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closing eyes User ID: 1338216 United States 08/22/2012 02:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't understand all the hostilty to my post. I live in a small town. Last school year some guy tried to take a kid from schools on 5 different occasions. Two days ago a guy tried to put a 14 year old waiting at her soccer practice into his car. I'm not comenting at all about the whole police part I'm just saying its not very safe anymore. Why all the mean comments? Speaking for myself, because you are a lying and shilling the 'there are plenty of play ideas online' bullshit and need to shut the fuck up. Is that clear enough? What are u talking about that wasn't me and i dont even know what you are talking about. If you woke up breathing, you have another chance! |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 02:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you are actually afraid you kid will be abducted, give them a cell phone with single button 911 call capability. Then rig them with a panic button, about 100 dollars. When the abductor sees the kid push 911 on the cell phone, he will probably turn the kid out right there, but won't think to look for the real panic button device if he doesnt. The device is the size of flattened thumb drive and easily hidden in a shoe or anywhere else the abductor is unlikely to look,and activated by a discard-able bluetooth button that is not connected to it by wires, gives gps location of child and automatically alerts police an abduction has occurred. Response time is in seconds, as every cop on the force would love the positive publicity of capturing a child abductor. If this is not enough for you, put you kids up for adoption for their own sake. If I were young enough I would adopt some kids myself so they could live normal life |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 02:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't understand all the hostilty to my post. I live in a small town. Last school year some guy tried to take a kid from schools on 5 different occasions. Two days ago a guy tried to put a 14 year old waiting at her soccer practice into his car. I'm not comenting at all about the whole police part I'm just saying its not very safe anymore. Why all the mean comments? Speaking for myself, because you are a lying and shilling the 'there are plenty of play ideas online' bullshit and need to shut the fuck up. Is that clear enough? What are u talking about that wasn't me and i dont even know what you are talking about. The quotes say it was you. I know GLP quotes screw up sometimes but this goes back yo your original post. Why lie? |
psyoptics (OP) User ID: 11919225 United States 08/22/2012 02:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | come on folks. REALLY!!!! Quoting: psyoptics [link to www.theagitator.com] sinp ! why do they do these...why? we have let our government into every piece of our live...and once let in they will never leave. like allowing a vampire access to your house....let them in and they stay till they have bled you dry! why really did the cop start talking to the TEEN girls? i do not know i was not there! Feminazi Alert! Are cops somehow barred from talking to teen girls? Last Edited by psyoptics on 08/22/2012 03:07 AM a good video editor can make anyone say anything the editor wants. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: closing eyes I don't understand all the hostilty to my post. I live in a small town. Last school year some guy tried to take a kid from schools on 5 different occasions. Two days ago a guy tried to put a 14 year old waiting at her soccer practice into his car. I'm not comenting at all about the whole police part I'm just saying its not very safe anymore. Why all the mean comments? You can't lock your kids in the basement forever because they might get hurt. Go look at auto accident statistics and compare them to abduction or attempted abductions. Would this cause you to reason that no one should drive their kids anywhere because an accident might occur? Talking to your children about staying away from people that entice them with gifts and practicing common sense, like a cell phone and intermittent contact, is a much better solution than directionless fear of what might happen, of which there is much much more and much more likely things than kidnapping. I dont lock my kids in the basement. No point in arguing with you all. You just throw out insults. If you have children i feel sorry for them and I have never even seen them. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1541801 Canada 08/22/2012 03:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: closing eyes I don't understand all the hostilty to my post. I live in a small town. Last school year some guy tried to take a kid from schools on 5 different occasions. Two days ago a guy tried to put a 14 year old waiting at her soccer practice into his car. I'm not comenting at all about the whole police part I'm just saying its not very safe anymore. Why all the mean comments? You can't lock your kids in the basement forever because they might get hurt. Go look at auto accident statistics and compare them to abduction or attempted abductions. Would this cause you to reason that no one should drive their kids anywhere because an accident might occur? Talking to your children about staying away from people that entice them with gifts and practicing common sense, like a cell phone and intermittent contact, is a much better solution than directionless fear of what might happen, of which there is much much more and much more likely things than kidnapping. I dont lock my kids in the basement. No point in arguing with you all. You just throw out insults. I'm not trying to be a jerk and the basement thing was just hyperbole, not an insult. I also understand where you are coming from because who doesn't want to protect their loved ones. The truth is it is impossible to entirely do so though, so we have to weigh living life against the risks, whether that is driving or the kids playing outside, then balance them to the best of our ability and accept what we can't change. With the repeated abduction attempts you mentioned anyone would and probably should be skittish but that isn't typical unless you're in a really really bad area. