Victoria Police shocked to find baby travelling in bouncer as a car seat

Victorian Police were shocked to discover a baby’s bouncer being used as a car seat.

The bouncer was in the back seat of the car, with an unrestrained baby in it, and two passengers without seatbelts beside it.

In a statement Vic Police said, they handed out three infringement notices to a driver after finding an unrestrained baby and two rear passengers without seatbelts.

The officers were astounded when they worked out why the teenagers had no seatbelts on.

The belts were wrapped around a rocking chair, containing a 7-month-old baby, in an attempt to restrain the chair to the rear seat.

The three tickets, totalling $900, were issued for failing to have three unrestrained passengers in the vehicle.

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Via Vic Police News

OMG! How crazy. Have you ever seen anything like this before?

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18 Comments

- - janecody said
  - 02 Nov 2017
    10:19 pm
I’m just glad they didn’t get into a accident with the baby in the rocker. Unbelievable.

- - mom101628 said
  - 27 Oct 2017
    10:19 pm
Do hope they had a good warning handed out along with the fines. This is so stupid.

- - Dee said
  - 09 Oct 2017
    8:11 am
OMG how silly can people be. I am hoping the infant has been placed in care.

- - country chick said
  - 05 Oct 2017
    9:40 pm
Seriously, how dumb can people be!

- - mom81879 said
  - 05 Oct 2017
    6:41 pm
Shouldn’t try have been charged with endangering lives too? The stupidity of some people astounds me

- - mom206279 said
  - 05 Oct 2017
    6:40 am
I think people who do stuff like this should have their kids removed from their care while they take parenting classes to learn how to take parenting seriously.

- - Ellen said
  - 05 Oct 2017
    4:23 am
Not very safe indeed.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    9:55 pm
Wow. This is unbelievable. Can’t believe somebody would use such an unsafe device.

- - ashna9 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    8:46 pm
I don’t normally comment on other people parenting style as each to their own, but this is stupid and so unsafe!

- - mom112217 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    6:47 pm
A very stupid thing to do and put the baby’s life in danger.

- - mom94125 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    6:21 pm
nah this is stupidity and ignorance of the rules! a child’s life is worth more

- - sars_angelchik said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    5:30 pm
Ridiculous! And all they got was $900 in fines? There’s the reason why offences like this are committed so often. People like this shouldn’t be procreating at all, but they should definitely have the threat of jail time or more severe fines or even impound the car.

- - BellaB said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    5:15 pm
Total lack of common sense… But at least they gave SOME thought to the baby’s safety.

- - nealsq said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    5:06 pm
this makes me so angry

- - mom162203 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    4:22 pm
OMG! What were they thinking….not thinking!

- - mom90758 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    3:29 pm
No! Really? I can’t believe someone thought that such a bouncer was safe to use in a car!!

- - mom93821 said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    3:12 pm
I hope along with the fine they also received some education and a requirement to fit a correct car seat and to always use seat belts and car seats when travelling in a vehicle. This is quite astounding and so very dangerous.

- - nadine_hill said
  - 04 Oct 2017
    12:55 pm
OMG – this doesn’t bear thinking about …. an accident could have seen all three lives lost ….. what an immensely stupid thing to do!