ededic
Gold Member
Where are your stats for this?
Kids not allowed at Tractor Dealership?
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Where are your stats for this?
crazyal
Super Member
1000 great well raised kids can't offset what one bad one can do. In a city not too far from here the kids play a sport called crosswalk. They hide behind an illegally parked car (belonged to one of the kids so they could jump in the drivers seat if a cop drove by) right next to a cross walk and wait for a car to come along. Because the cross walk is not at an intersection cars only need to stop if there is a person in the cross walk. The game was to pop up at the last second and dart in front of the car to see how close they would come to you. After a few kids got hurt and the police wouldn't do a thing a local resident set up a camera to video tape them. When one of the suits went to court the driver came with a copy of a tape. The hurt kid's parents still tried to argue that it was the drivers fault. You would think that any good parent would have taken their kid to the woodshed for some learning but not in today's world. In the end the local residents got fed up with the kids and the inaction of the police and forced the town to redo the curbing so no cars could park in a way to block the view to the cross walk. Once the changes were made the game ended.
The point is that A lot of children are raised very well. Most are taught from a very young age that you respect other people's property as well as to think before you act. I'm sure that any dealer would have no problems with them on their lot. It's the few that spoil it for the rest. It's a shame but a fact of life today.
The point is that A lot of children are raised very well. Most are taught from a very young age that you respect other people's property as well as to think before you act. I'm sure that any dealer would have no problems with them on their lot. It's the few that spoil it for the rest. It's a shame but a fact of life today.
crazyal
Super Member
1000 great well raised kids can't offset what one bad one can do. In a city not too far from here the kids play a sport called crosswalk. They hide behind an illegally parked car (belonged to one of the kids so they could jump in the drivers seat if a cop drove by) right next to a cross walk and wait for a car to come along. Because the cross walk is not at an intersection cars only need to stop if there is a person in the cross walk. The game was to pop up at the last second and dart in front of the car to see how close they would come to you. After a few kids got hurt and the police wouldn't do a thing a local resident set up a camera to video tape them. When one of the suits went to court the driver came with a copy of a tape. The hurt kid's parents still tried to argue that it was the drivers fault. You would think that any good parent would have taken their kid to the woodshed for some learning but not in today's world. In the end the local residents got fed up with the kids and the inaction of the police and forced the town to redo the curbing so no cars could park in a way to block the view to the cross walk. Once the changes were made the game ended.
The point is that A lot of children are raised very well. Most are taught from a very young age that you respect other people's property as well as to think before you act. I'm sure that any dealer would have no problems with them on their lot. It's the few that spoil it for the rest. It's a shame but a fact of life today.
The point is that A lot of children are raised very well. Most are taught from a very young age that you respect other people's property as well as to think before you act. I'm sure that any dealer would have no problems with them on their lot. It's the few that spoil it for the rest. It's a shame but a fact of life today.
Mace Canute
Elite Member
crazyal, several years ago we had a young kid who liked to play the same game. He'd hide behind a parked car and wait for another car to come down the street and then he would leap out in front of it at the last moment. Great fun as he forced the driver to slam on the breaks! Then one day he was playing the same game outside his school yard and the driver, for whatever reason, didn't hit the breaks in time and killed the little idiot! Of course the problem was "speeding drivers" and not a little butt plug's stupidity. (It was known he did this and had been told to quit...but that would have ended his "fun"). Soon after that they reduced the speed limit around all schools to 30 kph from 50 kph which had the side effect of encouraging more jaywalking.
daugen
Super Star Member
now if an officer or parent had taken one of those kids down to the morgue to see a MVA body, crushed and mangled, maybe that would have helped. And maybe not.
Does seeing death in the face teach a young teenager
anything? One would hope so, or Darwin is sure going to chalk up another one.
Sad, kid could have been anything he wanted to be.
He could have been out in a field pulling a set of discs, his earphones on loudly to some awful music,
and a grin on his face thinking about his first date with SusieQ on Saturday night.
Now here's an example of where a "farm kid" would be really unlikely to play chicken in the streets. Nor by sticking his
hand in the mower blades or the pto. Perhaps he has other things to amuse him too.
Ok, now here's a twist.
Envision the cutest little six year old girl, her hair done nicely, and dressed well, in sneakers or something appropriate...,
asking the tractor store manager if she could sit in the big tractor with her Daddy.
With other people watching what he says.
yeah, you are chum pal, there is nothing you could possibly say other than yes to that little girl.
Do girls get special treatment?
They always have...which is fine by me.
Does seeing death in the face teach a young teenager
anything? One would hope so, or Darwin is sure going to chalk up another one.
