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Raising age for booster seats would save lives, experts say (What about the chiiiillldreeeen?)
The Augusta Chronicle ^ | March 9, 2011 | Carole Hawkins

Posted on 03/09/2011 4:02:22 AM PST by arderkrag

Sara Simmons straps her youngest daughter Anabelle, 2, into a car safety seat whenever she drives the family's van. Her middle daughter, Juliana, 6, doesn't use one, though. She sits in a booster seat only occasionally.

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That means Juliana and all other 6- and 7-year-olds would have to move into booster seats when they outgrew their car seats. A companion bill passed in the House, so the measure is close to becoming law.

(Excerpt) Read more at chronicle.augusta.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: children; georgia; retards; seatbelt
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Where has my state gone? We were on a good trend, now it's back to being in people's lives.

Oh, good morning everyone!
1 posted on 03/09/2011 4:02:28 AM PST by arderkrag
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To: arderkrag

How many lives would be saved if they stayed home? ;-)


2 posted on 03/09/2011 4:06:38 AM PST by red tie
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To: arderkrag
We need booster seats for legislators.


3 posted on 03/09/2011 4:10:04 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: arderkrag

It’s ridiculous. My 5-year old son is big for his age and has outgrown his booster seat, but PA law says he has to sit in the damned thing until he is 8. Stupid.


4 posted on 03/09/2011 4:11:24 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

The feds think children should be in booster seats until they are 4’ 9” tall.

Thats about 12 years old for some kids.


5 posted on 03/09/2011 4:13:07 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

At what age do the “children” the liberals care so much about become the “yutes” they don’t give a rat’s ass for? My guess is about 12 when they start realizing that their parents are utter morons.


6 posted on 03/09/2011 4:18:30 AM PST by conservaterian (Sarah/DeMint '12)
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To: driftdiver

By the same logic, Ruth Westheimer and other little old ladies should be in booster seats as well.


7 posted on 03/09/2011 4:21:23 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: arderkrag

Hey gun mint, get the f out of My business


8 posted on 03/09/2011 4:22:05 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: driftdiver
The feds think children should be in booster seats until they are 4’ 9” tall.

If she were still alive my grandmother would still be in one.

9 posted on 03/09/2011 4:27:20 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: arderkrag

How’s that gonna work on a school bus?

And what about school car pools... will they have to have a car full of booster seats?


10 posted on 03/09/2011 4:30:53 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie mmm mmm mmm)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

and alot of that is that they put those stupid chest restraints in the back seats, which can strangle a child or snap their neck.


11 posted on 03/09/2011 4:33:01 AM PST by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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would have to move into booster seats when they outgrew their car seats.

In a related more the legislature more the legislature dropped the speed limit satewide to 20 mph because "It would save lives."

12 posted on 03/09/2011 4:35:07 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Joe Boucher

Your spelling is atrocious - it’s “Gubmint”


13 posted on 03/09/2011 4:47:53 AM PST by almcbean
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I went to Kindergarten in a car that had a board across the arm rests in the back seat so that 10-12 of us would fit. I have taken a drink out of a graden hose, then and recently. I have had “Fresh” whole milk and grew up on a red meat diet, well some pork. I’m lucky to be alive.


14 posted on 03/09/2011 4:53:09 AM PST by vortec94
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Its all about gubbmint control.


15 posted on 03/09/2011 4:57:22 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

My son hit that 80 lb mark to graduate from his seat at 6. Now his little sister is 6, and she is 45 soaking wet. Two more years of car seat prison for her.


16 posted on 03/09/2011 5:00:33 AM PST by st.eqed
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To: arderkrag

Just to be safe, let’s make kids sit in booster seats until they are 30.


17 posted on 03/09/2011 5:01:14 AM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: vortec94
I went to Kindergarten in a car that had a board across the arm rests in the back seat so that 10-12 of us would fit.

Please ... to repeat a liberal refrain.

"If it saves but one life ..."

18 posted on 03/09/2011 5:02:09 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: 9YearLurker

LOL Suporeme Court Judge Ginsberg should sit in a booster seat, even at the court. Too bad they don’t make one that would boost her brain.


19 posted on 03/09/2011 5:07:02 AM PST by Venturer
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To: driftdiver

My sisters are just a bit taller than that. They are in their 40s. LOL


20 posted on 03/09/2011 5:09:53 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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