Posted on 11/17/2022 3:30:17 PM PST by nickcarraway
“If your woman is mad at you, LEAVE HER HOME.
Because a mad woman will say anything.”
Ya. This is the bit I was thinking of from the Chris Rock mock PSA. Truth in humor.
Many.
In our exurb, I went to a new home-building site that had just been bulldozed to pick up a few random pieces of field stone that had been unearthed, to edge my garden. Next thing I know, a cop car showed up. Someone in a townhome not far away had called the cops because I, a little old lady, was picking up rocks from stirred-up ground.
If those flat fieldstones had stayed on the ground, the builder's landscapers would have to pick them up before seeding or laying sod, or just sod over them for the homeowner to have to dig up when the grass wouldn't thrive in those spots... but whatever.
Even the cop rolled his eyes.
They are the ones who recently moved there from San Francisco or Los Angeles.
Some kids go through a phase when they throw tantrums. I always ignored tantrums, too.
I would never make an 8-year-old walk home alone that far.
But, what kind of neighbor calls police because an 8-year-old is walking alone through the neighborhood in broad daylight? Since when is that illegal? (Unless there's more to the story?)
Right. Calling the cops on someone relates to reporting a a crime
Some neighbor women call the cops for safety for kids
I learned a long time ago, helping a diaper clad toddler to his home, that, on discovering an angry at me, abusive witch of a mother living in a rats nest of a house, I’d never help an abandoned kid without getting cops and CPS involved
So I had my three kids and my wife yelling in the mini van and was pulled over for speeding. He gave me a ticket but I asked him if he could just shoot me instead. I got the ticket. Either no sense of humor or compassion.
A toddler alone - yes, anyone would call the police.
But, an 8-year-old? Kids that age were alone all over the neighborhood where I raised my kids in the 2000’s.
Yeah, you did.
Why do you think there was the Mann Act?
It's cute the way you throw a major fit over a child taking a short walk.
That explains a lot.
I agree. But look past the sensational headline-
Which may be right, but maybe not- this kid was having a tantrum in the car. We are expected to assume he learned his lesson from a lovely, victimized mommy and he immediately straightened up.
But, as abusive as LE can be, I imagine this kid is truly abused and, on getting kicked out of the car at 8 years old, hardly responsible for his abusive mothers behavior, is walking down the rosado, not kicking pebbles, whistling, picking leaves and apples off the trees, but continuing his tantrum only worse now, screaming to the neighbors his need for help from his immature angry mother.
1. There was child trafficking probably back to before we can imagine. Don’t ba a sick
2. This kid was not ‘taking a short walk’.
Just being an advocate for the kid
If he was screaming and crying and accusing his mother of abuse, then I can understand the neighbor’s calling police.
As I posted before, there could be more to this story. We’re only hearing one side.
On the other hand, sometimes neighbors, LE, and CPS overreact to things (while looking the other way on real cases of abuse).
P.S. Your story about the toddler sounds familiar. We might’ve talked about that before. Once, some mothers were letting their little children play in a parking lot where cars were pulling in and out, and they gave me an attitude when I pointed it out to them (I thought they didn’t know their kids were in the parking lot).
“On the other hand, sometimes neighbors, LE, and CPS overreact to things (while looking the other way on real cases of abuse).”
No doubt.
No argument from me.
My mom pulled into the driveway when I was about 100 yards short of the house. Perfect timing. Before the storm was over, I had shoveled snow off the driveway with a pile over 4 ft on either side.
Nevertheless, I recall that my first two years of schooling were 1st-6th grade school in a small suburb village just outside of Rochester, NY from September 1942 to June 1944. A main State Highway Route 33 went straight through North Chili, and the loop driveway to Dad's church and our parsonage came right off Route 33 (Buffalo Road), with our front porch steps perhaps thirty feet from the shoulders of the highway.
The grade school was a half-mile to the west on the other side of the road, and a main county north-south road crossed it half-way from our house to the school.
This was in the first years of WWII, and gas was rationing, so from the age of five (my 6th birthday in November of '42) until June of 1944, there was no car ride to school. I walked to the school and back every day by myself without any adult around, but usually other kids. I was not alone, but still was responsible for my own safety.
To get there and back, I had to cross two main highways, fall, winter, spring, and early summer. Only part of the way were there sidewalks. The last quarter-mile was the shoulders of the highway. Passed a gas station and restaurant/booze joint on the way, every day.
Compare that experience with the situation discussed in this article. (Tho' I don't believe there was much kidnapping or sex trafficking of little kids in those days.) Things have greatly changed, haven't they?
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