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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: garmonbozia on August 08, 2007, 07:29:48 PM
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I was sitting out on my balcony this afternoon, trying to relax despite one of my wisdom teeth acting up and hurting like hell. I have a view of two ponds and all the ducks that live around them. Some of the neighborhood kids were out playing and suddenly decided to start harassing the wildlife. They chased ducks around, at first just trying to make them run for the water. But then they started picking up handfuls of gravel from the walking trails and throwing gravel at the ducks. You'd see it splash down all around the ducks in the water. Then, they started throwing it at ducks as they chased them around on land. I could hear the pebbles bouncing off the ducks' wings.
I stood up and watched in disgust, trying to think of an appropriate phrase to yell down from the balcony. I had my cellphone out and was just about to go in and get the number to call the cops when one of their mothers (a lady in a headscarf, obviously Muslim) caught them. The mother gave them a good talking-to, in English so I was able to hear something about "the book of Judgement". (I'm not religious, but at the moment the fear of god was as good as anything to get a bunch of crotchfruit to stop bothering the wildlife.) Even then, there was one little brat out of the three who couldn't resist lunging at the ducks even with the mother watching.
I refrained from yelling off the balcony or calling the cops. But my conscious was still nagging at me to do something about this shit, rather than be a pussy and do nothing. I threw on my shoes and went downstairs, figuring I would politely but firmly tell the mother that I would call the cops if I ever see that shit again. Didn't get to. She was telling the kids "Come on. Let's go." for them to follow her back to whatever building they live in. So, the closest I ever got was maybe fifty feet. But I'm sure she saw me, standing there in the grass, a 6'3" pissed-off looking white American dressed in all black, giving her and her kids an angry look. She was definitely anxious to get the brats out of the area.
My question is this: If I see the little fuckstains doing it again, should I yell down from the balcony and try to scare them out of it first, or just go ahead and call the cops? I've seen these same kids playing out by the ponds many times before, so I'm sure it's a question of "if" not "when" they fuck with the ducks again.
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Buy a chainsaw and hockey mask.
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
but, if someone elses child is playing at my house with my kids i sometimes have to explain to them that we have rues at our house.
but in a public place, you cannot do a damn thing about someone elses problem.
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
Sure you can. If they're unattended and screwing with the wildlife like that, it's within his rights to ask them to stop. Just don't freak out on them and you'll be fine. Remember that kids are easily intimidated by pretty much any adult.. Just be like, "Hey, how would you like it if someone did that to you?" or something like that... but try to be good humoured about it. That sure as hell worked on me when I was a kid.
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Do you own a wrist rocket??
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a question of "if" not "when" they fuck with the ducks again.
Whoops! I meant, a question of "when" not "if".
I would prefer to avoid dealing directly with the kids. That's why I didn't go downstairs until I saw an adult who was obviously responsible for them. No telling how the kids might twist the story when they run home to their parents, so I'll just avoid that ugliness.
Looks like if I see it again, I should call the cops and let them sort it out. But would the cops give a damn about a bunch of ducks? I'll have to throw in a noise complaint with it. Something like, "Those kids are too damn loud, and by the way, they were fucking with some ducks while they were being loud."
For what it's worth, I'll mention it to the management. They take animal cruelty complaints seriously, even if only because neighborhood kids torturing animals makes their apartment complex look like a ghetto. (This isn't the Soccermomland suburbs we're talking about here. It's an apartment complex next door to a project. This place can turn to shit real quick if not managed with an iron fist.)
Sorry, no wrist rocket. Even if I had one, I still don't want to get myself arrested and have to share a cell with somebody named Bubba Ray.
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(I'm not religious, but at the moment the fear of god was as good as anything to get a bunch of crotchfruit to stop bothering the wildlife.)
Crotchfruit... :laugh:
I use the term Fuck-Trophy personally.
I hate children just as much as the next person, but I don't think there's anything you could do. Of course, I try to avoid contact with strangers at all costs, regardless of their age.
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The word "crotchfruit" is not an original here. A while back, it was popular in the weird news forums on Rotten.com (They invent nasty words and phrases there.)
I don't hate kids. I just don't like to see people fucking with animals when they've got no good reason for it. Especially when I can't sit out on my balcony without having to see that shit.
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I would not call the police on the kids and I would not confront them.
You live in a neighborhood and in my opinion it is more important that you get along with your neighbors than it is for you to correct other people's kids, even if they are behaving like brats. That mother already told them off. If you call the police, they are unlikely to do much to the kids, and if you confront the kids yourself, you could be opening yourself up to more trouble than you could possibly imagine.