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 13361883 South Korea 08/22/2012 03:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The children were on someone else's property, and the police officer had every right to ask them what they were doing there. Quoting: goodmockingbird For all we know, the owner of the field may have complained about trespassers. that is fucked up; kids were playing. when i was a kid, we made working longbows and crossbows, and practiced them in whatever field we fancied. I used to do this too. this was about 18 years ago though... When I was a kid on any given summer day we would rove around several adjacent neighborhoods in a pack of 4 or 5 kids on our bikes (sting rays with banana seats). We'd start in the morning and go from one person's house to the next to the next and so on. One kid had a pool, another had a trampoline, another had the Twister game, I had a garden hose, a Slip and Slide, and grass, someone else had a basketball hoop above their garage, and another's mother would make us koolaid without fail whenever we visited. When we's get bored we'd just hop back on our bikes and head into one of several expanses of desert that surrounded the neighborhoods and do a little more work on one of our our forts. We'd nail foot boards up the trunk of the biggest mesquite tree or gather old plank boards from the stray garbage here and there and build a seat up in the crux of the tree for a look-out. At about this time we'd run into the other pack of kids that ran the same neighborhoods and engage in a bit of "I can do whatever you say better than you" talk. Then we'd all hop back on our bikes and try to pedal the fastest up to the Circle K convenience store on the corner to get a red and yellow bullet popsicle, a fugsicle, or a cherry icee. We'd pay with money from our allowance that was earned doing household chores like weeding, babysitting, washing the car, or cutting the grass. It always felt just great to have ALL DAY to spend with our friends, living large, in the neighborhood. After all, we didn't HAVE to be home until dinner time which strangely enough was 6 p.m. at everyone's house. Our parents were never worried about us one bit. When we'd get home, all they wanted to know is what we had ended up doing that day and did we have a good time. Then, after dinner, more often than not, back we'd go outside to play again with our friends in one person's driveway or carport or the street. We'd play until dusk set in and the streetlights came on (which could be as late as 9:30 or 10:00 p.m.) WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANGE ALL THAT? Video games...too much of it. And I remember doing all that stuff above in the early 90s when I was in elementary school (minus the fort building lol). But we used to play tag, baseball, football (even had some girls playing!!), water gun fights, racing our bikes around the circle. But right around 94/95 is when video games started skyrocketing. I remember having a Gameboy, Genesis, and Nintendo, but none of use ever played them so much to the point where we didn't play outside. Then Playstation and N64 came out and that was it. Then of course the whole PC culture where everybody is afraid of something and afraid of offending anyone. |
closing eyes User ID: 1338216 United States 08/22/2012 03:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: closing eyes I don't understand all the hostilty to my post. I live in a small town. Last school year some guy tried to take a kid from schools on 5 different occasions. Two days ago a guy tried to put a 14 year old waiting at her soccer practice into his car. I'm not comenting at all about the whole police part I'm just saying its not very safe anymore. Why all the mean comments? Speaking for myself, because you are a lying and shilling the 'there are plenty of play ideas online' bullshit and need to shut the fuck up. Is that clear enough? What are u talking about that wasn't me and i dont even know what you are talking about. The quotes say it was you. I know GLP quotes screw up sometimes but this goes back yo your original post. Why lie? I don't have any idea what play idea online games are I did not write it. All I said is the world is not a safe place for tons of reasons for fucks sake If you woke up breathing, you have another chance! |
