Baby on board stickers

Happens in Essex as well. Hardly a surprise there, though.

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Pretty much like you. I read once that they came about because of
_one_ incident in Germany where a baby was thrown from a wrecked car and
not found for some time. Contrary to "modern" usage, they were not to
mean "Drive carefully, I'm a breeder," but "There should be a baby in this
car, if there isn't then look for her."

So:
a) modern law and technology mean that infants should be confined to approved
safery restraints. The chance of an infant then being thrown from a crashed
car are minimal, unless her wardens are incompetent.
b) the presence of such a sticker when there _wasn't_ a baby on board could
waste valuable rescue-workers' time on a wild-goose chase.

They serve no purpose; they may mislead. Case closed.

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Are you a burd?

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Oh, $DEITY yes!

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Pip Luscher wrote:
ing for kids possibly thrown clear in a crash.

With friends like that.....


I've decided that all these toys[1] genuinely are just machines, and any
attempt to add fluff to them, or 'personalise' them detracts from their
function and the respect they deserve as machines that can happily rip
limbs off.

[1]Cars and bikes, not teddies.

 

I'm female, dunno about 'burd'. I'm actually capable.

 

They, and baby seats, are a warning sign to avoid parking next to them as
they dozy bints are so distracted with their sprogs that they often allow
their car doors to bang and chip everyone else's cars

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Tell her there's an on-the-spot-fine if the plod catch you displaying one
sans sprat. <thinks> It's France. There probably is.

And the child has to wear a dayglo vest while in the car.

 

ITYM, oh, `echo $DEITY` yes !!

D.

 

I'm not putting the fucking thing in my Motor. My street cred would go
right down. I'm using the excuse that the car is meant to be for
professional trips too.

 

<G> I may try that for a laugh.

 

Anyone who has one is a ****.

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Your street creed is gone anyway just for asking.

 

More seriously, if the child is in a proper child seat, it won't be thrown
into the undergrowth. It will probably be the best-protected occupant of
the vehicle. I'm assuming that French law is similar to UK law as regards
strapping down the tinies. Anyway, if you're too stupid or lazy to
adequately restrain your offspring, then perhaps it's just as well that your
genes are not propagated.

 

I like to ask controversial questions. <G>

 

Ooh, there's interesting. Thanks.
We're this to be practicable where would I need to be, at what time, and
how many petrol pennies?

 

I think it'as just an excuse to keep the driver of that car from
concentrating on what they're doing EG Driving.
Bg

 

Well, I used to slap my own 'custom' paint jobs on bikes, (though they
had always already ben repainted by a previous owner) and hack baffles
in my yoof, but these days I tend to stick to practical changes. My
Guzzi has uprated headlights, pannier frames, a clock and a formerly
self-retracting side stand that doesn't any more. Small, discreet
changes that sort out minor niggles.

I do tend to replace excessively loud (to my ears) exhausts with stock
items as well. Much as I like to hear singles and vee-twins on loud
pipes, I just don't like announcing my presence and bad behaviour to
all and sundry and there are times and places where a loud exhaust is
really inappropriate.

I suppose that I am stamping my own values on the bike after the
previous owner stamped his, so in a sense, perhaps I do customize.

 

I always take them to mean "The driver of this car is a stupid twat".
That is sometimes useful to know, so I'm happy for divers to display
them if they wish.

 

I borrow my housemate's child seat when it's raining and I want to park
close to the doors at Sainsburys.