SteveB

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Someone tell me, why do people put these stupid things in the rear window of their cars ?

Why tell others that your driving is likely to be really poor !

Tell me more.

Steve

kav

I never got it either.

Scooby-Doo

I've just had a baby and the better half bought one for the runaround. Although it may look stupid if it stops some tw@t driving an inch from the bumper.........then I have to say it is well worth it. The second car is a Jap import turbo, so you get a few ***** wanting a tow.

Sheepsplitter

In my experience the people who put these labels on their cars are the worst drivers.
They sit on your bumper on the motorway/dual-carriageway and they leave no stopping distance, despite the fact that their bland-mobile has breaks only half as efficient as even a standard Scooby.
They also seem to think it's OK to let the kids go without seatbelts.
However their worst trait to me is that they are the ones who pull out of junctions at the last minute (even though they had ages to get out safely). The baby on board sticker is obviously their final 'shield' to stop you ramming them in this situation.
Why don't they just learn to drive or get the **** off the roads ?

pslewis

And heres me thinking it was for the benefit of the Emergency Services

I always thought it was in case the car was damaged badly, the adult injured and the baby slid between the seats or something - so they have an idea that a baby 'may' be in the vehicle???

I have always hated them - but its the ONLY reason I can see why people would want one ........................ why do people fit tarty gold wheels???? I dont know, the mysteries of the universe

Pete

Sprint Chief

Well I was driving along the other day, saw a car and got an inexplicable urge to ram it off the road.

Then I saw the "baby on board" sticker and thought, oh well, I'd better not then.

[Do these drivers *really* think this goes through our minds?]

I kind of figure the "baby on board" sign probably refers to the driver.

P.S. I have to agree that I have seen people with these signs pulling some outrageously dangerous stunts. A case of do as I say, not as I do?

GM

I always assumed people with signs like that couldn't afford a kiddie seat and had strapped junior to a plank in the boot

I'll get me coat................

carl

The thing is, most of the time they don't take them out when the kid's not with them

I like the 'Keep Your Distance' signs best -- you have to drive up really close to read them

[Edited by carl - 2/16/2002 8:44:24 AM]

NOZZER

Well i have 2 baby stickers and gold wheels on me P1, whats wrong with that?

RS Pilot

LOL - Even 'The Simpson's' has seen the need to extract the urine on this one

Quote from Marge ' "I've bought this baby on board sign for the back of the car so people don't deliberately ram us"

Dave T-S

But haven't you noticed that the "Keep your distance" stickers are ALWAYS on some old Skoda or some similar European heap of crap driven by an old giffer with a flat cap on, going everywhere at 33mph ("that's my speed"). They haven't figured out that the reason they are always tailgated by other drivers is because they are going so bloody slow and generally holding up a queue of about 100 other drivers......

Dave T-S

"Child on board" sticker always means the driver is likely to be diverted by some screaming brat at any time, they are not paying the slightest bit of attention to where their vehicle is going, and it is a warning to other drivers to give them a VERY wide berth......

robski

they are to prove your not a jaffer, thought everyone knew that !

Damn it I have to agree with plewis !

yes they are for emergency services, if they notice one, they will
pay more attention to the vehicle

thats why there are 2, baby and child on board

obviously baby will get looked at first

I was thinking of getting a batch of "baby/child on board, Im not a jaffa what about you RShole?" ones printed up so the ***** who wonder what they are for understand

robski

Mouser

Robski,
Does the same principle apply to the "wife in boot" sticker?
Mouser.

Tracey

Hey Steve,

I use to have one of those in my Orion. Kept wallies away from the back of my car.

Tracey

tiggers

While the emergency services theory is good I think you'll find that most of them are put in for the following reasons:-

Men put them in as you can't get a sticker saying 'My dick works - I'm a real man'. These are the same men who find it necessary to post 'Congratulations to me I've had a baby' in the Scoobynet general forum when their wife, girlfriend or whatever gives birth to their offspring.

Women put them in as they don't make a sticker saying 'Stay well away from me as I will be driving like an idiot as I'm not concentrating due to looking at my baby/child every 2 seconds (and anyway my brain fell out when I had the kid and all I can talk/think about is babies now) and also don't park next to me because I no longer give a **** about anyone elses property and will use my now somewhat fat **** to shove my door against your vehicle when extracting my precious offspring from the back of mine'.

OK that's that sorted then.

Regards,

tiggers.

nigelward

It's a warning sign to say that your pride and joy will have dents in the side of it when you get back, because I need the width of three spaces to get my fat @rse and sprog into the car.

NBW

I find a 'Magnum in the glove box' sticker deters car-jackers a treat

mattstant

baby on board stickers are a joke but i nearly hit a car laughing at a baby on board shaped sticker sticker that had the following urgent and useless piece of information.
"SHOW CATS IN TRANSIT".
how i am supposed to care abouit such a moronic statement.

Big Bear

Often thought about buying a big old Land Rover just to ram people with those stickers

Active

Simple answer. They are complete morons!
From a 50+ year old with two (elderly) children) apart from the following driver falling about laughing at their stupidity what real purpose do they provide.
Bob

carl

"I slow down for horses" is another good sticker.

Reffro

You're right Carl it tells ignorant sods from towns or cities what to do when they see horses being ridden on the road.

MrData

I Can't beleive the what's being said here. I guess most of the dissing is by people with no young children.

I have a "Child on Board" sign in the back of my P1. It keeps the a55holes from sitting 1ft off your bumper while they figure out why you don't want to race.

When my little girl is not in the car, the sign gets flipped up out of the way - without fail.

Take whatever sublime message you want from the sign. Some of us just care about our kids enough to do as much as we can to keep them safe.

Regards
Kurt

carl

Well if you come round a bend and find a bloody great horse in the middle of the road, you don't have a lot of choice about slowing down?

Anyway, slowing down for horses is in the Highway Code, and we can assume that 'townies' have passed a driving test (certainly more difficult to pass if you have to drive around central London than out in the sticks). In the vein of 'obvious stickers stating things that are in the highway code' I shall get one that says 'I keep left, except when overtaking' for those country types who don't know how to use motorways

[Edited by carl - 2/17/2002 8:55:51 AM]

camk

This thread Why ?

djsp1

horse riders around here always ride side by side and with no helmets in the middle of the bloody road, charge them road tax if they are gonna use them.

Dave T-S

LOL - the thread suddenly takes a 90 left.....now, horse riders is one subject on here that ALWAYS seems to get people going....

djsp1

hehehe, BURGER MEAT!!!!!!!

dsmith

Typical ignorant townie - anyone from the country knows burgers are made from taiwanese dogs