I know someone who yelled at some kids about destroying his fence, and he wound up getting arrested for Reckless Endangerment, because the kids ran away when he yelled; they ran out into the street, then they lied to their parents about what he actually did. It cost him thousands of dollars to straighten out that mess.
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
Sure you can. If they're unattended and screwing with the wildlife like that, it's within his rights to ask them to stop. Just don't freak out on them and you'll be fine. Remember that kids are easily intimidated by pretty much any adult.. Just be like, "Hey, how would you like it if someone did that to you?" or something like that... but try to be good humoured about it. That sure as hell worked on me when I was a kid.
I think it really depends on what they're doing and whether or not they're unattended. I generally won't correct obnoxious kids if their parents are around, unless they're hurting my kids or something. Not my place. Ditto if they're unattended, but just being annoying. But when we've moved into unattended and hurting people or animals or destroying property, now I'm gonna speak up. Maldorer is pretty much right on, just start out nice. Depending on the age of the kids, they may not have thought through the implications of their actions and a quick reminder "hey, the ducks don't like that, please stop!" will suffice. If that fails, I've found "Knock it off!" in a stern tone works wonders. If that's still not working, well, you've reached the limit of what you can fairly say to them as a bystander, now you call the cops or management or whatever.
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I would not call the police on the kids and I would not confront them.
You live in a neighborhood and in my opinion it is more important that you get along with your neighbors than it is for you to correct other people's kids, even if they are behaving like brats. That mother already told them off. If you call the police, they are unlikely to do much to the kids, and if you confront the kids yourself, you could be opening yourself up to more trouble than you could possibly imagine.
I know someone who yelled at some kids about destroying his fence, and he wound up getting arrested for Reckless Endangerment, because the kids ran away when he yelled; they ran out into the street, then they lied to their parents about what he actually did. It cost him thousands of dollars to straighten out that mess.
Another thing to be aware of is that kids these days are educated in the ways of the world at a very young age. They know how to get back at you and some will think nothing of it. Not much you can do to stop an investigation when a kid lies. The kid wins every time. What if the kid says that you really scared him when you said you would hurt him if he told anyone that you touched him in the bad way. You're fucked!
If you must confront anyone, it should be the parents.
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Too bad it's against the law to kill people.
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I found some little fuckers hanging around my back door one night, so I went out to the door and said, as nice as pie "hey guys, what are you doing, are you OK?"...they asked for a drink of water, and I said sure no problem, there's a tap at the side of the house. I was so nice to them, I never had any problems with them again.
They were obviously checking my car out because I'd left the door open while I was unloading some groceries, I also think the drink of water was a plot to distract me. If they'd have asked something like can I use your phone or something, I would have said, sure, you give me the number and I'll call your parents, are you OK?
I'm always nice to kids, they don't know how to cope if they are little brats, they are so used to being screamed at, that the niceness and the smiling throws them.
Except in your case, because you are a male, stay the fuck away from them. Half the time these days it will be reversed and people will say, what the fuck were you doing hanging around the pond watching kids for :P You can't win.
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Some of the neighborhood kids were out playing and suddenly decided to start harassing the wildlife.
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Do you own a wrist rocket??
haha
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Hmm, maybe talking them wouldn't be the best idea, then, since no one seems to agree. I was a pretty hyperactive kid and was thinking of all the times adults used to confront me, but now I'm remembering all of the times they got bitched out by my parents :-\ . Still, I wouldn't call the cops. Probably just tell the landlord.
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It does help if you know, or at least have met the parents, that's for sure. Generally the kids I'm correcting are the kids on my daughter's bus stop, so they've met me and know that if I've said something, there's probably a reason, I wasn't just going off on their kids for sport. It definitely becomes more iffy if the kids are complete strangers to you.
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I feel sorry for the ducks.
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
Bullshit. Here they were abusing animals.
I'd run the little fuckers scared back home.
Not much I'd do that for.
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Another thing to be aware of is that kids these days are educated in the ways of the world at a very young age. They know how to get back at you and some will think nothing of it. Not much you can do to stop an investigation when a kid lies. The kid wins every time. What if the kid says that you really scared him when you said you would hurt him if he told anyone that you touched him in the bad way. You're fucked!
Gods only help them (and their parents) if they pulled THAT shit.
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I would not call the police on the kids and I would not confront them.
