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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What the actual hell is wrong with... Ah wait, its USA so why am I even surprised...

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (7 children)

USA hates women, confirmed.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

"I will not sign," she says.

Very good idea. I wouldn't sign anything.

Btw, what did they even charge her with? I mean, don't you have to commit some crime in order to be detained?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

The ADA hasn't decided how hard to push it yet, but she was arrested for reckless conduct:

A person who causes bodily harm to or endangers the bodily safety of another person by consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his or her act or omission will cause harm or endanger the safety of the other person and the disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would exercise in the situation is guilty of a misdemeanor.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago

Yeah, if CPS isn't involved then this is almost surely a lawsuit.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Japan I saw like 5 year olds taking the morning train by themselves to school

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago

When I grew up in the 80s I had a bike when I was 7, my best friend was 8 and also had a bike, and we just cruised around town all day together having adventures and avoiding the cigarette smoking 9 year olds who had bigger bikes.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Homie I'm a millennial and I was able to ride my bike to school in the 2nd grade. Just needed to show them I had a helmet and knew my hand signals. I didn't know my hand signals but my mom told me before I went to take the test.

This probably even mortifies older Gen Z folk.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," she says.

The sheriff disagreed.

"She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened," recalls Patterson.

Even if his mother was walking there too, it's not likely going to do much to stop a car from running him over. She'd just be some extra mass to fling.

Kidnappings -- and a number of other serious crimes -- are usually done by people who are known, not random strangers.

kagis

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/zmldiz/til_there_are_only_between_150300_kidnappings_of/

There are only between 150-300 kidnappings of children by strangers each year in the US. The other 200,000 kidnappings each year are by relatives.

Even more lopsided than I'd expected.

And as for "anything" happening, I'd imagine that "anything" could have happened at home, too.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

Only in the US of A.

Only restriction a 10 year old has is 23:00 curfew. Kids here(SE EU) go to school on their own from first grade. Being out 'till curfew without adult supervision is normal.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

I grew up on 10 acres in the country in the 90's/early 00's. My mom would literally lock my younger brother and me out of the house to get us to spend time outside and so she could get some work done uninterrupted.

You bet we'd be foraging through the woods, going for 10+ mile bike rides, skipping rocks at the river, catching garter snakes, etc, all day with no supervision and we never had a single problem. We were raised to watch out for "stranger danger" and to let my parents know what we were doing in general, and that was enough.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I did the shit all the time back in the 1950s

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I used to walk all over my home town (and around my first home's block) starting at age 5. Like, the fuck is this?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh fuck. Oh shit. Feet don't fail me now!

Edit: Nope. I'm too fat and out of shape after neglecting myself from nearly 3 decades of depression. Just give me the cuffs. I'll put 'em on myself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

When I was around 3 years old, me and my not much older brother decided to walk across town, where our mum was visiting relatives.

I was missing mummy, which was technically not an emergency, for which we were supposed to phone those relatives.
We had been raised very well, you see. 🙃

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