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While we did stuff like this, as you say, it was usually on a quite street/back road/trail.. It was also in a Steel and Wood Red Flyer wagon, not those little crappy plastic ones with plastic wheels.

Nope, we did that kinda' on a brand new concrete road not opened for cars yet, with a bicycle pulling someone on a skate board. Then there were the times when they were building the new freeway, concrete of course, and we road our bikes on it after hours. Great Fun back in the late 60's. Jon
 
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Nope, we did that kinda' on a brand new concrete road not opened for cars yet, with a bicycle pulling someone on a skate board. Then there were the times when they were building the new freeway, concrete of course, and we road our bikes on it after hours. Great Fun back in the late 60's. Jon

Oh the many scraps and bruises from going too fast on a homemade skateboard.. :)
 
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... on a brand new concrete road not opened for cars yet ....
New urban freeways, not yet opened or even striped yet, made the best drag strips.

The movie American Graffiti was so dead-on accurate I wondered if someone had stalked us with a camera.
 
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I think you're right. I see a couple cross bar rollers, one on a frame at the front edge of the deck, and another up on the neck. There must be some sort of mechanical lock or black on the lifted deck. I don't know how far the truck hauled the trusses, but they were delivered about 1 mile down the road after the accident. Unloaded directly in the mud at a Schumacher Homes building site.

Schumacher Homes did our house. Let me just say that I'm not surprised about the unloading in the mud......I'll leave it at that.
 
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Wow, what a dumbass. I am pretty sure we did worse things when I was a kid in the 70s, but it would have been on private property and not a public road with other vehicles, and certainly not a busy traffic circle.

She obviously wouldn't be able to see the kids or the wagon back there. And what idiot thinks a strap is the right way to do this? All around I think this mom was a dumbass with no sense.

The kids are just fine. The mother was right, it was safe the way she was doing it.
The "strap" held and was as good or better then a chain might have been.
I remember my Dad pulling us kids behind the car on sleds in the winter, of course I also remember riding in the back of pick ups.
People today go overboard trying to be PC. Life has risks, don't go outside where you may be struck by lightning.
 
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I remember my Dad pulling us kids behind the car on sleds in the winter, of course I also remember riding in the back of pick ups.
People today go overboard trying to be PC. Life has risks, don't go outside where you may be struck by lightning.

What ride in the back of a pickup truck, actually I would still ride in the back but that means I would have to let my wife drive :shocked:
 
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The kids are just fine. The mother was right, it was safe the way she was doing it.
The "strap" held and was as good or better then a chain might have been.
I remember my Dad pulling us kids behind the car on sleds in the winter, of course I also remember riding in the back of pick ups.
People today go overboard trying to be PC. Life has risks, don't go outside where you may be struck by lightning.

You know my main issue with the strap was that nothing would prevent the wagon from smacking into the back of the car, or going under the back of the car when she stopped. And of course she couldn't see them at all to know what was going on. Those wagons have wobbly wheels and don't really stay straight. My daughter has one just like it and it won't stay straight when she tows it behind her little battery powered Deere rider with the handle as a drawbar. So I think anybody with sense wouldn't compound all of that by attaching with a strap. I wouldn't do it with a toy towing vehicle, much less a car!

My brother and I used to get towed around the property in a dump wagon behind a garden tractor when we were toddlers, and thought it was loads of fun. I've done the same with my daughter from age 2 onward. I am sure it would make some people nervous, but seems a zillion time safer than what that mom did.
 

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