About a year and a half ago, I was involved in an incident like this. Driving through a residential neighborhood early in the morning, I came across a small boy about 5-6 years old, obviously lost and confused. I pulled over and asked him where he lived so that I could take him home. Then I realized that if I put him into my car, I would probably have a lot of explaining to do. Fortunately I had a cellphone so I called 911. A police car showed up and I explained what had happened. The police officer looked at me very suspiciously and asked me a lot of questions before he finally let me go. I have no idea how the child got home but I'm thinking I made a wise choice not to get more actively involved in the situation.
This is the cost of being an "evil white male".
sign of the times...
At my age.......that would never happen to me. No cop would think twice.....
No good deed goes unpunished.
Bank on it.
It's brutal, but I can't argue it. I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to get caught up in a modern suburban version of a Kafka novel.
I had some random four to five year old child show up on my doorstep, just about out in the middle of nowhere, around 11:30pm this past Halloween. I had a bit of a personal crisis deciding what to do with it.. :)
In any case, I told her to (a) keep her distance; and (b) hang out on the deck while I called 9/11. She proceeded to cry while she did that. *sigh* The cop that showed up very suspiciously took down an incident report (and absurdly asked if he could come in while he did it ... um, no). So, to make the long story short, I can certainly understand this guy's thinking.
PS. And I also made a point of getting the cop's info and calling the PD afterward to inform them of who took the child and when. My motto is: Trust no one!
Then again, I tend to underestimate kid's ages, so she might've been six or seven.
thank goodness you didn't take him into your car. you'd be doing 10 years right now.
You did the right thing and in a very smart way.