Sad, kid could have been anything he wanted to be.
He could have been out in a field pulling a set of discs, his earphones on loudly to some awful music,
and a grin on his face thinking about his first date with SusieQ on Saturday night.
Now here's an example of where a "farm kid" would be really unlikely to play chicken in the streets. Nor by sticking his
hand in the mower blades or the pto. Perhaps he has other things to amuse him too.
Ok, now here's a twist.
Envision the cutest little six year old girl, her hair done nicely, and dressed well, in sneakers or something appropriate...,
asking the tractor store manager if she could sit in the big tractor with her Daddy.
With other people watching what he says.
yeah, you are chum pal, there is nothing you could possibly say other than yes to that little girl.
Do girls get special treatment?
They always have...which is fine by me.
GolfAddict
Veteran Member
Oh boy, let me get right on that.
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What's interesting about this thread is the lack of respect for others people property and what you are passing on to your children and grand kids. Not to mention endangering their life and limb.
Just because a dealer has machinery on display doesn't mean it's a free for all. I would not get on a dealers tractor without asking permission first no sooner than I would get on YOUR tractor at your house uninvited. More importantly, any child or grand child under my charge is taught this respect at a very early age.
What's sad is that the dealer mentioned at the beginning of this thread is getting a bad name because of a lack of manners and respect of others people property. I'm sure she looked out the window and saw people, young and old alike, were crawling on and around the machines without asking. People damage new machines, most of it cosmetic but it happens.
For all you know, there is a guy in the dealership who just bought the tractor that your kid is standing on the hood of or working the power shuttle at warp speed. And if someone in a round about way mentions to you that you are lacking respect for their property you feel put off and it's not that you and your kids aren't acting poorly, they must hate kids.
More importantly, children get a cavalier attitude about the dangers of these machines and end up like that poor little girl in another thread, losing her legs because she wasn't taught to respect equipment. Children should not be allowed on or near equipment until they are old enough to comprehend the dangers. Coming up with examples of your 5 year old running a back hoe or mowing the yard doesn't prove what an amazing kid you have, it only proves how amazingly lucky you are nothing tragic hasn't happened.
Just because a dealer has machinery on display doesn't mean it's a free for all. I would not get on a dealers tractor without asking permission first no sooner than I would get on YOUR tractor at your house uninvited. More importantly, any child or grand child under my charge is taught this respect at a very early age.
What's sad is that the dealer mentioned at the beginning of this thread is getting a bad name because of a lack of manners and respect of others people property. I'm sure she looked out the window and saw people, young and old alike, were crawling on and around the machines without asking. People damage new machines, most of it cosmetic but it happens.
For all you know, there is a guy in the dealership who just bought the tractor that your kid is standing on the hood of or working the power shuttle at warp speed. And if someone in a round about way mentions to you that you are lacking respect for their property you feel put off and it's not that you and your kids aren't acting poorly, they must hate kids.
More importantly, children get a cavalier attitude about the dangers of these machines and end up like that poor little girl in another thread, losing her legs because she wasn't taught to respect equipment. Children should not be allowed on or near equipment until they are old enough to comprehend the dangers. Coming up with examples of your 5 year old running a back hoe or mowing the yard doesn't prove what an amazing kid you have, it only proves how amazingly lucky you are nothing tragic hasn't happened.
Scooby074
Super Member
What a moron that kid is.
daugen
Super Star Member
got it done yet? We're in a hurry here....:cool2:
daugen
Super Star Member
It's my understanding that city kids face a lot of different pressures than most of us growing up. Big thing to have a "rep" or reputation. Mean world out there and you had to bristle back or run and hide. So you do lots of stuff on dares to show you "are a man". Horse manure of course, but not to them.
It's the kind of mentality that gets kids into gangs. The need to show off, I guess prove you are someone of worth. I mean your Dad left you so you must be worthless right?
Boy do they have that wrong in a whole lot of ways but that's another story.
kind of a "kids will be kids" but no longer playing, it's a lethal maneuver. But we are young and invincible.
Live a long and happy life kid, make something of yourself, and stay out of the streets and avoid the cars carefully.
There, that should cover it.
It's the kind of mentality that gets kids into gangs. The need to show off, I guess prove you are someone of worth. I mean your Dad left you so you must be worthless right?
Boy do they have that wrong in a whole lot of ways but that's another story.
kind of a "kids will be kids" but no longer playing, it's a lethal maneuver. But we are young and invincible.
Live a long and happy life kid, make something of yourself, and stay out of the streets and avoid the cars carefully.
There, that should cover it.