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Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: closing eyes I don't understand all the hostilty to my post. I live in a small town. Last school year some guy tried to take a kid from schools on 5 different occasions. Two days ago a guy tried to put a 14 year old waiting at her soccer practice into his car. I'm not comenting at all about the whole police part I'm just saying its not very safe anymore. Why all the mean comments? You can't lock your kids in the basement forever because they might get hurt. Go look at auto accident statistics and compare them to abduction or attempted abductions. Would this cause you to reason that no one should drive their kids anywhere because an accident might occur? Talking to your children about staying away from people that entice them with gifts and practicing common sense, like a cell phone and intermittent contact, is a much better solution than directionless fear of what might happen, of which there is much much more and much more likely things than kidnapping. I dont lock my kids in the basement. No point in arguing with you all. You just throw out insults. You are shilling a horrible thing and deserve much worst. Making children into fearful prisoners without any real cause is in my opinion a crime that should be punishable as a felony and a prison offense, since you are doing deep and permanent psychological damage. And that goes for Nancy Grace, Dr.Phil, and Adam(killed his own son)Walsh. Walsh went from a nobody to a celebrity over the death and decapitation of his son, he should be investigated until the truth comes out. Nancy Grace was a prosecutor who admitted to lying and fabricating evidence to convict 'child molesters' and was disbarred for misconduct from ever practicing law, and if Dr, Phil really cared about children he would be out helping them instead of vilifying fathers on TV and participating in an agenda of putting more children in state care where the odds they will be abused or die is greatly increased. |
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Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15782258 that is fucked up; kids were playing. when i was a kid, we made working longbows and crossbows, and practiced them in whatever field we fancied. I used to do this too. this was about 18 years ago though... When I was a kid on any given summer day we would rove around several adjacent neighborhoods in a pack of 4 or 5 kids on our bikes (sting rays with banana seats). We'd start in the morning and go from one person's house to the next to the next and so on. One kid had a pool, another had a trampoline, another had the Twister game, I had a garden hose, a Slip and Slide, and grass, someone else had a basketball hoop above their garage, and another's mother would make us koolaid without fail whenever we visited. When we's get bored we'd just hop back on our bikes and head into one of several expanses of desert that surrounded the neighborhoods and do a little more work on one of our our forts. We'd nail foot boards up the trunk of the biggest mesquite tree or gather old plank boards from the stray garbage here and there and build a seat up in the crux of the tree for a look-out. At about this time we'd run into the other pack of kids that ran the same neighborhoods and engage in a bit of "I can do whatever you say better than you" talk. Then we'd all hop back on our bikes and try to pedal the fastest up to the Circle K convenience store on the corner to get a red and yellow bullet popsicle, a fugsicle, or a cherry icee. We'd pay with money from our allowance that was earned doing household chores like weeding, babysitting, washing the car, or cutting the grass. It always felt just great to have ALL DAY to spend with our friends, living large, in the neighborhood. After all, we didn't HAVE to be home until dinner time which strangely enough was 6 p.m. at everyone's house. Our parents were never worried about us one bit. When we'd get home, all they wanted to know is what we had ended up doing that day and did we have a good time. Then, after dinner, more often than not, back we'd go outside to play again with our friends in one person's driveway or carport or the street. We'd play until dusk set in and the streetlights came on (which could be as late as 9:30 or 10:00 p.m.) WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANGE ALL THAT? Video games...too much of it. And I remember doing all that stuff above in the early 90s when I was in elementary school (minus the fort building lol). But we used to play tag, baseball, football (even had some girls playing!!), water gun fights, racing our bikes around the circle. But right around 94/95 is when video games started skyrocketing. I remember having a Gameboy, Genesis, and Nintendo, but none of use ever played them so much to the point where we didn't play outside. Then Playstation and N64 came out and that was it. Then of course the whole PC culture where everybody is afraid of something and afraid of offending anyone. I noticed a radical change and total absence of children on the streets right after 911. Don't think it has a damned thing to do with video games or computers, kids always prefer interacting directly with each other and real activities and I know this for a fact through my own personal experience with children of my own and of my friends. All I had to do to get my kid to push the off button on a video game is ask him if he wanted to go fishing or tell him his friend called. Bullshit excuse but I can see why you would think that since this is what normal play has been replaced with, and it WAS a planned con job. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And if we did play too many video games, our parents would MAKE us go outside and play lol. