PA - Man leaves kids, 6 and 9 for 45 minutes at park. Gets arrested, CPS involved as well.

[azxd]

What the heck? Didn't read 8 pages, but don't tell me people here have a problem with a 9 year old watching a 6 year old while outside playing.
I've only been alive for 3 decades, and even I remember a time when this was normal.
In a small city, before cellphones even. Just be home by dinner.
Physical abuse is pretty cut and dry and easy to identify. Negligence is a totally subjective concept. Quit trying to Nerf the world.
At least these kids were outside. I'd say parents who let their kids sit in front of screens for hours a day are far more negligent.

The only one who really had a problem with this was the person in the article who called the cops.

 

[azxd]

Well now, this really seemed to touch a nerve.

I thought it might have been in the 80s when everything started to go downhill, but there are plenty of 30 something posters saying that they grew up relatively free as well.

Question: when did this change?

Mid 90s crime wave?

9/11?

Later?

It didn't change ... People called the cops on their perceptions of abused children before either of us were born.

The only thing that changed is the level of communication we have available.

 

[phill4paul]

My old man had a white Chevy Vega--manual transmission. That is how I learned how to drive a manual transmission. It was either that car or drive around in my mother's Sherman Tank, green Chevy Impala wagon! When I drove that to school old men would hit on me!

Why couldn't I get old women to hit on me when I drove my 1969 Concouse Estate to H.S. Paging Mrs. Robinson....

 

[donnay]

It didn't change ... People called the cops on their perceptions of abused children before either of us were born.

The only thing that changed is the level of communication we have available.

I am not buying that...my mother was kidnapped in NY in 1945, and it wasn't the cops who rescued her it was three teenage boys on bikes who saw my mother being kidnapped and followed the man to a remote place and waited until he opened up his van doors to get my mother and they jumped him and told my mother to run!

 

[donnay]

Why couldn't I get old women to hit on me when I drove my 1969 Concouse Estate to H.S. Paging Mrs. Robinson....

LOL! I hated station wagons then, I hate them now!!

I used to think it was so wrong for older (married) men (mid-life crisis) to be driving around in really nice sports cars when I was younger. LOL!!!

 

[Anti Federalist]

LOL! I hated station wagons then, I hate them now!!

I used to think it was so wrong for older (married) men (mid-life crisis) to be driving around in really nice sports cars when I was younger. LOL!!!

Soooo...I shouldn't introduce you to the new Wagon Queen Family Truckster I just bought?

 

[Anti Federalist]

Haters gonna Hate.

I don't care what ya'll say, this is shit hot and I'd drive the hell out of this. (and I don't even care for Chevies)

 

[donnay]

Soooo...I shouldn't introduce you to the new Wagon Queen Family Truckster I just bought?

 

[phill4paul]

Haters gonna Hate.

I don't care what ya'll say, this is shit hot and I'd drive the hell out of this. (and I don't even care for Chevies)

Much better looking than my 'Green Hornet." Still, I can't say that I ever hated my station wagon. When I was a kid I saw quite a bit of America looking out the back window. When I was old enough to drive it got me to school and work. Back in the day when "cruisin' the mall' was the in thing I could load it up. And of course certain 'rights of passage' in the ready made 'hotel' on wheels. Nope not the 'coolest' ride, but it didn't suck either.

 

[Kluge]

Acch! I love station wagons! It's freaking minivans that I hate.

Check out this badass wagon:

Love the matching interior!

 

[Anti Federalist]

Acch! I love station wagons! It's freaking minivans that I hate.

Check out this badass wagon:

Bad ass wagon is bad ass.

Pffft...talk to Mrs. AF.

That's the family truckster right now, a freakin minivan. I feel like such a tool driving that thing around. Makes me want to punch myself.

And she hates my truck.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Much better looking than my 'Green Hornet." Still, I can't say that I ever hated my station wagon. When I was a kid I saw quite a bit of America looking out the back window. When I was old enough to drive it got me to school and work. Back in the day when "cruisin' the mall' was the in thing I could load it up. And of course certain 'rights of passage' in the ready made 'hotel' on wheels. Nope not the 'coolest' ride, but it didn't suck either.

No kidding, that too.

Just try and get laid in the back of a sport/ute/minivan crossover.

Between the loss of interior room taken up by the 16 gajillion airbags, the "Torquemada" seating in modern cars, that resembles a cross between a medieval torture device and a 27 support point, HANS device equipped NASCAR seat, there is not enough wiggle room for a pair of romantically inclined cats, let alone a couple of full sized people.

Not to mention the onboard, ever fucking computers that, if they were not broadcasting your tryst to the world wide web, they would be too busy pestering you with all sorts of alarms and buzzers and nagging female voices that seem to start the second you turn the key for a little mood music, that it would make a porn star go limp.

These are car seats, goddammit:

 

[Kluge]

Bad ass wagon is bad ass.

Pffft...talk to Mrs. AF.

That's the family truckster right now, a freakin minivan. I feel like such a tool driving that thing around. Makes me want to punch myself.

And she hates my truck.

Hahahahaa! You drive a mommy-van. Will she at least let you put some bumper sticker on it just to be ironic? I suggest the following:

I don't think me talking to her will help much.

Oh, and just one more thing:

 

[Danke]

That's the family truckster right now, a freakin minivan. I feel like such a tool driving that thing around. Makes me want to punch myself.

You need to replace your avatar. Seriously.

 

[Anti Federalist]

ಠ_ಠ

Oh, who am I kidding...

Hahahahaa! You drive a mommy-van. Will she at least let you put some bumper sticker on it just to be ironic? I suggest the following:

I don't think me talking to her will help much.

Oh, and just one more thing:

 

[Kluge]

You need to replace your avatar. Seriously.

I agree.

Or get one of these strapped on to it:

 

[Kluge]

 

[Anti Federalist]

You need to replace your avatar. Seriously.

I was thinking of it, seriously.

Maybe this:

 

[Anti Federalist]

My truck helps make up for it...

 

[Kluge]

My truck helps make up for it...

Bet you only get to drive it when you're going somewhere by yourself.