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To: carranza2 who wrote (9510)	1/23/2006 12:48:30 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541747

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. I remember that fondly. We had a neighbor with a pick-up (we ha no car) and sometimes he'd take us kids to the Dairy Queen out on the highway. This overprotection, siding with the kids over the authorities, and the lawsuits are IMO, nuts. Although I am glad we no longer have to suffer smoke everywhere we go.

To: carranza2 who wrote (9510)	1/23/2006 1:00:46 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541747

Unfortunately, the dead kids didn't survive to read the cute little email- and the ones who suffered fetal alcohol syndrome might be too retarded to read it, even if they are alive. Gosh- shall we say a little prayer for the ones killed in cars without seat belts, thrown out of pick ups, poisoned by aspirin or other drugs, retarded by lead or fetal alcohol syndrome, those who suffered brain damage from falls off bicycles- because helmets weren't required, babies squashed by their mothers in car crashes or splattered on the windshield because there were no baby seats? The living "remember" history- but they don't usually remember correctly and they rarely remember all the dead. That makes a perspective like the one in this email dangerously nostalgic. lead: "Getting the Lead Out Lead is a major environmental health hazard to adults, but especially to young children. High blood lead levels can result in lowered intelligence (e.g. IQ), learning disabilities, impaired hearing, reduced attention span, hyperactivity, and antisocial behavior. Until the late 1970s, ambient concentrations of lead (from lead that was added to gasoline) were a major contributor to childhood lead poisoning." "Child Resistant Packaging In the 1960s more than 11,000 young children were poisoned each year from accidental overdoses of baby aspirin. The Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 required that aspirin be packaged in child-resistant closures. In anticipation of the law, by 1970 the two largest manufacturers of baby aspirin had introduced safety closures. Comparing the three years prior to these changes (1967-1969) to the three years after (1971-1973) baby aspirin poisoning of children under five years old fell over 70%." Oh yeah- Don't get me started on how much I miss all the highway deaths of children not in carseats, and I'm really nostalgic for a 70% increase in poisoning of under 5 year olds. Aren't you?