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13361883 We had atari and my memory of it was we would play together fighting over who played next for a few hours sometimes, but then it got boring and we went out and did real activities. Video games have been part of children's lives since the first pong game came out and there is NOTHING wrong with it unless it is taken to excess, but play should be limited to minutes or maybe an hour at most and not allowed every day. Now they have games that children prefer to reality which it is the province of the parent to regulate by force if it becomes necessarily. I once smashed my boys 64 with a claw hammer when he failed to respond to my voice while playing. he got the point really quickly, and yes he was 'traumatized' by it (but since I bought it it was my right to do as I pleased with it from his point if veiw)but in the long run much better off because he learned how strongly I felt about it and it caused him to THINK about why what happened did and how it was for his own good. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 21929971 Canada 08/22/2012 03:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The cold didn't write you up for the kids being outside. . They wrote you up because they were unsupervised. Big difference. The neighborhoods aren't as safe as they used to be back in the day. you mention fat kids indoors, well Why are YOU getting fat lazing around indoors instead of watching, and spending quality time with your kids? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 21929971 Canada 08/22/2012 03:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And if we did play too many video games, our parents would MAKE us go outside and play lol. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13361883 We had atari and my memory of it was we would play together fighting over who played next for a few hours sometimes, but then it got boring and we went out and did real activities. Video games have been part of children's lives since the first pong game came out and there is NOTHING wrong with it unless it is taken to excess, but play should be limited to minutes or maybe an hour at most and not allowed every day. Now they have games that children prefer to reality which it is the province of the parent to regulate by force if it becomes necessarily. I once smashed my boys 64 with a claw hammer when he failed to respond to my voice while playing. he got the point really quickly, and yes he was 'traumatized' by it (but since I bought it it was my right to do as I pleased with it from his point if veiw)but in the long run much better off because he learned how strongly I felt about it and it caused him to THINK about why what happened did and how it was for his own good. you're a terrible parent. Just so you know, when you intentionally traumatized your child by acting like an irrational violent ape rather than a stern but safe caregiver, you lost your right to have your children give a crap about you when you'll need them in your old age. Better luck next life. |
closing eyes User ID: 1338216 United States 08/22/2012 03:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who said my children don't go out? They are very active in sports and school events. You are fucking crazy! Quoting: closing eyes Get bent, I read what yo wrote and I know you were lying. That translates into shilling for the agenda You are a nut bag I have lied about nothing. Show me the quote i have lied about with my name to it. Thanks in advance. If you woke up breathing, you have another chance! |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cops not cold. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21929971 And better that social services takes them from you than a pedo does. Idiot canuck fucktard don't you realize that if social services take them the odds are a pedo or worst will get their hands on them? Read the statistics, I know them off the top of my head because I have been personally involved in a friends problems with CPS and had a neighbor that molested a child he adopted through the state right in front of me and they refused to even take my statement.Kids taken by the state from their parents are over twenty times as likely to be sexually abused, ten times as likely to be murdered, 40 times as likely to commit suicide, and are almost always taken in for some ulterior motive like to be used as sexual toys, a cash cow where the foster family tries to make as much profit as possible off the child (some run what can literally be described as puppy farms taking in as many children as possible) and nearly every kid in state care begs to be reunited with their parents. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you're a terrible parent. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21929971 Just so you know, when you intentionally traumatized your child by acting like an irrational violent ape rather than a stern but safe caregiver, you lost your right to have your children give a crap about you when you'll need them in your old age. Better luck next life. The validity of your opinion is limited by your intellect. You have the brains of a brain damaged hamster and know nothing about children and how they think |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 21929971 Canada 08/22/2012 03:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cops not cold. