[ninenot]

Norway is so safe that Norwegians leave kids in strollers on the sidewalk while the parents enter restaurants for a meal, and no one thinks anything of it.

Well, some of US do.

Doesn't it strike you as just a bit odd that parents would take their baby to a restaurant and leave the child on a sidewalk, outside, while they munch salmon, brie, and rye bread?

Either leave the kid with old (enough) siblings, or with a responsible sitter AT HOME, or take your baby INTO the restaurant with you.

Crime or no crime, the sidewalk is NOT a place for infants and toddlers alone.

[Age of Reason]

Doesn't it strike you as just a bit odd that parents would take their baby to a restaurant and leave the child on a sidewalk, outside, while they munch salmon, brie, and rye bread?

No, not of itself.

A toddler is probably safer on a Norwegian street than sitting with his parents inside many American restaurants.