[AT] Tragic Tractor/Mower accident - Douglas, KS

[G.Dombaugh]

Greg:
    That was the common sense I was talking about earlier...  Your Dad
sounds a lot like mine was, and if he caught one of us older kids letting
the younger ones ride in a dangerous place, our butts got beat.
You didn't do that but once... :-)

Garrell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Easley, Greg" <EasleyG at health.missouri.edu>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:07 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Tragic Tractor/Mower accident - Douglas, KS


> I couldn't count the miles that I rode a fender with
> Dad when I was a kid.  I'm not saying that it's right
> or wrong or anything else, but I knew how finish a
> dead furrow before I was tall enough to reach the pedals
> on a 8N Ford.  Riding along was part of the learning
> process and most folks didn't give it a second thought.
>
> That said, there's no way in hell he would let ANYONE
> ride when he was running the bush hog.
>
>
> Greg
> http://www.geocities.com/heartland/woods/1416
>
>
> <snip>
>          or Is it that some parents are just flat
> STUPID these days. I suppose all of the above are
> stupid but hind sight is always 20-20 and it seems
> very few people think of what could happen. With all
> the seminars offered, What more can possibly be done
> to give people common sense when it comes to the
> dangers of equipment?
> <end snip>
>
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