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Although of course I'm all for safety as I'm sure everyone is, when such an indignity is forced upon kids, particularly at an age when social stigmas are at their most raw, I fear that this sort of thing will engender resentment and spur an active noncompliance not only of this law but of other traffic laws. Requiring a fifteen year old to ride in a booster seat will not be an easy sell, I'll wager.
Dan Bates / The Herald
Lexi Shonko (left), 8, and sister Karly, 10, sit in new booster seats in the back of their parents' SUV with their dog, Chloe, on Thursday. The girls, who are too small for a seat belt to fit them properly, say they aren't thrilled they'll have to use booster seats again.
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1 posted on
05/11/2007 6:54:59 AM PDT by
Stoat
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To: BADROTOFINGER
2 posted on
05/11/2007 6:56:11 AM PDT by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Stoat
Its all the fault of that Vast Evil Booster Seat Manufacturers Lobby!!
To: Stoat
I tinted the windows on the Suburban so dark you can’t see in to combat these Nazi laws. We need a preemption bill on this lunacy.
4 posted on
05/11/2007 6:57:27 AM PDT by
kerryusama04
(John 19:31)
To: Stoat
Strange shot ... it makes those girls look about 7’ tall.
5 posted on
05/11/2007 6:57:32 AM PDT by
r9etb
To: Stoat
Nuts
Rewind my life to exactly the same when I was 14, only put that body in the here and now in DC, and I’d still be in a booster seat.
6 posted on
05/11/2007 6:58:09 AM PDT by
wastedyears
(I was opposed to Rudy in the mid 1990s when he took my fireworks away. I was but a little boy.)
To: Stoat
The Nanny State is here. “but if it saves just one life!”
10 posted on
05/11/2007 6:59:42 AM PDT by
Barney Gumble
(A liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost)
To: Stoat
These people (government) are dopes.
If you look at the photo, the ‘shoulder’ straps fit even worse then if they were sitting lower on the seat. If there is an accident, those kids are going to go flying out of those ‘booster seats’ right into the back of their parents heads. Either that, or they could possibly have internal injuries from the ‘seat’ belt strap.
And since when do seat belts not ‘adjust’ to the wearer? Even my six year old grandson is held tight by the seatbelt.
This is bull.
BTW. They passed the same stupid law in New York State.
12 posted on
05/11/2007 7:01:10 AM PDT by
Bigh4u2
(Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
To: Stoat
Aaaaah liberalism. Don’t ya just love the “liberty” it brings?
14 posted on
05/11/2007 7:01:33 AM PDT by
EndWelfareToday
(Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter)
To: Stoat
This Presidential candidate must now campaign in WA from a booster seat:
15 posted on
05/11/2007 7:01:37 AM PDT by
RockinRight
(Proud FREDeralist.)
To: Stoat
This will help the state garner extra revenue from out-of-state travelers who may be unaware of, and possibly unprepared to comply with, the new rules.
To: Stoat
Short people will never get out of them. I am so glad that big government is looking after all us stupid people.
17 posted on
05/11/2007 7:01:52 AM PDT by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: Stoat
I remember when my uncle said that until I was 6, I had to ride in the cab of the pickup and not in the open bed with my cousins.
How did I (or anyone else over 30) ever survive childhood?
To: Stoat
Well, that ought to cut down on teens having sex....
To: Stoat
children will have to stay in the safety seats until they are at least 8 years old or 4 feet, 9 inches tall. How are kids older than 8 being forced into car seats? The conjunction is or, not and.
20 posted on
05/11/2007 7:02:20 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Stoat
Ha ha. Note that the booster seats make the seat belts not sit properly on these girls. All hail the nanny state!
To: Stoat
This has got to be a joke right? Something left over from April 1 right?
To: Stoat
Another 2 inches and I will require a booster seat! And I am a grandmother.
24 posted on
05/11/2007 7:06:13 AM PDT by
Alouette
(Learned Mother of Zion)
To: Stoat
The nanny state strikes again.
25 posted on
05/11/2007 7:06:21 AM PDT by
Sue Perkick
(And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
To: Stoat
This wouldn't have affected me at all; when I was 12 I was 5' 10" and 140 lbs with one of those shave-every-four-days moustaches and steering from the middle of the bench seat as The Old Man taught me ho to handle a car.
I feel sorry for today's kids and the forced infantilism.
27 posted on
05/11/2007 7:07:51 AM PDT by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: Stoat
Who dreams up this stuff? And why?
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