[RBS] Bimbas in the street are dangerous to pedestrians

[Seth & Naomi Abrahams]

Bimbas in the street, especially on an incline are dangerous to pedestrians.
The children are not able to control them well enough at speeds to be able
to avoid hitting a pedestrian in the way. Especially dangerous to older
people who are not agile enough to move out of the way

Also dangerous to the children themselves if they should collide with a
stationary object eg a parked car

I endorse Chanie's request to ban Bimbas from the streets at all times

Naomi Abrahams

-----Original Message-----
From: rbs-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:rbs-bounces at cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf
Of Phil'n'Chanie Rosenfelder
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2012 12:35 AM
To: rbs lists - huji; BS_List; Rbs2; ניר ורגון
Subject: [RBS] a thought from yesterday's parsha

As we listened to the  children riding their "bimba"s down the street
- nahal shimshon: curvy street with lousy visibility - we were struck
with a thought from this weeks' parasha:

Could it be , that allowing one's child to play in the street,
especially in a manner that makes them practically invisible to
drivers, is an example of "lifnei iveir"?

It's nice to think that we live in a religious neighbourhood, so no
one drives on shabbat, but even religious people sometimes need to  go
to hospital on shabbat.
Other shabbat drivers include:  ambulances (whose drivers have a worse
view of short people in the road) , soldiers with emergency call-ups
(yes, those happen all the time, not just in war), hasa'ot of hospital
staff, police patrols.   And these are all drivers who SHOULD NOT have
to slow down to go around a slalom course of kids.  That would be a
tragic cause of a woman giving birth in her car or a man dying of a
heart attack because there are only 11 minutes, or a terrorist making
it past Aviezer and into the rama.

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