But not the other 20%. I read your comment as to you having lost a son in a war. I'm very sad for you.
I don't recall trashing and bashing freedoms.
Also, I have already written on here that I am a Veteran of the Korean War, we had three kids who are all university graduates and professionals, and who have never had a criminal ticket, and were never beaten as children.
You do seem paranoid!

You need to know that I have raised four children who are all college gradutes, professionals, and have never been beaten, but their Momma did use the rubber end of a fly swatter occasionally during the terrible 2-3s. Against diapers it scared more than hurt.
Now, who is talking about breaking and entering, guns, drunken driving, 75 in a 25 zone, maiming, or any of that?
I personally know a few kids who are now in serious trouble due to the quantity of citations for things that could have been handled another way. Example: three kids playing army in the woods by building a bridge across a creek, hanging a climb rope in a tree, and shooting paint balls. Guess what, instead of encouraging them, a neighbor called the cops who issued a citation for disturbing the peace, paint ball, and messing up the woods. My Lord, I would have been sentenced to life at that age if the cops came running every time I did something like this! Next, he got a 47 MPH ticket in a 35 MPH zone on GA 85. Who doesn't? This got him 2 years probation due to the first count. Next, he went with a friend to a place behind their home where they could shoot into a bank to practice with a .22 rifle. Again the cops were called and they arrested all of them. Lord knows what now. Jail, I suppose. These are good kids, but no difference is made. The fines have been $3000 so far, which is the reason for the lack of judgement, in my opinion.
Guidance and punishment were required but not what was issued. The woman who drowned five kids got less! The woman who shot her preacher husband in the back with a shotgun will get less. O.J. got less. Money is the reason!
Lets take the time to save our kids, not fill the jails.
Everyone is not a gangster from Clayton who was by the way raised by gangsters and can't really help it, they need two years in the army at 17.

I forgot to respond to your charge of being vicious.........if thinking that the laws should be enforced and that people should be held accountable for what they do.......WHATEVER!!

Oh, you said the WHATEVER! I'm scared.
I'll bet you chew tobacco or dip snuff? If you do, did you know there is a law on the books about spitting in public? Enforce it, I say.

Is that the best you have got????
You are more entertaining than Desperate Housewives! Keep it coming.

ps: Yes spitting is illegal. Especially if you spit on someone, the cops call it "simple assault", and you can get charged with it.
Some of the ummm.... "angels" in my neighborhood could explain it to you. Also if you, as a liberal, pansey, milktoast, bedwetter, parent try to defend your "angels" by taking a swing at a cop.......you are displaying what cops everywhere refer to as a "negative attitiude" and they don't care for it. You can get charged for that too. FYI!

don't be afraid of words dollar, words are our friends.

gee dollar, sounds like that kid doesn't learn very well, he got the punishment but it sounds like it didn't make any difference and I would think that the guidance would be up to his parents. Shooting rifles in a residential area is just plain wrong, sounds like a relative of yours, maybe a grandkid. Maybe if this kid stopped to think he could stay out of trouble.

I'm glad to see that our cops and the laws are working.

It sounds like these kids got exactly what they deserved. There are consequences for bad behavour, sometimes those consequences are more painful than others. If those kids had responsible parents, and had been taught early on about boundaries, rules, laws and consequences, none of that would have happened.

Kids playing with a 22 rifle.......you honestly think thats ok????

You are not an adult, you are teen delinquent.

The only time any kid should be handling a gun is in a gun class under the supervision of a qualified instructor!!!!

Your lack of understanding between right and wrong, makes me think you are a teen with mild retardation.....or what used to be labeled as trainable mental handicap...or TMH. It means you could be trained to bag groceries, or do light janitorial work.

It sounds like these kids got exactly what they deserved...

The only time any kid should be handling a gun is in a gun class under the supervision of a qualified instructor!!!!...

You must be one of those pansy, cry-baby bed-wetters who is intimidated by the very sight of a gun. You'd probably leave someone's house if you found out they had a hidden loaded pistol or would ban your kids from playing "shooter" games. You sicken me! I would rather have a kid who could handle a firearm than a weak, spineless one who is fearful of guns and the people that own them. If only you could spread your ignorance around, maybe the government will bans all firearms and we won't have anymore crime; it certainly worked in the UK. You're an idiot!

I am against retarded kids and their "parents" using guns irresponsibly......that's true.

