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Letting kids play in the street

CrazyAznDriver

CrazyAznDriver

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Ok maybe I am a protective parent but god damn I think the people down the street are nuts...

This family moved down the street and is letting their 7 year old and 4 year old play in the street, ride bikes, scooters, etc. This is a fairly busy through street, not a cul-de-sa. They were playing in the middle of a 4 way intersection where 1 way doesn't have to stop when I past by today. The mom was out there and just waved at me like it was normal that I had to wait for a minute before her kid was finished riding in circles there. A couple times I see them and no parents are anywhere to be seen. They are not a half a block from a park with trails to ride on.

Do you parents let your kids play in traffic? I have 2 kids and would never allow this personally. Maybe we are being to protective coming from a house with an EMT and trauma surgeon...
 
Jesus, when I was a kid I used to play hockey on the street with my friends all the time. Cars would stop, we'd remove the nets and they'd go by.

I guess you can't do that in America.
 
Times have changed. People don't care who they run over. Hockey nets are pretty visible. And he said the middle of an intersection on a busy through street.
 
RbSX said:
Jesus, when I was a kid I used to play hockey on the street with my friends all the time. Cars would stop, we'd remove the nets and they'd go by.

I guess you can't do that in America.
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I can understand doing that on a dead end street or a slow street with not much traffic. But 4 and 7 seem pretty young... but hey they were wearing helmets at least :thumbsup:
 
RbSX said:
Jesus, when I was a kid I used to play hockey on the street with my friends all the time. Cars would stop, we'd remove the nets and they'd go by.

I guess you can't do that in America.
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this. OP is overprotective. Didn't you ever have a big wheel? roller blades? a nash skateboard? these things don't work so well in the grass.
 
jteef said:
this. OP is overprotective. Didn't you ever have a big wheel? roller blades? a nash skateboard? these things don't work so well in the grass.
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/facepalm. The OP is not overprotective. The parent he is describing is a complete moron. Allowing young children to play in a court, cul-de-sac or street with little traffic is one thing, but letting them play in the middle of an intersection is just downright idiotic.
 
I played in the street all the time growing up. All sorts of games, riding a bike, skating, skateboarding, plus general goofing off. My brothers and sisters and all of our friends did too.

I can't recall it ever being a problem. Drivers looked where they were going, and we looked where we were going. No one was ever hit by a car, or even came close.

The street wasn't high traffic, but there were plenty of cars.
 
My kids are 9 and 7 and frequently ride their bikes and scooters in the street. However, this is a residential road and a car goes by maybe once every 15 minutes on average.
 
IMHO the kids should be back in the streets. Our sense of community is gone.

Fuck I can't even cross a school crosswalk without cars going into the faculty area trying to run me and my dogs down.

One idiot told me the crosswalk is just for students when I stopped them...there was also a kid crossing at the same time.

She said, he wasn't close enough

:roll:
 
i don't see the problem, really. as long as they get out of the way when a car is coming, what's the harm?
 
alkemyst said:
IMHO the kids should be back in the streets. Our sense of community is gone.

Fuck I can't even cross a school crosswalk without cars going into the faculty area trying to run me and my dogs down.

One idiot told me the crosswalk is just for students when I stopped them...there was also a kid crossing at the same time.

She said, he wasn't close enough

:roll:
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agreed
 
eits said:
i don't see the problem, really. as long as they get out of the way when a car is coming, what's the harm?
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No 4y/o can run as fast as a car, just takes one asshat texting or fiddling with the radio to hit one of them. It's not like there are ample places to play around us, park, yard, sidewalk. Street? :thumbsdown: This town is around a half a million city so the sense of community was gone for decades lol.
 
I ran over a little girl once, her mom was a stupid asshole. She thought she didnt give a shit about the kid...until I put her in the hospital. "Oh oops...my bad. Yeah I uh didnt see here there." They both learned their lesson and are now better off.
 
CrazyAznDriver said:
No 4y/o can run as fast as a car, just takes one asshat texting or fiddling with the radio to hit one of them. It's not like there are ample places to play around us, park, yard, sidewalk. Street? :thumbsdown: This town is around a half a million city so the sense of community was gone for decades lol.
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Asshat goes to jail, the child's sacrifice helps remove asshat from decent society. The family cries and the world rejoices.
 
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