WWYD? Son narrowly misses being hit by a car

[Anonymous]

Assume it was is fault.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The physics of the incident is all wrong. Probably didn't happen.

I was sort of thinking the same thing. Maybe he was almost hit as he dodged the car and his own dodging action made his backpack fall off?

What is the difference? If a car didn't literally hit him and drive off, then a car almost hit him and drove off. Either way, somebody was driving too fast on that street at school bus time.

Unless you think OP's son made the whole story up entirely?

[Anonymous]

It's mind boggling to me that DCUMs would rather believe that this is fiction than to acknowledge that the OP's kid - and many many others - may be routinely at risk due to reckless drivers.

[Anonymous]

I live on a neighborhood street near a middle school. One thing I emphasize with my kids is not to ever walk out from between parked cars. Kids do this all the time on my street and it is very scary! I am looking around, and I am careful, but there's a lot going on and middle schoolers bolt out from between parked cars and it is very unexpected. I have almost pulled over to warn the kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's mind boggling to me that DCUMs would rather believe that this is fiction than to acknowledge that the OP's kid - and many many others - may be routinely at risk due to reckless drivers.

Yes, let's keep our kids off all streets and sidewalks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's mind boggling to me that DCUMs would rather believe that this is fiction than to acknowledge that the OP's kid - and many many others - may be routinely at risk due to reckless drivers.

Yes, let's keep our kids off all streets and sidewalks

No, let's make the streets and sidewalks safe for our kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's mind boggling to me that DCUMs would rather believe that this is fiction than to acknowledge that the OP's kid - and many many others - may be routinely at risk due to reckless drivers.

They're the ones behind the wheel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The physics of the incident is all wrong. Probably didn't happen.

Exactly. He didn't get hit but his back pack did? Mmmmmm no

It's not possible for a car to come close enough to a person to knock the person's backpack off one shoulder?

Another person who thinks this is not possible. If a car hit your son's backpack, your son would have been knocked about 25 feet down the road. The force absorbed just from the car hitting the backpack would have destroyed the backpack. Have you examined the backpack, OP? Is it in tatters? Destroyed? Have you taken your son to the spot in the road where he says this happened and have him reenact it for you, several times, telling you exactly what happened?

I'm not calling your son a liar, but children without experience perceive an event (A car almost hit me! It knocked my backpack off me!) in a way that didn't happen that way. It just could not be that a car ran into your son's backpack with such surgical precision to knock it off one shoulder, did not knock him down, left no damage to the backpack, did not notice it hit him, and no witnesses noticed either. It just can't be. This is his interpretation of events in his mind, and that's fine, but it's not what happened.

This

Think about the way a car is shaped. In order for a vehicle to knock a backpack off a shoulder, this boy would have to be about the height of the hood. It would be marginally more possible with a flat front bus.

[Anonymous]

OP, don't over-react, or he'll stop telling you when things like this happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's mind boggling to me that DCUMs would rather believe that this is fiction than to acknowledge that the OP's kid - and many many others - may be routinely at risk due to reckless drivers.

+1

[Anonymous]

I'd embarrass my kid, probably, by putting up signs (of the political placard variety) visible to drivers on the road that clearly read: "did you hit my 11year ok child with your car on oct xx at xx am? And in small font: Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx with any information" And call the police to report a hit and run.

Oh yes, yes I would do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd embarrass my kid, probably, by putting up signs (of the political placard variety) visible to drivers on the road that clearly read: "did you hit my 11year ok child with your car on oct xx at xx am? And in small font: Please call xxx-xxx-xxxx with any information" And call the police to report a hit and run.

Oh yes, yes I would do this.

Ps, I was hit by a car off my bike on a residential street, knocked off my bike, and the driver didn't stop. It wasn't my fault at all... Maybe that's why they didn't stop. Pedestrians screamed and ran over to help. Filed a police report. No idea if driver--someone said a young woman?--was ever caught.

[Anonymous]

Backpack could have been hit by the mirror.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Backpack could have been hit by the mirror.

And taken the strap off his shoulder? Without destroying or even leaving a mark on the backpack? Mirror still carries the force of the car and would have knocked down the child and destroyed the backpack. Do you know anything about physics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Backpack could have been hit by the mirror.

And taken the strap off his shoulder? Without destroying or even leaving a mark on the backpack? Mirror still carries the force of the car and would have knocked down the child and destroyed the backpack. Do you know anything about physics?

What is your point? Is your point that OP's son made it all up? For drama and excitement, maybe?