Yeah, people sue over the stupidest things, don't they? /s
I had an insufferable neighbor who would call the police any time any of us stepped foot outside our doors.
She was a nasty spiteful bitter old woman who hated everyone.
She eventually moved.
On the day she moved, her dog hung itself from the railing of her porch.
She’d hooked the leash to the porch railing and left it there as the movers were coming and going, her dog fell of the porch and strangled.
And she never thought to look into why the little barking menace suddenly got quiet.
This story has to be from The Onion....
If they are outside they can’t be getting their full days worth of indoctrination training. Homework, you know.
This may ultimately be an over-stepping of boundaries by the caller and the police....but....as a cop I’ve been to many a calls where a child was hit by a car or truck etc when they were playing around and the parents were “supervising”.
My mom never “supervised” my outdoor play. Half the time she didn’t know where I was. This is ridiculous.
I hate lawyers and lawsuits but they have their place. This seems to be one of them.
I hope the family gets wealthy at the expense of the city of LaPorte, Harris County and the “neighbor” who looks like a bitter old bitch.
Need more tort reform led by lies about what happened there and stop the peasants from suing the worthy. And the peasants aren’t staying locked in their homes enough.
Chase them inside permanently with more regulations called laws. Make it illegal for anyone not on government incomes or incomes from government-linked services to breathe.
Encourage libertarians more with government rewards for drug dealing, kidnapping and prostitution. Pay them from revenues (debt) to breed more pit bulls and turn them loose.
Socialist gossips aren’t getting enough from government. Raise their pensions and other government incomes as a reward for each call. Raise taxes and start more public services for them.
Start HOAs in all of the neighborhoods without HOAs. Outlaw private property for anyone with an income less than the local government employee average. Government needs more properties.
Outlaw all public appearances of private sector “males.”
[Little irony and sarcasm there. Have fun. Enjoy the slide.]
The sad part is La Porte is hardly a liberal area.
“Orange jumpsuit, in a cell, slammed the door, for 18 hours,” Cooper recalled.
Here's hoping she learned her lesson. From now on, she should be sitting her kids in front of the computer and having them spend the day playing video games, or sitting them down in front of the TV to watch cartoons, the way parents are supposed to do these days.
Go girl, go!
It’s time all this stool pidgeon BS came to an end.
When I was five I walked a mile to the train station to meet my dad when he arrived home from work. The only problem was I got there at 3:30 and train didn’t arrive until 6:30.
Some old man who got involved told me the train wasn’t coming for another three hours and offered to give me a ride home, which he did.
I’m convinced the guy was an angel because my face could have easily ended up on a milk carton.
I could be deep up in the forest and when it was time to get home my dad would blow the air horns on his motorcycle. You could hear that sound for miles. BTW - I was only about 7 or 8 at the time.
Not long ago, a woman whose age was in three digits was asked what she thought the most impressive development in her lifetime was. One might think she would have said air travel, the moon landing or the Internet, but she said it was the fact that children are no longer seen out of doors.
I remember many years ago, a neighbor boy was told to go down the block to where his young girl cousin lived, to teach her how to ride a bicycle without training wheels.
Their neighbor, a dotty retired judge, saw him helping her keep her balance on the bicycle, and he called the police to report that the boy was molesting her. The cops arrived quickly to see the two standing there, and the judge came out of his house, claiming that he saw the boy drag her into the bushes and rape her.
The bushes were one foot high and flush with the ground. The boy and the girl looked at the policemen in a puzzled fashion, and both shook their heads ‘no’. So the cops escorted the judge back to his house, assuring him that they would take care of everything.
The judge went to the monkey house a week or two later.
What in tarnation is a tarnation? Dagnabbit!
I thought an earlier report said the kids were riding MOTOR scooters. Maybe the neighbor got tired of hearing puttputtputt vroom vroom hour after hour? Depending on how close the houses are situated, that might be annoying. I know I get perturbed when the neighbor kids run their dirt bikes up and down our residential street (though not enough to call the cops).
And they wonder why we have a childhood obesity problem.