A woman was arrested for having some of her children ride in a "box" in the back of a pickup truck. If it had been our family my parents would have said, "Keep out of sight" and we would have said, "OH BOY, WE GET TO RIDE IN THE BOX."
Ride in the box....
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coltle6920
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Apparently the "box" didn't have seatbelts??
Parents nowadays just can't have any fun with their kids.We always rode in the back of Dad's truck.He figured if one of us bounced out someone driving behind us would bring us home.
Parents nowadays just can't have any fun with their kids.We always rode in the back of Dad's truck.He figured if one of us bounced out someone driving behind us would bring us home.
The Summers when I worked on the Township road crew the two "full timers" road in the cab........ the "Summer Help" (High School and College Kids) road standing in the dump bed...........tasting the air like a hot and sweaty dog!
After storms and such we'd often show up at a site to find one of my Dad's men (police) waiting for us.......nary a word said.... well I would get a "hi BAM" (I'd know some of those guys my whole life)
Lordy; Lordy.........
We even walked to and from School........ Grade school was 3/4 of a mile away......... and we even walked home and back....... for lunch.
I was 4 when I started Kindergarten; didn't flunk or get kidnapped, so I was 5 when I started first grade.....
We walked everywhere....... friends , pool, park wherever......and unlike you country boys..... we went without the security of your.. handy .22 rifle!!!
After storms and such we'd often show up at a site to find one of my Dad's men (police) waiting for us.......nary a word said.... well I would get a "hi BAM" (I'd know some of those guys my whole life)
Lordy; Lordy.........
We even walked to and from School........ Grade school was 3/4 of a mile away......... and we even walked home and back....... for lunch.
I was 4 when I started Kindergarten; didn't flunk or get kidnapped, so I was 5 when I started first grade.....
We walked everywhere....... friends , pool, park wherever......and unlike you country boys..... we went without the security of your.. handy .22 rifle!!!
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LVSteve
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It's illegal in many states now. That just reflects increased traffic and speed IMHO.
Not saying it's not a good idea......... but ...... "Danger Will Robinson!!!!"
Nope........... I will not be drawn into what might be construed as a political discussion........
bye..............................
handejector .......I'm trying to learn and evolve!!
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Anyone remember the little Subaru pickup with the seats in the bed?
When my brother was three, he would lay on the rear deck of dad's car. When dad came to a stop sign, he would tap the brakes and Dave would go flying forward into the floorboard, get up giggling and climb back up.
Now that I think about it, it does explain a lot about him.
Now that I think about it, it does explain a lot about him.
I had occasion not long ago to check out the law in MN. Apparently it is still legal, for adults at least. If you want to drive around with unbelted kids in the vehicle, you need to drive a schoolbus.
Of course, some of those kids really need to be belted.
Of course, some of those kids really need to be belted.
I grew up in the box. Anywhere we went on a job with more than two guys the kids rode in the box.
I have ridden back there for over a 150 miles from one ranch to another during shipping. Load out 10 or 12 truckloads and crawl back in the back and sleep most of the way home.
I have ridden back there for over a 150 miles from one ranch to another during shipping. Load out 10 or 12 truckloads and crawl back in the back and sleep most of the way home.
I have ridden in the box lots of times. I also had some friends lose their daughter when she was riding in the back of a pickup that rolled. They were not there, but loosing a kid over stupid sucks as I know all to well. Lost my oldest son to stupid horse play with cars when he was 19. It isn't a good idea. Maybe out in the hills just driving around at low speeds. On the highway or in town its just dumb.
gregintenn
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I've ridden uncountable miles in the bed of a truck. My kids ride in the bed. So does my dog. I had no idea it was illegal. Judging by everything else going on today, however, I cannot say I'm surprised.
If you have several people, and all you have is a pickup truck, how else would you get from point a to point b?
If you have several people, and all you have is a pickup truck, how else would you get from point a to point b?
shouldazagged
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finesse_r
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I would never let my dog ride in the bed!
Riding in the back of a PU truck, done my share both as the rider & ridee.
Used to take the Boy Scouts to camp with a couple in the back with the camping gear and the two unlucky ones up front with me!
In the back was also standard on construction sites with PUs. I imagine OSHA would have had a serious case of the vapors but I have ridden in the bucket of a front end loader and backhoe a few times.
Used to take the Boy Scouts to camp with a couple in the back with the camping gear and the two unlucky ones up front with me!
In the back was also standard on construction sites with PUs. I imagine OSHA would have had a serious case of the vapors but I have ridden in the bucket of a front end loader and backhoe a few times.
OP
It's sad......
Kids aren't allowed to have fun any more. If a park wasn't roped off, they took down all the climbing equipment, swings etc. People have to keep their pools fenced off and locked. Don't play in a vacant lot because if somebody gets hurts they'll sue the owners. I remember how comforting it was to lie down in the back window shelf of a car and watch the stars. I saw a meteor one time that way. If parent let a kid do that now they'd be thrown in jail and the kids divvied out among relatives or foster homes.
Kids aren't allowed to have fun any more. If a park wasn't roped off, they took down all the climbing equipment, swings etc. People have to keep their pools fenced off and locked. Don't play in a vacant lot because if somebody gets hurts they'll sue the owners. I remember how comforting it was to lie down in the back window shelf of a car and watch the stars. I saw a meteor one time that way. If parent let a kid do that now they'd be thrown in jail and the kids divvied out among relatives or foster homes.
Okay, what's your excuse? I'll bet he has a theory or three about that.
I rode in the front between mom and dad. When he hit the brakes he would karate chop me in the adams apple. That's how I came to know sign language.
