Katy neighbors say you won't need an attorney

[Cedar Park Dad]

anygun, would you not want to do the same if someone hit your child or wife or insert family member here....????

And I still hold to it. If you run over a family member on the street here, chances are you're going to be a in a world of hurt.

[Cedar Park Dad]

Wouldn't depend on if the driver was at fault or the kid? If the driver is speeding or driving recklessly I could see it getting ugly. If the driver was obeying the laws and the kid entered the street, I would consider that an accident be more understanding.

One reaction does not fit all situations.

Oh exactly.

[VMI77]

Um, speed bumps?

I like what they call "speed humps". When they're designed and built right, you can drive over them up to the speed limit without issue. At 5 over, they will loosen your teeth.

I don't know about that...I've found if you go fast enough you sort of just "fly" over them.

[jmra]

Um, speed bumps?

I like what they call "speed humps". When they're designed and built right, you can drive over them up to the speed limit without issue. At 5 over, they will loosen your teeth.

I don't know about that...I've found if you go fast enough you sort of just "fly" over them.

What I love is when kids in low riders take those too fast. Of course if they go too slow over them they run the risk of getting high centered.

[VMI77]

anygun, would you not want to do the same if someone hit your child or wife or insert family member here....????

Ultra, read my post again or go back and read CPD's post in the Detroit thread. There is a difference between thinking/feeling and actually doing. CPD's post stated someone WOULD BE BEATEN as if it was a fact if they ran over a child in his area. That is why he said he was "attacked" in the other thread.

Anygunanywhere

I keep my dogs in my yard and don't allow them out into the street. Seems like responsible parents would keep their children more secure than I keep my dogs. And neither my wife nor I stand in the street where cars might hit us. As far as beating people after an accident goes....in our old neighborhood we had a car crash into a neighbor's house.....through a drainage ditch and across the yard. Fortunately, the driver didn't run over anyone.....but he wasn't trying to and he wasn't drunk either....he'd had a stroke. Personally, I think it would have been bad form to have administered a beating to this man even if he had injured a child.

[BigGuy]

"This neighborhood has been here for 45 years," Franklin said. "All of this growth has happened around us and we are still a little bit of the country.

I suspect this has a lot to do with it. Kids and pets in a rural setting are not going to be confined by a yard fence, and unless you live right on the highway you don't have to be as careful of cars. It sounds as though this area is slowly being enveloped by the city. The urbanization is likely moving faster than the culture. I find it sad when the family country estate gets swallowed up by urban sprawl, but it happens.
Having said that, there is NO excuse for doing 70 in a 30 in a residential area. There has never in the history of the world been a parent who has never had their child get away form them for a moment. You should stay attentive and try to minimize that as much as possible. Good parents do. But good parents still find that their offspring occasionally gets into something they shouldn't.
And if some jackwad kills a kid doing 70 in a 30, then of course those parents don't have the legal right to kill him. But don't expect me to lose a lot of sleep if they do, or to vote for the police chief who does next election.

[anygunanywhere]

anygun, would you not want to do the same if someone hit your child or wife or insert family member here....????

Ultra, read my post again or go back and read CPD's post in the Detroit thread. There is a difference between thinking/feeling and actually doing. CPD's post stated someone WOULD BE BEATEN as if it was a fact if they ran over a child in his area. That is why he said he was "attacked" in the other thread.

Anygunanywhere

I keep my dogs in my yard and don't allow them out into the street. Seems like responsible parents would keep their children more secure than I keep my dogs. And neither my wife nor I stand in the street where cars might hit us. As far as beating people after an accident goes....in our old neighborhood we had a car crash into a neighbor's house.....through a drainage ditch and across the yard. Fortunately, the driver didn't run over anyone.....but he wasn't trying to and he wasn't drunk either....he'd had a stroke. Personally, I think it would have been bad form to have administered a beating to this man even if he had injured a child.

Not bad form in Cedar Park but the norm evidently as stated today.

Anygunanywhere

[Dave2]

Um, speed bumps?

I like what they call "speed humps". When they're designed and built right, you can drive over them up to the speed limit without issue. At 5 over, they will loosen your teeth.

Across this entire country (and a couple others), in my 35 years, I've seen speed bumps done "right" exactly once: They recently widened a street in my neighborhood and reused the old speed bumps, so now I can "thread the needle" between the bumps (assuming there's no oncoming traffic). Otherwise I nearly idle my way across them, same as any other unavoidable road debris.

[Trinitite]

Signs posted along a residential street where people have been driving 70 instead of 25.

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[ShootDontTalk]

Um, speed bumps?

I like what they call "speed humps". When they're designed and built right, you can drive over them up to the speed limit without issue. At 5 over, they will loosen your teeth.

I don't know about that...I've found if you go fast enough you sort of just "fly" over them.

When we vacationed in Playa Del Carmen Mexico we discovered that the simple answer to speeding along divided highways was the bumps - placed every mile up and down the highway. You didn't want to fly over one because every third bump had an armored vehicle with a manned M60 and SWAT looking cops in the median. Lord only knows what a speeding ticket might cost.

[mamabearCali]

There is a difference between a person who through an accident and no major negligence hits a kid and a person who is being unbelievably negligent and kills a child through his own stupidity and lack of care for he child.


Anecdotal story:
I remember when I was about 11. We lived in a place where there was practically no back yard or front yard. So us kids played in the street. Where else could you play? My parents drilled into us car saftey like mad, but not every person did, or if they did the kids did not adhere to it. One day we were leaving home and a child from the block was riding her bike looking behind her. My dad stopped started to honk his horn. She paid no attention and drove her bike directly into our car and went underneath it. She was fine, a little shook up and her mother was so furious with her that I feared her butt would be even more bruised by the end of the day. As a parent now I say if it was she deserved every swat. She could have easily got herself killed.

There is a difference between that and a person driving at 7pm through a residential.

[VMI77]

There is a difference between a person who through an accident and no major negligence hits a kid and a person who is being unbelievably negligent and kills a child through his own stupidity and lack of care for he child.

I think the point is that the difference may not be as obvious as it seems at the time of the incident. The guy I mentioned above...the stroke caused him to floor the accelerator and it looked to an observer like it was deliberate. Some people thought he was drunk.

[jmra]

Ultimately as law abiding citizens we have to let the justice system work. If someone runs over one of your kids and you decide to dispense justice, the only thing accomplished is your other children will be without you while you sit behind bars.

[tomtexan]

Ultimately as law abiding citizens we have to let the justice system work. If someone runs over one of your kids and you decide to dispense justice, the only thing accomplished is your other children will be without you while you sit behind bars.

Yep!

[mamabearCali]

Ultimately as law abiding citizens we have to let the justice system work. If someone runs over one of your kids and you decide to dispense justice, the only thing accomplished is your other children will be without you while you sit behind bars.

Quite honestly if someone hit my child my first thought would be to render aid to them. I would be far too busy trying to do whatever I could for my child to even think about doing anything to the driver. If someone else woud be so kind as to keep them from taking off I'd appreciate it, but harming them does not help my child.