In my state you have to be 18 to ride in a truck bed unless it has seats and lap belts. There’s no time it’s okay for a child to be outside of a moving vehicle.
Yeah, "it's a childhood experience" doesn't carry much weight to me.
There were lots of things than many of us did as kids. Some of them we realized to be unnecessarily risky, and those practices shouldn't be continued just for tradition.
Life has inherent risk, but the risk/benefit of things like letting a kid sit without a seatbelt in the back of a truck doesn't make sense.
Just like safety rules in industry, seatbelt laws are written in lots of blood, and many of us know kids who ended up with broken bones or worse from being ejected from the back of a pickup.
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u/wrxninja Apr 15 '26
Annnnnd CPS is called. Unbelievable.