I think hay ride is different. With Christmas lights you could need to stop suddenly if someone walked into the street and other cars could hit you. A hay ride is just on a big tractor but no other cars around
I think the difference is there isn't any other traffic. With lights there are usually lots of other cars around, I've only ever seen a hay rack ride with one ride. I'm not worried about potholes or anything but more somebody behind us looking at the lights instead of the road and getting rear ended.
I think hay ride is different. With Christmas lights you could need to stop suddenly if someone walked into the street and other cars could hit you. A hay ride is just on a big tractor but no other cars around
I think hay ride is different. With Christmas lights you could need to stop suddenly if someone walked into the street and other cars could hit you. A hay ride is just on a big tractor but no other cars around
Most light show things I've seen don't allow you to walk. They are drive through and in a closed park. If it was in a residential area I wouldn't take my kids out of the seat either. Many hay rides in the country go on the road where there are cars.
I would not do a hay rack ride that went on a street even as an adult.
ETA: I feel that would be illegal too as it is equivalent to riding in the bed of a pick up on a road which is illegal.
I think hay ride is different. With Christmas lights you could need to stop suddenly if someone walked into the street and other cars could hit you. A hay ride is just on a big tractor but no other cars around
Most light show things I've seen don't allow you to walk. They are drive through and in a closed park. If it was in a residential area I wouldn't take my kids out of the seat either. Many hay rides in the country go on the road where there are cars.
This! every hay ride I have ever been on involved roads and other cars.
I think hay ride is different. With Christmas lights you could need to stop suddenly if someone walked into the street and other cars could hit you. A hay ride is just on a big tractor but no other cars around
Most light show things I've seen don't allow you to walk. They are drive through and in a closed park. If it was in a residential area I wouldn't take my kids out of the seat either. Many hay rides in the country go on the road where there are cars.
It's not just about pedestrians though. You can't trust the car behind you not to realize and pay attention that traffic(aka you) stopped and could rear end you.
The hayrides I've been on involve one tractor pulling one trailer of people no passing traffic of people or cars and it's on a dirt road on the farm.
Yeah I think a hay ride is different. There's no chance of being hit by another hay ride (in my minor hay ride experiences). It's the law to have your child in a car seat while a car is moving, amirite? FWIW, I wouldn't take A on a hay ride until he was at least 2. He would be squirming through the whole thing.
Andplusalso, this argument can be used on so many things. Disney World for example, kids sit on laps on the trams, monorails, and boats. It's kind of a ride at your own risk thing.
I think the difference is there isn't any other traffic. With lights there are usually lots of other cars around, I've only ever seen a hay rack ride with one ride. I'm not worried about potholes or anything but more somebody behind us looking at the lights instead of the road and getting rear ended.
But what if some random animal ran in front of the truck and the driver swerved to avoid it?
I don't know very much about tractors or tractors pulling large loads. Is it even possible for them to swerve or are they too slow moving and cumbersome to make sudden movements?
I think the difference is there isn't any other traffic. With lights there are usually lots of other cars around, I've only ever seen a hay rack ride with one ride. I'm not worried about potholes or anything but more somebody behind us looking at the lights instead of the road and getting rear ended.
But what if some random animal ran in front of the truck and the driver swerved to avoid it?
Yes that is a risk. Luckily for me the main animals around here are birds and squirrel.
My main issue with car seats is the legality; I don't feel like getting ticketed.
I think the difference is there isn't any other traffic. With lights there are usually lots of other cars around, I've only ever seen a hay rack ride with one ride. I'm not worried about potholes or anything but more somebody behind us looking at the lights instead of the road and getting rear ended.
But what if some random animal ran in front of the truck and the driver swerved to avoid it?
This is what I thought of, too. Or a big mud hole on the dirt road.
Around here hayrides are only at family farm type places. I would never go on a hayride that went on actual roads or had to deal with traffic. Meanwhile, a nighttime light show are in residential areas with other cars.
IMO, they are completely different things and not even comparable.
Around here hayrides are only at family farm type places. I would never go on a hayride that went on actual roads or had to deal with traffic. Meanwhile, a nighttime light show are in residential areas with other cars.
