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BTW, this occurred in a very low crime area.
Begs the question: Are toy guns legal or not?
My first “toy” gun was a real junk .410 single shot with a wooden dowel driven down the barrel and welded shut.
I used to guard prison inmates working in the field right up against our yard.
oh for God’s sake
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Beautiful girls walk a little slower when you walk by me
Lingering sunsets stay a little longer with the lonely sea
Children everywhere when you shoot at bad men shoot at me
Take me to that strange enchanted land grown-ups seldom understand
Which why I have tinted windows! Then again, parents need to teach kids the proper way of play...but playing Cowboys and Indians sure was fun as a kid!
Be grateful they didn’t send out a SWAT team to shoot them!
This wasn’t tolerated by parents around here even in the 1960’s anymore than throwing rocks at moving vehicles were.
Kids needed to learn to respect others and their property, drivers don’t need the distractions. Playing Cowboys and Indians or wargames between themselves, no problem.
What? They didn’t need to wait until they were fired on twice?
I love a pithy response as much as the next man but the police involved should be sacked. End of. They clearly lack the perception and judgment that are vital especially in a life-threatening situation.
The person who called the police is the one who should have been arrested laughed at, and then slapped (hard) !
Low crime area or not you DON”T point a gun , toy or not, at a passing car . Today is a lot different than the fifties when I grew up and it might well be a real firearm being parents are so damned stupid nowadays.Kids could have pointed at the WRONG car and would be dead now.
When I was a little tyke I played with toy guns so much, that if it was back then like today...I’d still be in jail.
A few years ago, I was getting out of my car at a convenience store, when out of the corner of my eye I saw what appeared to be a rifle suddenly thrust out the window of the car beside me, and pointed directly at me. I instinctively grabbed it, and snatched it away from what turned out to be a small child. It was a realistic looking toy gun. I was so embarrassed. I immediately gave it back, apologized, and told the kid he shouldn’t point it at anyone. His mother saw the whole thing from inside the store. When she came angrily flying out of the store I thought I was toast. Nope, she tore into the kid verbally and physically. I doubt he was ever stupid enough to point a toy gun at anyone again.
I’m surprised at the number of FReepers who think it’s a good idea for kids to point toy guns at passing cars, and equate that with the responsible way children used to play with guns before the idiots took control. They’re probably the same people who equate throwing water balloons off an overpass at cars in the interstate with throwing water balloons at each other in the back yard.