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I live in Florida and yes it does get hot but every house has a water hose or at least a spigot. Didn't sound like the kid was in danger of being overheated. The neighbor sounds like my old neighbor with nothing better to do than get into other people's business. If he really cared he would have offered some bottled water or challenged the kid to a game of one on one basketball.
[Fe]Yep, shooting hoops is what kids always do when they're hot and thirsty, instead of sitting down in the shade. [/Fe]
Yeah, me too. These recent stories about police picking up kids simply for playing outside unsupervised seem unbelievable. I've been living abroad for some time now so I really have no idea how this has happened. How did America become a place where kids cannot go outside and play by themselves? Who wanted it this way? How did they get their way? Can anyone explain the process of how this came to be?
It appears to be an amalgam driven by news in the more recent past of hot-car deaths--cops being called instantaneously now, after these people have been seeing numerous daytime TV accts.--combined with longer, more insidous car-seat campaigns. Put into the mix safety hysterias like bicycle-helmet campaigns of roughly the same duration; and "zero tolerance" regs at the schools. An increasing reliance on and more media ink on play dates, organized activities, produce these conditions where free play is seen as outliers. Massive increases in Big Government state budgets for CPS.
[Fe]Yep, shooting hoops is what kids always do when they're hot and thirsty, instead of sitting down in the shade. [/Fe]
Oh brother.... I guess you would be the neighbor to call the cops as well. Welcome to the world of nosy busybodies. I have lived in Florida since I was a kid. Hot and thirsty?? Did you read where I said offer some water? Just curious.
The buck should stop with the police chief. IMO should be forced out of office for something like this that lacks any semblance of common sense and is so counter to the sensibilities of Americans.
BTW - Florida does not have a legal age when you can leave a kid alone.
And without a bike helmet... and I rode my skateboard sometimes barefooted - in the middle of the street - and I ran with a stick (and didn't poke my eye out!) and drank out of the hose - and climbed trees - and cracked open coconuts in the street and I FREAKIN' SURVIVED!
The cop relieves himself in the same yard that the kid was playing in, and one of the complaints was the kid didn't have a bathroom....
Uh, hello? HERE'S YOUR SIGN (that you're an idiot!)...
Someone should arrest that police officer for urinating in public... although the evidence may not stand up in court....
Won't urinating in public get you on the sex offender registry for public indeceny/exposure?
I am not so cavalier about helmets. I flipped off my bike in junior high and got a decent-sized goose egg on my temple from hitting the concrete, and a gym teacher in high school was in a coma for a few days from head injuries he sustained in a bike accident even with a helmet. I am OK with precautions for kids.
Oh brother.... I guess you would be the neighbor to call the cops as well. Welcome to the world of nosy busybodies. I have lived in Florida since I was a kid. Hot and thirsty?? Did you read where I said offer some water? Just curious.
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What once was..
What it's becoming (to keep kids safe from the outdoors)..
Someday soon--leash laws for all children who are under 18..
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