to think "If you don't give a flying fuckaroo....

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...then what's the point in me caring?"

Let me explain.

I was driving behind a car doing at least 35mph with two young children standing up between the seats and bouncing about. I got so angry and upset that the mother didn't give a shit. I was going to pull up next to her and explain that it was firstly illegal and secondly it was fucking DANGEROUS!

When I got next to the car, the little girl in the back looked at me with a nasty scowl on her face and stuck her tongue out at me in a rude nasty way, not a jokey way.

WIBU to think "oh why should I give a fuck when you don't give a monkeys and plus if your kids are that rude, then lord only knows how you're going to react. Fuck you all" ?

...wwyd?

Well there are loads of tossers out there and sadly some of them are responsible for children who have a good chance of becoming the contemporary tossers of our children! Yet, perhaps we have a degree of responsibility as the mother is endangering innocent kids' lives. Maybe next time take the reg plate and call the police. I wouldn't confront anyone like that, however tempting it may be, she (and possibly the kids) would have been waiting for that opportunity no doubt.

btw you obviously do care otherwise it wouldn't have wound you up! And caring is good, if we want to live in a civilised society!

If I was a passenger phoned the police and give them her registration number not slot I could do if I was driving as I would be braking the law

alsteff Good point - it really upset me that those poor little kids were standing in a speeding car with a mother who doesn't give a flying feck about them.

Would the police actually do anything?

Reg plate and call the police. For sure.

Well, after I'd had the very uncharitable thought 'natural selection in action' I'd stop being a cow and report the driver to the police

lol on the natural selection! Not sure whether the police would, depends where you live and how busy they are I guess. But other than following her home and slashing her tyres, that's all you probably can do!!

I know it sounds horrible, but the woman deserves a scare to make her realise she is a terrible parent and get her kids in a cat seat pronto.

I would have followed but she was heading towards a large supermarket and that would have involved a stake out!

I see a lot of that where I live. There's a large population of Asian families and it's not unusual to see about 5 kids jumping around in the back. Must be difficult if you have a large family but a small car. Also worries me that they may not understand the law completely with regards to passenger safety.

I would definitely report. I can't believe that people still don't realise the importance of car seats for young children. I think the police would take it very seriously.

Visiting SiL and BiL recently (total lentil weaving, barefoot going, no technology types) we were a but surprised to find that although they had the appropriate child safety seats in their vehicle, they didn't insist that their little DCs (5 & 3) fastened them properly.

I made the mistake of thinking that younger DC had slipped his arms out unnoticed and tried to make persuade to put them back into the straps so I could re-fasten them properly but he was having none of it. When his father came up to see what the fuss was about, he gave me a look when I explained. .

It's pointless having a car seat unless its done up properly. It's just shocking how ignorant people choose to be.

Natural selection....

Darwin rocks!