I’ve also seen people walking with their child in a stroller, and then they stop and wait at a crosswalk for the light, with the stroller with the baby in it stuck out in traffic. Ai-yi-yi!
At least they stopped and waited for the light. At least once I week I see someone push a stroller out into an intersection against the light. Sometimes the road is completely clear, and sometimes they’re just estimating that they can make it across before the cars get to them, but in either case, is it really so important to get across the street that you’ll risk your child?
Fortunately, I’ve never seen an accident result, but I always feel like it’s just a matter of time.
Somebody needs to call DPS about her.
Oh yeah, the people jaywalking in traffic with their kids. I see that, too, and it enrages me - we have all kinds of inconveniences for drivers (neverending school zones and playground zones and crosswalks and crosswalks with lights and extremely high fines for drivers interfering with pedestrians in crosswalks) so people can put the onus on drivers to keep their kids safe, and then they just boogie on out in front of traffic with their kids NOT at an intersection.
Heh - think you hit a bit of a nerve there. ![]()
I’ve seen someone doing this deliberately, then lecturing/yelling at the driver for endangering her kid. And not at a crosswalk. She did this maybe a couple of times a week, for a few years.
I have video of my son when he was five, holding and revving a Stihl chainsaw that he barely was able to lift off the ground. Of course, there is no chain on the bar.
That would count as bad parenting.
You mean the half a little boy.
“Yeah, so, we kind of hammered this dart into her head…can you get it out or something?”
That reminded me of when a friend dared me to throw a dart at his head when we were kids, and I did - it stuck in his head, but it didn’t go in very far.
The Littlest Briston imitating her daddy.
100 hur-de-dur points for whoever makes a “her daddy wears NY Giants dresses?” crack.
I’ll see if I can get my kid to make you one. He already has a return address stamp and a couple of bumper stickers that say “I’m Satan!”.
Okay, my kid’s a grown ass man but I’m still proud of him. Especially the SATAN return addy that he uses for paying bills.
If you look closely at the pic of the be-darted girl, you can see a raised line about an inch long, under the skin running from the puncture. Could the skull have bent the dart along its surface? Either way, ouch.