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21929971 And better that social services takes them from you than a pedo does. Idiot canuck fucktard don't you realize that if social services take them the odds are a pedo or worst will get their hands on them? Read the statistics, I know them off the top of my head because I have been personally involved in a friends problems with CPS and had a neighbor that molested a child he adopted through the state right in front of me and they refused to even take my statement.Kids taken by the state from their parents are over twenty times as likely to be sexually abused, ten times as likely to be murdered, 40 times as likely to commit suicide, and are almost always taken in for some ulterior motive like to be used as sexual toys, a cash cow where the foster family tries to make as much profit as possible off the child (some run what can literally be described as puppy farms taking in as many children as possible) and nearly every kid in state care begs to be reunited with their parents. since the OP leaves the kids out in fields without any supervision, and didn't even know the cops were talking to the children until his/her child told him/her, it won't be hard for social services to pick them up, will it? As for your boy, hopefully he lucks out and does better than a "can't handle that child is not perfect... ME SMASH" King Kong for a father figure. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who said my children don't go out? They are very active in sports and school events. You are fucking crazy! Quoting: closing eyes Get bent, I read what yo wrote and I know you were lying. That translates into shilling for the agenda You are a nut bag I have lied about nothing. Show me the quote i have lied about with my name to it. Thanks in advance. You lied about the attempted abductions, show us a newspaper clipping or article, the intent to bolster your position. How do i know? Many years of experience dealing with government paid shills |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 21929971 Canada 08/22/2012 03:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you're a terrible parent. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21929971 Just so you know, when you intentionally traumatized your child by acting like an irrational violent ape rather than a stern but safe caregiver, you lost your right to have your children give a crap about you when you'll need them in your old age. Better luck next life. The validity of your opinion is limited by your intellect. You have the brains of a brain damaged hamster and know nothing about children and how they think you are in for a big surprise. I'd love to be a fly on the wall that day. Children do not forget. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Cops not cold. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21929971 And better that social services takes them from you than a pedo does. Idiot canuck fucktard don't you realize that if social services take them the odds are a pedo or worst will get their hands on them? Read the statistics, I know them off the top of my head because I have been personally involved in a friends problems with CPS and had a neighbor that molested a child he adopted through the state right in front of me and they refused to even take my statement.Kids taken by the state from their parents are over twenty times as likely to be sexually abused, ten times as likely to be murdered, 40 times as likely to commit suicide, and are almost always taken in for some ulterior motive like to be used as sexual toys, a cash cow where the foster family tries to make as much profit as possible off the child (some run what can literally be described as puppy farms taking in as many children as possible) and nearly every kid in state care begs to be reunited with their parents. since the OP leaves the kids out in fields without any supervision, and didn't even know the cops were talking to the children until his/her child told him/her, it won't be hard for social services to pick them up, will it? As for your boy, hopefully he lucks out and does better than a "can't handle that child is not perfect... ME SMASH" King Kong for a father figure. I did the right thing, and if you were to ask him he would tell you so himself. There was no other way to better permanently impress it upon him that the desire to play a video game is never to super cede a parents command or request to cease the activity..I do not believe in corporal punishment because I believe this teaches children that violence is an acceptable means of gaining compliance, which IMHO is much worst than destroying a 89 dollar toy. This was the third time the same thing happened and he had been warned what i would doA |
closing eyes User ID: 1338216 United States 08/22/2012 03:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who said my children don't go out? They are very active in sports and school events. You are fucking crazy! Quoting: closing eyes Get bent, I read what yo wrote and I know you were lying. That translates into shilling for the agenda You are a nut bag I have lied about nothing. Show me the quote i have lied about with my name to it. Thanks in advance. You lied about the attempted abductions, show us a newspaper clipping or article, the intent to bolster your position. How do i know? Many years of experience dealing with government paid shills I'm on my phone and don't now how to cut and paste yet( its new). I don't have to prove anything to you. You are the one who said I was lying by what I wrote. After reading what you did to your kid. You are a tool and a real piece of work. If you woke up breathing, you have another chance! