Things that your parents used to do when you were a kid but are now illegal

[SitWhenYouGraduate]

Apparently, Mark Meadows just got a bill passed in the state congress that makes it illegal to leave your kids in the car for any period of time. My mom used to leave me in the car alll the time, hell, I requested to be left in the car when she would go into get something from the grocery store or something. The pussification of children in the Aughts is just pathetic.

What else is illegal (or frowned upon by general society) that used to be a regular thing when you were a kid?

Here's the link for anyone interested: Michigan Messenger » Bill to make leaving children unattended in a car heads to Gov’s desk

[Hightowerd]

Beat me with a tire iron?

[the Junkyard Dog]

Originally Posted by SitWhenYouGraduate

Apparently, Mark Meadows just got a bill passed in the state congress that makes it illegal to leave your kids in the car for any period of time. My mom used to leave me in the car alll the time, hell, I requested to be left in the car when she would go into get something from the grocery store or something. The pussification of children in the Aughts is just pathetic.

What else is illegal (or frowned upon by general society) that used to be a regular thing when you were a kid?

Here's the link for anyone interested: Michigan Messenger » Bill to make leaving children unattended in a car heads to Gov’s desk

Hey, too many kids have died for being left in the care 3,4,5 hours at a time. Normally, I would eb with you, but you jabe to think about the moronic paremts who have cost their kids their lives under these circumstances.

[the Junkyard Dog]

Originally Posted by ChuckNorris

Beat me with a tire iron?

How about slap the mess out of you in public?

[Heat Miser]

Please uber-smart government....save us from ourselves....pleeeeeeease!

[Hightowerd]

My mom used to give me chloroform and go party.

[Dark Mantonio]

Yeah, that's stupid. I feel like that's a law that will rarely get enforced. My dad used to leave me in the car all the time with the keys in so I could listen to music and what not. Parent's are just going to have to let their children know to duck if they see a cop.

[Heat Miser]

My Dad let me stand up in the front seat of the car when I was a wee lad.

[Hibernia]

-Litter. Not my parents per se, but I remember the late 70's and early 80's when people would just throw stuff on the ground. People would eat an ice cream in a cup and then just chuck the cup, spoon, and napkins right on the ground.

-Riding in the footwells of the back seat of the car. So cool to just sit down there and read a comic book as the world passed by.

-Free roaming in the back section of a station wagon. We also used to lay half in the trunk and half in the back seat on any sedan with a pass-through or fold down access to the trunk.

[Pablo Fanque]

These things were, no doubt, illegal when I was a kid, but that didn't stop my dad.

On long trips up north, he'd start out the car trip by blazing up a joint w/whatever girl he was banging and taking up there with us. I'm surprised I never got a contact buzz from his smoke.

He also liked to have a few cans of Strohs for the road.

Ah, dear old dad. I miss you.

[SitWhenYouGraduate]

Originally Posted by the Junkyard Dog

Hey, too many kids have died for being left in the care 3,4,5 hours at a time. Normally, I would eb with you, but you jabe to think about the moronic paremts who have cost their kids their lives under these circumstances.

Oh, I totally understand. I just think it's ridiculous that they need to have a law that would enforce good parenting. I mean, I wasn't telling my mom, "Please go shop for 4 hours and leave me in the car with the windows up and locked on this 100 degree day." People should be able to realize what's smart and stupid without the law telling them.

I get what you're saying, for sure. I just think to have this as a law is stupid.

[Isatoner]

Originally Posted by the Junkyard Dog

Hey, too many kids have died for being left in the care 3,4,5 hours at a time. Normally, I would eb with you, but you jabe to think about the moronic paremts who have cost their kids their lives under these circumstances.

Please - 3-5 hours is clearly abuse but to leave a child alone in the car for 30 seconds is now somehow a problem? This I don't understand.

Back to the question at hand - I can remember riding in the back of my dad's pickup many times when I was a kid. of course I was raised on a farm - but you don't see a whole lot of that today for good reasons.

[Bumping]

All I can picture with this law is it being enforced too strictly. Some parent will leave their kid in their car while they go into the corner store to grab some milk, come out and a cop will be taking their kid to child welfare.


Between this and the smoking thread, i'm developing quite a hate for government tonight. Everywhere I turn there is regulation and some law that I'm probably breaking. The government is taking good people and turning them into criminals. If they really want to fix the problems with the backed up judicial system and prisons overflowing, they could start by making less laws.

[Hibernia]

[thephoneman]

Pouring used oil on the ground to "keep the dust down" and washing oil/grease off your hands with gasoline come to mind....

[Bumping]

Originally Posted by Isatoner

Please - 3-5 hours is clearly abuse but to leave a child alone in the car for 30 seconds is now somehow a problem? This I don't understand.

Back to the question at hand - I can remember riding in the back of my dad's pickup many times when I was a kid. of course I was raised on a farm - but you don't see a whole lot of that today for good reasons.

Where I'm from, we still ride in the back of pickups. While generally illegal, it is not illegal for farm or construction purposes. Sometimes, you can get away with a surprising amount of things with agriculture...licenses, permits, child labor, etc.

[SitWhenYouGraduate]

Originally Posted by Pablo Fanque

These things were, no doubt, illegal when I was a kid, but that didn't stop my dad.

On long trips up north, he'd start out the car trip by blazing up a joint w/whatever girl he was banging and taking up there with us. I'm surprised I never got a contact buzz from his smoke.

He also liked to have a few cans of Strohs for the road.

Ah, dear old dad. I miss you.

Your dad and my dad would have been good buddies about five to ten years ago.

[SitWhenYouGraduate]

Originally Posted by Bumping

Where I'm from, we still ride in the back of pickups. While generally illegal, it is not illegal for farm or construction purposes. Sometimes, you can get away with a surprising amount of things with agriculture...licenses, permits, child labor, etc.

Just lay down in the back and try not to hit anything during turns. The only way to travel.

[Touchdown]

Letting me ride around the neighborhood with out a bike helmet

[Hibernia]

[thephoneman]

Originally Posted by Hibernia

[Pablo Fanque]

Originally Posted by SitWhenYouGraduate

Your dad and my dad would have been good buddies about five to ten years ago.

They would not since my old boy died almost 13 years ago.

I know what you're sayin', though.

[Pablo Fanque]

Originally Posted by Hibernia

OMG, one of the funniest things I've seen in a looooonnnnng time.

I'm in tears.

[TheBobcat]

Is spanking illegal yet?

I wish the government could have relegated my childhood punishments to my parents "getting on my level" and telling me why my shenanigans made them "disappointed in my choices, but not in me as a person".

[SitWhenYouGraduate]

Originally Posted by TheBobcat

Is spanking illegal yet?

I wish the government could have relegated my childhood punishments to my parents "getting on my level" and telling me why my shenanigans made them "disappointed in my choices, but not in me as a person".

Dude, I thought you meant you wish you told your parents to get on your level.

That would be the most baller thing ever.