Posted on 07/20/2009 10:20:20 PM PDT by Rodebrecht
“...can they be screened-out for lack of common sense?”
Didn’t Obama recently do just that?
How about screening them thoroughly-in, and set real prerequisites in doing so. Say, more than a GED & motivated psychotic enthusiasm, lack of military experience, maturity, & discipline, or affirmative action placement (which is a “grab bag” at best).
"You've been charged with peddling that picture all over this thread neighborhood"/jk
Cute Pic!
It must be nice to live in a town where there is so little crime that the police have the time to respond to every busybody’s complaint.
to bad the age of common sense and innocence no longer exist....
Are we sure these lemonade peddlers weren’t terrorist?
What is gong on with the police these days? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296540/posts
“The police officer would have no way of knowing this on the street,” Viola told the Inquirer.
“...because he has no brain. How can police officers be expected to make correct decisions without brains?” Viola asked. “I myself would have shot the children, although I am told that would have been the incorrect decision also. So you see, we cannot be blamed, because we are brainless.” he concluded.
bttt
...while peddling without a license is illegal in Haverford Township, those laws do not apply to children under the age of 16.That's good news for the "medical" marijuana lobby.
As the Obamas have stated, our nation's traditions and history "must CHANGE".
I was 8 or 9 years old when I started and didn't stop until after I got my first car.
Ummm... How long ago was this?
I mean I get kids showing up at our door with bush knives (tool of choice in the South Pacific). Doesn’t scare me, but I don’t sign their little pledge papers any more. Too many of them are scam artists that go around with fake pledge papers collecting money. Worse yet most of them are made to do this by their parents.
All that is a matter for the lemonade vendors’ parents, not the cops, Mr. or Ms. Government Shrinker.
1959.
Why?
Just seemed like something that likely wouldn’t be as well appreciated these days.
That's very unfortunate.
I also used to carry my rifle on my bicycle handlebars to the drugstore and buy ammo, cigarettes, soft drinks and candy to consume on the hunt.
And you never had an instance of your rifle trying to jump of your bike and attack innocent bystanders?
That’s one well behaved rifle.
I’d be surprised if a kid showed up selling fruit bat while holding a shotgun. Only 40 years ago such was probably the norm even here.
If I see young children doing door to door sales, I’m calling the police too. It’s dangerous for young children to be going around to strangers’ houses with an adult accompanying them, and someone who sees them has no way of knowing whether their parents are aware they’re doing this.
It’s not like this officer arrested the kids. It says he “shut down the stand”, and it doesn’t say anything about any of their parents being on the scene to have any input, so most likely none of the kids’ parents were nearby enough to actually know what was going on. Given the lack of mention of any parents interacting with the police, it sounds like parents at the location where the stand was actually set up weren’t home.
This sounds like it may have been kids who set up a lemonade stand in one kids yard, with other kids helping out, but with the various parents thinking the kids would all be staying in the yard of the one kid’s home. Then some of the kids had the bright idea to go around knocking on doors trying to drum up business (and they may well have been splitting up, with only one or two children going to a home, while others stayed at the stand or went to other homes). What if one of these kids ends up knocking on the door of a pedophile, and out of sight of the other children?
If this was the scenario, and you’d been a parent who thought your young child was in Billy Smith’s front yard at a lemonade stand, and had no idea your child was actually going around the neighborhood knocking on strangers’ doors, you’d be thankful for a neighbor calling police to come check things out and put a stop to the operation.
Yes, the parents should have the final say as to what their children do, but when it’s not clear the parents are aware of what their child is doing, and a reasonable parent would regard it as dangerous, it’s just being a good neighbor to check into it, and call the police if you get the sense the kids’ parents are unaware of the activity. The police officer probably “shut down” the stand after ascertaining that the parents of at least some of the kids were not available to check with re permission.
I’m curious. Isn’t there a voice that goes thru your head that says “there is no upside and only an insane amount of downside” when you shut down a kid’s lemonade stand? Or are cops stupid and robotic enough to the point where they just don’t listen to that anymore.
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