattended, in the parking lot of an outdoor wedding site. You can imagine the horror an entire family experienced that day due to parental absent mindedness; but it's the uncle who has to live with killing the kid, and he did nothing wrong.
I knew a family in NY in which grandpa backed over a toddler with a riding lawn mower, killing the child in gruesome fashion, because parents let him run out to the yard, where dangerous, loud machinery was being operated, alone.
I knew better when I was a 14 year old babysitter. I guess there is something to be said for growing up with worriers.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Not all of these accidents are caused by negligence BSG...
I think that threads like this bring out the cynic in you...
I think that threads like this bring out the cynic in you...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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I do apologize; my job forces me to wallow in the stupidity of my fellow man and I have admittedly become terribly curmudgeonly of late.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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That's quite allright dear.
Just don't do it again!
Just don't do it again!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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They fall asleep. That combined with a irregular daycare schedule (not something that you can set up a routine with) a daycare that is close to work (so you're taking the same route from home regardless) and a long enough commute that you get wrapped up in something else (a song or a story on the radio, what you need to get done at work etc.)bigskygal wrote:How do you load your kid into the car for daycare and forget s/he's there?
Personally I've got to the driveway at work before remembering that my son was in the car.
When you take into account common human failures you can see how these things "just" happen.
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Not nor has it ever been standard and are you now suggestion that relying on a "beep" is more effective than visually checking your blind spots?bigskygal wrote:Seems like the back up alert beeping should have been enough, but that's been around a while and obviously hasn't solved the issue. Neither will cameras; people will have them and be too busy checking for text messages to bother with the camera screen.
How many of these are you going to come up with before you admit you went off half cocked? I mean you keep this up and soon you'll be defending pedophile Catholic priests at every turn.
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The beeping is for the person behind the vehicle; surely you know that?
As for your other comments; fuck you for making a stupid and nasty leap to defense of pedophiles. I simply don't agree with you; deal with it. The great majority of these kinds of 'accidents' are preventable by common sense child-minding habits and I disagree that more technology that will ultimately despoil the environment is required to help careless parents, as the majority will likely ignore it as much as they ignore their kids.
You can't fix stupid, by technology or otherwise.
As for your other comments; fuck you for making a stupid and nasty leap to defense of pedophiles. I simply don't agree with you; deal with it. The great majority of these kinds of 'accidents' are preventable by common sense child-minding habits and I disagree that more technology that will ultimately despoil the environment is required to help careless parents, as the majority will likely ignore it as much as they ignore their kids.
You can't fix stupid, by technology or otherwise.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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No I was making a leap to a certain other poster here when confronted with an inability to admit she simply overstated her position resorted to defending pedophiles on a regular basis. (I'll leave it to you to decide if that is a more grievous insult)
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Ahh we're talking about two different technologies. I thought you were speaking of back up sensors which beep with increasing frequency as you approach objects. the ones you speak of are generally only used on commercial and industrial vehicles as they would annoy your neighbors at night.bigskygal wrote:The beeping is for the person behind the vehicle; surely you know that?
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That says it all. The proiblem with making anything idiot-proof, is that it only results in a higher grade of IDIOT.You can't fix stupid, by technology or otherwise.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.