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Originally Posted by rhertz
By this standard, what do you all think of my parents of letting us kids ride in the bed of a pickup truck back in the 60's? Not even inside of the vehicle? Back before Brain was born? Heck both my mom and dad started driving around age 12 and neither even had a drivers license! (where was no such tax/fee for driving yet). Back when men were men and women were women.. I have wondered if we should all become Amish because it would save 10X the lives lost in Iraq for socalled nothing.
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Hey, they also thought smoking cigarettes posed no significant health risk....but over time people started collecting data and we discovered that this "theory" was false.
Same with riding in the back of the truck or standing on the front seat. No it's wasn't any safer then than it is today (with the exception of fewer cars on the road), but you weren't repeated told it was wrong and there weren't any laws mandating a certain level of safety either.....