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Mom sues police/neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outsi.[w:63]

Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

Most likely its a subdivision. In what subdivision in the entire United States do kids not ride their scooters in the streets?
 
Re: Mom sues police/neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outsi.[w

Is it absurd to take one side of a story and form an opinion. If you had said, if this incident occurred as the person arrested claims, then it is absurd. Absent that, deciding it's absurd is, well, absurd.
Do you have reason to believe there is more to the story? Legitimate reason, I mean, not just faux posturing.
 
Re: Mom sues police/neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outsi.[w

Do you have reason to believe there is more to the story? Legitimate reason, I mean, not just faux posturing.

You mean other than the fact, and it is a fact, that the story is incredible. It's amazing what people will believe because they want to. Do you actually believe that children were playing outside, their mothers was sitting there watching them, a neighbor called the police, and the police hauled the mother off for nothing but sitting there watching her children play and held her in jail all night? And the kids?

Get real. I will suspend judgement until the whole story is told but on the surface, her story is not believable. I'm not sure what you mean by faux posturing. I suppose you're trying to sound educated rather than gullible.
 
Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

They were in the street, which is almost as bad. Especially since most kids pay no attention to the traffic until they're on the hood of someone's car.
Letting your kids wander the neighborhood like gypsies is a good way for them to end up disappearing PERMANENTLY. Respect for others only occurs when they have respect for me to begin with. Being on my property without my permission is not being respectful.


It can't really be any worse than what I deal with here on a daily basis.

If the kids can't be on anyone's property, and they can't be in the street, should they learn how to levitate?
 
Re: Mom sues police/neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outsi.[w

You mean other than the fact, and it is a fact, that the story is incredible. It's amazing what people will believe because they want to. Do you actually believe that children were playing outside, their mothers was sitting there watching them, a neighbor called the police, and the police hauled the mother off for nothing but sitting there watching her children play and held her in jail all night? And the kids?

Get real. I will suspend judgement until the whole story is told but on the surface, her story is not believable. I'm not sure what you mean by faux posturing. I suppose you're trying to sound educated rather than gullible.

wasn't the neighbor's representation to the police that the mother had run over the children with her car
which we (and the police) have found out was not true
 
Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

If the kids can't be on anyone's property, and they can't be in the street, should they learn how to levitate?

They should be on their own property. That's where we played when I was a kid. Front yard. Back yard. On the PUBLIC playground up at the school. That was it. Now if we were invited to a friend's house and allowed to go, then we played in their front or back yard. We didn't wander through other people's property.
 
Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

They should be on their own property. That's where we played when I was a kid. Front yard. Back yard. On the PUBLIC playground up at the school. That was it. Now if we were invited to a friend's house and allowed to go, then we played in their front or back yard. We didn't wander through other people's property.

I suppose you're right. I do recall being yelled at to get out of people's yards.

Remembering my childhood isn't as clear as it used to be. We did however, play in the street quite a bit as adolescents. We would just move when we saw a car coming.
 
Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

I suppose you're right. I do recall being yelled at to get out of people's yards.

The ones most likely to yell at me to get out of someone's yard were my own parents.

Remembering my childhood isn't as clear as it used to be. We did however, play in the street quite a bit as adolescents. We would just move when we saw a car coming.

We never really did. Our street was way too dangerous for that. Too many cars flying down the street, with no interest in stopping for anyone or anything. We had one young lady killed by a car not 150 yards from my house, and she was IN the crosswalk and crossing with the walk light.
 
Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

They should be on their own property. That's where we played when I was a kid. Front yard. Back yard. On the PUBLIC playground up at the school. That was it. Now if we were invited to a friend's house and allowed to go, then we played in their front or back yard. We didn't wander through other people's property.

Poor Tigger. We played in the field behind our house and I had no idea who it belonged to. We played out in the street, under the streetlights, in the summer. When we played tag or hide-and-seek we went everywhere. We went down to the river and played on what had to have been other people's property. But, where I grew up the school was definitely not public property and that included the playground. That was school property and they were touchy. Poor Tigger. I wonder if his parents allowed him to play in his yard but on the government utility easement?

The only time I recall getting yelled at was when I said a "bad" word and the neighbor woman told me if she heard that again she'd be telling my aunt. I said, quite meekly, "Yes, Ms. McConnell." Of course, back in the late forties and early fifties there were precious few houses without kids.
 
Re: Mom sues police and neighbor after she is arrested for letting her kids play outs

It depends. It's not you're job to babysit someone else' kids. If they were just playing and Suzie just happened to fall over no reasonable person would sue you over that. If you had a hyena in the yard with no leash and it mauled Suzie that's a different story.

It's not my job to babysit someone else's kids.... Correct. It IS however, my job to ensure that I know who and what is going on in my own yard on my own property; and to reduce my liability.

Do you have any children?

35 years ago mine ran the streets of the subdivion until dark.. riding their bikes, fishing in the nearby clay pits, rollerskating and testing themselves against the world. Its more dangerous now.. Many children cannot play in their front yard without parental supervision.

This mother was sitting in the yard while her kids rode their bikes.. Do you get it?

I don't have kids. 35 years ago I would have been 3 years old. Your kids definitely existed in a different world than my brothers and I did.

Regardless of where she was, if the kids are in the street or in other people's yards she's not doing her job.

Poor Tigger. We played in the field behind our house and I had no idea who it belonged to. We played out in the street, under the streetlights, in the summer. When we played tag or hide-and-seek we went everywhere. We went down to the river and played on what had to have been other people's property. But, where I grew up the school was definitely not public property and that included the playground. That was school property and they were touchy. Poor Tigger. I wonder if his parents allowed him to play in his yard but on the government utility easement?

Personally, I prefered to be inside reading or doing other things than being out and about. When I was outside it was almost always in our yard, the school property up the street, or at a friend's house. Either of the latter two were with prior permission of a parent, and discussion of when I had to be home.
 
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