You live in a neighborhood and in my opinion it is more important that you get along with your neighbors than it is for you to correct other people's kids, even if they are behaving like brats. That mother already told them off. If you call the police, they are unlikely to do much to the kids, and if you confront the kids yourself, you could be opening yourself up to more trouble than you could possibly imagine.
I know someone who yelled at some kids about destroying his fence, and he wound up getting arrested for Reckless Endangerment, because the kids ran away when he yelled; they ran out into the street, then they lied to their parents about what he actually did. It cost him thousands of dollars to straighten out that mess.
I didn't know you can get arrested for yelling at someone's else's kids. I don;t understand. I've been yelled at by other grownups and they weren't arrested for it.
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I found some little fuckers hanging around my back door one night, so I went out to the door and said, as nice as pie "hey guys, what are you doing, are you OK?"...they asked for a drink of water, and I said sure no problem, there's a tap at the side of the house. I was so nice to them, I never had any problems with them again.
They were obviously checking my car out because I'd left the door open while I was unloading some groceries, I also think the drink of water was a plot to distract me. If they'd have asked something like can I use your phone or something, I would have said, sure, you give me the number and I'll call your parents, are you OK?
I'm always nice to kids, they don't know how to cope if they are little brats, they are so used to being screamed at, that the niceness and the smiling throws them.
Except in your case, because you are a male, stay the fuck away from them. Half the time these days it will be reversed and people will say, what the fuck were you doing hanging around the pond watching kids for :P You can't win.
When they checked out your car, was anything taken from it?
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I'm just going to tell the management and let them decide what to do about it. This isn't the first, or worst, time there's been animal abuse in my neighborhood. Last year it was a bunch of twentysomething thugs who finally got thrown out for selling drugs. I mentioned it to the management and they told me I was not the first to complain and that they were getting fed up with it too, so I already know they don't tolerate that shit. If the management confronts the kids or parents, I seriously doubt they're going to tell them who complained.
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
Sure you can. If they're unattended and screwing with the wildlife like that, it's within his rights to ask them to stop. Just don't freak out on them and you'll be fine. Remember that kids are easily intimidated by pretty much any adult.. Just be like, "Hey, how would you like it if someone did that to you?" or something like that... but try to be good humoured about it. That sure as hell worked on me when I was a kid.
no you can't. at least you shouldn't.
so what, they scared the ducks. they are kids. kids fuck around and are easily amused.
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Another thing to be aware of is that kids these days are educated in the ways of the world at a very young age. They know how to get back at you and some will think nothing of it. Not much you can do to stop an investigation when a kid lies. The kid wins every time. What if the kid says that you really scared him when you said you would hurt him if he told anyone that you touched him in the bad way. You're fucked!
Gods only help them (and their parents) if they pulled THAT shit.
It happened to a friend of mine, similar to what Callaway was talking about. There is no fucking way he molested a child, but he could not prove it.
It's exactly like what Peter said in another thread:: once a child is involved caution goes out the window along with half the legal rights of the accused. In come the villagers with their torches, pitchforks, clubs and ropes to kill the ogre. The assumption that kids would never lie about these things is bullshit. There is no way to balance the scales of justice, though. The child holds all the trumps.
His case was only dismissed after a huge disruption to this guy's life, many thousands of dollars in legal fees, in addition to losing his apartment, fiancée, and most of his friends and after the butthead kid falsely accused two other people. Gods only know what would have happened to him if the stupid kid had not "gone back to that well" too many times. He had no recourse except to sue the parents, but after almost a year of selling everything he owned to pay his lawyers, he was unable to do anything more. He was truly fucked, all because he told some kids that he would call the cops if they did not stop breaking into a vacant apartment and making a bunch of noise.
It's just not worth the risk.
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When I was a kid no-one thought anything was wrong with telling other people's kids to behave themselves- now it seems that even if kids are putting people's windows through some parents will bitch like fuck if anyone tells them to stop it.
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lol, I remember one estate where we lived some guy was bollocking a kid for putting broken bottles under his car tyres. the kids mother comes steaming out of the flats 'oo you fuckin think you are telling my fucking kid what to do?' - and starts in on the poor bloke. ::)
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lol, I remember one estate where we lived some guy was bollocking a kid for putting broken bottles under his car tyres. the kids mother comes steaming out of the flats 'oo you fuckin think you are telling my fucking kid what to do?' - and starts in on the poor bloke. ::)
Maybe if the stupid cunt was not such a bad mother, he would not need to intervene. ::)
The British Isles -- a kingdom of incompetent, belligerent louts.
