Cripes -- I don't even have one!

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But, if "English" farmers could make their kids run heavy equipment and take them out of school after 8th grade and work them full-time, don't you think some of them would?

Well, there's your Amish world. Less regulated, largely untaxed, more prone (in the press anyway) to "home incidents" than what we expect to see in our "English" world. Also more attuned to community pressure, to the point of potentially being driven out and expelled. Can't legally do that in our world, and I got 50 phone book covers full 'o lawyers that say so.

Spaylady - I've had that happen to me enough that if I'm getting ready to pass a buggy I look ahead to make sure there isn't a left turn they can even make before I pass.
I believe in religious freedom and all but I personally think buggies should be outlawed. They are a safety hazard to everyone! My brother flipped his car a few years ago when he was going down a windy hill and came around the corner and swerved to avoid a slow moving buggy that was there but couldn't be seen. My other brother almost did the same thing at the same spot a few weeks ago. A young man at my church was killed earlier this year when the driver of the car he was riding in came around a blind curve at night and he swerved to miss a buggy there and hit a telephone pole. Not to mention the horses that get antsy waiting to pull out onto a road and go right in front of traffic even though their reigns are still being held back. I've lost count of the amount of times I've crested a hill and had to slam on the brakes b/c there's a slow moving buggy right there. Plenty of Amish are seriously injured and killed in these accidents. Then you have impatient drivers who almost hit you head on b/c they tried to pass a buggy where they couldn't see that you were coming. Need I go on? How come there aren't more people complaining about this issue?

Nor do I. His Blackberry may be owned by someone else and on loan to him.