sparrowhawk
Silver Member
I have a mother in my church that would beg to differ w/ all of you after she ACCIDENTLY ran over her son several years ago while backing up her mower.
Significantly injured him for life. That is why the reverse safety is on there and if you were to go through her horror, you would agree.
Don't act like people are stupid, things happen. I have the reverse safetyon my X475 and don't mind using it. I'd rather be inconvenienced a little than run over a person or pet.
My point exactly! Accidents are accidents, but whether the deck was running or not, she still backed over her kid.... This is all about going back to basics. Looking over your shoulder when you are backing up, etc. People aren't stupid but sometimes we get careless and complacent. unfortunately in life there isn't always a safety switch to protect us from that.
Some people are just plain stupid, but that's a whole different argument than I'm making...