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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap(irresponsible idiot parents refuse to pay)
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:51:21 -0700, The Real Bev
wrote: It used to be neat to ride out Xmas morning and see all the kids with their new bicycles. Been a long time since that happened. Happens quite often at my house. Another couple this year. Pete |
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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap (irresponsible idiot parents refuse to pay)
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:57:42 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
him pay restitution, pay something additional for punishment, and give him some extra punishment for being careless and getting caught. Parents just aren't what they used to be... Exactly! I mean, there was a time (and I can't believe I'm talking like this) that if you got in trouble at school or with the police, you dreaded seeing your parents because they'd double or triple the punishment. Now you hear stories of parents screaming at teachers for giving their kids detentions, etc. Stop the world. I wanna get off. |
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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap (irresponsible idiot parents refuse to pay)
From the article:
Scott was riding a bicycle in his neighborhood when he jumped a dirt mound with five of his friends, Bradenton Police Lt. Sam Campbell said. He crossed paths with a 2001 Nissan and the car clipped the rear tire of Scott's 5-pound, 16-inch BMX bicycle. .... "I'm going to not pay this ticket, and Scott's definitely not going to pay it," said Danielle McIntosh, the boy's mother. ___ Looks to me as though the little **** narrowly missed his opportunity to become a candidate for the Darwin award, and his mommy wants him to have another shot at it. |
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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap(irresponsible idiot parents refuse to pay)
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Johann S. wrote: Anyway, I'm very glad I'm not a kid today, and especially in the US (it seems). Must be pretty boring. Maybe I would have decided to stuff all these rules, and just play playstation. It's much more Is it any wonder that one in three children in the united states are overweight? They DO decide to just stay inside and play playstation, thanks to all the rules and the fear mongers. I've read that one thing experts blame of the skyrocketing obesity epidemic among children is "lack of safe playgrounds". What makes playgrounds so much more dangerous now than 30 years ago? It's the fear mongers and safety nazis, people whose job it is to find things to pass legislation against, that have created the perception on danger where it didn't exist before. |
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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap (irresponsibleidiot parents refuse to pay)
sbirn wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:57:42 -0700, The Real Bev wrote: him pay restitution, pay something additional for punishment, and give him some extra punishment for being careless and getting caught. Parents just aren't what they used to be... Exactly! I mean, there was a time (and I can't believe I'm talking like this) that if you got in trouble at school or with the police, you dreaded seeing your parents because they'd double or triple the punishment. Now you hear stories of parents screaming at teachers for giving their kids detentions, etc. Actually, I defended my son against the system when he got tired of putting up with it and beat the **** out of some kid who had been hitting him for several months, and when his first grade teacher slapped him without my permission. He was a really smart and really good kid (still is, actually) and I -- amazingly enough -- always had confidence in his decisions, even if they weren't the ones I would have made for him myself. Stop the world. I wanna get off. Too late. You'll never get out of it alive. -- Cheers, Bev ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ "Rats cry when they hear about my life." -- Dilbert |
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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap (irresponsible idiot parents refuse to pay)
"Trent Piepho" wrote in message
... I've read that one thing experts blame of the skyrocketing obesity epidemic among children is "lack of safe playgrounds". What makes playgrounds so much more dangerous now than 30 years ago? Actually, the playground equipment in a typical American park is considerably safer now than it was 30 years ago. You seldom see merry-go-rounds or maypoles, and even swings aren't seen so often. There's not much concrete or asphalt -- there are wood chips or rubberized surfaces or sand. In terms of the social environment of the playground, (crime) that clearly depends on who is there. I don't have any stats handy on playground crime statistics. In any event, overall statistics are pretty meaningless because they only stats that matter are the ones for the playgrounds near your house. If these are more dangerous, and I doubt that they are, this is at least partly because of lower usage. Even as painfully shy a kid as myself knew some of the places where you could find pick-up games. That's much less common now; there are more organized sports and practices. Organized sports are fine, but there's also learning that occurs when it's just you and a few other kids -- and the rule book is whatever you made up. |
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Fla. 8-Year-Old Gets Traffic Ticket For Bike Mishap (irresponsible idiot parents refuse to pay)
"Trent Piepho" wrote in message ... What makes playgrounds so much more dangerous now than 30 years ago? It's the fear mongers and safety nazis, people whose job it is to find things to pass legislation against, that have created the perception on danger where it didn't exist before. Well, them and the gangs and the drug dealers and the other friendly faces that have taken over so many urban playgrounds. Somehow I don't remember quite so many stray bullets flying around down by the swingset when I was a kid. RichC |
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