That's not an argument at all. Being out late is not a crime. Back when I was 14 I was at a friend's house and we got hunvry at like 1 am and walked like 5 miles to a whataburger. We got stopped by a Constable who asked us what we were doing and told us to turn around even though we were literally next door to our destination when he stopped us. We said "yes officer, sure thing," then as soon as he drove off we turned around and got our hungry asses some fast food. I remember that it took them over an hour to get only my order out, all my friends were done eating long before my order came out so I had to eat my food on the 5 mile walk back, and they didn't even refund me, just gave me a coupon for a free burger. Good times. And no, none of us drank, did drugs, or committed any crimes.
I grew up in an adjacent neighborhood where he was shot. He was gang banging and up to no good at 2am with a burner. 13 years old is prime age for gang bangers to start doing dirty work.
I lost many friends and family in their teens to "kids" his age in that neighborhood minding their business and not gang banging. You'll never here about them on the media though like this "kid".
I'm sure your parents knew where you were at 2-3am in the morning. 'We didn't do nutten officer". And of course the house you were in didn't have any food. I hope you've gotten a little smarter since then, but then you sound like you're bragging about how "slick" you were !
How is walking to buy fast food slick in any way? And no, there wasn't food at my friend's house, since his mom had a brain tumor and his little brother was severely disabled, both physically and mentally, so sometimes she had a hard time getting to the store.
Wow ! Sick, and disabled people in the house, and you just run off in the middle of the night. I'm sure that in your mind that you can "justify" your behavior even to the point of playing games, and lying to the cops, but then again I'm sure you can come up with all kinds of excuses for doing what you want to do. So "yes" it's that poor woman's fault for being too sick to go to the store, and she should be ashamed she didn't consider your "needs". So you walked 10 miles to get a burger at 2-3 am. She should have been arrested for child abuse I guess to make a nice ending to your "story".
But doesn’t it look a little.. idk suspicious for a kid to be roaming the streets in the middle of the night on a school night? Maybe I’m too much of a prude but nothing good happens after midnight.
You're absolutely right. As much as I hate saying it, these boomers reminiscing about the good ol' days don't get how much different it is nowadays, or how not-so-innocent urban neighborhoods are.
I'd never allow my child to roam the streets late at night.
Even in Germany this is pretty much true, the areas that are dangerous to go through at night consistently increases the more immigrants are being shoveled into our country.
As a kid it was mostly safe here, but nowadays I'm hearing more and more about stabbing incidents nearby..
Boomer here. We weren’t carrying guns and running away from cops at 2am. I’d say something about how our parents would have whipped our asses but they would have never permitted things to reach such a level of complete moral bankruptcy to begin with.
A 13 year old kid roaming the streets with a gun. At 2am. And running away from police. I can’t fathom such a thing.
Did you not just read my story? Now, granted, there weren't reports of gunshots where we were, so that is a huge and important difference, but your argument didn't include that detail. You just said he was asking for it by existing outside at a time you designate inappropriate, which I disagree with. But again, we weren't criminals and definitely weren't shooting at cars.
Difference being that Chicago is a constant crime zone in the last year where CHILDREN this kid’s age and under has been shot. Why the heck is he not at home? Where is his mom? We can take an educated guess his dad isn’t at home.
And now he is just another funeral the city is on the hook for and instead of blaming faulty parenting and a culture that thrives on this stupid sh—, people are saying him roaming around at 230am on a darn school night is no big deal.
I don’t care if he didn’t have a gun and really wasn’t doing something wrong. His butt should’ve been in bed.
Oh but I did read your story! Seems full of bs...
Pro tip: when pretending to be an American, don’t use the word Constable. No one in America calls the police “Constable”
Yep. I was a person with issues, these issues I tried to resolve by biking at night. If a cop stopped me, I let him do whatever was needed. It is easier to just comply and you both move forward in your life, then resist and now something can happen. I do understand the why that is wrong approach, but the way I look at it is simple. They want to know who you are and what you are doing. A lot of nefarious people out there and I used to be one.
He’s running around in the middle of the night.
You really think he wouldn’t be up to no good?
