Children in trouble for hopscotch

BBC ^ | 8/1/06 | Staff

[Millee]

What????????????????

[Millee]

Keeping children off the street ping???

(Dumbest thing I've read in awhile..)

[kerryusama04]

...but also after numerous complaints about anti-social behaviour in the area.

HOW CAN YOU HAVE ANY PUDDING IF YOU DON'T EAT YOUR MEAT?????

All in all, they were all just bricks in the wall.

[vimto]

So surprised? Have you never been mugged by a 5 year old brandishing a stick of chalk? It's frightening believe me. About time the police put a stop to these activities.

Hopscotch is used to radicalize kids for Jihad. I have proof!

[cripplecreek]

My ex and I lioved in a trailer par...er "mobile home community" for a while and they always squealed about the kids writing on the sidewalk with chalk as well. Pretty damned pathetic if you ask me.

[pipecorp]

better put them down now, before they turn into non-muslim productive citizens.

[Mike Bates]

Here in Illinois, many of us have been working for years on passing a law requiring that all chalk be registered. It's for the children.

[randog]

Her daughter Kayleigh, 14, added: "I think its stupid and they shouldn't be wasting their time up here having a go at kids about chalk when there are other things going on in the world."

That'll get her 5 to 10.

[D1X1E]

I would love to know what the "complaints of anti social behavior" entailed. Was it some whiny parent complaining to the police because one child wouldnt let another one win or skip a turn ahead?

[leda]

they could prevent more serious problems developing.

oh yeah, hopscotch today, armed robbery tomorrow...
sheesh! these people need to get a life!

[andy58-in-nh]

I assume there's a seven-day wating period for chalk pieces over five inches long.

[Mike Bates]

Drat! How did we forget the cooling off period?
Thanks!

[Millee]

These little brats should be inside watching t.v. & stuffing their pie holes anyway! Where are their parents????? /s

[wallcrawlr]

next its graffiti, tagging, drugs, sex, murder...

chalk is the root of all evil


(thank goodness there is a spellchecker here)

[Hegemony Cricket]

Chalk this up to un-be-freaking-leavable stoopidity. I didn't know that kids still played hopscotch, but it seems to me that they could be doing far, far, far, worse things with their time (and probably will, now)...

[Mike Bates]

These little brats should be inside watching t.v. & stuffing their pie holes anyway! Where are their parents?????

Probably inside watching t.v. & stuffing their pie holes.

[Froufrou]

Well, I for one am just appalled! I mean, where in the world did they get such an idea?! Chalk on sidewalks! What will they think of next??? ;o)

[tonycavanagh]

Insane just insane.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Better chalk on the sidewalk than spray paint on buildings, trains, buses etc. Only buttwipers would object to kids' hopscotch grids.

Dumbest thing I've heard of so far this week.