Almost crushed a toddler today

[Hitcher]

Maybe mum will even invest in some reigns after that episode....

Ho ho ho! It never reigns in Southern California, it pores, man it paws...

[Number One]

Ho ho ho! It never reigns in Southern California, it pores, man it paws...

Blardy NighOH peedants

[James Deuce]

Maybe mum will even invest in some reigns after that episode....

Nah, she'd get abused by do-gooders and social workers.

[Number One]

Nah, she'd get abused by do-gooders and social workers.

I remember I had them as a wee kid...had a whole bloody harness thing too...no one batted an eye at them and there were a lot of kids sporting them at the time.

Me I was just pissed I couldn't get away from mum

[James Deuce]

Me I was just pissed I couldn't get away from mum

You and me both.

[MsKABC]

I remember I had them as a wee kid...had a whole bloody harness thing too...no one batted an eye at them and there were a lot of kids sporting them at the time.

Me I was just pissed I couldn't get away from mum

There is a more socially acceptable form of them - they are cute little animal-themed back packs with reins attached. There seems to be a bit of a move back to them now - people are starting to care more about their kids safety and less about what do-gooders think.

[Number One]

Do gooders can bite my big brown bahookey as far as I am concerned. I find myself hardly even flinching when I get 'those looks' when out and about these days - fuck em! They aren't raising my boy I am. Though I don't have to have nee for a harness anymore he is well aware of the 'stay with mummy' rule and he is still small enough to be well afraid that I will sit on him if he doesn't comply...when he gets too big for that I will threaten to kiss and hug him in public instead

[MsKABC]

when he gets too big for that I will threaten to kiss and hug him in public instead

I'm kissing and cuddling my wee boy as much as possible now, coz I know that in a few years it will be: "Awwww Mum! Don't! Yuck!"

[skidMark]

Yes. You don't get baby oil from babies. Sheesh.

BWAHAHAHA

Doesnt the baby oil come out when they are born?

[Brett]

it was late in the day and i was driving a truck around 9 tonnes, a 4 wheeler.
driving down this road, which is quite busy, i spotted a mum with 2 kids standing ready to cross.
about 5-10m away, doing about 40kph with the snake brake on, my foot is off the gas, the toddler decides to run as fast as he can across the road.
so, i have 9 tonnes to stop, the truck is unloaded, and my snake brake is on.

my co worker is screaming, stop, for fucks sake stop.

i dont even hear him.

i almost put the truck over the traffic island to avoid the kid, i gave him maybe 1.5 m more room.

i never touched the brakes.
i dont have alot of faith in this trucks brakes, and whats better, 9 tonnes of mass sliding uncontrolled, or 9 tonnes of direct-able mass?

i saw the kid on his knees about i foot from the rear tires as we passed him.
big dual tires on the rear, very easy to go under.

i laughed afterward, i saved the kids life, but should i have braked?

would i have been in the wrong?

You avoided the kid, you did the job right. If you had hit him, then ask the what if's. Who knows what might have happened if you had breaked? I am guessing iin this instance you acted the most appropriately, as you mentioned, 9 tonnes does not slow very well, pure physics.

[MyGSXF:Me]

Do gooders can bite my big brown bahookey as far as I am concerned. I find myself hardly even flinching when I get 'those looks' when out and about these days - fuck em! They aren't raising my boy I am.

Damn right chick!!

I had an elasticated wrist strap for my youngest when eva we went out.. (I felt a bit like I was walking a dog.. ) but he woulda been mincemeat 100 times over without it!! sorta kid that nuthin slows him down.. (I must dig it out from where ever it's hiding.. he still needs it sometimes... ) He's been described as "the Energizer bunny on speed"

I neva "got" physics at school.. but it sounds like you did something right today carver..

[idb]

I knock down buildings.

Probably the hardest fucker in the universe, Imagine He-man, But twice as manly, and riding a 2 headed beast from hell that shoots flames from its eyes.

And hard hat, can't forget the hard hat.

Fluoro vest?

[XxKiTtiExX]

Kids can run reasonably fast when you least expect it.. It is why they make those cute little teddy bear looking backpacks for the kids to wear which then has a leash attached to it..

I remember a lady used to come into my work and she had all 3 of her little boys attached to this little backpack with a leash each.. People turned their nose up at her for apparently treating her kids like "dogs."

Tell you what I'd rather have my kid attached to a leash than squished under someones car tyres..

[carver]

You avoided the kid, you did the job right. If you had hit him, then ask the what if's. Who knows what might have happened if you had breaked? I am guessing iin this instance you acted the most appropriately, as you mentioned, 9 tonnes does not slow very well, pure physics.

see the truck stops ok~ unloaded, but loaded its a different story.
i bleed the water trap daily so there is minimal moisture in the pneumatic lines that operate the brakes.

loaded it would take maybe twice as long to stop, which is too far with something that requires instinct

[Stickchick]

Congrats on avoiding the kid Carver. My sisters friend ran over her own 18 month old boy the other week due to her not seeing the kid in front of her 4WD and killed him so it's nice hear there was a happy ending for this one.