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whatever happened to it takes a villiage to raise a child?
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whatever happened to it takes a villiage to raise a child?
I'm not familiar with that expression. Elaborate.
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whatever happened to it takes a villiage to raise a child?
I'm not familiar with that expression. Elaborate.
(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tLkN6a4sL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/Takes-Village-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/0684825457)
It seems also that there is a series of "Village" books by a number of authors.
I have not read them. Maybe McJ has?
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(http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tLkN6a4sL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg) (http://www.amazon.com/Takes-Village-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/0684825457)
It seems also that there is a series of "Village" books by a number of authors.
I have not read them. Maybe McJ has?
This author is an expert......... being a Village Idiot and all. :laugh:
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
Sure you can. If they're unattended and screwing with the wildlife like that, it's within his rights to ask them to stop. Just don't freak out on them and you'll be fine. Remember that kids are easily intimidated by pretty much any adult.. Just be like, "Hey, how would you like it if someone did that to you?" or something like that... but try to be good humoured about it. That sure as hell worked on me when I was a kid.
no you can't. at least you shouldn't.
so what, they scared the ducks. they are kids. kids fuck around and are easily amused.
And if I give them a scare, that's what I do. Indeed, if all they were doing was throwing
pebbles, and unlikely to hurt the ducks, I'd ignore it, or walk over and just look down at
them, REALLY close. Kids don't like this any more than humans do.
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If they had stuck with just chasing them around scaring them, it wouldn't have seemed like such a big deal. Hell, the ducks are pretty fucking brutal to each other anyway. Y'all ever seen a duckfight? I see them all the time. Two ducks go at it in the water, literally making waves as they apparently try to drown each other. Their mating rituals look pretty rough, too. When two ducks fuck, it's usually after the male has chased the female around for a few minutes.
It's when the kids start throwing rocks and putting the animals at risk of injury when I start to have a problem with it.
I volunteer on weekends at a wildlife sanctuary, and once had to stop a kid on a tour just as he was about to throw pebbles in an enclosure. The mother made him put the rocks down, but what the hell was she doing ten feet away from her kid to begin with? (Unlike a zoo, there's no wandering around. Guided tours only.) That's one reason I moved my volunteering day to the one day of the week when it's closed to the public... tired of dealing with stupid people.
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the boys were just pissed that the male ducks only have to chase the females around for a few minutes and then they get poontang.
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Hell, the ducks are pretty fucking brutal to each other anyway. Y'all ever seen a duckfight?
Yeah. And I've seen ducks killed in them.
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Hell, the ducks are pretty fucking brutal to each other anyway. Y'all ever seen a duckfight?
Yeah. And I've seen ducks killed in them.
That would be a fluke. Serious injury is possible, but usually accidental. Humans are the only animals who routinely kill each other, except in the cases of eating the young to fend off starvation. Most animal fights end in one participant conceding, rather quickly.
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except for n the case of male dominance. those fights are usually to the death. or the national explorer channel is showing the nth degree for ratings.
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except for n the case of male dominance. those fights are usually to the death. or the national explorer channel is showing the nth degree for ratings.
You got it. Obviously horned animals fighting for dominance occasionally gore each other and the loser dies, but as a whole, murder is unheard of in the animal kingdom, except for humankind.
... one possible exception might be cuckoo nestlings throwing out their competing chicks of their hosts, but they are killing another species, not their own.
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except for n the case of male dominance. those fights are usually to the death. or the national explorer channel is showing the nth degree for ratings.
You got it. Obviously horned animals fighting for dominance occasionally gore each other and the loser dies, but as a whole, murder is unheard of in the animal kingdom, except for humankind.
... one possible exception might be cuckoo nestlings throwing out their competing chicks of their hosts, but they are killing another species, not their own.
Actually Toms kill kittens quite often. Male lions kill cubs and male chimpanzees kill babies that they did not sire, to bring their mothers into season again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_(zoology)
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except for n the case of male dominance. those fights are usually to the death. or the national explorer channel is showing the nth degree for ratings.
You got it. Obviously horned animals fighting for dominance occasionally gore each other and the loser dies, but as a whole, murder is unheard of in the animal kingdom, except for humankind.
... one possible exception might be cuckoo nestlings throwing out their competing chicks of their hosts, but they are killing another species, not their own.
Actually Toms kill kittens quite often. Male lions kill cubs and male chimpanzees kill babies that they did not sire, to bring their mothers into season again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanticide_(zoology)
I should have said "almost" unheard of.
