ARREST THEM!
It was a one-mile walk home from a Silver Spring park on Georgia Avenue on a Saturday afternoon. But what the parents saw as a moment of independence for their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, they say authorities viewed much differently.
A whole MILE!?! Well, these parents should be flogged!
Ok, all kidding aside. Are these people serious? During the Summer, I was outside from dawn until it started getting dark. No supervision, no Cel phone. Just me and the kids from the neighborhood. We rode our bikes to the park (more than a mile away), to the pool (Ditto) and even to the mall (Many miles away) and we all did this without getting kidnapped, hit by cars, or any other serious calamity occurring to us. Did we get little boo boo's? Yes. But we didn't need mommy and her Bactine right there. We got back up, and continued playing, because we didn't want our friends to think we were Pussies. Besides this whole incident being unbelievable (the fact that some Jackhole felt the need to call Police, not the veracity of it) I find this paragraph hard to believe:
The more lasting issue has been with Montgomery County Child Protective Services, he said, which showed up a couple of hours after the police left.
CPS showed up in "A couple of hours"? I have had children that have been hospitalized and CPS has said just forward them the report and someone will come out "Later".
This whole article tells me one thing, the next generations will be Ok with Orwell's surveillance state. They have already been watched all their lives with no private time.
posted by davis14633 at 08:07
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Like many of my generation, I walked to and from school from the time I was in third grade until I got to high school. In middle school, I was carrying a gym bag, a band instrument and most of my books, and I crossed a four-lane highway. I guess my parents should be in jail, too. Or maybe they did that so I wouldn't grow up to be a WHINY LITTLE PUSSY.
R.I.P. America.
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