Faulty seatbelts, fear, and car seats forever?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I watched this with the sound off and I really don't think I could bear to watch it again. Watch it however you will, or skip it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azgBhZfcqaQ

Don't you hate it when people send you forwards because they're scared and they want you to be equally scared? It's like those prank videos that scare you but people keep passing on the annoyance.

Here are my reactions to this video:

1. Seatbelts FAIL? No one ever told me this. I was forced to watch many informative scary videos in elementary school and no one ever said that seatbelts sometimes unlatch in collisions. I feel lied to.

2. Keep them in carseats for as long as you can....so are we saying that children can't risk death and injury but adults can? How come I don't get a f'n 5-point seatbelt?

While I'm on that rant...rear-facing carseats are now known as far more safe than forward-facing ones. They advocating to keep kids facing backwards as long as possible as well. Doesn't this mean that rear-facing seats for everyone would be far more safe? Shouldn't we be shaking in our boots because we're facing forwards? Shouldn't we be demanding to have our view entirely blocked, same as the kids' view?



Look, I'm not saying these people's story isn't tragic. It is. It's f'n heartbreaking. But all this safety crap doesn't make me want to go out and spend hundreds of dollars on carseats. It just proves to me that the rest of us adults are not going to put up with time-consuming safety restraints for us but we'll take forever to "protect the children". And that's just stupid.

Either we care about safety or we don't. Either we take time to be safe or we don't, regardless of age.

Anyone else have random thoughts on this stuff?