Mom Runs Over Son with Minivan
Summary: backing up a 600 foot gravel driveway with the kids sitting on the back with their feet dangling.

How many times does it take to be successful before you consider it to be safe?

So, you also weren't paying attention?

Of course, that is just a guess.

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I don't know how many pick-ups Ive ridden in the back of.
On and off road. On the freeway too.

I climbed every tree I could as a kid.
Before age eleven I managed to fall off the back porch(Two story house- back porch was on the second story) by walking the railing.
Fell off the roof twice.
Fell off the garage once.
Racked myself pretty hard falling from one branch to another.

My dad managed to mangle me three times trying to teach me how to ride a bike.
A teacher managed to put a good sized knot in my head in gym class.
My mom once closed a car door on my hand.

Had a foster mom almost do it once too, but I pulled my hand out of the way in time.

An uncle managed to park his car on my foot.
This same uncle threw an apple core out his window and happened to tag me while I was going the opposite way on my bike. Lucky shot.

Almost drowned in a public pool when I was like 5. Lifeguard never seemed to notice. I managed to grab the edge in my flailing and pull myself up.

I rode my bike across logs over a ravine. Thin log too not a big one. I tried doing a handstand while in motion on the handle bars once. Neat trick.
Didn't end so well...

At school I stood on one end of a teeter totter and a fat guy ran and jumped and landed on the other side throwing me considerable distances before i landed wrong and dug my face into gravel.
That one was ouch...

I've ridden on all my grandfathers tractors and flatbed trucks on the back.
I've sat at the front of a boat and dangled my feet in the water while the boat sped along. That could have been disasterous.
I fell out of a duece and half in the army.
More than that happened in the army too. Wasn't a kid then though.

Simply put- crap happens. You can try being "safe" til your blue in the face... crap still happens.

I am a father. Love baby boy more than life itself.
Im protective too. But crap happens.

It's easy to point the finger at this "idiot". But think back to your own childhood. How many of our parents did this too?

I wouldn't want to live my life without risks.

haha, I love that last quote. I also guess its not safe to have your kids lie down in the tall weeds while you mow paths through it with the tractor. And perhaps it's unsafe to dangle your children over the grand canyon by the ankles so the can view it upside-down.

Now if only someone was around to tell me that putting little saddles on hungry crockodiles and letting your children ride them around the slaughterhouse was dangerous...oh well, off to Bert's Butcher and Allegator Farm I go.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

Dude, you're totally blowing this out of proportion.

Neverfly, your real name isn't "private pyle" by any chance, is it? Yeah, "stuff" happens, but wow. If we ever happen to be at the same place in person, remind me to bring a camcorder. America's Funniest gives out decent prize money

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

I know, exaggeration is my favorite litterary style (i'm a cartoonist, remember). But I always think it's funny when the obvious happens, and someone says, "gee, who would have thought that could happen?!"

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

NOt at all.
As a kid I was a thrill seeker.
Im not clumsy or klutzy-In the neighborhood I succeeded at most of the dares that the other kids gave. I was tough too, rarely got injured or ended up in the emergency room. (ETA- throughout my childhood I went a total of twice. The first time I was very young and it was for salmonella- not an activity related injury).
The second time was when I stepped on a ribbed nail.

Didn't you do crazy stuff as a kid?

Ive ridden in the backs of open vehicles- tailgate down too.
yeah, in HINDSIGHT it's pretty dumb but...
A lot of things in everdy life that we ALL do are dumb in hindsight.

We just don't look at it until something bad happens.

Neverfly;
While I agree with your statement in general (although some of those things are obviously stupid) I have 2 questions...
1)
How many were driving backwards?

2)
How many times did you need to broadcast to the world and warn them that they need to know it was stupid, rather than just saying "drats, I got what I deserved"

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Forwards and backwards. Think ranch setting. Wasn't on a ranch though- lot of property though...


I think that's part of the modern age.
Due to her feeling guilty, likely feeling dumb too...

She almost HAS to do that in todays society. If she did like our grandparents did in their day, society would "flog" her and call her inept.
The media is telling everyone about it so she can only attone for it by making a Public Image Stance that shows caring and concern.

I'm sure that she didnt call the media and tell them what happened. They found out and zoomed in for the scoop.

Police Say Impaired Mom Let Son, 5, Drive

Everything's relative...

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Bizarre...

If he couldn't reach the pedals... How was he driving?

What happened is exactly what should have happened, don't get me wrong. But I think the story is being "built up."

What? The media never does that... they are always sane, rational, and never glamorize a story...
...znknrk... good morning, I just had this strange dream.

Yes; I think they are letting the reader imagine he was driving when it was only that the mother's intent was to let him drive.
Smart neighbor...take the keys.

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<chuckle>

Yeah, only logical.

Which is very foolish anyway. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you let a five year old drive they would drive right to McDonalds instead of where you want them to go.

Here's another one. Like all these types of topics, could also fit into the dumb criminal catagory. But I like it here better.

Police: Irate Woman Throws Baby At Trooper

It's normal for primates to fling feeces at a percieved threat...but generally it's not contained in the diaper of their own offspring. I think it'd be fun to have this woman cuffed and immobilized, then beaten. You know, just to make sure she knows what abusing someone who cannot defend themselves feels like. Oh well, she'll have plenty of that type of fun in prison.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

That's incredibly awful

Something about seat belts and common sense is missing from this picture...

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Whoever says "perception is reality" is daft. It's merely an abstraction, and often not a very good one.

Deja Vu (Scroll up to #91 )

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

Uh, yep... that's why that post was quoted.

Come on Fazor... what are you eating for lunch?... (or is that drinking) Can I have some?

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