IMO, they are completely different things and not even comparable.
Even more of a chance for some wayward animal to get in the way.
Not always giant tractors, some are just on the flatbed of a very large truck.
We've only done 1 hayride and it was at the Mass. Audubon society. All animals were fenced in sections and there was no possibility of an animal getting out. Also, it was an actual tractor that went about 1 mile per hour.
Around here hayrides are only at family farm type places. I would never go on a hayride that went on actual roads or had to deal with traffic. Meanwhile, a nighttime light show are in residential areas with other cars.
IMO, they are completely different things and not even comparable.
Even more of a chance for some wayward animal to get in the way.
Not always giant tractors, some are just on the flatbed of a very large truck.
I probably wouldn't be comfortable on the flatbed of a very large truck. Like others, the only hayrides around here are on a farm track. I'm in the camp that it's not illegal and in my mind a significantly smaller risk (based only on my experiences in this area).
I'm surprised nobody who wants to do a lap ride is addressing the legality? Assuming its 100% safe, it's still illegal. We smash people for early FFing because of the legality so I don't see the difference.
Hay rack rides on a farm are legal, I don't know if they are legal on a street, but I have never seen one that way so I assume here it isn't.
I'm surprised nobody who wants to do a lap ride is addressing the legality? Assuming its 100% safe, it's still illegal. We smash people for early FFing because of the legality so I don't see the difference.
Hay rack rides on a farm are legal, I don't know if they are legal on a street, but I have never seen one that way so I assume here it isn't.
I'm surprised nobody who wants to do a lap ride is addressing the legality? Assuming its 100% safe, it's still illegal. We smash people for early FFing because of the legality so I don't see the difference.
Hay rack rides on a farm are legal, I don't know if they are legal on a street, but I have never seen one that way so I assume here it isn't.
Are you really that much of a law-abiding citizen? I mean ever jay walk in your life or absolutely not b/c it is illegal? I just find that reading everything in black and white is not my style.
I have never been to a light show, but I kind of doubt that they are handing out tickets to parents who have kids on their laps. And it doesn't matter what age b/c seat belts are the law too. If I were to go, I'd bring my kid on my lap. I just don't think he can see as well on the side and inside a big car seat. Even if someone were to hit us, I don't see serious harm coming on if you turn your airbags off. People can run 5mph right? So it can't be much more dangerous than running with your kid in a stroller?
I'm surprised nobody who wants to do a lap ride is addressing the legality? Assuming its 100% safe, it's still illegal. We smash people for early FFing because of the legality so I don't see the difference.
Hay rack rides on a farm are legal, I don't know if they are legal on a street, but I have never seen one that way so I assume here it isn't.
I jay walk. I have jay walked with my kid. At the one and only drive through light display I have ever seen I would be utterly unconcerned about the police ticketing me. In the same way that I am unconcerned about a jay walking ticket.
I'm surprised nobody who wants to do a lap ride is addressing the legality? Assuming its 100% safe, it's still illegal. We smash people for early FFing because of the legality so I don't see the difference.
Hay rack rides on a farm are legal, I don't know if they are legal on a street, but I have never seen one that way so I assume here it isn't.
I jay walk. I have jay walked with my kid. At the one and only drive through light display I have ever seen I would be utterly unconcerned about the police ticketing me. In the same way that I am unconcerned about a jay walking ticket.
They would probably ticket you if an accident (fender bender) occurred even if you weren't at fault.
I guess I really don't understand how people are afraid of a hayride that may go on a road either. Tractors drive on the road all the time. I guess I don't get it and it may have to do with where we live. I live in actual farm country, maybe some people are referring to cities?
I jay walk. I have jay walked with my kid. At the one and only drive through light display I have ever seen I would be utterly unconcerned about the police ticketing me. In the same way that I am unconcerned about a jay walking ticket.
They would probably ticket you if an accident (fender bender) occurred even if you weren't at fault.
Probably. I see that outcome as about as likely as an accident in these mythical drive through light displays. I'm not jaywalking across mass ave in Boston (anymore) and I wouldn't go to a light display with 700 cars driving 20 miles an hour.