More kids busted

mmeowgrl · Post by **mmeowgrl** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 7:18 pm

Too cute. That would be my son, he'd be the one wanting to be handcuffed and ride in the police van, just like he's always begging me to let him ride in the trunk of the car.

Post by **bio** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 8:53 pm

Oh, the fond memories of my youth.

My father was a police officer back then (he has since changed to the more lucrative career of selling toilets for a hardware store).

When I was in kindergarten, he had to pick me up from school one day. Unfortunately, he wasn't off duty for a few hours yet, so he needed to do something with me until the end of his shift.

His solution, pull up to the school, turn on his lights, handcuff me and place me in the back of the car, then drive me to the police station and have me finger printed and placed in a cell.

The other officers "smuggled" candy bars and pop to me and talked about escape plans.

I remember one other person was in on of the other cells. He didn't talk to me (I'm sure my father and his friends probably mentioned that they'd put him in a bag and beat the lumps out of it if he did).

Joys of being the son of a small town cop.

Rocketdork · Post by **Rocketdork** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 10:07 pm

bio wrote:I'm sure my father and his friends probably mentioned that they'd put him in a bag and beat the lumps out of it if he did.

ok, would that be a small bag or large bag, sir?

jc · Post by jc » Wed Sep 24, 2003 2:29 am

you know, if life were the Andy Griffith show, that'd be a great story bio. but since this is reality, that's pretty fucked up.

Post by **bio** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:24 am

In retrospect, it is weird. But when I was 5, I thought it was pretty damn cool.

AsaJay · Post by **AsaJay** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:25 am

Oh I don't know, I kinda think it's an interesting tidbit. The real story though, I think lies in what happened afterward, the next day at school.

Did the other kids know it was his dad? Or did they think he was some child criminal at that point. How did it affect the peer socailzing afterward.

Or maybe they all knew it was his dad, and thought it was really cool!

Tell us the rest of the story dude.

Post by **bio** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:28 am

The other kids knew it was my dad and thought it was totally cool that I got arrested.

Unfortunately... the school and some of the other parrents weren't so impressed.

AsaJay · Post by **AsaJay** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 8:41 am

bio wrote:Unfortunately... the school and some of the other parrents weren't so impressed.

Party Poopers. They should have pounced on it as an opportunity to show exactly what --could-- happen if a boy or girl was bad. Kind of a predecessor to the "scared straight" series.

It's amazing how some adults forget what it's like to be a kid, and that --play-- is just that, PLAY. With proper adult supervision, play can be a wonderful tool for teaching, even if it's playing cops and robbers, or cowboys and indians. Both of which I understand can't be played anymore on school playgrounds.

grrrrrrrr.

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » Wed Sep 24, 2003 12:28 pm

I love how the officer in the picture is just standing there, chillin', hands in pockets.

That's a funny story Bio! I would have loved that when I was a kid, if my Dad had been a cop. As it was, he's an electrician, but there were childhood/social benefits to that.

When I was about nine or ten, he had driven a backhoe home for the night because he was working in the area and it needed a place to park. The next morning, he was headed to work and I was heading out the door to school. Usually I walked because it was just up the street, and usually he left earlier than that because he had to be at work farther away. He looked at me and grined, and told me to hop on. We stopped and picked my friends up and a small crowd of us kids spilled out of the cab in front of the school. There weren't any teachers or parents around, thankfully, because I'm sure they would have raised hell over the complete-lack-of-safety.

But there WERE other kids, and to elementary school aged kids, a backhoe is still a pretty cool thing.

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:58 pm

I think I need the cops to come scare my niece or something. After school is over (she's in the 1st grade), she's supposed to wait at a designated spot for the daycare worker, their kids (who are older) and the rest of the 1st graders that go back to the daycare. Well yesterday apparently she got out there a couple of minutes early and nobody was there. So what does she do? She goes off with a 9 year old boy (she's 6) and plays with him for a while. She comes back and nobody is around. Well while she was gone the daycare worker showed up, loaded up the other kids, saw my niece wasn't around and began a mad search for her. They looked all around and couldn't find her, they hoped maybe one of us had come to pick her up, exept we usually call and let them know. Well he drives the other kids back to daycare (a few blocks away) and checks with his wife to see if we had called. Then the school calls them and tells them our niece is sitting in the office. So they go pick her up. Everyone was panicked. And our niece just doesn't get the whole kidnapping thing. She didn't even know this boy's name!! Man, talk about a scary moment. Wish there was some way to scare her enough to get the point across to her without traumatizing her. We tried to explain what could happen to her if someone took her, and give her a scare. Hope it works.

mmeowgrl · Post by **mmeowgrl** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:09 pm

Sometime trauma is a good thing. Nothing wrong with yelling when the situation warrants it, especially if you rarely raise your voice. Then when you do, they really know that they are in big trouble.

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:01 pm

Oh believe me, there were raised voices

She was crying by the end of our "talk", just hoping it sinks in.
Not to mention she's grounded for the next week.
I think the big problem is she has "I'm in 1st grade" syndrome. Not to mention she's becoming one of the "popular" people. Not that I mind her being popular, I just don't want the attitude that usually comes with it. I think she just needs to be taken down a peg or two and shown she's not invincible. Little shit.