children with no car seats

now this is something that really grates me!!!

I was at the supermarket and had finished my shopping and in front of me was a car with 2 young children..one around 18 months -2 years and another 3-4 years age.

I could not see any carseats!!! and get this the mother (or caregiver) did not even put seatbelts on the children!!!!.

I waited in my car to get their licence plate so I could dial #555 on my cellphone..but that was pointless as my phone is broken (I can hear people but they cant hear me).

long story short I ended up putting a report through the police website..so hopefully they will be caught up with

OMG!! I am like the seatbelt police, if i ever see anyone in the same car as me not wear a seatbelt i growl until they put it on and i think its sooo stupid, but this is sooo much worse.

I can see how someone could think its not so bad not having a carseat for the 3-4yo (altho i so so do NOT agree) but not to put the younger one in a carseat WTF?!? and not even a seat belt on both of them! it seriously make me wanna cry.

I think people who do that deserved to be locked up OMG

Coz if I was to crash in2 them I would actually go completely insane and would never ever be able to get over it, and i wouldn't feel right having my own baby either even thou we have been trying very hard for one simple because of someone elses babies that i would have killed only because some idoit didnt strap them in.

hmmmm i wonder if that person was to be pulled over i wonder how big the ticket would have been?

I'd hate to think what the people in the cars next to me think when they see lil miss standing up in the window with a big grin on her face . Not that she isn't strapped in - she can bloody get out of her carseat. And yes, she's strapped in properly, the straps are tight etc. She's just houdini. I've just bought a clip thing to put over the buckle which will hopefully keep her in coz I am sick of having to pull over to put her back in her carseat.

*555 every time. No hesitation. Sorry, I don't buy the line that it's the parents choice to strap their children in or not.

*555, I never knew there was a number you could call ! is it specifically for matters like this ? thats handy to know, because I have needed to call on a few occasions

Gardengirl wrote: *555 every time. No hesitation. Sorry, I don't buy the line that it's the parents choice to strap their children in or not.

I'll reiterate - I don't condone this, one little bit.
But it is their choice (unless they're little Houdinis like Chiara ) - as wrong as it may be.
(edited to add:) The same way someone chooses to drive above the speed limit, or rob a bank.
It doesn't mean it's right (or legal).

Didn't mean it to sound insensitive or callous

Edited by MamaPickle

Aliasmum wrote: So one said it's the parents choice...granted but it's against the law too!

MamaPickle wrote: ..it doesn't mean it's right (or legal)

I've programmed *555 into my phone now

Mamapickle, I didn't think you sounded insensitive or callous at all

But if it's the parents choice to choose whether or not to strap their children in then it's their choice in the same way, for example, that it's their choice to leave them home alone. As in, it's NOT their choice at all, they are legally (and morally) obliged to do certain things to ensure the children in their care are kept safe.