Would you just walk on by?Follow

[quote] if we wanted a "piece of this *****".. at which we respectfully declined.. and we got out of there and drove to the State Police barracks that happened to be close by.. We went to the back of the place and started ringing the bell..... cops came out with guns drawn on us.... We had to fight to explain waht was going on.. finally they took one of us with them to the place and arrested the guys at gunpoint..

Turns out the woman was a junkie that these guys picked up from Baltimore's inner city.. they drove her all the way out to the country to rape her and most likely kill her and leave her in this park.

Later we had to sit in the station and write up reports....
Never heard anything of it.

Junkie or not.. no woman deserves that. It just sucks that we couldn;t have done anything sooner.... but I think that I'd still rather not risk being shot over such a thing..

either way.. pretty in

OK, I'm walking away from my computer now.......

....very slowly

Intimidation has kept me out of many o' fights.


I would help. I've done it before. When working at a drugstore, someone got out of control trying to steal stuff. He pushed and grabbed a couple customers when I hit him from the side and took him down. I actually got reprimanded for it though. Employees aren't supposed to endanger themselves in these sorts of events. Probably due to potential lawsuits.

I really have to say that I admire parents that do this. Nothing worse than leaving a kid unprepared for a bad situation out of some misguided attempt to deny that **** happens. Good for you, Thumb.

That would never work on my son. He has no concept of strangers. He likes everyone he meets and will willingly go with people he's never met before.

So I just never take him out of the house.

When I was little, my parents wouldn't relate it to other people, but themselves. My father would tell me that if anyone came to school saying that he or mom were sick, I shouldn't go with them because he would always come get me himself, or my mom, no matter what. It was pretty much worded as "You only ever leave school with mom or I, even if someone tells you we've been in an accident and can't come, you don't go with them." That way it excluded anyone but my folks rather than trying to be specific. It was the same when I went to a party or a sleepover. "You stay with <insert parent/sibling/trusted friend here>, don't go anywhere without them, if someone comes to get you,..."etc. I was four when I first heard this, and when a man leaned out of a car to ask me for directions on my way home from school once when I was six, I knew not to walk up to the car because by then I had a seed of thought that told me that not everyone meant me well.

I've taught my kid the usual and he gets it from school as well but sometimes it seems fruitless. You give simple rules and they're easily circumvented by someone posing as a policeman or teacher. You give sophisticated rules and they're confused or forgotten by your six year old progeny. Eventually, you just do the best you can and just trust in God, Fate, society or whatever.

My mom told me that type of thing when I was around five. As a result, I ran away screaming from a city worker who was cutting the grass near my school when he said "good morning" to me.

Hoorah!

This is now school policy. Children at my kid's school cannot be picked up by anyone other than the parent/guardians without a telephone call to the office ahead of time. Kids remain near the office or in their classrooms until they are picked up ensuring protection. There have been too many cases where someone other than the parent has picked up a child and caused absolute chaos. Granted, in many cases it's a grandparent or something, but the fact remains that proper process was not followed makes you S.O.L..

You don't know that the city worker wasn't going to follow up that "Good Morning" with a "Wanna see me weener?" So you got scared. So what? Won't be the last time, and as long as you also get praised for being adventurous when safe, it should balance out.

You never know with those bukkake whores. It's definatetly safer to tie them up.

You didn't have to! I just knew.

My parents never had to do anything to keep me safe from strangers. I was born paranoid.