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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Bepolite


    Every time I see one of those baby on board stickers I get out the way of the car ASAP. Without fail the car is driven by a nutter.

    Christmas Day - the guy was likely pissed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,427 ✭✭✭cml387


    And....and...well...you'll see it in your rear view mirror when I'm bumper to bumper.


    I keep it in the front. Foxtimidation.


    Way to go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Mint Aero wrote: »
    It's not that, it's if they don't find the baby straight away they might think there isn't one. The sign is a help is all.


    If you have twins do you use two stickers?
    Do you get a special "twins on board" sticker?
    What if you only have one sticker and are in a crash?
    Will they only rescue/check for one child?

    I'd give emergency service staff more credit and say they don't rely on stupid stickers
    and would expect they have procedures in place (like checking number of child seats).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Baby On Board sign...the second most powerful part of a car...second only to hazard lights for when you have to park illegally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    Very thinly veiled "I am fertile" thread.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    I always presumed those signs were to indicate to other road users that said driver was likely suffering sleep deprivation and should be treated with caution.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mitosis wrote: »
    Very thinly veiled "I am fertile" thread.

    well....his wife is.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    If you have twins do you use two stickers?
    Do you get a special "twins on board" sticker?
    What if you only have one sticker and are in a crash?
    Will they only rescue/check for one child?

    I'd give emergency service staff more credit and say they don't rely on stupid stickers
    and would expect they have procedures in place (like checking number of child seats).

    They don't rely on them I never said they did. All I'm saying is if you're a parent you may choose to buy one for the purposes I've been describing, if you buy it for the purpose of making other drivers drive carefully you're deluded. I wouldn't recommend anyone buy as you've posted there all the confusion over it. It's stupid as all bumper sticker are. Now I'm still searching cos I know I've read a case where it worked before


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    What those signs mean to me is. .

    If you Park next to me I'll destroy your car with my door..

    Or the other gem..

    I'll pull a 4ft dent down the side of your car with my pointlessly large sh/t wagon and drive off without a care. .

    :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    "I have permission to park in the good carspaces in the shopping centre"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Every time someone says "I was driving at the speed limit " its usually followed by a tale of being tailgated.

    Remember kids, if you ever catch yourself saying that everybody else is something, its actually you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    Sorry about that OP - Harvey Normal only had one 52" telly left at €499 - I thought you were racing me for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    Baby on board signs are just novelty stickers with no real meaning. If they were for the emergency services then surely they would be mandatory.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,427 ✭✭✭cml387


    If only they'd put a baby on board sticker on the Titanic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Sorry about that OP - Harvey Normal only had one 52" telly left at €499 - I thought you were racing me for it.

    AND HARVEY NORMAN HAD A BLADDY GUN HELD AGAINST THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE CASHIERS AND WAS GOING TO BLOW HIS BLADDY BRAINS OUT UNLESS YOU BOUGHT BEFORE 12AM!

    SALE NOW ON!

    GO HARVEY GO!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Bepolite


    Every time someone says "I was driving at the speed limit " its usually followed by a tale of being tailgated.

    Remember kids, if you ever catch yourself saying that everybody else is something, its actually you.

    Ah yes, because of course tailgating always makes the person in think 'oh gee-wiz that person must be in a hurray let me speed up' rather than f**k you asshole welcome to 45...40...35...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Bepolite


    Ms. Pingui wrote: »
    Baby on board signs are just novelty stickers with no real meaning. If they were for the emergency services then surely they would be mandatory.

    What if you didnt have a kid?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,924 ✭✭✭billie1b


    cml387 wrote: »
    If only they'd put a baby on board sticker on the Titanic.

    Brilliant


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,377 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Maybe he was tailgating so he could get a closer look at the cute baby.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 OldIrishWulf


    Baby on board sign or not , the langer who overtook went the wrong way round a roundabout .


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    Bepolite wrote: »
    What if you didnt have a kid?

    For people with kids in the car, obviously!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    I can't find anything, I must've dreamt it :D

    but http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57218160-78/lake-salt-baby-police.html.csp

    So it's actually to guilt trip car thieves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,427 ✭✭✭cml387


    Baby on board sign or not , the langer who overtook went the wrong way round a roundabout .


    Anticlockwise?

    The inhuman fiend.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Bepolite wrote: »
    What if you didnt have a kid?

    You can get them on gumtree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭lostdisk


    Theyre there so the people who ring the emergency services can tell them that the car has a babay on board sticker.

    Also, they make an excellent gift for people who have just had a baby, but aren't close friends of yours.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,329 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    Bepolite wrote: »
    What if you didnt have a kid?

    Pull into hard shoulder, stick on hazards
    and make one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭100gSoma


    mitosis wrote: »
    Very thinly veiled "I am fertile" thread.

    Made me smile. :)

    Regarding the baby on board sign, I shouldn't have mentioned it. It's irrelevant and obviously doesn't affect someone's decision to drive up your ar#e. Point taken y'all. Having a baby on board or the sign to indicate such does NOT lessen your chance of being rear ended. (Someone made millions off those little yellow triangles though. Genius. lol).

    I'd drive just as close behind a car with that sign as I would behind a glanza with two fast and furious junkies on board. Fact. Not really. I wouldn't personally, but then again being a parent changes your perspective too. As does losing someone in a road accident or any other life experience you care to mention. It's all subjective, therefore the sign is totally pointless most of the time. Omit it from the original post and just take the story as me being sour someone almost ran me off road. Maybe they were on their way to the hospital though. And therefore it's justifiable taking risks like this with others.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,221 ✭✭✭NuckingFacker


    AND HARVEY NORMAN HAD A BLADDY GUN HELD AGAINST THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE CASHIERS AND WAS GOING TO BLOW HIS BLADDY BRAINS OUT UNLESS YOU BOUGHT BEFORE 12AM!

    SALE NOW ON!

    GO HARVEY GO!
    I heard that bit and got all revved up coming off the motorway, then there's this dill crawling in a Micra with a "Boobies on Burd" sign in the back window - I was nipping round for a quick gander before flying up for the telly. Then it dawned on me they might have their eyes on the same prize - I headed them off at the roundabout. Never thought he'd get snotty, in fairness. Worse still, the telly was already sold. Lying aussie git.


  • Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bepolite wrote: »
    What if you didnt have a kid?

    no-baby-on-board.jpg


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    I always treat those baby on board signs as a sort of pre-warning, its usually stuck to some wrecked 7 seater with 26 kids in the back and a wrecked mother with sick all over her clothes whose main concern is not driving.


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