Unauthorized tree climbing CAN be a gateway to depravity.
Posted on 11/21/2005 5:58:45 AM PST by Drawsing
You have my deepest sympathies.
...it was no big deal to climb someone elses tree, or hop in their pool if they were on vacation....
Ahh, the days before injury litigation while using some one else's property without permission.
Boring and pointless.
I'm going to guess that you don't have any kids.
Thanks for making the world an even suckier place for kids.
I beleive kids call people like you Sk8Nazi's
I just don't believe this guy is a full grown adult. But then again, I had neighbors like this who called the police if a kid walked across their front lawn.
btw, first law with teenagers: always be nice and make friends with them. Or else!
"Suckier"? Are you 8 years old?
I don't care how "sucky" the world is for anybody as long as my family is safe.
I beleive kids call people like you Sk8Nazi's
I'm sure they do. Those kind of kids are the same useless, lazy morons who call the President "Bushitler" and who spend all their free time hanging out in parking lots doing Whip-its.
In other words, total losers whose opinions don't matter.
In other words, let adolescents tell how you are allowed to behave instead of vice versa.
That's productive.
No it is not a joke. I grew up in the sixties surrounded by fields and woods to play in. I do feel sorry for kids who do not have what I had. But this kid's behavior and attitude was very odd. I guess it was the almost Tourette's-like shouting "Shutup!" and the insolent attitude that concerned me most.
Unauthorized tree climbing CAN be a gateway to depravity.
In other words: kids are kids. Your childhood must have been "sucky".
Sounds like the kid may be mildly retarded.
If you are really concerned this kid is a threat to your family, why didn't you call the police??
Wouldn't THAT be embarrassing?? :)
My aren't we amazingly judgemental of the kids.
Did you stay within property lines when you were a kid? I highly doubt it.
LMAO, that story was whacked!
We had a retarded adult living in my town for the first twenty years of my life. All the little kids played in the park with him. A real ox of a man but about as dangerous as a butterfly. The whole town knew him.
There were a few biggots around who would whisper "You never know what (those people) are capable of."
My best friend's daughter has Down's. I know exactly what you are talking about.
Played a lot of stickball and street hockey, had fun summer vacations with my friends and siblings and parents, worked a bunch of different jobs, did well in school and never really developed a taste for trespassing on other people's property or mouthing off to grownups.
"Kids are kids" is not only a meaningless tautology but it isn't even an argument. I remember years back when I was working as a doorman to put myself through college, and one of my coworkers' teenage sons was arrested for breaking into some cars and stealing radios.
His response was "what a headache, but kids are going to be kids" and most of my coworkers nodded in agreement. No wonder they had no dreams for their kids with that attitude.
Smashing into people's cars isn't acceptable, trespassing on someone's property and then mouthing off at them when they object isn't acceptable and "kids are kids" is the worst copout I've ever heard.
My dad worked hard to teach us to be honest, hardworking individuals. Mouthing off to someone after you trespassed on their property is something my dad would never have stood for.
Oh my dad would have scared the living daylights out of them.
I guess that's my point: if this kid was so BAD, why is this guy wringing his hands?
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