arceeguy
Active Member
......my point about the futility of self-regulation becomes more evident as the topic moves on, and imo it WILL bite our MB-butts sooner or later......
Yup - see my "Jimmy's law" example a few posts above.
I just think it is a shame that kids today cannot do the things we did as kids, and it wasn't really all that long ago.
I bought my 11 year old son a 2.5HP mini-bike at Pep Boys. It was in the "bargain bin" with a busted recoil start, so I bought it cheap and we fixed it together. He is allowed to ride it on my property (my neighbor also allows him to ride on his property) but he is forbidden to ride it down the street to his friends house. Not that I'm afraid he'd get hurt because I pound safe cycling into his head, but because I'd probably get locked up for being a "bad parent". Cops can't do anything when he's riding on private property.