What are you supposed to do? thinking of having a 'Sole Provider for 2 Teenagers, a 2 Year Old and a Wife' ones made for when I'm on my own in the car but am worried that it might obscure my rear vision......
Apparently some people like to put "Baby On Board" signs on cars that have a baby seat installed. I saw a new one the other day, it said
"Mother to be on board"!
So why do people do this:
To alert other road users to be more considerate around the BOB car?
In the case of an accident, to alert emergency services to the possible presence of a baby in the wreckage?
Because the occupants of the car are so proud of the fact that they have been procreating they feel the need to announce it to the world?
I don't get it.
Cheers
Fred W B
I get the feeling it's the first one, but since I've seen so many cars with this sign up without children in (like my own for about 6 months
until it fell off somewhere) and the epidemic of invisible children I personally don't give a toss. It' might as well say "I've
been to the zoo" for all I care.
If it's for the emergency services I think the child seat should be the giveaway
Because they're sad w*nkers? To be honest it's what I think every time I see one
What are you supposed to do? thinking of having a 'Sole Provider for 2 Teenagers, a 2 Year Old and a Wife' ones made for when I'm on my
own in the car but am worried that it might obscure my rear vision......
They are there as a quick visual aid to thieves that you have a £200 child seat on the back seat.
I made this point to my brother some years ago.
His repsonse was that it might mean. "We've got a baby on board, we'll probably be going a little slower than you might like, so just
pass and we'll all be happy."
I'd like to think that's what it means, but you see many an erratically driven car sporting such a sticker.
Emergency services I think it's manditory in some states. But illegal if no kids on board
Her indoors was rammed at 80mph on the motorway and the people who phoned 999 noticed 2 car seats but no kiddies and assumed they were thrown out.
One air ambulance, three ordinary ambulances umpteen coppers and a fire engine later they discovered when her indoors came round that the seats are
for the grandchildren who were at home.
One instance where a flag system used properly would have saved quite a lot of cash.
The other barsteward was charged in the ambulance and his insurance company have still not admitted liability, not that I'm bitter you understand
Cheers!
They were invented to highlight to emergency services that there might be a small baby trapped in the wreckage somewhere. Nowadays people use baby
seats (usually) but not back in the day. Hence the suckers on the signs so they can be removed when the baby isn't on board.
Of course people don't understand what they're about they just get them sheep like when they have a sprog. Which completely devalues the
idea of having them in the first place.....
Its to park legitimately in the child/baby spaces at the supermarket because they can't fit their 4x4 anywhere else without damaging other cars
and they are also too fat/idle/thick* to find the entrance if they park too far away from it.
*choose one some or all options that apply.
The best notice I've seen was...
"Baby on board. He's driving"
they only serve one purpose, and that is to
Alert near by road users that the BOB car has a driver that is not paying attention to the road!
I've often found myself about to carelessly plough into the car in front, only to change my mind at the last minute when I see the BOB sign!
Should also go with a warning saying that there is a pretty good chance that they are paying more attention to their creation(s) that any other road
user
Steve
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They are there as a quick visual aid to thieves that you have a £200 child seat on the back seat.
I have around £300's worth of baby seat 'system' stuff
cluttering up my garage at the moment that my little lad grew out of after less than 6 months and I'm which I'm struggling to even give
away tbh
Problem is everyone is paranoid you've been in an accident and won't want to risk their beloved being in a 'damaged' seat.
Yeah I know - ridiculous really as you can tell instantly if they're damaged and 90% of them rely completely on the car they're in to provide the safety features and are basically just seat/belt adapters. We payed peanuts for a 2nd hand one for Jake when he grew out of his little baby seat to go in one of our cars. Had no issues with it whatsoever - good industry to be in! virtualy no 2nd hand market to compete against........
You usually don't see the sign till they cut in on you at the last moment, it's an excuse to drive like a knob.
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Originally posted by Peteff
You usually don't see the sign till they cut in on you at the last moment, it's an excuse to drive like a knob.
Because though we would gladly drive into anybody in our way, we are less likely to do so with a small child on board. There are people, and then
there are chronologically impaired people. The fat git in his BMW is a target if there ever was one, but if he had a small, cute,
not-yet-that-overweight little pumpkin on board, well, I'm going to pay more attention aren't I?
I am more bothered by the losers with the cartoons of their whole family on the back window, as if we care how many times he or she has reproduced,
and how many dogs they have. While we're on the subject, I really don't like the morons who have the figure peeing on the Ford or whatever.
That is truly tasteless.
Every time I leave the house, I realise how absolutely ignorant the rest of the world is. And I still can't start my kit car, so what does that
make me? We're doomed.
" LITTLE PRINCESS ON BOARD "
Puke 
I'm with peteff, and I bet they would be the first to give me grief if I drove anywhere near the speed limit on their precious estate! I've
lost count of the times I was nearly knocked of my motor bike by some dim-wit driving either a 4x4 or the mandatory MPV BOB type tearing out of the
junction because she was late for kindergarten
And while we're on the subject (well, sort of).....
...what is it that requires parking reserved for 'mother and child' to be closer to the store entrance than the disabled spaces? My wife is
registered disabled and thankfully most of the time she can get around reasonably well, and we always try and leave the really close spaces for the
folk who can't, i.e wheelchairs etc. Since when has having a child with you in the car made you unable to walk more than a few yards??
Rant over.
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
...what is it that requires parking reserved for 'mother and child' to be closer to the store entrance than the disabled spaces? My wife is registered disabled and thankfully most of the time she can get around reasonably well, and we always try and leave the really close spaces for the folk who can't, i.e wheelchairs etc. Since when has having a child with you in the car made you unable to walk more than a few yards??
Rant over.
quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
...what is it that requires parking reserved for 'mother and child' to be closer to the store entrance than the disabled spaces? My wife is registered disabled and thankfully most of the time she can get around reasonably well, and we always try and leave the really close spaces for the folk who can't, i.e wheelchairs etc. Since when has having a child with you in the car made you unable to walk more than a few yards??
Rant over.
Tbh if they do that round here I'll be ignoring it on the basis of "I don't know what f**king band my car's in I just pay what the DVLA ask!"
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
...what is it that requires parking reserved for 'mother and child' to be closer to the store entrance than the disabled spaces? My wife is registered disabled and thankfully most of the time she can get around reasonably well, and we always try and leave the really close spaces for the folk who can't, i.e wheelchairs etc. Since when has having a child with you in the car made you unable to walk more than a few yards??
Rant over.
I appreciate the fact that wider spaces are useful, seat belts on seats for kids, getting buggies in/out etc, but when you see a car park in one with kids of at least 8-10 years old in them, that is taking the we wee.
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
I appreciate the fact that wider spaces are useful, seat belts on seats for kids, getting buggies in/out etc, but when you see a car park in one with kids of at least 8-10 years old in them, that is taking the we wee.
I recalled this thread as I was emailed this today
top 10 crap things in cars
It's always said that the signs were invented for emergency services but I find it difficult to believe.
Given their training, a proper search for occupants would be a matter of course, and also, if there's been enough of a shunt that you may have a
child trapped in the wreckage that is not immediately obvious, or thrown from said wreck, what makes anyone think the rear screen is sitll going to be
there, intact, with the "baby on board" sign dangling from it.
dont realy see the point same as the cars with the fish on them
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
I appreciate the fact that wider spaces are useful, seat belts on seats for kids, getting buggies in/out etc, but when you see a car park in one with kids of at least 8-10 years old in them, that is taking the we wee.
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Originally posted by metro6r4
dont realy see the point same as the cars with the fish on them
