maril332
09/07/2013 21:20
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Anonymous wrote:Did you miss the first part of the OP's sentence?
And "stay in the crosswalk" actually is one of the safety rules we're supposed to be teaching our children.
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-pedsafety/blairwalkproject.html
I do teach them to stay in the CW, but I tell them to keep looking for cars as they are crossing in the cross walk. my SIL has explicitly said to her kids, "you cant get hurt by a car if you stay in the CW"
Anonymous
09/07/2013 21:16
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Did you miss the first part of the OP's sentence?
And "stay in the crosswalk" actually is one of the safety rules we're supposed to be teaching our children.
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-pedsafety/blairwalkproject.html
And "stay in the crosswalk" actually is one of the safety rules we're supposed to be teaching our children.
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/dot-pedsafety/blairwalkproject.html
maril332
09/07/2013 21:08
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Anonymous wrote:maril332 wrote:I don't think that OP blames the victim or any future possible victims. I do think that the OP is saying that pedestrians should be aware of surroundings. Probably not in Xavier's case (as he had no warning) but just that kids should be looking out for driver's who are not following the rules.
The OP said, "I in no way think that the driver is not to blame but I do think that we are sometimes to lax in teaching out kids safety rules."
Guess what you're doing when you say, "I'm not blaming the victim, but..."? That's right -- you're blaming the victim.
That is not victim blaming. That is pretty much a fact. I will admit that I have told my kids "stay in the cross walk" as if to imply that it is a safe zone. Reality is that it just isn't.
Anonymous
09/07/2013 21:05
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
maril332 wrote:I don't think that OP blames the victim or any future possible victims. I do think that the OP is saying that pedestrians should be aware of surroundings. Probably not in Xavier's case (as he had no warning) but just that kids should be looking out for driver's who are not following the rules.
The OP said, "I in no way think that the driver is not to blame but I do think that we are sometimes to lax in teaching out kids safety rules."
Guess what you're doing when you say, "I'm not blaming the victim, but..."? That's right -- you're blaming the victim.
maril332
09/07/2013 21:02
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
I don't think that OP blames the victim or any future possible victims. I do think that the OP is saying that pedestrians should be aware of surroundings. Probably not in Xavier's case (as he had no warning) but just that kids should be looking out for driver's who are not following the rules.
Anonymous
09/07/2013 16:12
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Anonymous wrote:the person who created this post is very ignorant and so is anyone who agrees. how can you compare texting while driving to rape anyway?? who does that? also the child was crossing the street at a stop sign, which children are allowed to do i'm sure! him and his 13-year-old sister were going to the park (gee, wonder why kids cross the street to do that for?) and this moronic woman who thinks she can drive and text at the same time RAN a STOP SIGN and HIT A KID! how can you blame the kid for that? how can you blame the mom who let her kids walk to the park to have fun? oh i'm sorry we should all keep our kids locked up tight instead of allowing them to be young and run along to play while the mom gets some much needed work done at home.
lets see, so we should blame the parents who let their kids play in their own front yard but yet get hit by stray bullets? must be the parents fault as well when a driver jumps a car over the curb and hits the kids while they play on the sidewalk? oh no wait! we should blame the parents who send their kids to school and get beat up by bullies?
geez, the person who started this MUST be a kid or not have any, as well as not have any common sense. you are saying don't blame the victim? WELL YOU JUST DID, hypocrite.
I very well agree sir.
Anonymous
09/07/2013 16:05
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Anonymous wrote:Okay so I might be the most avid "anti text while driving" activist. However... The same way people try to make te pitiful argument o "teaching girls not to get raped" (I think victim shaming is always wrong btw) I think that we should teach kids to stay out of the street and always remain vigilant. When I see te commercial with the boy named Xavier in the wheelchair I think firstly that it is sad that people text and drive and it can be just as bad as driving drunk... But secondly I think that, this child must have been in the street in order to
Be hit by a distracted driver. I in no way think that the driver is not to blame but I do think that we are sometimes to lax in teaching out kids safety rules. I have neighbors that let the kids run back and forth in the street never looking for cars. I know that as a driver I must be cautious of pedestrians and other cars but some pedestrians act as if they are totally oblivious even when they are walking in the middle of the street. I guess my main point is that there are terrible drivers, there are distracted drivers and that is one thing, but raising a generation of kids who do not have the street smarts to know that they have to interact with cars and not ll drivers are looking out for them.
