No seat belt? Great balls of fire, what is this world coming to!

@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
February 12, 2008 11:10am CST
Good confounded grief!! IF this is all that is dementing our kids in movies these days, I'd say life is grand! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_en_ce/people_miley_cyrus Miley Cyrus (15) was in a movie and shown not wearing a seat belt, as was her father, Billy Ray Cyrus. So it is fine and okay-doaky and just dandy- smandy that kids can see people (in the movies, TV and video games) being gruesomely killed, dismembered, beat up, raped, shot at, drugged and the list goes on, but boy howdy, don't let children see a person without a seat belt! This kind of stuff aggrivates me to no end! FOrresst Gump said "stupid is as stupid does"... I finally understand what he is saying!
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@gantwick (849)
• United States
12 Feb 08
Batman buckled up back in the 60s TV show. And that was waaaaaaay before seat belt laws.
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@Foxxee (3650)
• United States
31 Jul 08
I don't think I would pay attention to a seatbelt being used in a movie or not. And I don't think kids will either... but I don't know... You make a valid point, but people should also monitor what their kids watch and I don't go for the whole saying "Oh I can't monitor everything my child watches".. because yes you can... if they are the younger kids, we have the power to make sure they don't see certain things... and if its an older kid, well they should know better... Besides, We can't keep blaming the movies aND MUSic..
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
31 Jul 08
I wouldn't have thought that it'd been something anyone would have picked up unless the movie was so bad there was nothing else to look at, but apparently it was both! It sure did make the headlines - just above Iraq war! You are so right, you can monitor what kids watch - no matter the age. There is an off button on that one -eyed monster and batteries can be "lost" from a remote if necessary. My grand kids come over and they dont' even want to turn the tv on - to much other things to do at Nanny's house! And if they do get tired and want to lay down to watch, At their age they ask for Blue's Clue's or Max nad Ruby or a disney movie. Not a show on tv that they ask to turn on . It can be done. I remember when 90210 came on and my daughter was in high school - the first season was fine, okay into the second season, but then it started more about bed-hopping and trash like that and I told her no - can't watch that anymore. She was mad, but I am sorry - she didn't need to be watching that. She finally did calm down and turns out it was just "what everyone was watching". She went back to her books! A few seasons later, I turned it on again and we watched it together for a few times, and once in college it didn't seem to bad, she was older, but she was the first one to leave the room or be to busy to stop and turn 90210 on, so yeah, it can be done!