Posted: 9/8/2007 7:39:49 PM EDT
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Cleaning my toys to hear 2 kids out side doing laps around our block on a 50ccittle street bike and dirtbike. "Quiet neighborhood in Covington". So I stop em' read them the riot act and say "Take em home". Well I was a little more harsh " a fu%^ and god da@m" slipped. So parents show up, "You cussed at my kid" Well sorry for my slip I apologize for that" BUT your kid was breaking the law. So I get the "Your right these bikes dont belong on the street" "but don’t cus at my kid". Well don’t go psycho on kids, that are my bad. They did not deserve my full anger but didn’t the parents bring this on themselves? Would you let your 8-10 year old do laps around your neighborhood on public streets? Both parent admitted to letting there kid do it! One even said "Ok jr now you have to stay on the trails now ok?" WTF over????? They basically admitted to letting him break the law until he got caught! Friggin mouth breathing god d@m MORONS I have to deal with around here. If I even though about taking my dirt bike out without being in an ORV park my dad would have sold it ASAP! You might say “I hate kids” but I have an 8 year old I wont even let go to the school around here because of the low quality youth I see roaming these streets.  |
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I try not to be overly harsh to kids, but I wouldn't apologize for that. If they think their kids are grownup enough to make decisions like when to violate the law, then they think their kids are grownup enough to be talked to like grownups. It's really simple. If they don't like how I handle their kid, they need to discipline them before I have to. I havn't heard from my irresponsible neighbors since, but they stopped calling the cops on me, and their kids (including 3 yr. old) don't sit in the middle of the road, unsupervised, and expect me to drive around them anymore. It helps that when the sheriff came to read me the riot act, he couldn't leave the neighborhood because their kids were blocking the road. 
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What I worry about is some punk slashing my tires because I told them to stop breaking the law. Or middle of the night "Bump....psssst.....whisper....grab 2011 sti.....grogy....... STOP......what are you doing...BANG...thump.....dam paperwork." Thanks for the support. I wish I had the balls to just say F-you your kids breaking the law and you let them do it! KMA! But with the mouth breathing idiots around here and my assets vulnerable I chose to be a bit political. Im hind sight I guess i should have just said what I felt. I mean hey. Cussing at kids doesn’t break laws as they were blatantly doing out in front of there neighbors. Oh well, at least I got to rid my back yard of one more grey squirle today. That made me happy. Got to just love .22 super colibris out of the back yard. Sounds like a staple gun.  |
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PAH LESE.. Like the parents OR EVEN KIDS, haven't already said worse. I learned the F word from my dad... Hell, mom and dad were my first two words... Dammit and SHIT were my third and fourth. I wouldn't worry about it... I would be more worried about the slashed tires than anything else. |
Yeah. my paintball gun is 10 times louder than my 22 rifle... 
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| If it makes you feel any better I cussed out a little shit today. I was at a stop sign almost ready to pull out and this kid in a skateboard just flies out of nowhere and almost into the side of my car. he then fell on his ass and jumped up and signaled for me to go. I began to pull out and he ran in front of me and I had to swerve the other way and slam on my breaks. I cussed him out good for that stunt. |
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I'm going to take the other side here. Being in my late 40's I remember: the days when we played army on the neighbors front yard and they didn't care as long as we stayed out of the garden, when our toy guns looked like real ones, when we played capture the flag and hid around neighbors houses without anyone caring, when we rode bikes without helmets, when we built forts in the woods, when we rode our minibike up and down the street, when we rode our bikes down the hill at the top of the street and were above the speed limit, when we went to construction sites and threw rocks into the puddles of water, when I was testing a junk yard carb purchase and it stuck on the full throttle position (yes I should have rebuilt it first) when the car wasn't registered yet, etc, etc, etc. My point is this, let the kids be kids. As long as this wasn't at 2am what does it matter. Yeah, maybe it breaks the law and I'm not condoning it but just about every example I've given broke some law. Didn't you ever drive around in your first vehicle with the stereo blaring "Free Bird" (if your my age). Some things you need to let the parents handle and if they believe it's ok, then mind your business. I live in NY and fireworks are illegal. Yet every 4th you would think you live in the middle of Beruit or Baghdad. Guess what, we all go outside and watch. Nobody calls the cops and nobody complains. Now if the kids were riding across peoples lawns that would be a different story but that doesn't sound like what was happening here. Is their dirt bike noisy, sure it is. But so is your leaf blower, lawn mower, chainsaw and weedwhacker. What you should have done is stop the kids, ask them about their bikes, remind them to stay safe and let it go. You've simply made yourself a target for a house egging or tire slashing. Now, I wasn't there so maybe I'm missing something here but based on what you stated I think you handled it incorrectly. Not trying to slam you here, just trying to remind you that we were all young once. Brett PS. I think the kids parents were right on here. They came over and talked to you and basically told you that they are their kids and their responsibility not yours. They were right to call you out on cussing at their kids. I don't know, being from NY, maybe I'm just too liberal. PSS. We used to play street hockey in the street. When a car came we moved the nets and let them through. Breaking a law sure, but guess what, no one complained |
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Brett, not to offend but your whole post is from the perspective 0f a youth and not said youth’s parent. Sure kids need to be kids, but part of that is learning to be a respectable contributor to society. That’s what most parents have forgotten. Did your parent know you were illegally trespassing in the construction zones? "Most kids these days burn down the site, the rocks go through windows not puddles" Did your parent know you were riding your mini bike on the street? Would they have cared if you were run over by an uninsured drunk driver? Would a soccer mom who didn’t see you because of your small profile, and illegal driving need to lose her house? NO! Think of this from the tired coming home from work adult’s perspective. Bad enough with the idiots with licenses and insurance, now I have to worry about little shits illegally riding there 40mph plus 2 foot high toys on the streets I pay for. Sure I was a POS kid for a while myself, but I look back on it and wish my dad put down the bottle and just smacked me. Where I grew up your neighbors would do it for your parents if they weren’t quick enough.  "wasn't at 2am what does it matter" Well didnt know crime was on the clock. |