To wonder why anyone would do this?

[JammyGem]

Walking DD 9 months to nursery, it's absolutely chucking it down here. Managed to keep her fairly dry, although I'm pretty drenched.

Then all of a sudden we got soaked by some twat in his little racer swerving to hit a puddle. Covered both me and DD, and woke her up. Absolute cunt.

Poor thing was shivering like mad when we got to the nursery, they got a towel and changed her into something dry so no harm done but I'm fuming.

It isn't the first time I've had iduots hit a puddle to deliberately splash pedestrians, but I thought people would have more decency than to do it to a sleeping baby.

Why? What is the point?

Victim blaming 😂

It’s a question, a 9 month old should really have a rain cover. That’s hardly victim blaming!

@PumpkinP

Is the lack of rain cover, really all that you got from this story? Or are you enjoying the chance to have a sly dig at OP's preparedness or your perceived lack of it?

We're sitting here talking about people who deliberately swerve into puddles to soak and drench people.

Literally any heinous behavior can be justified away with "well, you could have done X to avoid it" - I hear that argument for much more sinister forms of crime and abuse, and it makes my blood boil.

Sick of reading stuff where a small detail of OP's comment gets blown up by people who want to do "whatabouttery" in order to not actually address the real topic

OP may not have have a rain cover, but they sure as hell didn't expect to be deliberately drenched by a sadistic driver

This has just happened to me too!

Walking home from work there’s a blocked drain by a roundabout. 2 or 3 cars and vans passed by managing to create just a wee ripple and then some utter twat in a 4x4 deliberately sped up and soaked me. It was in my mouth and everything.

I was on the phone to my mum at the time and my language was suitably appalling that she had to sit down .

If I’d have had a free hand I’d have lobbed my shopping at it .

9 month old gets soaked by car -> "should have had a rain cover"
House gets burgled -> "should have had a burglar alarm"
Woman gets raped -> "should have had a chastity belt"
Someone gets shot to death -> "should have had a bullet proof vest"

Obviously a huge leap between each scenario, but the point is the same.

Yep @JammyGem exactly!!

I think it's people's refusal to acknowledge that the responsibility lies with people behaving correctly, not with the other person's approach to "risk".

It is an offence but to secure prosecution you need the number plate of the car, an image of the puddle and photographs of the people who got soaked.

I once had a lorry driver do this to me. I was a nurse walking home from the station after a night shift. He deliberately swerved through a huge puddle and hooted as he did it. The arc of water came up over my head and I was soaked through to my skin. I stood at the roadside and cried.

@JammyGem @WombleOwl @PettyContractor

Offence under Road Traffic Act 1988 Section 3 [Driving without reasonable consideration for other people] Potentially a level 5 fine [up to £5000] but more usually a fixed penalty. But - of course - actually proving it is another matter.

It is a driving offence, I'm learning to drive at the moment and my instructor has told me this on a couple of occasions.
If you can't avoid the puddle you are meant to slow right down to go through it, to protect pedestrians and also because it's possible to loose control of the car because of the water.
He's obviously a arsehole, fingers crossed karma gets the twat!

The point isn't the same as a rain cover is a standard bit of kit that you should have to keep your kid dry and warmer.

ElizaDee

The point isn't the same as a rain cover is a standard bit of kit that you should have to keep your kid dry and warmer.

You’re turning being a twat into a full time occupation on MN. JUST STOP IT.

Umm no the point is not the same, One can NOT prevent rape or prevent someone shooting them but you can guarantee your child will not be soaked by using a readily available rain cover. As the parent you decided not to use a rain cover so yes you 100% could of prevented it.

Yes the driver was wrong, I don’t think anyone has said it was ok have they?

The posters with sense just don’t like the whole oh blame the victim mentality in this case, It’s not Rape, it’s not a shooting, OP is not a victim. Asking a perfectly normal question about a rain cover is not victim blaming.

How many people do you actually see pushing a prim in the rain with no cover? Not very often

🤷 think what you like but if that was me I'd have had a rain cover and my kid wouldn't have got soaked.

‘Absolutely chucking it down here’ then gets offended when a pp asks why you don’t have a rain cover, which somehow gets equated to ‘woman gets raped, should’ve had a chastity belt.’ Unbelievable

what a horrid thing to do. I am always extra careful as would hate it to happen to me.

Have a medal @ElizaDee you’re obviously a prime specimen of a parent that is better than everyone else. You do know that rain is just water right? As long as they’re wrapped up and not cold, a bit of water on their hands and face won’t hurt them and you don’t expect some complete moron to violate you like that.

OP this has happened to me too. I remember them going so fast I thought they’d hit me and the impact of the water was so strong it stung my face. Fucking awful. I can only imagine that the people that do this have very small penises and/or are very sad inside.

This happened to me with pram and two toddlers once on our home to nursery route. I knew who it was (village life) and followed him home to complain. Snooty type, older guy, expensive car, big house, his OBE on display on a little table just inside the front door 🙄 and he was mortified.

I played the, "Am I just a peasant to you then?" but declined the dry cleaning offer!

What happens when it absolutely chucks it down and those blankets, along with everything else, get soaked through, Betty?

They make these clothes that repel water nowadays, it’s a revelation. I think they call them waterproofs. They come in all sizes and what you do is put them over the top of warm clothes and the person inside doesn’t get wet. I know, I can’t believe it either.

I always remember their reg numbers. Never actually reported anyone but one of these days someone around the central London splash zone I have to walk through is going to push me too far

My Dad did this by mistake once. Driving through London and splashed through a puddle, when the traffic slowed my Mum's passenger door was opened and an irate man started shouting about how they had ruined his pink bell bottoms (it was the Seventies). I realise that sounds like the scene from the Inbetweeners but it really did happen!

A London bus driver did this to my mum once, when we were walking to the hospital for my dad's cancer op

We were already pretty terrified and miserable but that really took the biscuit

I've had a little arsehole do this to me when i was pushing my pram. Luckily the cover did keep dc mostly dry however the wave covered me and the bottom of the pram housing my shopping. He aquapanned further down the road and clipped a wall with his mirror, served him right for driving like that on purpose.

Some people think it's funny and are cunts. You can see them line up. Everyone else is careful and slow and they aim and careened through.

That's terrible, poor baby, especially when she already had the cold.

My friend works in a nursery and she's always amazed at the amount of parents who don't keep the little ones at home when they've a dose of the cold.

I hope this soaking doesn't make your little one worse.