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Phoning the sheriff first before offering to give the kid a ride? What's wrong with people?
Please, we drill into kids heads to not get into cars with strangers.
There's something extremely sick about the modern attitudes to children in the US (and maybe elsewhere). These people are fucking crazy. They can't imagine a world where children actually exist out in the real world and live their life like every other country instead of only in supervised jail schools. Anything approaching affection or concern for other children is seen with suspicion as if its pedophilia. Everyone…
And (to complete that picture) as soon as they turn 18, they get the boot to the street to fend for themselves!
I don’t know what is up with the USA and its obsession that kids cannot have autonomy. I think many of us grew up where our parents didn’t know our location at all times. My parents used to tell me to be home by a certain time, but I used to roam the neighborhood, go get candy at the gas station, explore the forest. Maybe it is a sign of the eroding social trust in the USA where people do not believe that others in t…
> She (the Sheriff) kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened, This is weird. Is the crime so bad in the town? Even the good-for-nothing cops in my (developing) country do not come up with such nonsense.
> She (the Sheriff) kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened, This is weird. Is the crime so bad in the town? Even the good-for-nothing cops in my (developing) country do not come up with such nonsense.
This kind of incident is a microcosm of everything that's going wrong in the western world
The Venn diagram of people who think it's ok to treat parents like this and people who vote "for liberty" is a circle.
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Many cops in the US have a massive superiority complex
Yeah, but wouldn't the sheriff making the comment be own goaling the situation. Wouldn't her scenarios imply that she's shite at her job so that crimes like these are prevalent?
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Please, we drill into kids heads to not get into cars with strangers.
The person could simply have asked the child if they were OK or they need help, if they maybe need a phone to call their parents. Their attitude was more like seeing a stray animal out in the wild and calling animal control. They are fucking insane, there's no excuse.