Legislation would outlaw children from riding in back bed of pickups
Mon, 01/31/2011 - 12:46am
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PHOENIX — State lawmakers will debate this week whether to give live children traveling in the open bed of pickups the same legal status as a dead elk.
The measure to be debated Thursday by members of the House Transportation Committee would forbid anyone younger than 18 from traveling in the back of a pickup unless “safely restrained.”
Some variant of the legislation has been pushed every year for more than a dozen years, usually falling by the wayside during the legislative process.
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It is good to see a positive action actually come from Pheonix! It will protect the children so it is a good bill!
What ever happened to the days when a parent would take on the responsibilities of parenting & say, “No son/daughter you can’t ride in the bed of the pick up because your mother & I believe it is not safe”?<br>Have you people gotten so stupid & lame you need a law to decide what is safe?</br><br>Or do you need a law to hide behind because your afraid to tell your children “No”?</br>
I think this law would be more directed at the moronic parents who don’t know any better, not a law to hide behind for fear of telling their kids no. It is for the same parents who are chain smoking driving down the road with 3 kids in the car and the windows rolled up. It is for the parents who are shoveling fast food in their fat mouths swirving all over the road with a backseat full of kids that are bouncing back and forth because they are having problems driving and looking for the mcnugget that fell. Just drive up and down 7th street a few times and you can see these and many similar reasons we need laws to keep kids safe.
Well I wonder if they will ban the Christmas parade then. I seem to recall a
lot of kids riding on the back of floats and in the beds of trucks
unrestrained. This is another ridiculous attempt to get more control over our
lives with more stupid laws. If a parent kills their kids in the back of
their truck then send them to jail for being stupid but don’t put more dumb
laws on the books just because 50 kids got killed nationwide from riding in
the back of a pickup truck bed. More kids get killed doing other things than
that so I don’t see the point of trying to pass a law that is idiotic.
Parades are one of the things that are an exception. As for a new law on the
books, I am all for taking the choice from parents who allow kids to ride in
the back of trucks. There are stupid parents out there and until we can limit
who can be parents, we have to have a lot of laws on the books to keep them
in check. I don’t feel that anyone should be able to ride in the back of a
truck, that is why you have a passenger compartment with seat belts.
You need to live by your name on here. Personal responsibility is what they should be doing not passing more stupid laws. These laws only keep restricting your freedom little by little until you don’t have any more.
<p>"There are stupid parents out there and until we can limit
who can be parents, we have to have a lot of laws on the books to keep them
in check."</p>This statement should frighten every parent & person
and what other choices are you willing to take from parents? what standard do
you use to judge parenting? are you exempt from being considered a stupid
parent? Whats your justification for your “feeling” about pickup bed riding?
and why should your “feeling” trump my freedom?
In 2002 174 kids under 16 died from bicycle accidents. Let’s ban those too!
What about trampolines and pools? And like Brian referenced, the stats I
found said that 79% of the kids that died from open bed incidents were males
in the 16-25 yr old category. Parents need to take responsibility and unless
the legislation wants us to put kids in padded rooms until they are 18, we
can not protect them from everything that might hurt them. Enough legislation
already!!
If you want to ride around in the back of a truck and risk your own worthless
life go ahead. This law is to protect children from people like you. There is
nothing wrong with having laws that protect children from neglect and abuse.
I was amused to learn that it is legal to do that in this state. Shows how
backward this state is.