RANT: Get a fucking carseat for the kid, and use it, dammit!

[flvegan]

Okay, so I'm driving from Tampa to Lakeland today, using good ole I4 (one of the deadliest stretches of pavement on Mother Earth). I'm passing this big SUV (not that it matters) and I see the back driver-side window rolled down. Out peeks this cute little kid. Couldn't be more than 3 or 4 years old. I think to myself, wow, that child should really be in a car seat. Maybe he/she is in one, but I can't see it (said vehicle towering over mine). Nah. Nope. No dice. This little kid is sitting in the lap of an adult.

I'm absolutely enraged. Here we are, doing 70 mph, and this youngster has NO protection. Shit, my dog, my big Dane has a harness and an anchor in my car. I hit something, he's getting a good jerk, but he's not through my windshield. And he's my FRIGGIN' DOG!

In the past few months, too many folks have died around here "thrown from the vehicle" for not wearing belts/being in carseats.

I don't give a good gosh damn about WHY the kid isn't in a carseat. Don't even try the "no room" bs with me. You're driving a friggin Denali with seating for, like, 10 people. Take two damn cars if you have to.

Sorry, all. I had to rant, and this was the best place.