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WTF adults not allowed near children in the library.

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So parents can't be with their own kids? God that's stupid.

Somebody find the head librarian and give him/her a Gibbs slap.
 
thats a silly rule. I take my kids to the library all the time. We look at books and talk about them while looking.

If they told me i couldn't take them to a part of the library i wouldn't be happy and would go anyway heh.
 
sportage said:
Been to a Chuckie Cheese lately?
We had to practically show three forms of photo ID to get in, when entering without a child accompanying us. Then when leaving with my little nephew, heading to the parking lot, we were stopped until other adults verified the kid was actually part of our family group.
But I don't mind...
I'd much rather everyone be too safe, than let one child molester figure out an angle and get away with snatching a kid.
In this age of world wide communication and connections, people that use to never have the chance to carry out their hideous event can now find all the information and assistance they need.
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We went to the Phoenix children's museum (great museum btw if you have kids) with my nephews and they won't let you in the door unless you've got a kid with you.
 
sportage said:
In this age of world wide communication and connections, people that use to never have the chance to carry out their hideous event can now find all the information and assistance they need.
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Actually, things are no worse than they've ever been. While raw numbers are up, so is total population and on a per-capita basis the risk is no higher now than it was in the 1950's. The only difference is that now, if something happens to a child in rural Maine the national news picks it up and everyone from New York to LA to Honolulu hears about it. Then, thanks to the availability heuristic people severely over-estimate the probability of such an event and react in ridiculous ways.

sportage said:
I'd much rather everyone be too safe, than let one child molester figure out an angle and get away with snatching a kid.
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"I'd much rather outlaw all cars than let one kid get hit by an inattentive driver." The operative logic behind this statement is absolutely identical to that behind the statement you made above.

Now, if you meant to say that the negative utility of the library's (or Chuck E. Cheese's) policy is small enough to be outweighed by the psychological benefit that it provides to parents who don't understand statistics or rationality, then that's different and it's at least a defensible point.

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Eh, maybe they just did it to make the kids feel excited that they have their own separate area to hang out. Like a reversal of the "no one under 18 admitted" rule.
 
SarcasticDwarf said:
The people that work in libraries tend to have a wide spectrum of personalities. Some will just ignore me, others immediately get bitchy and question why I am there. The ones that do that tend to not be fully trained librarians (meaning with the appropriate Masters degree). It is entertaining explaining to them that I am there looking at their collection to get ideas of what to get for my nephews or such, and that I am doing it as a librarian. They then tend to freak out a little bit realizing that they should have been just a tad nicer since I probably know their boss's boss's boss.
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That sounds creepy..
 
Reminds me of the south park "child abduction is not funny" where the parents realize that they themselves are most likely to abduct their children, so they send them alone into the wilderness to be safe from their parents.
 
There is some sort of children's park/playground in Oakland where she was taken as a child. When we were there a few years ago, she wanted to show it to me, relive her childhood, etc. Well, we couldn't go in because having a child was a requirement. Bummer.
 
Bignate603 said:
We went to the Phoenix children's museum (great museum btw if you have kids) with my nephews and they won't let you in the door unless you've got a kid with you.
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"You can't come in here unless you have a child in tow."

"Really? But it took a lot of planning and travel time to make it here today! *sigh* Fine, but it's going to be on your conscience that I'll have to become a child abductor now."
 
Still if it's a public park or such, paid for with your taxes, just go in and tell them you are part owner. 😛
 
sportage said:
I'd much rather everyone be too safe, than let one child molester figure out an angle and get away with snatching a kid.
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Honestly, I'd prefer to allow a small number of children to be molested than to have our society become this paranoid and neurotic about something that's barely a threat.
 
Nebor said:
So you're in favor of child molesters.
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You think it would be much harder for one to bring a kid along to lure others away?

Honestly the places simply need to hang these signs up to prevent the parents from treating such places as a daycare:

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And if it bothers you this much simply don't support them financially with donations or taxes... 😉
 
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All of this is BS. Give me a place to live without having to worry about retards assuming that everyone is a child predator. Keep your kid and every other kid away from me so I don't have to fucking walk around as if I'm guilty of something.
 
God Mode said:
All of this is BS. Give me a place to live without having to worry about retards assuming that everyone is a child predator. Keep your kid and every other kid away from me so I don't have to fucking walk around as if I'm guilty of something.
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Stop driving around in your "free candy" van while wearing a trench coat. 😛
 
Jadow said:
a lot of losers and pervs go to the library to use the internet.
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i can testify to that. every week the school's newspaper always has a long list of people who were either detained by the campus police or got kicked out for watching porn on library computers. They purposely set up those comps so the screens face out to the main isle where foot traffic is always busy and yet that never curtails the stream of perverted losers who show up weekly. with that said, I can certainly understand why that policy is there.
 
Binarycow said:
i can testify to that. every week the school's newspaper always has a long list of people who were either detained by the campus police or got kicked out for watching porn on library computers. They purposely set up those comps so the screens face out to the main isle where foot traffic is always busy and yet that never curtails the stream of perverted losers who show up weekly. with that said, I can certainly understand why that policy is there.
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yes, but then restrict just some computers, not the books.
 
When the Denver library opened their doors after a major renovation the crowds descended on all the available computers. There were only a few terminals free and they were in the children's area. I glanced into one section and there's some guy browsing a porn site.
 
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