Blame the parents? A "FP people" rant

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
10/02/2016 at 13:10 • Filed to: what?, rant

Okay, does this make sense to anyone else?

On this article,

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There are a lot of people blaming the parents of the children that were almost run down by a sentient growth on a patch of bleached hair that spun out his mustang leaving cars and coffee. Is this real life? Are people seriously seeking to put blame on parents for having their kids there? Or are people just being “funny”. I’m really asking.

DISCUSSION (24)

Spridget > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:13

Blames parents for taking kids to car show -> rants about how “kids these days” aren’t interested in cars.

LongbowMkII > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:15

There’s a large contingent of the population that believes personal responsibility only applies to other people. So I assume it’s serious.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:15

Not sure. I used to sit along the median/curb of car shows, but I don’t think my parents were irresponsible.

wiffleballtony > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:15

Kinja'd!!!

DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:17

I know, it’s depressing how hard it is to differentiate between parody and reality sometimes.

We must live in the Matrix :0

HammerheadFistpunch > sm70- why not Duesenberg?
10/02/2016 at 13:22

In hindsight sure...but this, in spite of the meme, not a common danger. Why should a parent feel the need to mitigate against a risk that largely doesn’t exist. Sure the consequences are high but the probability is so remote as to put the risk into the same category as general risk behavior, or slightly above like going to the beach.

Berang > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:22

Maybe they should paint a yellow line down the sidewalk.

“stay behind line when mustang approaches”

Kinja'd!!!

(too lazy to photoshop mustang over train)

Bobby Z. > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:24

Maybe the parents thought those over cooked C&C exits were limited to pre ‘15 Mustangs without IRS. I know I did. We all were wrong.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:24

I agree 100%. Their likelihood of getting killed just by riding in a car is greater than that of being killed by an errant mustang at cars and coffee.

gmctavish needs more space > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:28

They’re seriously blaming the parents. People are quicker to blame people for not expecting something out of their control to happen, instead of blaming the person who caused the thing to happen.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:28

Yeah ive heard pavements designed for people to walk on are unsuitabke for humans to occupy. Those parents should be jailed. /s

Urambo Tauro > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:33

The curb is where I draw the line. All the parents who kept their kids out of the roadway behaved responsibly. If their comfort zone is 5 inches, or 50 ft from the curb, that’s their choice. But the Mustang driver is the one who crossed the line, and is therefore the only one deserving of blame here.

arl > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:33

It’s ridiculous victim blaming. Same screwed up thought process as people who blame girls who get raped for wearing short skirts, saying “they asked for it”.

It’s the rapists fault and it’s the mustang drivers fault. Good Lord, where is common sense these days?

Rico > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:36

Blame the parents that failed to use protection that gave birth to the Mustang Driver.

vp917 > gmctavish needs more space
10/02/2016 at 13:38

I’m just spitballing here, but I think that might be a result of them dehumanizing the person responsable, viewing them not as someone with goals and desires and failings but rather as Murphy’s Law incarnate, just another random idiot that screws up because Shit Happens™, and there’s nothing that we can really do to keep it from happening. And so, they move to judging the judgement of the people who actually matter: the victims.

yamahog > arl
10/02/2016 at 13:51

“if you don’t keep your kid on a leash, you’re basically asking for it.”

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 13:51

But but.... that doesn’t make any sense. First they complain about kids not caring and then complain when parents take kids to shows.

HammerheadFistpunch > Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
10/02/2016 at 13:53

Well its the parents fault for not KNOWING this would happen and keeping their kids away from the path of danger that was SO obvious to even the most simple minded. All you had to do was to watch the video to realize that a mustang spun out RIGHT where those kids were...why did that father put them there?

gmctavish needs more space > vp917
10/02/2016 at 13:56

I think you are exactly right, I was thinking the same thing

Alfalfa > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 14:07

Everytime a child is just or put in danger, there are always people on the internet blaming the parents.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 14:19

Can’t legally blame the parents, but parents would be clever to uh.......not position themselves and their kids in the frag zone with Mustangs in the vinicity.

HammerheadFistpunch > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
10/02/2016 at 16:51

That’s garbage. That’s like saying that the parents shouldnt go outside if they didn’t want to risk their kids getting rained on a day with a .05% chance of rain. While both are true, common sense tells us that mitigating against any and all potential risk isn’t practical or advisable.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > HammerheadFistpunch
10/02/2016 at 19:44

You speak as if there aren’t better places to stand and view. Such as an actual sidewalk.

LongbowMkII > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever
10/02/2016 at 20:31

It’s a well known fact that children have X-ray vision.