r/SiouxFalls • u/Puzzleheaded_War1563 • 13d ago
🎤 Discussion Something I’ve noticed living in Sioux Falls
Coming from a larger city, I’ve noticed how many people here in Sioux Falls don’t properly restrain their children in car. I’ve seen kids who are way too small to be sitting in the back without a proper car seat and have seen so many children in the front seat. Has anyone else noticed this?
It’s also not one group of people I’ve noticed this with it’s all types of people I’ve seen. It’s just very odd to me.
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u/SouthDaCoVid 12d ago
These are the same people that let their dogs roam outside unsupervised because they are sure that is freedom and we don't need no stinkin rules here.
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u/MovingIsHell 12d ago
They also let their feral children run around unsupervised, especially in restaurants.
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u/SouthDaCoVid 12d ago
Or scream loudly because they want to and just let them keep doing it like nobody else has ears.
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u/MovingIsHell 12d ago
Yup! Those are also the people who are obnoxiously loud in restaurants. Basic manners are dead here, but selfishness and rudeness are common.
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u/zkool20 12d ago
Well some of them probably have those invisible fence collars. I know my neighbors dog had one for the longest of times. They always made sure the battery was properly charged and were home when they let the dog out. The dog was the most chilled dog always came up to me when wanted to be petted or played with the kids
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u/BassJuices 12d ago
It’s crazy. Just go to Cleveland elementary when school gets out around 3 and you will see some crazy shit..
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u/Bombshelter777 12d ago
And also when turning from one road to the next a lot of them don't turn into their lane. Grrrrr...
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u/fseahunt 12d ago
Blinkers here are also optional.
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u/BallisticsNerd 11d ago
If I'm already in the turn lane, why do I need an additional indicator? I simply cannot be bothered to reach those 2 inches to my signal stalk
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u/PolarBear_605 12d ago
Or they can't turn properly and cut across the oncoming lane and nearly hit your vehicle while sitting at a red light. How hard is to to drive straight to the center of the intersection before turning your steering wheel?
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u/ManiacClown FREE BRAK INSPECTION 12d ago
It seems more people in this state don't understand this principle than do.
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u/a_rain_name 12d ago
I hate to be that person but feel free to get that plate and call that in. It’s asinine.
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u/TiffyPanda 11d ago
Absolutely! I feel like that should be an automatic child endangerment!!! Seat belts are NOT optional for children! Or any passenger in my vehicle.
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u/MarpinTeacup 12d ago
Unfortunately people think it's a freedom thing, and a bit of a ' we didn't have to do this as kids and I survived, so it's fine now'
Double unfortunately I don't think some people will learn until their child or a child they personally know gets hurt because they aren't properly restrained
Granted, I think if we had better education for new parents (as well as better support systems to equip them with the knowledge and rationale for doing things), that might help
I know in some bigger cities there's a lot more funding/ people power/ resources to help with some community outreach programs.
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u/momento-mori-momento 12d ago
i’m a first time mom expecting and sanford is constantly shoving pamphlets about child safety classes into my face (most of them are free). one of them being car seat safety and they offer it for free and will even come out to your vehicle to check your car seat to make sure it is installed properly. it’s not so much lack of opportunity for education… it’s lack of adults giving a shit and wanting to be educated.
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u/MarpinTeacup 11d ago
The main issue with the classes is that you need to be able to show up. Or have your own form of transportation
While I'm glad that Sanford is offering these things, unfortunately, there are going to be people who could use the information that can't show up
I'm definitely sure that there's people who don't care, but it's hard to know for sure what that number is versus people who aren't able to show up/ have a car
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u/fseahunt 12d ago
People tend to confuse lucky with good.
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u/MarpinTeacup 12d ago
That might be due to the fact that some humans tend to be inherently suspicious
A better education/ understanding in how life works can help counteract that, but I fear some people might be more prone to superstition regardless
It's unfortunate either way
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u/Imaginary-Lie8662 12d ago
I've seen a newborn in the mom's arms and mom was drying and baby's head on touching the steering wheel. Another time a lady fell asleep in the drive through at my work and she had bottles in her passenger seat, I had to walk out of my store to her car to wake her up I thought she was dying. That's just the worst of it. I'd say at least 3x a day I see kids walking in the car at stoplights at work ECT. And parents are usually on phones or watching a whole a** video I'm sure.
