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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Right.
So on the less than 1% chance that something negative might come of this, he decided he couldn't be inconvenienced and shut his door on a 7 year old.
Do unto others, indeed.
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not long ago I helped an elderly lady who was having some sort of diabetic attack. I was on my front porch smoking and 2 20 somethings approached me and asked for a ride to a gas station to get gas. I did that and then came back and the lady in their car needed her medication, she lived on the other side of topeka and I quickly drove her home so she could get her meds. I'm all for helping out other people, but other people's kids are dangerous to help them out. Even just talking to another kid in public raises eyebrows.
But the case of the child, there are a lot of parents out there who would press charges against someone who put their kid in their car, even though it was just to help. Just because you wouldn't, that doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people who would do the same as you. I'd probably have had to go to court and possibly prison if I chose to help the child out. That's the society we live in today. Now if I was out somewhere and this kid needed urgent medical attention and nobody was around, I wouldn't hesitate to put him in my car and drive him to the nearest hospital.
Should I have just called the police, yes. But the kid said he would fine walking and I didn't. But there is no way I'm putting a strange kid in my car and driving him somewhere in this day of age, you will get arrested and you will have some dip shit DA who looks at the case on paper and assumes pedophile and goes all out to ruin your life.
20 years ago, it would have been fine, but not today.