The children are from Sacramento. Their own aunt Zona Brasier is one of three adults in the truck arrested for child endangerment. Brasier’s step-brother says the dangerous conditions the children were found in is stunning and sad.
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They're making it sound like these kids were in a fucking dog crate or something when in reality it was a camper-sized box on the bed of the truck.
When we came back from Germany, we landed in New Jersey and then traveled back and forth across the States in August to visit relatives in California, and us kids rode in the back of the truck under a camper shell.
Shit, back in the 70's 4 of us kids used to ride in the back of my Old Man's 68 Ford 4X4 with no cover at all, from Coos Bay to Portland and back.
ReplyDeleteRain or shine. We used to fight over who got to snuggle up to the dog or sit over the exhaust pipe for any kind of warmth we could get.
My truck had a car rear seat rested against the back of the pickup cab, under a camper shell. With the windows open, it wasn't bad at all. I was a smoker back then and gave the others a break. Campers are a pain sometimes, but when it comes to sleeping outdoors, not a bad option at all.
ReplyDeleteThe bubble-wrapping of America...
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Germany, the USArmy carried us all over in a plywood shell on the back of an M-880 (Dodge PowerWagon). The nice ones had fold-up seats on the sides. I bet we accumulated a few thousand miles ourselves.
Ed
We had 2 880s in my unit, both of them assigned to maintenance as tool and parts trucks.
DeleteRiding in the truck bed is a pleasure many folks will never know....shame!
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Maybe the brat haulers should have used a Subaru Brat.
ReplyDeleteHad a '79 Silverado with a custom camper top, carpeted with built in bench seats that doubled as storage bins....slide windows opened, and had one of those spring covers to go over the opening between the cab and the camper through the sliding rear window....my kids used to love it to travel in....hooked up the 24' Scotty and away we went....WTF is wrong with people today....
ReplyDeleteHeck, when I was a kid my parents would pack all 6 of us kids in the cab of a pick-up along with themselves.
ReplyDeleteTotal of 8, without seatbelts at that.
-rightwingterrorist
Then I guess hay rides on a tractor-pulled wagon is out of the question?
ReplyDeleteWhen a buddy and I drove down Pacific Coast Highway in the sixties we picked up every hitchhiker that we saw. They jumped into the pickup's open bed and at times we had 4 or 5 people aboard. When guy banged on the roof of the cab we pulled over, he jumped out and said thanks, and we drove on. A simple, routine thing that helped make everyone's day a bit more pleasant, and totally illegal now.
ReplyDeleteThings have changed since than, and not all for the better.
Used to sit on the tailgate of my uncle's '54 Ford F1 with my cousins riding up and down those Central Georgia dirt roads.
ReplyDeleteCousins. That's another subject and one my son will never experience.
ReplyDeleteTorture? How about the cubby in the back of our '63 Volkswagen Beetle? We actually fought over that spot.