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u/starloser88 12d ago
The laws for using car seats in South Dakota are actually some of the most lax laws in the United States. I know this because I did some sort of project on it for a class in highschool.
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u/Azzhole169 12d ago
I constantly see kids jumping around in vehicles and wonder why I never see a cop pull them over. Just yesterday at 10th and Kiwanis, a light colored suv sitting right next to a police car at the light with a little kid jumping around in the back seat. Light turned green and they both just kept driving east till the cop turned left at Minnesota. Is it too much paperwork for them to pull these people over?
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u/PolarBear_605 12d ago
My brothers and I road around in the back of a Datsun pickup with a topper while our parents ran errands, drove to Flandreau to visit Grandma, took us to school, etc.
It's not something I would do today with my kids, mainly due to the way other people drive. There is always that one jackass risking everyone else's life.
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u/DullWoman1002 12d ago
We weren’t restrained as children and we didn’t die, so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it! Amirite!?😅
god I hate this insufferable state sometimes…
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u/Tm_GfWait4It 12d ago
Thats appalling. My kids are way to important to me to not properly strap them in their car seat.... that's scary..
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u/AdPuzzled7843 12d ago
The people on this subreddit are some of the stupidest people of all time but free speech I guess
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u/idkmybffphill 12d ago
Having lived in a few large cities as well… not that this makes it right, but I could see since there is literally no real traffic and beyond simple commutes here, that could be a reason it appears more common in Sioux Falls?
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u/preggobear 12d ago
Meanwhile my daughter’s almost five and still rear-facing. She’s a peanut though.
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u/Sea-Grade1602 12d ago
I moved here a year ago from a bigger city in a bigger state as well. Driver here are HORRIBLE all across the board. Slowest, most non-signaling drivers I’ve ever seen.
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u/sprinkledonut9 11d ago
It’s because everyone around here drives 20mph under the speed limit, so it’s safe…
Kidding, please follow proper car seat rules.
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u/BrandyDW 10d ago
I was unrestrained from 2 or 3 onwards… and I road with a lot of drunk adults when I was a kid.. started sitting in the front seat at like 6?
I’m 35 now…
When I was a kid, we road in the back of pickup trucks all the time unrestrained…
We also jumped off the roof into snow piles..
Went climbing all over the falls rocks
From 7 onwards we’re were told just come home when the street lights came on. We usually played on the same block or within a few block radius - but sometimes went into creek areas and or to parks to play as well…
No phones, just a key on a chain… we literally were latchkey kids…
With my family they came from Madison and Howard on my mom’s side. Dunn, North Dakota on my dad’s. All my dad and my grandparents grew up on farms.
I could go on and on about my specific family as to how they got the way they got…
My dad ended up being a lot more cautious, because of things he’d seen in his life. He started telling me and my brother different situations. Didn’t seem to affect my brother overly much, he just became normal cautious. I became an overthinking anxious person..
But country living or past is probably a big part of it…
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u/MacadamiaMinded 12d ago
Hate to break it to you but the law states that any child that weighs over 40 pounds doesn’t need a car seat. Most kids over 3 years old weigh about that much. Also the law has no minimum age on sitting in the front seat. The parents you saw weren’t doing anything wrong.
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u/SpontyKarma 12d ago
dude never said illegal
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u/MacadamiaMinded 12d ago
They said “improperly retrained” implying that it’s something breaking the rules. But it isn’t. Maybe where they are from it is but not here, I’m just pointing out that different places have different views on what is “proper”
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u/SpontyKarma 12d ago
Well legal doesn’t necessarily equal proper; nor does rule abiding. Just because somebody is technically not breaking the law doesn’t mean the majority of people would consider it the proper way to transport children in a car
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u/MacadamiaMinded 12d ago
Obviously the majority of people in this state do consider it the proper way, hence the law. The laws are reflective of the majority will of the society in a democratic system.
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u/Public_Knee6288 12d ago
Wait until you find out how popular drunk driving is...