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 22397777 United Kingdom 08/22/2012 03:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I was everywhere outside when I was a kid, woods, park, fishing, i was Never indoors. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 03:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | you are in for a big surprise. I'd love to be a fly on the wall that day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21929971 Children do not forget. My boy is now 22 years old and would give his life in defense of my own. You're right, they don't forget. they don't forget the effort you put into instilling into them right from wrong and they don't forget earned respect. |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 04:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Astrophysicist 1310569 Get bent, I read what yo wrote and I know you were lying. That translates into shilling for the agenda You are a nut bag I have lied about nothing. Show me the quote i have lied about with my name to it. Thanks in advance. You lied about the attempted abductions, show us a newspaper clipping or article, the intent to bolster your position. How do i know? Many years of experience dealing with government paid shills I'm on my phone and don't now how to cut and paste yet( its new). I don't have to prove anything to you. You are the one who said I was lying by what I wrote. After reading what you did to your kid. You are a tool and a real piece of work. I didn't so ANYTHING to my kid. I didn't have to because I have a brain to think with. And you were lying.A |
Anonymous Astrophysicist User ID: 1310569 United States 08/22/2012 04:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Well your not allowed to let your kids out, letting them have fresh air is a bad thing. I mean when I was 10 or 11 i never biked for 2-3 miles to go fishing on my own in the doctors pond (sarcasm, i went to the pond every weekend, or over holidays, every damn day!) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22397777 I was everywhere outside when I was a kid, woods, park, fishing, i was Never indoors. Same here, I was hunting alone at age ten and at age 5 I traversing the entire neighborhood from house to house, i knew everyone and I was never so much as approached by a stranger with bad intent.By age 12 I had ridden my bicycle to Canada repeatedly across the international bridge in Cornwall unattended by an adult, and was allowed to pass customs both ways without so much as a phone call to my parents. it is not the danger that has changed, it is the perception of danger imposed by the mass media machine and a gradual and sneaky Bolshevikation of the government. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 22398110 United States 08/22/2012 04:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The children were on someone else's property, and the police officer had every right to ask them what they were doing there. Quoting: goodmockingbird For all we know, the owner of the field may have complained about trespassers. that is fucked up; kids were playing. when i was a kid, we made working longbows and crossbows, and practiced them in whatever field we fancied. I used to do this too. this was about 18 years ago though... When I was a kid on any given summer day we would rove around several adjacent neighborhoods in a pack of 4 or 5 kids on our bikes (sting rays with banana seats). We'd start in the morning and go from one person's house to the next to the next and so on. One kid had a pool, another had a trampoline, another had the Twister game, I had a garden hose, a Slip and Slide, and grass, someone else had a basketball hoop above their garage, and another's mother would make us koolaid without fail whenever we visited. When we's get bored we'd just hop back on our bikes and head into one of several expanses of desert that surrounded the neighborhoods and do a little more work on one of our our forts. We'd nail foot boards up the trunk of the biggest mesquite tree or gather old plank boards from the stray garbage here and there and build a seat up in the crux of the tree for a look-out. At about this time we'd run into the other pack of kids that ran the same neighborhoods and engage in a bit of "I can do whatever you say better than you" talk. Then we'd all hop back on our bikes and try to pedal the fastest up to the Circle K convenience store on the corner to get a red and yellow bullet popsicle, a fugsicle, or a cherry icee. We'd pay with money from our allowance that was earned doing household chores like weeding, babysitting, washing the car, or cutting the grass. It always felt just great to have ALL DAY to spend with our friends, living large, in the neighborhood. After all, we didn't HAVE to be home until dinner time which strangely enough was 6 p.m. at everyone's house. Our parents were never worried about us one bit. When we'd get home, all they wanted to know is what we had ended up doing that day and did we have a good time. Then, after dinner, more often than not, back we'd go outside to play again with our friends in one person's driveway or carport or the street. We'd play until dusk set in and the streetlights came on (which could be as late as 9:30 or 10:00 p.m.) WHAT HAPPENED TO CHANGE ALL THAT? Wow!! That was so right on it almost made me cry for my own kiddos of this world today. I tell them stories such as these and all they say is " Mom you are sooo lucky, wish we could have lived back then" Ahhhhh, the good ole days .......:) |