Is that what the sticker in your back window says Paul??????

Exactly - the whole emergency services arguement for these stickers is daft.

Guys, it's like this.

When a woman has a baby, she often wants all the paraphanalia to go with it.

These signs, in my opinion, are a woman's way of displaying her pride in her newborn, along with a desire to give it some additional "protection", by making other drivers aware that there's a kid on board, and hopefully more cautious when seeing it. It's an instinctive desire to protect her kid(s).

The fact that these signs rub blokes up the wrong way is lost on most women, and in the majority of cases, they wouldn't care even if they did know. It's a woman thing.

Chances are the accident was caused in the first place by sombody tailgating to try and read what the stupid sign said.

No :p no need for stickers ;)

Aha Telboy. So it's down to women being silly and illogical ;) :D Now that does make sense. ;) :D :D

Exactly. ;)

I've seen a few 'Mother to be' stickers lately, guess they're further evidence of the 'Tel-theory(tm)' :D

Sal - tell me you're joking.... :)

you see a baby on board sticker, makes you think ooohhh, baby, must be careful and might make you drive a bit more sedately...(for about 5 mins)

I wonder if it is a boy or girl, and how old it is and....Craaaaash!!!!

Nope, it seems to be a new phenomena, wish I'd had the idea *pound signs in eyes* :D

What about "baby boy on board" in blue and "baby girl on board" in pink signs? :)

At least this would eliminate *one* of the questions... :D

What if the sign said babe on board would you lot still moan :D

Yeah because most women that think they are babes are normally fat old mingers :eek: I saw a right one in the super market a couple of months ago with a "baby doll" t-shirt on :eek: Her gut was hanging out of the bottom :(

Mate, live and let live.:D

Agree with that, Paul.

Trousers with "delicious" in fook-off great big silver letters, across the widest arse you've ever seen... :cuckoo:

I do :) It just makes me chuckle :lol1:

PMSL :lol: I'd forgotten about that :D Time to zip up my flame suit I think :lol1:

I had a bit of road rage with a 'baby on board' driver once. She cut me up and then pointed to her baby when I flashed and beeped her.

Excellent :rolleyes: it's people like this that I love :rolleyes:

These things are totally ****ing ridiculous, I thought that before I had a child and I still think it now I have one, in fact I think they are enormously selfish, its like 'Ive got a child so EVERYONE else on the road must be careful around ME' total utter bollocks!

Bollox, just kill em all :D

Basically what I said on page 2 then :) They are normally very selfish :(

STOP DISCUSSING WIMMIN STUFF!!! :p :D

Breaking News: Due to the SN newsgroup, David Blunkett has issued a statement saying he is contemplating new legislation to arrest 'Baby on Board' drivers.

To those who say oh but the emergency services do a good job of checking anyway so totally pointless - i'm afraid you are missing the point :rolleyes: In a situation where there are multiple vehicles involved the car with the baby on board sticker would get checked first to make sure there is not a child trapped who is too young to get out of the car themselves. Where this would be important would be where there was risk of iminent fire/explosion and the vehicles needed emptying quickly. Yes all vehicles would be checked, but ultimately the vehicles with babies and children would want to be emptied first due to them being incapable of getting out themselves. Trapped adults would be easily seen due to them being above the window line, children/babies would be below the window line and not easily seen.

I don't have one of these signs, never have and never will but I can see why some people might want them. I agree most of the time they are just selfish drivers thinking they have an excuse to be pushy but don't overlook the usefullness to the emergency services of these signs.

I wonder if anyone's actually ever described them to Mr Blunkett?


I *still* maintain that women DO NOT have selfish intentions when displaying these signs. That's a BLOKE reaction.

:cool:

As we have said, that great if people only display the signs IF the child is on board. What could happen in your scenario is that the emergency services see the sign and start looking for a non existent child. As they can't (and wont be able to) find it they start looking harder, around the car in case it has been thrown clear etc etc all wasting time that could be used to save somebody that is there.

If you want the sign fine, but if you display one, the Police should be able to stop you at random and fine you if the child is not on board.