Well, that's something I haven't seen yet...

tarynsmum

Senior Community Member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #1

This, in the back seat of a car in the grocery store parking lot, as a booster (I guess? I don't understand people sometimes...)

 

canadiangie

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #2

Now that's comfort foam.

people are nuts.

 

sunnymw

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #3

Well, it could have just been back there as a gift! And if it was belted in, then maybe it was a mama whose kids were with daddy and she wanted to "properly secure her projectiles"

Of course, chances are...

 

Judi

CPST/Firefighter

• Mar 15, 2009

• #4

Well, that sucks.

 

monstah

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #5

Ummm.... I have seen that before.

Once, in a Walmart parking lot. It was most definitely being used as a booster. It was dirty (gross) and had serious indents from the seatbelt right on it. I'm pretty sure it was a "Power Rangers" chair. :thumbsdown:

 

Victorious4

Senior Community Member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #6

Hopefully the trunk is full of hard, heavy objects without room for the foamy, fluffy minichair? We can only hope....

 

G8r4evr

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #7

OMG! Im trying to think positively here...yep, I think it was just a gift...please tell me it was just a gift.

 

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sixmaybemore

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #8

Oh my..... Boggles the mind.

 

BW1426

Well-known member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #9

Wow. That's even worse than the cooshie booster the brother of the dad of the family I nanny for in the summer (they have a cottage right next door in the summer) used with their 6 yo in their SmartCar

 

Kyras_Mama

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #10

I know one person who has something like this bucked in their backseat for their dog to sit on... any possibility it could have been for that? I mean.. still not a great, safe idea but better than putting a kid in it...

 

mamabear

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #11

I get it.. .I'm almost afraid to look into other cars these days.

Today we went to a birthday party, and I walked by one of the cars that had this in it.........installed rearfacing. OK, maybe a seriously misinformed parent, still trying to RF, but next to it was a newer looking MA, installed forward facing

Almost all the families at the party had at least 2 kids, so i'm pretty sure it was being used for a kid, and not a doll or something, but they had it totally a** backwards!!!

I never did figure out who's car it was, or I was planning on saying something. Nothing like embarrassing someone at a kids birthday party full of people you don't know!!

What are some people thinking???

 

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sparkyd

Active member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #12

mamabear said:

Today we went to a birthday party, and I walked by one of the cars that had this in it.........installed rearfacing. OK, maybe a seriously misinformed parent, still trying to RF, but next to it was a newer looking MA, installed forward facing

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I would have been curious to know exactly how they installed that seat rear-facing.

 

snowbird25ca

Moderator - CPST Instructor

• Mar 15, 2009

• #13

sparkyd said:

I would have been curious to know exactly how they installed that seat rear-facing.

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With great difficulty.

I installed an identical seat to that rf'ing for one of the misuse exercises at the tech course we ran in February and it wasn't easy to do - at least not if you wanted any kind of recline to it. And the lower anchor belt wouldn't even reach the anchors.

I've actually seen a seat come in to a clinic like that before though. Parents bought it not realizing it was a combo seat and knew the infant still had to be rf'ing. The kid left the clinic back in the infant seat which was outgrown by weight - but was a lesser risk than ff'ing a baby.

 

mamabear

New member

• Mar 15, 2009

• #14

mamabear said:

Today we went to a birthday party, and I walked by one of the cars that had this in it.........installed rearfacing.

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sparkyd said:

I would have been curious to know exactly how they installed that seat rear-facing.

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snowbird25ca said:

With great difficulty.

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Yes. That.
It looked really strange, and the front seat was reclined and pushed back far enough to "brace" it in place, because it was barely hangin' on the backseat.