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bostonaire
10-07-2005, 18:16
i was sat in the car while partner was in pc world and toys r us, when a family of 5 returned the their estate car with a rather long bulky item in a box...after ten mins deliberating where the parcel should go....the fella takes out the parcel shelf, the two kids(under 12 by looks of it , and one of them only about 7 years old) were made to kneel in the boot area, granted it was an estate car but, then the fella put the parcel shelf in front of them cos he had no where else to put it ... one person sat leaning sideways in the back seat, fella and i pressume mrs sat in front driver and passenger seat, her too leaning .....away from the large item placed down the middle of the car then .he set off!!!!!!! kids in the boot????and whats more.he had roof bars on the car!!!!!!!!!!! im disgusted.whatever he had bought obviously had far more value to him than the kids made to sit in the boot! i feared a rear end shunt and them getting hurt!! what ya reckon...?

spiffymonkey
10-07-2005, 18:29
I have seen this before. It is beyond me how someone could place so little value on their childrens' lives that they would put them outside the passenger cell of the vehicle. In most modern cars the boot is designed as a 'crumple zone' to protect the occupants, or, in this case, the cargo. The kids would have no chance.

Makes me sick, so it does.

miniminch
10-07-2005, 18:45
kids come and go but computers are for life