Mommy Police Will Get You

Posted by khalling 9 years, 8 months ago to Culture
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I am reminded of how I sent my two kids away for a week at EDUCO (one of the founders started Outward Bound) backpacking camp at 10 and 11. They were already somewhat experienced at backpacking in the mountains.
They were alive and healthy when we retrieved them...but the stories that trickled out over the years from that experience...;)
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  • Posted by LibertasAutLetum 9 years, 8 months ago
    I dropped my wife off at her doctors two days ago and ordered some food from my local sandwich shop, very nice rural area by the way.
    I had my 3 year old son in the back seat, 75 and sunny, windows all down. I pulled up to the little shop in a little strip mall and parked directly in front of the door. I saw that nobody was in line.
    I knew the food was sitting there waiting for me because I had called it in 15 minutes ago.
    The car was 36" from the door, the register was 36" beyond that. All glass, floor to ceiling. I would be no more than 6 feet from the car, in full view of it, all windows down, perfect weather, doors locked (just in case), child securely strapped into seat during a 45 second transaction.
    The thought of doing so only crossed my mind for a split second before the idea was trampled by the shear horror of the reality that if I had done so there would be an extremely high likelihood that I would be stuffed into the back of a police car, have my child taken by CPS then have my automobile impounded all while being charged with multiple counts of gross negligence and child endangerment.
    Common sense, life experience and parental instinct all told me that it would not only be fine to leave my boy in the car under these circumstances, but that it would be a colossal waste of time and energy to remove him from that ridiculous iron maiden of a restraining device, drag him into the store he doesn’t even want to be in just have to reverse the entire process less than one minute later.
    But very sadly we have book, upon book, upon book of anti-common sense, feel-good, knee-jerk, what-if laws that wind up ruining a lot more lives than they help.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago
    Good article.

    Points up how the clarion call of being Non-Judgmental in government makes it impossible to exercise any judgment or sense at all.

    Inability to make rational judgments is NOT a survival trait people.
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