# More awesome parenting
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645 "2012-06-07T06:02:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/1 "2012-06-07T06:02:29Z")
> **[Mom cited for strapping gas can in baby’s car seat, leaving toddler unprotected](http://beta.nydailynews.com/news/national/mom-cited-strapping-gas-baby-car-seat-leaving-toddler-unprotected-article-1.1090874)**
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> A Colorado mom shocked her local police department last week when they found she'd bumped her baby out of his car seat so she could strap a gas can in his place.
Now she’s claiming the picture isn’t the whole story, and that little kid was riding in the front and while she was being pulled over climbed in the back and buckled himself in the seat with the lap belt. Meanwhile her other kid put the gas can in the baby seat. Uh, ok… so why wasn’t the 2 year old in the baby seat to begin with? If you’re going to lie at least put some effort into it you retard.
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### Author:  [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/2 "2012-06-07T06:18:47Z")
Can isn’t even strapped into the child seat according to federal guidelines. Why can’t people learn to read directions?
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### Author:  [@Motocrossx23](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Motocrossx23)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/3 "2012-06-07T06:22:00Z")
In her defense, gasoline being a non-renewable resource is far more valuable a commodity than a child born of morons, those are a renewable source and quite honestly, something we need to make non-renewable.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/4 "2012-06-07T06:27:33Z")
I’ll admit to putting a growler of expensive beer in my kid’s car seat once and buckling it in. She wasn’t WITH me at the time though.
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### Author:  [@FourEyed](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FourEyed)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/5 "2012-06-07T06:32:06Z")
Must be race gas…
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/6 "2012-06-07T06:36:30Z")
> “Unbelievable! **This heartbreaking photo** was taken by an officer with the Aurora Police Department during Click It or Ticket enforcement last week,” CDOT wrote with the photo
> Read more: [Mom cited for strapping gas can in baby’s car seat, leaving toddler unprotected – New York Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mom-cited-strapping-gas-baby-car-seat-leaving-toddler-unprotected-article-1.1090874#ixzz1x79503qv)
Heartbreaking? How many of us were just tossed into the car as kids? It’s not heartbreaking, it’s a little odd at best. I bet the mom drank all that gas when she got home.
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### Author:  [@Geehee](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geehee)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/7 "2012-06-07T06:43:20Z")
i have definitely buckled a keg into the back seat before, but I dont have kids.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/8 "2012-06-07T06:44:00Z")
Seriously… who the F cares…
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### Author:  [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 6:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/9 "2012-06-07T06:50:30Z")
Who the F cares who the F cares…I’m bored, pretty tired, and I enjoy when people do dumb things to their children.
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### Author:  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/10 "2012-06-07T07:01:07Z")
Meh. It’s a lot harder to spill a kid than it is to spill gas. Plus kids don’t ignite as easily. I’d say this is a safety conscious individual who deserves a commendation.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/11 "2012-06-07T07:13:42Z")
That seat isn’t properly rated for that gas can. Typically, those seats are for children weighing 20-40 lbs. A gallon of gas weighs 6lbs and that can is no more than a 1.5 gallons. The weight of it is well under the approved weight for that type of forward facing child seat and should be in a rear facing seat instead.
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### Author:  [@fiend540](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fiend540)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/12 "2012-06-07T15:40:09Z")
I laughed when I saw this on the Denver news this week, mostly because when anything trashy/shitty happens in the Denver area, it happens in Aurora.
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### Author:  [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-awesome-parenting/223645/13 "2012-06-07T15:51:59Z")
couple things.
was she high on mind altering drugs or is this kind of stupidity unaffected by drug use?
also, what kind of gas was it? that matters.
lastly, the hardest thing to believe about this is that it wasn’t in Florida.