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Lol. I like the Lizzie Borden inclusion.
As for me, not quite there. My oldest is 12. I did, however, get my first middle of the night call from the police on him last week. He had spent the night at a buddy's and they had challenged each other to stay up all night. At around 3am, they got bored and tired so they went for a walk. Cop on patrol saw em about 1/4th mile from his friend's house right near Deanna Rose. He didn't get in trouble (by the police, got a nice talking to from me) and they let his friend's mom pick him up. She felt terrible but I wasn't bummed at her at all. Unless you padlock the doors, if they want to go out, I guess they're going out. Even though he had a couple years head start, I would've easily bet his younger brother would've earned me my first cop call. Oh well, hope that's the only one of those I ever get but I'm not counting on it! |
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I am not sure which are harder, girls or boys. Both have issues.
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You know what? That is a good question. I didn't give it much thought and I guess I assumed there is one but I'm not having much luck looking it up. The call came in when we were asleep and my wife answered and told me and I just kinda made sure he was okay and on the way back to his friend's and then went back to sleep. Never gave it much thought again since nothing really happened. I'm going to research this further. Thanks for brining it up
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'Authority' is likely, first off a community where it's a good guess that the parents will be more grateful than hostile, and will exercise authority over their offspring sufficient to keep the minors from making a stink, . . . and likely 'soft' authority where the officer didn't so much detain them forcefully and compel them to call parents, as they persuaded them it's best to stay with the officer and contact the parents for rendez-vous, and finally the implicit final decision that, so long as things went smoothly, the only consequence would be reuniting the minors with the parents, tip of the cap, and have a good evening.
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He could have just hung back and watched them and let them have their 3AM stroll while making sure they were safe when they were doing absolutely nothing wrong. Some of my best memories were of late night / early morning strolls through my neighborhood as a kid. Either way... we are both just guessing as to the exact interaction they had along with the officer's motivation. I just prefer it when officers do things according to law vs their personal beliefs on child rearing and what times of the day are age appropriate to be walking down a sidewalk... so I ask questions like I did. |
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Nothing good happens after midnight. Kids wondering the neighborhood at 3 am is asking for trouble. Cops did the right thing getting them home.
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