A List of Places You Shouldn't Take Kids...

[Selena_Kitt]

Should we make one?

Gun shows?
Monster truck rallys?

*sigh*

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Your house.

Gotta be a combination of the Munsters and the G.W.Bush family.

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

I don't have any children, but if I did, I wouldn't take them to funeral homes. Too freaky a place even for me.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I don't have any children, but if I did, I wouldn't take them to funeral homes. Too freaky a place even for me.

For me, that would depend on the age and maturity of the child, and the relationship the child had with the deceased...

It just seems to me that so many kids are getting really seriously hurt or killed doing things adults deem "okay" - when I'm not sure they really are. Like gun shows and monster truck rallys and concerts. Even places like traveling fairs with those rides...

 

[voluptuary_manque]

How are we defining 'kid'? A six-year-old has no place at a gun show but by the time early adolescence has arrived (like 12?) and a country kid has his/her own beagle hound and a .22, why not?

As for Monster Truck Rallys, I wouldn't let my kid take me!

Cage diving for great white sharks comes to mind.

 

[JagFarlane]

How are we defining 'kid'? A six-year-old has no place at a gun show but by the time early adolescence has arrived (like 12?) and a country kid has his/her own beagle hound and a .22, why not?

I do have to agree with that question. Why? because all the shows I've been to, handguns are held to the table with a thick wire going through the chamber, sometimes the barrel. Theres always a police presence and the ATF usually has a couple people there. All firearms brought in or taken out have thick plastic ties going through the chamber, knives are under glass cases, etc etc.
Personally I wouldn't take a kid only because they can get kind of crowded and loud, but by the time they are a pre-teen, some states allow them to hunt, and if I were the parent, they'd have a good understanding of firearm safety.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

To see the Christmas tree lighting in New York. My family almost got split up there when I was young, and I bet it wouldhave been a few hours before we got back together if I hadn't acted so quickly (for a child to think so fast and resposibly is even more something ro other... vocabulary fail me in tired state).

 

[Selena_Kitt]

To see the Christmas tree lighting in New York. My family almost got split up there when I was young, and I bet it wouldhave been a few hours before we got back together if I hadn't acted so quickly (for a child to think so fast and resposibly is even more something ro other... vocabulary fail me in tired state).

Or the ball dropping on NYE. I see people with their kids there and think, "huh!?"

 

[oggbashan]

Any large public demonstration or protest.

No matter how careful the organisers are, how dedicated the protestors are to the cause, the usual suspects are going to produce violence for their own ends.

Og

 

[Boxlicker101]

I have never attended a "monster truck rally" and never expect to. I have seen them advertised on TV, and have no interest whatsoever. However, I don't think of them as being dangerous, although one child died in a freak accident at one. There have probably been more people killed in road accidents on their way to rallies than killed at them.

I would have no problem taking any child to a gun show. I think of guns as being instruments to be used in self defense, or maybe hunting or target shooting. I would expect the guns to be unloaded, and any target shooting by attendees to be carefully supervised. Obviously, I would not have a six year old firing a twelve gauge shotgun, but a fifteen year old might.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I have never attended a "monster truck rally" and never expect to. I have seen them advertised on TV, and have no interest whatsoever. However, I don't think of them as being dangerous, although one child died in a freak accident at one. There have probably been more people killed in road accidents on their way to rallies than killed at them.

I actually have been to one of these and the one I was at had a significant buffer zone between the crowd and the action. Actually, I saw a lot of families with young children there and I would've taken my kid had he wanted to see something like this. My only concern would've been massive amounts of dust and exhaust fumes indoors. These things are billed as family events and are usually quite safe. People have been injured at baseball games and other sporting events and no one would question taking their children there.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I still say that Selena's house would freak most kids out.

 

[starrkers]

I actually have been to one of these and the one I was at had a significant buffer zone between the crowd and the action. Actually, I saw a lot of families with young children there and I would've taken my kid had he wanted to see something like this. My only concern would've been massive amounts of dust and exhaust fumes indoors. These things are billed as family events and are usually quite safe. People have been injured at baseball games and other sporting events and no one would question taking their children there.

I haven't been to one, but that's only because the couple of times they've been in this neck of the woods, we've been broke.

