In Mass. a new law has gone into effect requiring all children under 8 years old or shorter than 4′ 9″ use a booster seat when riding in a car. Picturing our parents trying to make us do this when we were 7 is hilarious. [Boston Herald]
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@BillsBurg: Good reasons for using the booster seat are not necessarily good reasons for passing a LAW that says EVERYONE needs to make the same choice or pay-up.
How long have we been fine without a silly law like this??
@papahoth: Well it was a lot more during the Big Dig but basically based on how they pass all these laws and we’re incredibly outvoted on everything.