DO YOU MEAN PROFESSOR XAVIER? (XMEN REFERENCE)
Anonymous
08/20/2013 20:23
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Disgusting, disgusting people posting on here.
Anonymous
08/20/2013 18:12
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
the person who created this post is very ignorant and so is anyone who agrees. how can you compare texting while driving to rape anyway?? who does that? also the child was crossing the street at a stop sign, which children are allowed to do i'm sure! him and his 13-year-old sister were going to the park (gee, wonder why kids cross the street to do that for?) and this moronic woman who thinks she can drive and text at the same time RAN a STOP SIGN and HIT A KID! how can you blame the kid for that? how can you blame the mom who let her kids walk to the park to have fun? oh i'm sorry we should all keep our kids locked up tight instead of allowing them to be young and run along to play while the mom gets some much needed work done at home.
lets see, so we should blame the parents who let their kids play in their own front yard but yet get hit by stray bullets? must be the parents fault as well when a driver jumps a car over the curb and hits the kids while they play on the sidewalk? oh no wait! we should blame the parents who send their kids to school and get beat up by bullies?
geez, the person who started this MUST be a kid or not have any, as well as not have any common sense. you are saying don't blame the victim? WELL YOU JUST DID, hypocrite.
lets see, so we should blame the parents who let their kids play in their own front yard but yet get hit by stray bullets? must be the parents fault as well when a driver jumps a car over the curb and hits the kids while they play on the sidewalk? oh no wait! we should blame the parents who send their kids to school and get beat up by bullies?
geez, the person who started this MUST be a kid or not have any, as well as not have any common sense. you are saying don't blame the victim? WELL YOU JUST DID, hypocrite.
Anonymous
08/16/2013 20:55
Subject: Re: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Anonymous wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SCVZqeAGY-A
This commercial drives me insane. The woman goes on and on about how she can no longer (semi-scream) at her kid: "Go out in the yard and play".... when I can't help but think that likely caused this kid to be outside, clearly far from supervised with her attitude, and get hit by a car. I tun the radio every time it comes on.
that is not the video you posted.
Anonymous
08/16/2013 19:08
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Anonymous wrote:Why describe the mom in the commercial as degenerate? There's no cursing or speech which is threatening/racist/profane/criminal.
Maybe OP has been cited for texting and driving and has a chip on his/her shoulder...
This was my first theory, but now I'm thinking garden-variety troll.
Anonymous
08/16/2013 18:43
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
X was supervised his body was ripped from the hand of his sister by a girl who was speeding after she had blew through a 4 way stop. What an ass to blame the mother of that child and you have nothing to say to the girl that almost killed him
Anonymous
08/11/2013 07:56
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Why describe the mom in the commercial as degenerate? There's no cursing or speech which is threatening/racist/profane/criminal.
Maybe OP has been cited for texting and driving and has a chip on his/her shoulder...
Maybe OP has been cited for texting and driving and has a chip on his/her shoulder...
Anonymous
08/11/2013 03:23
Subject: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
Op here. If anyone is a degenerate its the pp
Anonymous
08/10/2013 22:11
Subject: Re: no texting and driving commercial with permanently disabled child
If you actually educated yourself and looked up the situation before you spoke on it you would know the boy Xzavier who was crossing the street at the time holding his older sister hand got hit by a driver who was not only texting and driving but was speeding through a 4 way enter section and didn't stop at not one stop sign and hit the boy and just barely missed his sister so before you open your mouth and speak on something make sure you have your facts correct he wasn't playing in the street and its sad a 5yr at the time is paralyzed and can only breath using a ventilator to no fault on his own so tell me this DH when is crossing the street illegal and makes it your fault when you get hit dummy!