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its the old game called - chicken.
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by the way everyone, i am cured.
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Congratulations! (no apostrophe)
Lee
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i also forgot to change my user name from ladas are cool.
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LAS,
May I make a suggestion to remove Ladas and the last three letters ie low we are then getting nearer the point!
Just joking!
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Certainly does explain it, but these kids were purposely walking slower and slower it was a game to see who would be last to the other side. The one who was last, avoided being hit by the narrowest of margins. Haven't these mindless idiots got anything better to do, also whilst driving along a bye pass going under a bridge had the closest of escapes when kids threw a brick from off the bridge just missing the car. But we cannot do anything these days as children are wrapped up in cotton wool!
I remember as a child going conkering on some frm land the farmer giving us (me and my mates) a clip round the ear for being on his land, we did not go there again, but if I'd have stopped and chased after these kids and gave them a belt round the ear it would be me who ended up in Court!
WHAT IS THE ANSWER?
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Your grammar is particularly similar to LAC, as is your server. Any relation t Chris?
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I had the same thing happen in a local village . Bunch of kids sitting on the pavement. I drove to the other side of the road to give them plenty of room and one idiot, about 12 years old makes eye contact with me and marches into the road.
This is when we get liberal fools saying drivers are child killers and we should always be able to avoid children, no matter what they do.
What's the answer? Get rid of the idea that kids do no wrong and start filming them jay-walking. Police are already doing it around here to try and check anti-social behavior so why not stupidity in traffic.
People don't often die from anti-social behaviour, but this jaywalking is dangerous. In fact, if it is deliberate, then it is not jay walking, it is much more serious.
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Alwyn wrote:
> What's the answer? Get rid of the idea that kids do no wrong
> and start filming them jay-walking. Police are already doing
> it around here to try and check anti-social behavior so why
> not stupidity in traffic.
The trouble is, the children playing these 'games' are getting younger and younger. Under the age of 10 the police can do very little - even supposing they come in response to a 999 call made because the little darlings are throwing stones at passing cars. Sometimes the parents don't care, sometimes they can't cope.
I don't know what the answer is, I wish I did. 7-8 year olds broke 17 windows at my son's school last weekend, and tried to set fire to a curtain, and came into school on Monday boasting about it.
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my solution is to put the parents in prison if the kids are too young to.
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Occasionally I live in California in a small town called Foster City.
If any minor there commits an offence - vandalism, truancy, being a pain in the neck - then the San Mateo police have the parent's driving licence suspended. It *really* works.
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Mark (UK !!!!) wrote:
> If any minor there commits an offence - vandalism, truancy,
> being a pain in the neck - then the San Mateo police have the
> parent's driving licence suspended. It *really* works.
Unfortunately, I seriously doubt whether that would deter some of the parents of some of the children I know to be a menace in this area, since they themselves have no respect for the law and would continue to drive without a licence. Maybe in San Mateo you can be put away for this with your children taken into care - although the chaos of the UK care system doesn't exactly inspire confidence!
Also, although the police know exactly who these children are, they just do not seem able to take effective action. If I see a group of children throwing stones at cars or damaging property, the police want to know exactly who did what. Even if I can identify the children concerned - which I often can - unless I can say "X threw a stone which hit a red car and then Y threw a stone which hit a blue car" they can't do anything except go and tell the children off. The children deny they were doing anything wrong, the parents side with the children ... etc
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I am a member of the local Crime Action Team and the police here (North Wales) are now trying a three strikes routine.
First offence verbal warning
Second offence, written warning to parents
Third offence visit to childs home by beat officers.
Fourth time Youth Offending Team takes over.
Too early to say if it is working.
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