To wonder what is the point of a Baby on Board sticker if you're going to drive like a lunatic yourself

[swanningby]

I was overtaken on a dangerous bend this afternoon by a car displaying a Baby on Board sticker. It went speeding off up the road way over the speed limit. It's not the first time I've seen drivers whose attitude seems to be 'I've got a baby so everyone drive carefully around me' whilst themselves driving aggressively or dangerously.
Do they see these stickers as some kind of ornament, or some statement about their fertility that the whole world might be interested in?

I don't see the point of baby on board stickers full stop.

Quite likely there wasn't a baby on board at the time! Most people do drive more sensibly with a child in the car.

Agree Rhubarb, those stickers are in the same league of patheticness as dangly dice and 'powered by fairydust' bumper stickers.

They're so silly. I would be a bit put off if someone I knew had one.

Oh, this is my pet hate! Its the height of arrogance! Please be my careful of my child, but sod your child's safety.

My blood actually boils!

I agree with you OP, it is ridiculous that a person would drive erratically with their child in the car.

However I do not agree that the signs are pointless, the signs were originally designed to serve a purpose- to make emergency services aware that a child could also be in the car if there is an accident and it is difficult to see everything in the car because it is a wreck.

^this^

No. I also still seethe when I recall being dangerously tailgated and finally overtaken on a dangerous stretch of road. I was heavily pregnant at the time and absolutely speechless when I saw that the idiot drivers car was displaying a 'mum to be on board ' sign. ('Twas def a woman driving too)

I was undertaken and cut up by someone with a BoB dangly thingy last year. She was clearly more desperate to get to the same baby group than me. The cow then got the last place in the car park. Seething only comes close. There were a couple of people who looked similar, so I didn't say anything incase I got the wrong one.

the signs were originally designed to serve a purpose- to make emergency services aware that a child could also be in the car if there is an accident and it is difficult to see everything in the car because it is a wreck.

not true

I know the reason is supposed to be in the event of an accident. I'm sure I've heard the emergency services say it means they have to spend time looking for non existent babies.

I'm not an as aggressive driver but they are really annoying

Cross posted with JoyfulPuddle.

YANBU. The signs are boasty and pointless. People should drive carefully anyway because there's a person/people in their own car and others, not because a bit of plastic in someone else's car.

Many, many, many years ago there used to be an even worse one: "Pull Back - Give My Child A Chance!"

As if anyone is going to say "Oh well I won't tailgate/ram into the back of thatcar, I'll go and hassle someone who hasn't got a child on board.

Was so tempted to get one made saying "Pull back - give my old granny, the dog and a week's groceries a chance!"

I once saw one with 'Yummy Mummy on board'

What's wrong with a yummy mummy on board sign?

LOL.

They serve as a great warning to others that the car is likely to be badly driven by a distracted driver. The worst ones are the ones with the kid's names - might as well just have a sticker which reads 'Chav slag on board' as these are the usual drivers!

If the car is such a wreck that the emergency services can't see the child in the back then it is highly unlikely the rear windscreen with its useless sticker will be intact.

I hate those huge ones that say 'Little Dude Onboard' or whatever - your little dude would be a lot safer if you weren't obscuring half your rear windscreen.

another bugbear is the BOB signs, a baby/child in car and driver smoking/on p[hone while driving. smoking with all windows shut of course.

I have a 'disabled person on board' sign on my car as I can drive carefully and sensibly but im not lewis Hamilton nor am I going to drive as fast as him (im not a slow driver though).and I drive a disabled person around too.

still get tailgated and revved behind me.

and the ones that say 'monkey on board', really? shall I call the zoo ?

You'd love the sign I saw today, something along the lines of,
"Child in this car so BACK OFF"
It wasn't even a sign like the normal ones it was stickers that went across the back window.

A woman at my school has a "twins on board" sticker.

Her twins are eight.

Utterly fucking ridiculous. Get over yourself, dear.

I always assumed baby on board stickers were there to warn you that the driver may not have had a full night's sleep...

I work for frontline ambulance services and, hand on heart, can say that neither me nor any of my colleagues have ever looked for, or taken any notice of, a baby on board sticker. If that is the reason people have them then it is a waste of space.

Dont mind them myself. Havent got one.
The cars I have seen with them have driven well.