I did not mean that there are no exceptions, when you consider millions of species, and I also mentioned the defenseless young are often killed and eaten. Seriously though, do you see or hear of fights to the death between competitive animals - two lions of comparable size or two tomcats of similar capabilities?
Chimps are very intelligent and are very similar to us, so I would expect similar behaviors. Chimps do fight to the death, occasionally and especially if there is a family unit battling another. Dogs and cats are very intelligent also. Is it intelligence that fosters murder? I think it may be so.
My only point was that, in the animal kingdom, two animals that are similarly matched in abilities, rarely kill one another. One (almost) always backs down and there is no grudge. Humans, on the other hand do it quite often, by comparison, and with malice.
My original comment in response to ducks killing each other. i've lived around ducks all my life. They do not murder each other.
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Geese, on the other hand, are assholes. I wouldn't put it past them.
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I was sitting out on my balcony this afternoon, trying to relax despite one of my wisdom teeth acting up and hurting like hell. I have a view of two ponds and all the ducks that live around them. Some of the neighborhood kids were out playing and suddenly decided to start harassing the wildlife. They chased ducks around, at first just trying to make them run for the water. But then they started picking up handfuls of gravel from the walking trails and throwing gravel at the ducks. You'd see it splash down all around the ducks in the water. Then, they started throwing it at ducks as they chased them around on land. I could hear the pebbles bouncing off the ducks' wings.
I stood up and watched in disgust, trying to think of an appropriate phrase to yell down from the balcony. I had my cellphone out and was just about to go in and get the number to call the cops when one of their mothers (a lady in a headscarf, obviously Muslim) caught them. The mother gave them a good talking-to, in English so I was able to hear something about "the book of Judgement". (I'm not religious, but at the moment the fear of god was as good as anything to get a bunch of crotchfruit to stop bothering the wildlife.) Even then, there was one little brat out of the three who couldn't resist lunging at the ducks even with the mother watching.
I refrained from yelling off the balcony or calling the cops. But my conscious was still nagging at me to do something about this shit, rather than be a pussy and do nothing. I threw on my shoes and went downstairs, figuring I would politely but firmly tell the mother that I would call the cops if I ever see that shit again. Didn't get to. She was telling the kids "Come on. Let's go." for them to follow her back to whatever building they live in. So, the closest I ever got was maybe fifty feet. But I'm sure she saw me, standing there in the grass, a 6'3" pissed-off looking white American dressed in all black, giving her and her kids an angry look. She was definitely anxious to get the brats out of the area.
My question is this: If I see the little fuckstains doing it again, should I yell down from the balcony and try to scare them out of it first, or just go ahead and call the cops? I've seen these same kids playing out by the ponds many times before, so I'm sure it's a question of "if" not "when" they fuck with the ducks again.
go down there and tell them to keep their hands and rocks off the fucking wildlife.
if they resist, kick them.
(they won't, though. strangers will scare them way more than their mom will.)
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That would be a fluke. Serious injury is possible, but usually accidental. Humans are the only animals who routinely kill each other, except in the cases of eating the young to fend off starvation. Most animal fights end in one participant conceding, rather quickly.
Ants. Organized warfare.
And yeah, it's a fluke, but so are deaths in
barfights.
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dude. i know how you felt. i've been in that situation. kids were throwing pebbles at ducks i think, universal concept, i was so mad but i'm so socially crippled i couldn't utter a word. i'm the kind who waits until they explode if in public, because i'm too inhibited to say anything otherwise. i was boiling inside, about ready to strangle the kids with my bare hands.
and mcjag, i don't give a shit whose kids, i'm gonna fucking yell at them if they torture animals, that is, if i can grow some fucking balls. it's all our responsibility to protect those who can't protect themselves. i don't give a flying vaginapenismonsterfuckingjockstrapeatingdildoshitting mecha streisand whose kids such fuckholes are or how innocent and stupid they are. ANIMALS ARE NOT TOYS.
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:plus:
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That would be a fluke. Serious injury is possible, but usually accidental. Humans are the only animals who routinely kill each other, except in the cases of eating the young to fend off starvation. Most animal fights end in one participant conceding, rather quickly.
Ants. Organized warfare.
And yeah, it's a fluke, but so are deaths in
barfights.
Why can't you leave me alone and allow me to enjoy my notion that humans are the most disgusting pieces of shit ever to disgrace the face of the earth?
