Scout food pick up
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Anonymous
| We will be doing scout food pick up next week. Someone tell me that the best and fun way is that kids stay in the trunk jumping in and out to pick up food while parents driving slowly along the road. I don't think I heard it wrong, but auh......don't kids may fall out of trunk with food along with my trunk door opened like that while car is in motion??? I have a mini suv. Won't I get a ticket from police even driving in neighborhood like that? I don't have a open pick up trunk. Can someone share experiences if either I heard it wrong or that's how everyone do that to pick up non perishable food for scout? |
Anonymous
| *I don't have a open pick up truck |
Anonymous
| People do do that, just like people drive drunk with their kids in the car. Neither is remotely safe or legal. The person suggesting this is someone who would never be alone with my kid, and if they were a scout leader, my kid would leave the troop because if they are compromising on safety here, where else are they compromising? |
Anonymous
| I’m trying to figure out what a mini suv is. |
Anonymous
I assume it's something like a CRV that doesn't have a third row of seats. |
Anonymous
| We walk around our neighborhood with a wagon. |
Anonymous
My kids would think this is a lot of fun but there is no way I would do it. Anyway, we’re not collecting in our neighborhood this year. Many of our neighbors are feds who are furloughed, working without pay, or were fired earlier this year. We’re going to pick up some canned food at Costco and donate that, along with continuing to donate money to the capital area food bank. |
Anonymous
+1 OP not sure what you're asking here because every troop and every neighborhood is different. Depends a lot on the families and also how far apart versus dense the houses are etc. w Ours is all about walking because physical activity is a part of scouts (and a part of everything with young boys honestly). |
Anonymous
| If you're doing it with the trunk open, I imagine the suggestion is for a neighborhood and you're likely going 200 feet at 5 miles an hour. It's like the trash trucks where they stand on the little platform. This is not big roads. But the neighborhood logistics matter. I would do this for putting the food in, the kids can walk/run to the next house. And I'd close the trunk if going up big hills. But to those wringing their hands about not trusting those who suggest this, it honestly doesn't seem any more dangerous than riding a bike in a neighborhood. But use your judgement based on neighborhood logistica |
Anonymous
| Op here. Yes, I have a crv. They say that they do that every year with kids being in the trunk stay opened and they hop out when I drive and spot food on door steps. I have never done this before ever in my life. I think I will drive a car behind them to load food if they really decide to do so because I don't trust myself driving like that. I am more scared kids may fall out from the opened trunk. |
Anonymous
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Scoutmaster here.
We specifically tell the kids that if they are going to ride in the car from one house to the next, they have to get in and buckle a seat belt. They typically only ride if it's clearly going to be a few houses between donations, otherwise they just walk from house to house, running the bags to the car in between. Many drivers do drive slowly along with the trunk open, just to make it easier for the kids to drop the donations into the trunk. Kids are not getting in the trunks, at least in our Troop. |
Anonymous
X1 |
Anonymous
| Kids walked while I drove slowly and they would out the bags into the car. No one was jumping in and out of a moving car. |
Anonymous
| They just meant to leave your hatch open and drive slowly. The kids can walk along and throw food in the open hatch. |
Anonymous
They mean a crossover |