Are you sure those aren’t sunshades? I’ve seen ones like this printed with Winnie the Pooh, etc., but never any little diamond-shaped signs like the Baby on Board ones.
Edit: And that’s what I get for not previewing.
nah they’re too small for that. There’s a guy handing those signs out except they say “Are we having fun yet” on them. We have one on the door to our kitchen in the fraternity house for no apparent reason.
On that note, why all the vitriol directed towards these things, I always figured they weren’t any more obnoxious than any other bumper sticker, just somebody taking pride in being a new parent. I had no idea they had such a ridiculous purpose as to ACTUALLY be intended to cause some sort of effect in nearby drivers… (also, combo points if you get two of them in one crash)
This does not mean that the driver has secured him/herself or the children appropiately. Also, while they may at some points drive way over the speed limit, they (or their inheritors) will still claim that any accidents in which they were involved were everybody else’s fault.
One day last summer, Spanish dinnertime news included headlines similar to this: “kamikaze driver murders 6 children!” The footage they showed started with the “baby on board” sitcker; it included a Guardia Civil (traffic cop) saying that none of the 8 dead people had seatbelts on, nor were the smaller kids in kiddie seats; also, the van where the 8 people had been was supposed to hold 5, not 8.
By midnight, the GC had released a report indicating that the van had been way over the speed limit. It was them who’d rammed the other poor guy from behind, after losing control and hitting the central guards.
But still, over the next week several “tabloid programs” brought up the poor dead children and how this guy could be so careless. The Guardia Civil pointed out once and again that it wasn’t the survivor’s fault, until the tabloids cut it out.
snopes deliberately don’t allow cut and pasting of their work as a matter of principle - the rationale given in the FAQ used to say something about them not wanting to see work that they might later re-evaluate floating around the net. By linking to the site, you only ever get the up to the minute version.
Probably because when some adults become parents for the first time, they get excited about all the silly baby things they can do for the first time all of a sudden, “baby on board” signs and all. (I have two and some Disney sun blinds 
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Let’s all remember that with summer approaching, a car can reach lethal temperatures within minutes. If you see a “baby on board” sign in a parked car, safety comes first and it’s important to smash the window to rescue the infant.
I always thought it meant, “I’m going to drive like an idiot and YOU should get out of my way because you might harm my kid if/when I hit you and then I can blame you for not watching out for my precious cargo.”
We still have lots of them here in Calgary (and lots of crappy drivers, too). What really toasts my buns is all the drivers who tailgate me relentlessly as I drive the speed limit through school and playground zones. By my logic, the majority of people are parents, so the majority of the people tailgating me as I DRIVE SLOWLY FOR THEIR DAMN CHILDREN are complete and utter assholes.
I would like to have little stickers made up to put on cars with “Baby On Board” signs that say, “So what?”
What kinds of room and courtesies do you think we should extend to parents that we don’t extend to non-parents, and how do we tell the difference?
I don’t think I understand what you’re saying here. Could you expand your reasoning?
Promethea has explained why snopes does this. The how is using javascript. Example:
http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/disable-text-selection.html
Right. Because the sun only ever shines in the driver’s side window, never the passenger’s, and certainly not through the windshield…
Hmm, I just always assumed that they were Be Sharps fans.
No, Promethea has explained why snopes claims they do that. I suspect the real reason has more to do with all the advertising $$ from their Pop-ups and such.
Break the window.
Remove the kid.
Install new sign.
Baby in the oven.
All I do is sell 'em, not market 'em. I don’t even have a kid. 
It means the same thing as the signs on trailers that say “Horses.”
Some people use the sign because they are still under the impression that having kids is somehow an incredible talent that makes them special ie. they are showing off.
A more common reason is for people who want to use the system(and not just women either ).
Broken down at the side of the road?Sympathetic people may pull over to help/do the job for you.
In a queue at a roadside shop or eatery?Some people may let you queue jump because of the baby.
Pulled over by the police? You might get let off with a caution .
All these rely on other adults not wanting to cause the baby discomfort or distress and if it doesnt work ,the only thing youve lost is the cost of an inexpensive sign.
Ive noticed that the people who have the signs in their cars never seem to remove them when they dont actually have the child onboard.
Nope, that’s everywhere. If I remember right, a law requiring everyone to wear a seatbelt—not just the people in the front seat—was passed recently. I don’t know whether that law also had a child seat provision or not. Probably not, though it might have said that just holding the kids on your lap isn’t good enough and you should put them in the back seat at least. I also see people with yappy little lap dogs doing an impression of ping-pong balls in a laundromat dryer. It’s no wonder to me that Japanese road fatalities are higher per capita than the US, despite having speed limits that are way lower.
Most of the signs I see are in English, which, despite the years of schooling in English they go through here, is like having them written in Swahili. In practice, anything non-Japanese gets ignored unless there’s no katakana or other Japanese writing around to provide a translation. Dumb-assed yuppie crap from 2 decades ago couldn’t even get left on the other side of the Pacific, grumble, grumble.
What, don’t stick your hand in the open window 'cause the baby may bite?