Unbelievable parenting!

[skip_1]

Driving through Keighley earlier and spotted a pick up driving about with two kids sat on the back deck. They even looked like the bunch of red-necks you'd expect

Wish I'd got a photo to report them.

And some tosspot stole my wing mirror glass overnight. No glass on floor, no damage to casing and the wires disconnected at the clips

[bob1179]

I used to ride in the back of our pick up, but that was in the sticks when we were travelling between fields to check on the livestock or when we were out shooting.

Happy days.

[wildoliver]

Indeed won't you think of the children. Poor little dears should be inside wrapped up in cotton wool.

[Nickyboy]

When i was growing up back in the early 80's my dad used to have a huge wooden box on the roof of his Chevette estate for putting stuff in, we would reguarly go around the village in it

[carmadgaz]

During the shooting season its how we travel between drives, I don't see the problem at low speeds as long as they aren't messing around in there.

[skip_1]

Whilst I agree, travelling like that at low speeds is fine (we do it on site) around town at 40mph is just stupid, especially in Keighley where the driving is exceptionally poor!

[Flintstone]

Did this at Le Mans this year. Eight guys, one twin cab pick-up. Gendarmes couldn't give a hoot.

[Georgie182]

skip_1 said:

Driving through Keighley earlier and spotted a pick up driving about with two kids sat on the back deck. They even looked like the bunch of red-necks you'd expect

Wish I'd got a photo to report them.

And some tosspot stole my wing mirror glass overnight. No glass on floor, no damage to casing and the wires disconnected at the clips

Keighley in West Yorkshire ?
If so, that's a rough place !

[Curry Burns]

bob1179 said:

I used to ride in the back of our pick up, but that was in the sticks when we were travelling between fields to check on the livestock or when we were out shooting.

Happy days.

Pah Pick-up beds are for children...I used to ride about in the bucket of a forklift.....

[rhinochopig]

I can remember sitting in the spare wheel on my Father's S1 landy, aged well under 10, when bimbling along green lanes. Bloody brilliant experience.

[BliarOut]

skip_1 said:

Driving through Keighley earlier and spotted a pick up driving about with two kids sat on the back deck. They even looked like the bunch of red-necks you'd expect

Wish I'd got a photo to report them.

And some tosspot stole my wing mirror glass overnight. No glass on floor, no damage to casing and the wires disconnected at the clips

We did it when my dad hired one for a spot of serious DIY, the grit gets right in your eyes once you get up to the legal limit

Bloody good fun though

[Mars]

Dad borrowed a wooden-box trailer back in the 1970s, to take stuff to the tip. The kids in my road and I enjoyed a relatively sedate tow around our estate in it. I must have been no more than 6yo at the time. No harm done if the parent keeps an eye on things.

Difficult for the rest of us to judge the scenario in the OP. On the surface we probably all revolt at the over-nanying we receive in this country but if the kids were sitting on the open tail gate, at speed, well I would agree it's too dangerous.

We weren't there.

[kambites]

I used to occasionally travel in the back of a friend's dad's pickup when I was a kid and I don't seem to have died a horrible death from it...

[Daniel1]

we use the bucket of a giant tractor as a cherry picker and as a shooting hide

[Fer]

Strangely enough I saw something yesterday that would fit with this thread. I saw a bloke on a quad bike coming the otherway at speed (40+) with a young kid (under three) sat on the petrol tank. Neither had helmets.

Catching up with them fairly rapidly was a Police van with the Blues n Twos on.

[rhinochopig]

Fer said:

Strangely enough I saw something yesterday that would fit with this thread. I saw a bloke on a quad bike coming the otherway at speed (40+) with a young kid (under three) sat on the petrol tank. Neither had helmets.

Catching up with them fairly rapidly was a Police van with the Blues n Twos on.

Was it towing a dag on a piece of rope?

[Original Poster]

Saturday night, mates van, 9 pissed blokes get in the back of the van, great idea at the time.

[FourWheelDrift]

kambites said:

I used to occasionally travel in the back of a friend's dad's pickup when I was a kid and I don't seem to have died a horrible death from it...

When you and the others did it was wearing seat belts the law, if not everyone seemed to drive a lot better than today and looked out for other vehicles more because if they had an accident it would hurt. Now with all the safety items in cars like pre-tensioning belts, air bags and crumple zone average drivers have got lazy and know if they have an urban accident they will not get hurt.

Perhaps?

[Conor D]

Curry Burns said:

bob1179 said:

I used to ride in the back of our pick up, but that was in the sticks when we were travelling between fields to check on the livestock or when we were out shooting.

Happy days.

Pah Pick-up beds are for children...I used to ride about in the bucket of a forklift.....

I did a bit of cruising in the linkbox of a Tractor..

[Curry Burns]

Conor D said:

Curry Burns said:

bob1179 said:

I used to ride in the back of our pick up, but that was in the sticks when we were travelling between fields to check on the livestock or when we were out shooting.

Happy days.

Pah Pick-up beds are for children...I used to ride about in the bucket of a forklift.....

I did a bit of cruising in the linkbox of a Tractor..

It's fun up until the point your father decides to go down a very steep quite bumpy hill