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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 151369" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Is a "quad" the same thing that we call a "4-Wheeler" here? If it is, they're certainly not street-legal anywhere even if ridden by an adult, much less a child! If they're riding them on the street or on the sidewalk, I'd call the police ... and keep calling the police every time until they put a stop to it! Why are the police not coming down on the parents who allow their kids to do this?</p><p> </p><p>They sell a lot of them here, and they do make a size for children. But this is a very rural area and lots of families have acres and acres of land for them to ride on. And the dealers that sell them stress that the children should have lessons on how to ride them safely and that they should be used only with direct adult supervision. Not to say that they all do that but ... They are <em>not </em>made for very small children, more for kids that are at least 7 or 8, and they were never intended to be ridden down a city street or sidewalk. Why are these idiots buying them for their kids if they don't have a suitable place to ride them?</p><p> </p><p>I don't believe that they are safe for any child to ride and I never would have gotten one for my own kids, even though we lived out in the country. When my daughter was in elementary school a boy in her class got one for Christmas. He lived with his grandparents and they had saved all year to buy it for him. He was riding it (too fast) on the school grounds, hit a hole in the ground, and the whole thing flipped over and landed on him. It broke his helmet and he ended up with brain damage and spinal cord injuries that left him completely paralyzed. He was <em><u>ten years old</u></em>! His elderly grandparents couldn't care for him and he spent the rest of his life in a nursing home and died of pneumonia at age 30, his whole young life wasted. I still cringe whenever I see a child riding one of those things, just thinking about what <em>could</em> happen!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 151369, member: 1883"] Is a "quad" the same thing that we call a "4-Wheeler" here? If it is, they're certainly not street-legal anywhere even if ridden by an adult, much less a child! If they're riding them on the street or on the sidewalk, I'd call the police ... and keep calling the police every time until they put a stop to it! Why are the police not coming down on the parents who allow their kids to do this? They sell a lot of them here, and they do make a size for children. But this is a very rural area and lots of families have acres and acres of land for them to ride on. And the dealers that sell them stress that the children should have lessons on how to ride them safely and that they should be used only with direct adult supervision. Not to say that they all do that but ... They are [I]not [/I]made for very small children, more for kids that are at least 7 or 8, and they were never intended to be ridden down a city street or sidewalk. Why are these idiots buying them for their kids if they don't have a suitable place to ride them? I don't believe that they are safe for any child to ride and I never would have gotten one for my own kids, even though we lived out in the country. When my daughter was in elementary school a boy in her class got one for Christmas. He lived with his grandparents and they had saved all year to buy it for him. He was riding it (too fast) on the school grounds, hit a hole in the ground, and the whole thing flipped over and landed on him. It broke his helmet and he ended up with brain damage and spinal cord injuries that left him completely paralyzed. He was [I][U]ten years old[/U][/I]! His elderly grandparents couldn't care for him and he spent the rest of his life in a nursing home and died of pneumonia at age 30, his whole young life wasted. I still cringe whenever I see a child riding one of those things, just thinking about what [I]could[/I] happen! [/QUOTE]
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