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Article #13025Daily gripe: Speed bumps foster child abuse?
From: Walt Horning
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 00:00
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I was driving through a neighborhood today. The road had been a minor thoroughfare until someone decided to put a block-long stretch of houses on both sides. Several families moved in with children and the speed bumps soon followed. So as I drove through this neighborhood, I spotted about a 3-year old girl riding her "hot-wheels" trike down the middle of the street right at my car! I stopped. She eventually rode to the side. There was a sidewalk, but here's a three-year old riding down the street!!!! This is child abuse folks!!!!! To be a parent who does not insure a three-year old is not riding down the middle of the street, is being negligent and child protective services should get involved. I also have to wonder if the speed bumps have given the families with children along this stretch a false sense of security and they are now doing less to supervise their young children.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,4a82605aaec911c4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning) Subject: Daily gripe: Speed bumps foster child abuse? Date: 1999/02/18 Message-ID: <36d28923.5104913@news.pipeline.com> X-Deja-AN: 445565537 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. X-Server-Date: 18 Feb 1999 03:33:37 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: whorning@pipeline.com Newsgroups: dc.driving