Baby on Board signs

[Bear]

I don't know about stateside,but have you noticed how your average tailgater always seem's to have a "Baby on board " sign in their rear window?Bear

never noticed that here. It's mostly trucks or rice burners

[BENZ-LGB]

The "best" or "worst" BABY ON BOARD sign I saw was on a brand new, red Volvo wagon. The driver, a goatee wearing, tattoo-sporting, Goth-wanna-be yuppie was driving like a bat out of hell. Traffic up ahead slowed down. When I eventually caught up to him, I noticed that he was chain smokig and the inside of his shiny, new XC Volvo wagon was filled with smoke. Looked like the inisdes of an old steel plant. At one point the cloud of smoke cleared up and I saw a little baby girl sitting in a car seat...choking back the smoke.

[akry]

Originally posted by blackmercedes
Jeez I hate those signs. 99% of the people sporting them drive like morons. To me, it means "I'm an idiot, stay away from me."

I drive with my daughter in the all the time. I just drive defensively, and would NEVER rely on some stupid stick-on sign to warn other people to drive defensively.

Luckily, the fad seems to be fading...

I second that!!!! Majority of drivers with "Baby On Board" signs in Van are driving like they own the roads..... they slash their turn signal ONCE(sometimes, not even signal at all)when change lanes.... they would slammed on brake when the car 20ft in front of them started slowing down...... and they would take a turn at very last sec rather than miss a turn and take the next one.....

Andy Kuo

[G-Benz]

Ya know, I haven't seen those signs since the early 90's...

...but I believe the actual purpose for the sign was not as a deterrent for another motorist to just plow into the vehicle, but to alert emergency personnel to search for an infant in a disabled vehicle that may otherwise be overlooked.

By then it was trendy for people to stick those on their vehicles, just because they had a kid and were proud to announce that fact.

As far as driving like morons, well, I think many motorists do anyway, sticker or not...

[Bear]

G-Benz,a friend of mine in the fire brigade told me that once as well.He said that whenever they got a report of a burning car these signs meant they had to always check for trapped infants first.Even on cars that had been obviously dumped,an unenviable task for anyone.Bear

Being a reformed aggressive driver ( after reading what eventually happens to most of us after the law of numbers catches up) I agree with G Benz on this one or rather the - most drivers statement. Having a little one myself, I cant blame these people for putting these signs on their cars. They are afraid!

We all know how aggressive these idiots drive today. Just look around every day in almost any state.. or do a search on the net on "road rage incidents" and you will see the STUPIDITY. Grown adults will literally shoot, beat, stab, punch, use their car as a weapon or method of intimidation, and "kill" each other and/or endanger their family's lives over petty stupid s...

Like "he took MY parking space!", or tail-gaiting someone for not putting a blinker on.. or "he cut me off!", her car was the wrong color or they looked at me funny- any of which can escalate way out of control. Most drivers don't want to let anyone between them and the next car (like they own that piece road or something), people cutting each other off then braking to prove a point, whatever...Drivers today will get bent over anything. The psych of it is that everybody has problems, some days worse than others. There is NO logical justification for tailgaiting, cutting others off, retaliating against others who "cut you off", weaving, etc when it is endangering the lives of others - especially the innocent little ones. The risks are too great.

No one person owns the road in front of or behind them just because its visible in their rear view mirror or windshield, its a HUGE misconception. Driving should be more cooperative and not a competitive sport. As Americans we sometimes feel like we have to be first, it's our competitive nature, but let's stop taking it out on the roads guys! Probably 50% of us out there get cut off because we refuse to let the other guy over. Meaning we facilitate the incident. Then we tailgaite. Then theres just the plain old "cutteroffer" who doesn't care. Let him go - don't tailgate- you are at fault if you hit the person anyway. End soapbox here.

[MTI]

Hmm, deja vu all over again.

[Botnst]

Tank is back!

I say jettison the baby. If he's that bad an influence on driving, he's a health hazard to humanity.

[Frank X. Morris]

Howdy Botnst,
Nobody is back, look at the dates they were posted. At first I thought Bear was back.

[Botnst]

Aw, damned. You're right. I thought that Spock had come back under some previous guise. This is why I'm not a criminal investigator--who needs actual clues when you have a model?

B