Nine-Year-Old Drives Dune Buggy

I wonder if Mom has ever seen this or even heard of this happening. I suspect the Dad would be ball-less by now if she had.

I don't understand the obsession with safety that we have now. I remember my brother's go-cart ... the only safety item it had was a big orange flag tied to the back so cars could see him on the road since he was so low to the ground. Helmet? Harness? Kids have been growing up for centuries without such things.

Can't agree more Nethie. I cut my shoe and toes open 'playing chase' with a lawn mower when I was a kid, didn't even realize it for several minutes, when I did it was no big deal. I could image a kid these days getting a paper cut and screaming bloody murder. No experience with pain. Of course, we did some ludicrously stupid stuff when I was a kid (above just one example), and I'm probably lucky to be alive.

I think helmets and all are a must have, but when parents spend thousands to 'child proof' the home, goes way too far. Just lock up the meds, knives, tools and house hold chemicals, and let them run!

Please note they follow rule #2 of all internet videos: anything worth watching once is worth watching a second time, but in slow motion.

I love how everybody gets their panties all bunched up over one little comment that was misconstrued to begin with. All I said is that Mom probably doesn't know to what extent her son is driving.

Looks to me that the kid has got to be doing about 30 - 40 mph, popping a wheelie while his face is extremely close to the steering wheel, and not wearing a helmet. So what right! At least he won't be nannied into mediocrity Hopefully we'll all get to read about this idiot and his son another day on WU.

Growing up is a right of passage. If you can survive your youthful years then you're fit to breed. But, like Nethie, I wonder at this obsession with 110% safety!

Think of it this way: If the people that traversed the prairies in Conestoga wagons pulled by oxen had had to be 100% safe we'd have never gotten past St. Joe. Hell, we'd have never gotten across the pond in the first place!

I wonder if dad ever got in the passenger seat with him? That would prove if he had balls or not. 😉

If I've learned anything raising my son, it's that kids bounce. When my son was 7, he fell while skating and landed badly on his left arm, cracking his elbow and his humerus. Two surgeries and a metal pin... and a week later he wanted to jump on the trampoline with his friends. I would have still been in a ball whimpering. The big thing to worry about these days is some nosy do-gooder crying child abuse every time a kid shows up with a bruise.

patty - you typed
come on don't puss out guys!

My understanding (as lacking as it is) of the english language demands that when I see the word 'guys', or other nouns ending in 's', I should interpret it as a plural (not always but it is a pretty good rule of thumb). Since my post was the first and yours was the second I assumed you were responding to what Paul and I had posted.