That's not an argument at all. Being out late is not a crime. Back when I was 14 I was at a friend's house and we got hunvry at like 1 am and walked like 5 miles to a whataburger. We got stopped by a Constable who asked us what we were doing and told us to turn around even though we were literally next door to our destination when he stopped us. We said "yes officer, sure thing," then as soon as he drove off we turned around and got our hungry asses some fast food. I remember that it took them over an hour to get only my order out, all my friends were done eating long before my order came out so I had to eat my food on the 5 mile walk back, and they didn't even refund me, just gave me a coupon for a free burger. Good times. And no, none of us drank, did drugs, or committed any crimes.
I grew up in an adjacent neighborhood where he was shot. He was gang banging and up to no good at 2am with a burner. 13 years old is prime age for gang bangers to start doing dirty work.
I lost many friends and family in their teens to "kids" his age in that neighborhood minding their business and not gang banging. You'll never here about them on the media though like this "kid".
Yep.
I'm sure your parents knew where you were at 2-3am in the morning. 'We didn't do nutten officer". And of course the house you were in didn't have any food. I hope you've gotten a little smarter since then, but then you sound like you're bragging about how "slick" you were !
How is walking to buy fast food slick in any way? And no, there wasn't food at my friend's house, since his mom had a brain tumor and his little brother was severely disabled, both physically and mentally, so sometimes she had a hard time getting to the store.
Wow ! Sick, and disabled people in the house, and you just run off in the middle of the night. I'm sure that in your mind that you can "justify" your behavior even to the point of playing games, and lying to the cops, but then again I'm sure you can come up with all kinds of excuses for doing what you want to do. So "yes" it's that poor woman's fault for being too sick to go to the store, and she should be ashamed she didn't consider your "needs". So you walked 10 miles to get a burger at 2-3 am. She should have been arrested for child abuse I guess to make a nice ending to your "story".
Fine fine.
But doesn’t it look a little.. idk suspicious for a kid to be roaming the streets in the middle of the night on a school night? Maybe I’m too much of a prude but nothing good happens after midnight.
You're absolutely right. As much as I hate saying it, these boomers reminiscing about the good ol' days don't get how much different it is nowadays, or how not-so-innocent urban neighborhoods are.
I'd never allow my child to roam the streets late at night.
Even in Germany this is pretty much true, the areas that are dangerous to go through at night consistently increases the more immigrants are being shoveled into our country.
As a kid it was mostly safe here, but nowadays I'm hearing more and more about stabbing incidents nearby..
Boomer here. We weren’t carrying guns and running away from cops at 2am. I’d say something about how our parents would have whipped our asses but they would have never permitted things to reach such a level of complete moral bankruptcy to begin with.
A 13 year old kid roaming the streets with a gun. At 2am. And running away from police. I can’t fathom such a thing.
Great job destroying the black family, libs.
Did you not just read my story? Now, granted, there weren't reports of gunshots where we were, so that is a huge and important difference, but your argument didn't include that detail. You just said he was asking for it by existing outside at a time you designate inappropriate, which I disagree with. But again, we weren't criminals and definitely weren't shooting at cars.
I did. You waited a hour for your food.
Difference being that Chicago is a constant crime zone in the last year where CHILDREN this kid’s age and under has been shot. Why the heck is he not at home? Where is his mom? We can take an educated guess his dad isn’t at home.
And now he is just another funeral the city is on the hook for and instead of blaming faulty parenting and a culture that thrives on this stupid sh—, people are saying him roaming around at 230am on a darn school night is no big deal.
I don’t care if he didn’t have a gun and really wasn’t doing something wrong. His butt should’ve been in bed.
Oh but I did read your story! Seems full of bs... Pro tip: when pretending to be an American, don’t use the word Constable. No one in America calls the police “Constable”
Yep. I was a person with issues, these issues I tried to resolve by biking at night. If a cop stopped me, I let him do whatever was needed. It is easier to just comply and you both move forward in your life, then resist and now something can happen. I do understand the why that is wrong approach, but the way I look at it is simple. They want to know who you are and what you are doing. A lot of nefarious people out there and I used to be one.