CAJUNLAWYER
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Kinda reminds me of the story how you can pick out the experienced cowboy in the pick up truck. He's the one riding in the middle. Don't have to drive-don't have to get out to open/close the gates.
gregintenn
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You would if he liked it as much as my dog does. All the feeling of running fast without getting out of breath!
One of the thrills of my childhood was riding on the front fender of a Model "A" Ford while holding onto a headlight. About 20 MPH was it but I thought I was flying. Great memories.
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They were legal because the bed and body are one piece. Basically a half convertible car.
Like Bam, I started first grade at 5. In England that was the mandatory age. When I came to the states, the school board, regardless of my high test scores, decided I couldn't be younger than my classmates. They put me back a year. That was the most boring, snail paced year of my life.
I had nothing to do in class but play with my brain. Maybe that's what happened.
I had nothing to do in class but play with my brain. Maybe that's what happened.
chaparrito
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Kinda reminds me of the story how you can pick out the experienced cowboy in the pick up truck. He's the one riding in the middle. Don't have to drive-don't have to get out to open/close the gates.
You got that right!!!
And then they put a console in the center of most trucks and high transmission hump and everything changed. Now you have to be a midge.. Excuse me, a little person to ride in the middle.
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ParadiseRoad
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...I've ridden in a lot of pickup beds...no worse for it...I also used to ride standing up on the seat of my aunt's '53 Buick convertible when I was really small...I'd stand right next to her...and she would hold me back with her arm if we had to stop fast...split my lip once when she didn't get her arm out there soon enough...that aunt passed away about three weeks ago...so those memories are mine alone now...
...the Subaru pickup with the seats in the back was the "BRAT"...the seats were back there to qualify it as a car for import...the tariff on trucks was much higher...I believe there were seat belts for those back seats...I think most people eventually removed the seats to actually use the small truck bed...
...I knew a bunch of guys that fancied themselves as Cowboys...they used to all jump in the back of a pickup with their lariats and race up and down rural roads lassoing mail boxes...if they got the rope around the mail box...they had to wrap the other end of the rope around a stake in a stake pocket on the bed...before the rope pulled them over the side...
...one more story...when my wife and I moved to where we live now...we didn't have a pickup truck...I was in the trucking business...so we moved most of our stuff in the back of our Kenworth tandem dump truck...on the last trip...my wife decided to ride in the back to take in the view...she sat in a large rocking chair with a microwave oven in her lap to protect it from bouncing around...I guess all was okay until we hit the gravel road for the last 2 1/2 miles...she started bouncing pretty bad...and the microwave was beating her pretty bad...I couldn't hear her over the noise of the truck...and she couldn't get up or put the microwave anywhere else...she was a little bruised by the time we got home...it's a story we laugh about now...
...the Subaru pickup with the seats in the back was the "BRAT"...the seats were back there to qualify it as a car for import...the tariff on trucks was much higher...I believe there were seat belts for those back seats...I think most people eventually removed the seats to actually use the small truck bed...
...I knew a bunch of guys that fancied themselves as Cowboys...they used to all jump in the back of a pickup with their lariats and race up and down rural roads lassoing mail boxes...if they got the rope around the mail box...they had to wrap the other end of the rope around a stake in a stake pocket on the bed...before the rope pulled them over the side...
...one more story...when my wife and I moved to where we live now...we didn't have a pickup truck...I was in the trucking business...so we moved most of our stuff in the back of our Kenworth tandem dump truck...on the last trip...my wife decided to ride in the back to take in the view...she sat in a large rocking chair with a microwave oven in her lap to protect it from bouncing around...I guess all was okay until we hit the gravel road for the last 2 1/2 miles...she started bouncing pretty bad...and the microwave was beating her pretty bad...I couldn't hear her over the noise of the truck...and she couldn't get up or put the microwave anywhere else...she was a little bruised by the time we got home...it's a story we laugh about now...
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4506517
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The Subaru Brat.
Had two rearward facing seats. Always wanted one.
Legality of riding in the bed of a truck in NC is determined by an area's population.
Absalom
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It's like it is with all stupid things we used to do.
The ones who made it without getting killed are here to brag about it and make light of it.
The ones who didn't, aren't.
I don't believe it's the law's job to protect grown-up idiots from themselves (an unfortunate trend today), but adults putting kids at risk who don't know any better is a different thing.
The ones who made it without getting killed are here to brag about it and make light of it.
The ones who didn't, aren't.
I don't believe it's the law's job to protect grown-up idiots from themselves (an unfortunate trend today), but adults putting kids at risk who don't know any better is a different thing.
In WV it's ok to ride in the truck bed if you're over 18.
I was giving some people a ride in my truck at a local resort. It's an access cab with jump seats in the back. My wife volunteered to ride in the box.
There was a steep side road of loose dirt and gravel. I shifted into 4wd and up we went. I looked in the rear view mirror and my wife was bouncing around and loving it. "Better than a roller coaster," she said.
I was giving some people a ride in my truck at a local resort. It's an access cab with jump seats in the back. My wife volunteered to ride in the box.
There was a steep side road of loose dirt and gravel. I shifted into 4wd and up we went. I looked in the rear view mirror and my wife was bouncing around and loving it. "Better than a roller coaster," she said.
I remember when I was very young - maybe 6-8 - riding on the step on the side of my Dad's stepside Ford pickup. I thought that was great fun. He drove very slowly, but it felt fast to me.
Mom, however, was not amused when I told her about the great fun I had.
Mom, however, was not amused when I told her about the great fun I had.
42chevy
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When I was a kid I rode in them plenty, but dad had a canopy with a boot to crawl where the back window would be that was very fun too
