Safety of children in grocery carts (The dumbest health/safety Nazi, anti-tobacco study ever)

Pubmed ^ | June 2003 | Harrell WA

[qam1]

Safety of children in grocery carts: adults' personal health and safety habits.

Observations of 246 children and the adults accompanying them were carried out in supermarkets. Of those arriving and leaving by automobile (n = 194), 36% of adults used safety belts, and 51.1% of children used safety belts or restraining seats. While shopping, 79% of adults lost sight of the children in their care at least once, and 73.2% were 10 feet or more from their children at least once. 48% of children climbed or attempted to climb from carts; 27% stood in carts, and 23.6% handled hazardous products. 24% of adults purchased tobacco products. Poor adult supervision of children was related to adult's nonuse of safety belts and the child's and adult's ages. Climbing from the cart was related in a logistic regression to both poor adult supervision and child's age. Tobacco purchases were related to handling of hazards by children and standing in carts. Child's age and adult's safety belt use related to the restraint of children in vehicles.

PMID: 12841465 [PubMed - in process]

[qam1]

WTF?????

Just when you thought they couldn't blame anything else on cigarettes now they blame them for kids standing in shopping carts at the grocery store.

It is just beyond me how researchers like this manage to get grant money for such silly studies like this.

The sad part is if just 1/10th (A high estimate) of all the money spend on all these silly studies like this one was instead spend on real research they probably would have cured cancer by now.

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[qam1]

Ping!!!!

[FairOpinion]

It's all the fault of the shopping carts, we need to ban them. (/sarcasm)

[Michael Barnes]

It's all the fault of the shopping carts, we need to ban them. (/sarcasm)

Oh c'mon you anit-shopping cart nazi..We don't need to ban them, just issue ten day waiting periods..

[qam1]

I think we need to have police roadblocks set up in the produce section to make sure the kids have the proper seatbelts on.

[FairOpinion]

We at least need to ban the "assault shopping carts".;)

Then we need to issue strict government regulations about the manufacture of shopping carts, the need to be made so teenagers can stand up in them, rock them, but the shopping cart mustn't turn over. we also need to make wide rims for the shopping carts, about a couple of feet at least, so chilren in the shopping carts can't reach the shelves. They also need to come with hand and leg irons, so children could be "secured" in the shopping cart.

Oh, you mean all this would make them useless and prohibitively expensive as shopping carts, so who cares, only the rich can fill up shopping carts anyway, the poor don't have enough money to fill it up, so they don't need the.

No, I think banning them is the best solution.


Don't you care about "the children"? ;)

Of course we mustn't talk about more responsibility for parents, naturally, as I said it's all the fault of the shopping carts, the store, tobacco, the farmer producing eggs and hamburger, and so on...

[Paleo Conservative]

..We don't need to ban them, just issue ten day waiting periods..

You mean it's still impossible to do an instant backgroung check?

[Ford Fairlane]

48% of children climbed or attempted to climb from carts

My 2 yr old niece can get out of her CAR seat in 1 minutes when she is strapped in properly

(not like I would know what is proper, i cant figure the $^&*$^&*$ thing out - my degree must not be advanced enough)

How are you supposed to keep a kid in a shopping cart?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I bet none of these researchers has much experience trying to lug to youngsters into the grocery store to do shopping for groceries. The goal is to get in and out as quickly as possible, without buying too much sugar, and without needing to yell at the children in public. If this is accomplished... the trip has been a success!

[FairOpinion]

"Tobacco purchases were related to handling of hazards by children and standing in carts. "

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And someone actually paid for this study?! This is indeed the most ludicrous "correlation" I read in recent times.

[Gil4]

ban them/waiting period

Don't forget part 3 of the liberal trifecta - shopping cart tax.

[Paleo Conservative]

"ban them/waiting period"

Don't forget part 3 of the liberal trifecta - shopping cart tax.

I thought it was the progressive shopping cart tax.

[qam1]

Oh, you mean all this would make them useless and prohibitively expensive as shopping carts..... No, I think banning them is the best solution.

Oh no, You are forgetting about the homeless, If the shopping carts become to expensive the homeless can't afford them so then we must subsidize them. So getting an expensive safe shopping cart should be covered under medicaid.

[Michael Barnes]

Bravo! Well thought out, creates Gov't jobs; gives our congress critters a reason to meet so much. There's a tax in here I'm certain..

[Michael Barnes]

DOH!

I wasn't quick enough on the trigger..

[Michael Barnes]

Oh no, You are forgetting about the homeless

Ah-HA!!! Gotcha...troll, you foregot to mention that homeless are only an issue during a Republican Presidancy!

;-)

[FairOpinion]

"There's a tax in here I'm certain"

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There has to be, you can't expect some poor people absorb the cost of these "child-safe" shopping carts (oh, oh, I shouldn't have said that, it sounds so good, they will probably starting to call for state funded "child safe shopping carts". ) They have to raise property taxes, after all anyone who owns a home is rich, let's take it away from them, and if they lose their homes because they can't pay the taxes, we can turn their homes into state run shopping cart shelters for broken down shopping carts.

[MattAMiller]

Since when do 24% of adults purchase tobacco products? I question the sampleing. It is an interesting correlation though. I wonder if it would survive a better sample.

[FairOpinion]

"So getting an expensive safe shopping cart should be covered under medicaid. "
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Good point!

While we are coming up with scenarios we think are totally preposterous, I am willing to bet that other equally preposterous scenarios already exist and if any liberal reads this, it will probably give them a new idea to champion: "child safe shopping carts" FOR THE CHILDREN!