# Truck runs down a baby in his stroller. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 1, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-runs-down-a-baby-in-his-stroller/689750 "2014-06-01T05:20:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-runs-down-a-baby-in-his-stroller/689750/21 "2014-06-02T08:14:25Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > 1. Cook something in the dishwasher. > 2. Dive in a dumpster. > 3.Throw things from a moving car. > 3. Burn things with a magnifying glass. > 4. Look at the sun. > 5. Make a slingshot. > 6. Go underground. > 7. Whittle. > 8. Melt glass. > 9. Explode a bottle in the freezer. > > I can’t understand the meaning of the title: Dangerous things you should let your children do > Shouldn’t that read: Dangerous things you should \*\*never \*\*let your children do? I largely agree that you should let your children do these things. 1. Not sure why a kid would want to do that, but harmless fun. 2. I assume they don’t mean the bins in the grocery store parking, which can be pretty bad traps and are usually barred by trespassing laws. If you have your own bin in the backyard, I see nothing wrong with it. 3. This is the only one I fully disagree with. It’s stupid, and at best littering. 4. Harmless fun. 5. Not as bad as many people believe. It [won’t damage your vision](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2585/will-looking-directly-at-a-solar-eclipse-make-you-go-blind) unless you really force it. 6. Harmless fun. 7. This one needs some qualification. Especially underground floodways are one of the top killers in the third world. 8 - 10. Harmless fun. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-runs-down-a-baby-in-his-stroller/689750/22 "2014-06-02T10:03:21Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > My first thought was: > > Red truck passing legitimately through a junction at normal speed, hit perpendicularly at the back by the white car jumping a light or just not paying attention - red vehicle is deflected to the left of its intended path by the blow. > > But it could just as easily be the same sort of collision where the white vehicle had the right of way and the red one sailed through a red light in front of it, or something. No babies were killed, but I recently witnesses an accident like this. One car was pulled well into the intersection waiting for a chan ce to turn left; there was no left arrow, so this was the only way to make a left turn. Just after the light turn yellow the car turned, then another car came barreling at it, trying to make the light, I guess, even though it was a block away. It had to be speeding. It entered the intersection on yellow, and hit the turning car, damaging its front end so that it couldn’t steer, and rolled off, cock-eyed. The turning car was bigger, and got hit toward the back. It was still drivable. It pulled over for a minute, then just drove off. I didn’t stay to see what happened, which I would have done had the police been called (maybe I should have called them), but since the people at fault were the ones damaged, maybe they wanted to take care of it without informing their insurance company-- or weren’t insured. I left my number with the store owner into whose parking lot the disabled car got pushed, just in case the police were called later. This city is really terrible for people running red lights. People can’t stand to wait at an intersection, and will go 50 in a 35mph zone to try to make a light, and then when they aren’t going to make it, they’re going to fast to stop, so they go through on red. They make a lot of people miss their chance to turn on an arrow. I’m surprised we don’t see more road rage over it, honestly. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-runs-down-a-baby-in-his-stroller/689750/23 "2014-06-02T11:15:55Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > But I’m sure the following belong on that list: > > 1. Talking to strangers and accepting a ride from strangers (especially if they ask for help in finding a pet or a child). > 2. Looking both ways when stepping out between parked cars It’s interesting how perceived risks are so far off from actual risks. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-runs-down-a-baby-in-his-stroller/689750/24 "2014-06-03T21:56:21Z")
Many years ago, when I was living in NYC, I was out to lunch on a beautiful spring day. As I was crossing a main street (I think it was Houston St.) I had to stop to allow a large semi to pass. Just at that moment a late-teen-to-early-20s bicycle messenger zoomed by, between me and the truck. For whatever reason the kid lost his balance, and fell under the tires of the truck. He was squashed like a bug. The driver had no idea what had happened until some of us flagged him down. When he saw what remained of the kid (you could barely make out his internal organs) he just fell to his knees and was wailing incoherently. When the cops came, the driver was barely able to speak coherently. I shudder when I remember that horrible accident. And I shudder to think of how the driver was able to live with a tragedy that wasn’t at all his fault. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truck-runs-down-a-baby-in-his-stroller/689750.md?page=1)