So.. was my childhood was illegal?

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I walked around all the time, rode my bike, etc.

onedarkcloud · Accepted Answer

This is pure BULLSHIT !!! So now the police want parents to put tracking devices on their kids when they go out per the arresting officer's statement recorded. The person who ordered the arrest or the officer who thought this was good policing should be fired and arrested for abuse of power. My grandkids walk father to get to a bus stop to get to school every school day.

Joshydavid25 · Accepted Answer

My siblings and I used to walk to and from school all the time and much of the time we were home along from 10 onwards because my mother worked all day.. Yeah it's crazy, a kid can't even walk half a mile anymore.. This is gonna create kids too dependent on their parents or too anxious about the world..

MisterWack · Answer

One. This is an isolated incident that should never have happened and it doesn’t make your childhood or anyone’s childhood illegal. You can and will ride your bike into town and have fun, that is a normal thing.

Two. I don’t know the independent laws of this district / state in question though I’m sure this isn’t a regular occurrence anywhere else. I don’t know why you generalize or try to make it seem that everything in modern life is out to get you since it isn’t except for isolated occurrences.

Three. This could spark a bigger debate on over policing and that we need to cut down on policing in certain areas and enhance them in others. This could also spark a healthy debate into changing police protocol and changing police training to not be so hostile & soulless. These are real issues facing America as a whole, police brutality is more dangerous than this and that this small instance should allow us to see a broader picture not getting ‘triggered’.

exitseven · Answer

I walked to school every day. It was about a mile. There were older kids in the neighborhood that looked out for the younger kids. Where I live now, everyone takes the bus, even kids that lived across the street from the school. They are afraid that will get run over crossing the street.

DJB72 · Answer

No. This is overreaching by the cops. And I say that as brother of a ten year old boy who died when he went out alone and was hit by a car.

My parents were not guilty of reckless endangerment or manslaughter or anything criminal in my brother's death. Just that they were guilty of being human.

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Dongie · Answer

What a disaster. Those cops are trying to worm their way out with that plea offer. She should fight the hell out of this. I used to ride my trail 50 all over town at 10. Bicycles too.

At 7 I walked home from school all the time. 2nd grade. It was a mile easy. And 5th and 6th grade was 2 miles easy.

Apple1996 · Answer

It all depends on the rules in that area/state. My area the kid has to be 10 to stay home alone for a few hours. 8 to walk around the neighborhood. The last place I lived the kids had to be way older like 13 to do these things.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Ah, the  second gen internet . Where everyone has been ordered and encouraged to become their own journalist commenting about anything, anytime, for any reason.  Glorification and monetization of babbling  at the pub with John and Jack. Broadcast 24/7 on your favorite planet: Earth.

BetaBucks · Answer

Mine was too. My parents would literally be in prison for my childhood if it was today.

Funny thing is that we wonder why young adults act like perpetual children. Maybe coddling people until they're 30 isn't the right move.

Alwayreckles93 · Answer

I used to walk alone to school. I even went alone walking to the grocery store back in the 90's. I guess now a. days everything is bad. Now a days it's normal for mommy to clean up for their 20 year olds grown kids.

NewWaves · Answer

Apparently. In my country kids walk themselves to school. Kids take public transportation by themselves. Kids are sent to the store to get stuff.

DrPepper12 · Answer

WTF!! WTAF!!! This is utter insanity She should fight this and ACLU should pay for all of it!!

lightbulb27 · Answer

I went miles from home at young age.  this is unreal.  and to think they just removd the mother... um... whered the kid then go... foster home? makes no sense.

Lliam · Answer

That's completely insane. I walked a nearly mile to kindergarten and back by myself.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Not only have the cops gone insane, someone had the audacity to call them. We have become so selfish as people that we don't even respect the lives of our own neighbors anymore to the point where we are calling the cops on them for something so petty.

the29thhuman · Answer

🤦‍♀️ our parents had big parties all the time bonfires and we were across town biking around in bare feet

Garud · Answer

It is legal to handcuff a person like an unruly offender. The corrupt police in my country are better than that

mrkdvsn · Answer

This kind of paranoid nonsense just makes me glad I grew up during the 1960's. During the summer's we would go wherever we wanted to, without any adult escort

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Land of the free, everybody. 🙄

seeyounexttuesday · Answer

This is utter insanity. Fuck those cops.

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