Always thought the concept of monster trucks meshed almost exactly with the psyche of the pre-adolescent male (certainly has with mine, anyway - my youngest worships monster trucks).

 

[Liar]

Iowa.

Because really, they don't wanna go.

 

[DesertPirate]

I do have to agree with that question. Why? because all the shows I've been to, handguns are held to the table with a thick wire going through the chamber, sometimes the barrel. Theres always a police presence and the ATF usually has a couple people there. All firearms brought in or taken out have thick plastic ties going through the chamber, knives are under glass cases, etc etc.
Personally I wouldn't take a kid only because they can get kind of crowded and loud, but by the time they are a pre-teen, some states allow them to hunt, and if I were the parent, they'd have a good understanding of firearm safety.

Absolutely correct!

As for what happened with the monster truck, sad but these things happen. You can't prevent every mechanical failure. I pray for the family.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Absolutely correct!

As for what happened with the monster truck, sad but these things happen. You can't prevent every mechanical failure. I pray for the family.

And the Uzi at the gun show a few months back?

I agree, we can't prevent everything... accidents happen in your own backyard. But there are certain events I just wouldn't take a young child to, regardless.

The inauguration would be another one of them, historical event or not.

*shrug*

 

[Stella_Omega]

Should we make one?

Gun shows?
Monster truck rallys?

*sigh*

You might not want to go to one if you're a parent-- orphaning your child that you left with the sitter is not such a good idea either....

 

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[starrkers]

The pirate is absolutely right. We've come to think that just because the government passes a regulation or takes a hand in things the risk of injury or death is removed. Sometimes, things just happen.

On a related note, I recently attended a seminar at a local university where the speaker maintained that we in America are doing harm to our civilization with all the rules in place to protect the stupid. He had a very interesting chart tracking the average IQ vs the increase in rules and oversite designed to protect the stupid. Inhis words, we are protecting the weakest links and preventing them from self exclusion from the gene pool.

No amount of legislation will prevent an accident.
And it doesn't matter how much legislation is passed, the stupid will always find new ways to die or kill their offspring.

Here right now there have been a spate of backyard drownings of toddlers. In this state all backyard pools must be fenced (the regulations for that fencing are long and designed to prevent little people getting in) and have self-locking gates, with the latch above a certain height (my nine year old can't reach the latch). Yet twin two year olds, a one year old and a disabled nine year old all managed to drown in the past month.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

No amount of legislation will prevent an accident.
And it doesn't matter how much legislation is passed, the stupid will always find new ways to die or kill their offspring.

Here right now there have been a spate of backyard drownings of toddlers. In this state all backyard pools must be fenced (the regulations for that fencing are long and designed to prevent little people getting in) and have self-locking gates, with the latch above a certain height (my nine year old can't reach the latch). Yet twin two year olds, a one year old and a disabled nine year old all managed to drown in the past month.

We don't even have those regulations here, esp out in the country. No fences or locks required. We actually moved from the last place we lived because of the neighbor's pool.

 

[starrkers]

We don't even have those regulations here, esp out in the country. No fences or locks required. We actually moved from the last place we lived because of the neighbor's pool.

Doesn't matter if the regulations are there or not - kids are still dying in backyard pools. Parents aren't watching because they know the pool is "safe".

 

[Guest]

Iowa.

Because really, they don't wanna go.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Kids? How about old people?

With this bad weather lately, I've lived in fear of just going outside. What if I slip and fall? I could hit my head, pass out, and freeze to death. Or break a leg, or (god forbid) a hip.

I don't have health insurance. I could get taken out by a bad flu.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I worked in the Allstate arena long ago...just when the monster truck thing was starting to take off. The crowds were overwhelmingly families, even in Chicago.

I had to be inside a lot and the noise was deafening and noxious fumes overpowering. And us workers wore ear protection. I always wondered what happened to the hearing of those children I saw without ear protection?

Also, the dad's would get a snoot full and the fights would start in the stands. It would start with peanut throwing, then escalate to cups of beer or soda (what a waste of good soda ), then the punches would start.

I actually saw one guy jump out of the balcony to get at a guy below him. Needless to say once he hit the floor he forgot all about the guy he was after.