This really can't be safe, right?

OK. I already know the answer to my question. The answer is No, but I wanted to share the misuse that I saw today. I was going to the NEX on base and saw a man getting his probably 3 year old into the car. I thought he was using a backless booster but come to find out he strapped the kid into an infant base! There was no seat in the base, just the kid, forward facing. It was the oddest thing I have ever seen. He put the seatbelt over him like it was no big deal. :thumbsdown:

:scratcheshead:

WOW! I have never seen anything like that happen. I agree that can not possibly be safe!

Unfortunately, I have seen that happen 3 times in the past few years. It really is scary what people think they can do with infant seats.

The things people will do when theyhave no booster lol. I'll never forget when I was 17 and basically a foster mom to 2 little kids. It was my boyfriends at the time niece and nephew. Mom was a druggy, always in the emergency room trying to get pain medication, always drunk. At 17 I had those kids every night and every weekend. Anyways once she called me at 11pm on a weekend to come pick up the kids because she had such a bad headache she had to go to the ER (which she did atleast 3 times a week). I was always very stringent with their seats even at that age and always bought them new seats, installed correctly etc. This was before HWH seats were popular so the oldest who was 4 and about 35 pounds but too tall for a harnessed seat rode in a HBB in my car.

When she called I was with my boyfriend(and didnt have my car and thus their seats) and she said she needed them picked up NOW. I knew enough back then that the older boy had to have a booster seat so I improvised and used a phonebook Looking back though it did raise him up enough so that the belt did sit correctly and at the time I saw no problem with it lol.

Gee...and people complain about tight crotch straps being uncomfortable? (Ok, tongue in cheek...but can you imagine what this poor kid is putting up with? Seems like child abuse somehow... )

Someone needs to take a pic of that and add it in a misuse gallery.