;)
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i watched a show on Hippos.
the alpha male gets all the poon. some rival may come along and challenge him. and usually the loser goes somewhere to die.
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flying vaginapenismonsterfuckingjockstrapeatingdildoshitting mecha streisand
So THAT'S what Cartman said to Sadaam. ;D
The concept of "growing some balls" must be one of those politically-incorrect social skills that schools don't want to include in the Aspie social-skills curriculum.
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i guess i should have said that a little differently. grow some ovaries i meant. :P
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Confronting other people's kids can get you arrested in my town if your not careful always have to make sure there is another adult about to back you up when the little shits go and get their parents
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You know, I think you're all right.
I should just snipe the little fucks
instead of confronting them.
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You know, I think you're all right.
I should just snipe the little fucks
instead of confronting them.
What nobody sees nobody knows >:D
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Confronting other people's kids can get you arrested in my town if your not careful always have to make sure there is another adult about to back you up when the little shits go and get their parents
That is what happened to the person I know. The kids lied and he was arrested.
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what a 1984.
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you cannot confront other peoples children...it is none of your business.
I think you can. I mean, if some kid harrasses ducks in my neighborhood I'd say something. I wouldn't call the cops right of the bat, unless the little fuckwits talked back to you or threw shit at you.
I would just tell them that they need to either be nice to the ducks or go home.
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Confronting other people's kids can get you arrested in my town if your not careful always have to make sure there is another adult about to back you up when the little shits go and get their parents
I guess thats why parents tend to tell the child's parent on their child when he or she did something wrong. When I was little, when I do soemthing wrong, the grownups would tell my mother, not confront me and then she do her business with me after they get through telling her.
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Back when I was little, one of my friend's parents always called the police whenver they had problems with their kids. They always wanted the police to talk to their kids for them because they didn't want to be the bad guys.
One time the neighborhood kids were all throwing pine cones over the fence at me to hurt me and when one finally hit me in the foot, I started crying and one pine cone hit my mother in the face while she was reading on the padio so she got up and went to all the kids parents and told on them but all of them were lying by saying they didn't do anything and my friend's Dad was telling my mother he'd call the police if he were her. The kids never got in trouble for what they did to me because their parents never cared what their kids did and they were too lazy to do their jobs. They let their kids bully. But that was the last time they ever threw pine cones over the fence at me. I guess their parents told them not to do it anymore because they got tired of finding my mother on their doorstep complaining lol.
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Come to think of it, I did get involved with a neighbor's kid's situation once, though not in a disciplinary way. These two girls (either sisters close in age, or friends - not sure) were going down the street - one on a bike and one on a razr scooter. The one on the razr scooter hit a bump and was thrown a good distance. I heard her screaming and crying outside. I hear that a lot, you know when kids fight over shit. But after the crying persisted for a few minutes, I figured that something was wrong. So I went outside, and the girl had some bad road rash from head to toe. I asked her if she wanted to come in to get cleaned up, but she got scared. I honsetly didn't even think about how scary that could be - when I was 9ish (the age she appeared to be) I would have gone into any neighbor's house. Of course, I knew all my neighbors, unlike here. So, then I asked her if she wanted to clean up using my hose if I brought stuff out to her. I also brought the cordless phone out to her, so she was able to call her house and make sure that there was someone to let her in. We also have a neighbor named Jackie who has kids that are the same age, so I asked if she knows Jackie. She did, and so I asked if she wanted me to get Jackie, since that's a grown up who's not a stranger. She didn't - so she just let me help her clean her scrapes and put bandaids on them.
After that, I just let her go home and made her promise to call her mom or dad. I told her that she should probably put Neosporin on her road rash, but that Neosporin is medicine, and I didn't want to give her medicine without her mom or dad's permission.
So, that was sort of an eye-opening experience for me. I don't have kids and I don't come into contact with them much. It sucks in this day and age that they're fearful of going inside a neighbor's house when they're injured like that. But I guess that for everyone involved it was good that I was just able to bring the stuff she needed outside (phone, soap, paper towels, bandages) so that she could clean up, control the bleeding, and get home.
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I sort of got involved with a neighbor's kid. A tiny girl, she couldn't have been more than three, was walking toward my house while I was watering my flowers out front, so I asked her where she was going. She was looking for someone, so I asked her where she lived since maybe they had gone there looking for her, she pointed back in the direction she had come from and I walked with her back toward her house. We found the girl she was looking for, maybe it was her big sister, and I went back home after telling her the tiny girl had gone looking for her.