Comments on: Morning Metro: Walking, The Optimist, and Children Walking

By: Pierce

Pierce — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:32:35 +0000

Silly J_T – Don’t be alarmed… That’s just a spring clean for the may queen!

It’s the lorry between your hedgerows that you need to watch out for!

DEM — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:10:27 +0000

It truly does “take a village.”

You need a mom to give birth, care for the kids, and buy them scooters.

You need a neighbor to call the cops because the kids are riding those scooter in a cul-de-sac (the horror!).

You need the cops to investigate, haul the mom away, then jail her for 18 hours.

You need a prosecutor who, according to the police spokesperson, signed off on all this.

You need someone to come to his/her senses and throw the charges out.

Last but not least, you need a police spokesperson to claim that “procedures were followed” and there’s nothing to worry about.

Mr. Boh — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:26:04 +0000

Wow. I really hope that there is another side of that story, because that’s a little over the top.

Aisha — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:38:39 +0000

Speaking of letting kids move about unsupervised in days gone by and now, this woman was arrested for her 6 and 9 year old playing in a cul de sac while she watched from her porch: http://www.blogher.com/frame.php?url=http://www.click2houston.com/news/Mom-sues-police-over-arrest/-/1735978/16528610/-/b7nf6o/-/index.html

J_T — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:27:44 +0000

Those hedgerows are even more terrifying when there’s a bustle in them! Where’s Lyrics Only Guy when we need him?