What belongs in a child seat? A baby or a gas can?

[Jesda]

Got out of bed for a glass of water, found this link.

http://www.9news.com/news/article/27106 ... is-picture



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Good night, NICO.

[themadscientist]

The baby should be holding the gas can.

[frapjap]

The baby should be holding the gas can.

With a lit cigarette in its mouth.

[themadscientist]

Clove cigarette too.

[OriginalWheelman]

I am totally shocked by this, SHOCKED. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT WASN'T IN ALABAMA.

[300ZXttZMAN]

The baby should be holding the gas can.

The baby should be holding the gas can.

With a lit cigarette in its mouth.

Clove cigarette too.

Yall made my day. Thank you!

[Dattebayo]

No, you all have it wrong. You fill the tank up with baby, and sing the gasoline to sleep.

[jbracy7]

Complete parent fail

[Rager]

it almost doesnt seem real. the baby isnt even wearing the seat belt behind him. if the parent goes that far to buckle the tank and just sit the kid on top of the other seat belt , well then ..... idk! well like ibracy7 said "complete parent fail"!!!

[szh]

It is a wonder that the "14 year old" passenger in the front seat without a seat-belt - like the Mom! - has survived so far!

Some DNA just calls out loud to be permanently removed from the gene pool!

Z

[themadscientist]

It's a character building moment for the kid. He now appreciates his worth versus our dwindling supply of hydrocarbons. He will grow up to be CEO of Shell, or, he will work at a "fillin" station.

Tell me again how humans are so friggin evolved.

[300ZXttZMAN]

No, you all have it wrong. You fill the tank up with baby, and sing the gasoline to sleep.

WIN!!!

[themadscientist]

I light the BBQ with baby.

[skydragoness]

DeShazer says the officer continued to question her about the child in the back seat, the child in the photo, not in any restraints. He says her response to the officer was, "Oh, he unbuckles and buckles his seatbelt by himself all the time."

DeShazer says the officer's response to that was, "And then buckles in the gas canister?"

According to DeShazer, the woman didn't have a response to the officer's question.

Bwahaha. Seriously?

[alms24sebring]

Well yeah... A loose container of gas is more dangerous if it spills everywhere than a loose kid. Of course I have a tattoo across my back that say F*** THE CHILDREN

[themadscientist]

Kids are too soft.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOt2iXdc4[/youtube]

[Rager]

these parents might top the others

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/ ... police-say

[AppleBonker]

^ Sounds about right for Indiana...

[MinisterofDOOM]

Kids are too soft.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOt2iXdc4[/youtube]

Damn straight. I didn't ride on any bullpucky booster seat until I was eleventytwelve years old and last I checked I did not become dead or seriously injured at any point while riding in a car.

Hell, my version of a booster seat was a briefcase.
In the driver's seat.
When I was 5.

[AppleBonker]

Kids are too soft.

Damn straight. I didn't ride on any bullpucky booster seat until I was eleventytwelve years old and last I checked I did not become dead or seriously injured at any point while riding in a car.

While normally I agree with the both of you (either we think alike or I'm easily influenced), I'm going to have to take the other side here.

MoD, the people that did end up dead that could've been saved by a car seat probably aren't as vocal with their opinion today...

I probably can't state it any better than Jalopnik's COTD:

When my dad raced hobby stock, there were no SAFER barriers or HANS devices. He never broke his neck or punched his steering column through his chest by hitting a wall.

Racecar drivers are a bunch of p****** these days.

Your reasoning is flawed. Before you call modern parents p****** for using current safety tech in their cars for their kids, you should look at pictures of what a four year old looks like after she's been thrown through a windshield and clear of a car in a high speed crash.

[DJ_B_Easy]

All valid support for a sterilization bill...

[themadscientist]

My kid will have a minicage around his Recaro racing baby seat complete, of course, with simulated vehicle controls like a steering wheel, gas brake AND CLUTCH as well as an overtake boost button. Helmet will be used on the bike until he or she is in the early teens and can comprehend the results of cracking their skull on the pavement. Other than that, play with fire, throw lawn darts, jump off the roof, fall in love, and watch TV to your heart's content. At 18, you're on your own.

[MinisterofDOOM]

While normally I agree with the both of you (either we think alike or I'm easily influenced), I'm going to have to take the other side here.

MoD, the people that did end up dead that could've been saved by a car seat probably aren't as vocal with their opinion today...

You have a good point. The crashes are out of the child's control, and thus this isn't an issue of darwinism on their part. No reason a poor kid should have to suffer because of the ineptitude of a (potentially unrelated) adult driver.