I was going down 43 out of Russellville a few days ago. A truck came around me doing probably 70 & in the back were 2 children, looked to be about 5 & 8 years old, sitting on the truck bed bumper. Sent cold chills over me.
Do you let your children or grandchildren ride in the back of a truck?
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People shouldn't even be allowed to "haul" animals in the open beds of trucks, much less people and especially kids. Crazy.
People shouldn't even be allowed to "haul" animals in the open beds of trucks, much less people and especially kids. Crazy.
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Hmm.
I think it's kinda funny where the most outspoken 'anti-regulation-individual-rights' people draw the line.
It's perfectly fine to have an OK Corral, Wild West shootout in the parking lot, though.
LOL. Go figure.
I have no problem regulating carrying children and animals in such cases. They are innocents who do not know better and have no power to object. Adults should be able to decide what fool things they wish to do.
I think it is BS.
When I was a kid, I spent quite a few hours going somewhere in the bed of a pickup . My kids also liked to ride in the bed of my pickup when they were little.
Is it (more) dangerous than riding in the cab ? probably, but then you pretty much take your life in your hands every time you leave the house anyway.
Want a wreck-free environment, make everybody walk .
People shouldn't even be allowed to "haul" animals in the open beds of trucks, much less people and especially kids. Crazy.
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Hmm.
I think it's kinda funny where the most outspoken 'anti-regulation-individual-rights' people draw the line.
It's perfectly fine to have an OK Corral, Wild West shootout in the parking lot, though.
LOL. Go figure.
When has that happened between legal CCW holders?
I think it is BS.
When I was a kid, I spent quite a few hours going somewhere in the bed of a pickup . My kids also liked to ride in the bed of my pickup when they were little.
Is it (more) dangerous than riding in the cab ? probably, but then you pretty much take your life in your hands every time you leave the house anyway.
Want a wreck-free environment, make everybody walk .
I have been trying to talk a friend out of a original Subaru Brat and it has two bucket seats and seat belts in the bed from the factory.
When I was a kid, I spent quite a few hours going somewhere in the bed of a pickup . My kids also liked to ride in the bed of my pickup when they were little.
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When I was a kid, I spent quite a few hours going somewhere in the bed of a pickup . My kids also liked to ride in the bed of my pickup when they were little.
________I don't think ANYBODY is older than me.
When has that happened between legal CCW holders?
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LOL! I'm not gonna turn this thread into another gun debate, but..
Buy a scanner.. It happens *every/single/day* Even just around here.
TV sucks, so..
I sit here in the evenings typing on this thing and rollin' smokes and listening to the entire Quad-Cities and a goodly chunk of southern middle Tennessee on the radio.
I hear it constantly.
Having a CCW permit doesn't automatically turn ya into Dudley DoRight anymore than having a driver's license does and you know it.
That incident with all those kids in the back of that pickup was a pure case of just plain asshattery.
Where I used to live-I never wore a helmet when I rode my motorcycle. I wasn't required to. But I *rode like I didn't wear a helmet*.
Just like that guy in the pickup should've been driving *like he had real live kids in the back*.
It makes sense to me that if the driver and passenger (who are securely seated inside a steel cage inside the truck) are required by law to wear restraints-So then should *loose* passengers in the bed of the truck.* Especially* those loose passengers.
Some states-including the one I came from have banned riding in the back of a pickup unless it is equipped with seats and proper restraints (a la the Subaru Brat that had the two hard seats behind the cab).
I rode in pickups when I was a kid. I remember bouncing and rolling around like cargo sometimes even at fairly low speeds. I've seen people bounced out of pickups and hit by following vehicles.
Most state laws make ya secure yer load for a reason.
Can you think of a better one not to?
I thought it was already against the law to ride in truck beds. I guess that was TN I was thinking about. Man this is a backwards state.
I thought it was already against the law to ride in truck beds.
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I thought so too until those kids were killed & I heard on the news that it wasn't. Don't know where I got that it was.
When has that happened between legal CCW holders?
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LOL! I'm not gonna turn this thread into another gun debate, but..
Buy a scanner.. It happens *every/single/day* Even just around here.
TV sucks, so..
I sit here in the evenings typing on this thing and rollin' smokes and listening to the entire Quad-Cities and a goodly chunk of southern middle Tennessee on the radio.
I hear it constantly.
Having a CCW permit doesn't automatically turn ya into Dudley DoRight anymore than having a driver's license does and you know it.
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So Pup,
While you are rolling smoke, you hear on the police scanner calls about CCWs going OK Corral in parking lots. You hear it constantly. And you believe everybody knows it.
Tell me, do you associate these events with having the munchies?
U.S. 431, Alabama
It's about 98 miles from Phenix City to Dothan, Ala., on U.S. 431, which has been labeled as one of America's most dangerous roads by outlets such as Reader's Digest. Just last month, for example, four people were killed when a pickup truck carrying more than 10 people rolled over. Overall, there were 20 deaths along this stretch between 1999 to 2010, leaving the road dotted with white crosses placed by victims' families and friends. Prior to finishing a major four-lane conversion in 2010, officials cited traffic density and limited visibility on the mostly two-lane sections as the reasons U.S. 431 has been called one of the nation's most dangerous roads. In 2004, construction to widen a 16-mile stretch of the highway began. Crews also began to replace bridges. Today most of the highway is four lanes wide except for the sections that run through small towns.
Happened in downtown Florence. A truck threw several children out and they were laying all over the place dead. I can't remember the year but I think it was in the 80s. I wouldn't put a dog in the back of a pickup.
Happened in downtown Florence. A truck threw several children out and they were laying all over the place dead. I can't remember the year but I think it was in the 80s. I wouldn't put a dog in the back of a pickup.
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Remember when this video was making the rounds? Warning, very graphic.
Just because it appears somebody in Honduras was unable to control his little truck with 10 people in it, does not mean we should go adapting laws here. We have enough already, too many in fact.
Seat belt laws, motorcycle helmet laws, open container laws. on and on
Just because it appears somebody in Honduras was unable to control his little truck with 10 people in it, does not mean we should go adapting laws here. We have enough already, too many in fact.
Seat belt laws, motorcycle helmet laws, open container laws. on and on
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Doesn't matter where it happened, it gives you a pretty darn good idea of what can happen when you "haul" people in the open backs of pick-ups, whether it be in honduras or florence alabama. You don't need to list things, I know you don't think anything should be against the law.
