To think this school Dad doesn't need to wear body armour for the school run?!

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Just that really. He commented that 'it keeps him warm' but it looks like metal! He also has it showing through his zip quite openly rather than zipping his coat to the top! It wouldn't protect him in event if being stabbed because you can see where it is (and therefore where to avoid). Could there be some logic I am not considering or would you expect it's a mental health/general oddball thing? (Not saying the two are the same!)

Well this is all very interesting

Just the same idea as a weighted vest for fitness reasons really - it's about the pressure making you feel more secure (I get the same effect from DCat1 sitting on me!).
It may not be that he's trying to show it off, just that he's not ashamed of it.
(But equally he may be trying to look hard!)
Ask him directly and report back!!! 'Do you wear that for sensory reasons or for fitness?' and if he repeats the bit about feeling warm then press him 'A jumper would keep you warm so which is it? Sensory or fitness???'

Are you sure it's not a medical thing? For burns or something? Maybe he just doesn't like to talk about it so brushes it off with the 'keeping warm' thing. Or maybe he has special needs and it's something he finds important to him. I'm sure it's harmless though, these things usually are!

So he wears some sort of body armour but his child walk to to school unprotected?
He sounds like an arse

no drug dealer will be walking with kids though. Could be a weighted vest for sensory reasons).

Of course gangland characters, drug dealers etc. walk with kids! They're also known to live in very affluent areas.

Not so long ago there was a gangland "hit" outside a primary school in a leafy suburb on the outskirts of Glasgow (Bishopbriggs for those who know the area!) The person who was shot was taking his child to school - I believe he too was wearing body armour.

I wouldn't really care about it, tbh.

But I'm the kind of person who would wear a chainmail shirt to stay fit, so I am not really qualified to judge other people's fashion sense.

If he says he wears it to stay warm, that's probably it. (Or it could be there for a variety of medical reasons he doesn't want to talk about.)

If it really was meant as armour, I think he'd admit to it, if only to show off.

That’s the one I was thinking about apostropheus

And a dad was shot dead outside a Belfast school a few days ago. They walk amount us "posh" dealers.

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Yes nickynacky and hardly a place you would associate with crime to be fair!

If he’s a carpenter by trade it might be a utility vest. Obviously he doesn’t need it if he’s not working so the keeping him warm thing makes sense.

Do the dealers put stab vests on their kids too, or do they rely on some good old-fashioned honour amongst thieves / dealers?

No body armour on kids! Would start all out war if they started shooting each other’s kids

I think he's just a drama lama !

Bitter voice of experience, BreakfastAtSquiffanys

he might have a bad back and the vest keeps him upright.

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Op, is this small seaside town in Cumbria ?

Only one of our dads used to wear one of these

And no, i'm not joking. My friend was screeching and wailing on the end of the phone on the first day of term. She frogmarched my sceptical arse down to the school a few days later to see for myself.

Also had a bloke who used to pick the kids up with an iguana on his head, on occasion a snake round his neck.

Then there was bunny, the bloke who used to walk his rabbit in the park at 6.30 each morning.

DH is ex military as I said and he said it's definitely a body armour vest 'kevlar'(sp?). He definitely said it's to keep warm and DH said they are warm. So it kind of makes sense. But I'm sure there are more conventional ways though I think he will like the look. It's just unnerving as it's not something I'd ever seen before on a school run!!!! He's not posh (at the risk of sounding terrible, him and his other half are the ones that look most likely to be struggling financially if you see what I mean) and the school is a mix of kids from the nearby 'poor' area of our town and kids from some of the new private builds on the opposite side and bigger older private housing, so it's a real mix. Great school though and wonderful school community spirit.

I know someone who wore something like this as they had something wrong with their spine.

Body armour is uncomfortable as fuck so he would be better sticking on an extra jumper if he is cold!

A man was shot dead a couple of days ago outside his sons school in Belfast. He was waiting to collect his 13 year old son from school. It was school pick up time. Kids everywhere. He was a known drug dealer. You say this man started wearing it 3 days ago? Coincidence?

I bet you £10 its a back brace and he's fed up of people commenting on it.

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No we are on the east coast. I could not go back if I saw someone randomly wearing a gas mask, creep me right out!

I've come to the conclusion it must be what he says! Interesting choice but his to make I guess! I don't think he has back problems, as I think he would have just said. Even if autism I think he would have said so as if he was going to cover it up then I think he'd make more effort to hide it under his puffy coat. I may try and ask him casually about it but it's none of my business really to force him for more of an answer is it!?!! But glad it's not just me that found it an odd 'out of place' thing!

is it a burn compression suit?
to minimise scars?
they look similar