I personally have several guns in my home for personal protection, and I would encourage every responsible adult to do the same(not crazy fools like dollar, but everyone else)

I'm not against guns, just worthless irresponsible kids using them carelessly in a neighborhood. Those kind of people give responsible gun owners a bad name.

I think most parents are not capable of teaching their kids gun safety. It should be left to a professional to teach the kids gun safety.....if people wanted to be good parents and let their kids shoot guns we have many good options available. One being the 4-H club here, and from what I understand those kids have won some top awards in gun competition.

You can attack me for many things but trying to ban guns isn't one of them. Get a grip, you are starting to sound like dollar when she's off her meds!!

I killed squirrels and rabbits when I was nine. I was taught early how to handle a low powered gun. Everyone must be 14 to you, including you.
17-18-19 year old soldiers are dying EVERY DAY nearly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And who said anything about "in a residential area" of course you don't shoot between houses or in the street.
I am not a teen. See my explanation of that with my note to skyspy.
The "law" is NOT working. Kids are being ruined for SOME kids really bad behaviour. We always drop and atomic bomb to kill a mouse!

I'm sorry, what does Iraq have to do with this subject? Were you with these kids when they were shooting BEHIND their house, if there is a house there it is a residential area, and I'm pretty sure you can join the military at 17, but they won't send you to a war zone till you're 18.

AMEN!

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this way.

I don't know if I can shock dollar into being a good parent.
The story about the decapitated head is true......I know one cop this happened to. He had nighmares for a long time because someone was careless and irresponsible.

Like I told my daughters boyfriend; Just remember, when you try it, I'll be standing there.

If you can get past me, go for it.

Please remember, the odds are against you because I'm the meanest SOB in the valley.

Let nothing but fear and common sense get between us.

Bad, who suffers the consequences? I'll tell you who: the kids who were raised by these overwhelmed by the world and ignorant parents, that's who!
Does that make you feel good?
Those kind of parents don't suffer from these kids having records to start life, they of course blame the kids too!

not the symptom.

It costs me enough to raise my own kids correctly. (spelling excluded)

The dog is back.....thank you, thank you

that you agreed with the shaved cat that my previous avatar looked like a failed abortion.

I couldn't tell what it was, that's why I asked you that one time. This guy is cute, keep him.
Also I used you as an example(a good one) in my reply to dollar. I hope thats ok.

Just be careful, sometimes I go why out in left field head'en for the fence.

Use at your own risk.

Not failed abortion! It was a pile of afterbirth.

The dog looks good Bad Dude!!!! Just keep him off my lawn.

It's up above I used you as an example of a good parent.

Someone like you was needed at Duke University to check on the Frat Houses and Sororities for alcohol and sex parties. These are kids just out of high school and they do as they please, plus, they call you pigs, hazard county mounties, Barney Fiffes, and uniform and gun crazies, all of which is NOT true for 80% of the police force.
The kicker here is though, many of those students got that way by the way they were treated by some police while in high school.
They absolutely feel picked on. We have a lot of overwhelmed and ignorant parents. Are we not to help them when we can by advice, and trust? Tickets just get them into serious trouble and they hold it against everyone. It doesn't change the way they were raised.

...and that is why your kids are going to be idiots. It's the police's fault that the kids drink and have sex parties in College? Because they feel picked on?

Give me a break! I know exactly who you are! I don't know your name, what you look like, or where you live, but I have dealt with you before. You are the parent who believes that I get paid to raise your little brats. You believe that it takes a village to raise a child. And you are the type of parent who is most likely to get a phone call in the middle of the night that your child is dead because he/she was doing something stupid.

Wake up, get a grip on reality, and teach your children some responsibility. Be a part of the solution instead of adding to the problem and the entire world will be better off. Your kids don't drink in college because I gave them a ticket when they were 16. They drink in college because you didn't teach them any better and our society has made him/her believe that it is a right of passage.

I told skyspy about my family.
Tell us about yours, please. Or do you have one? Don't lie.

:Someone like you was needed at Duke University to check on the
:Frat Houses and Sororities for alcohol and sex parties.

You mean there are college campuses where alcohol is consumed and sex occurs? This is truly shocking!

Forget the college days which were pretty fun.....I want to go back to high school! Have you seen all those HOT female teachers who are having "inappropriate relationships" with their male students? It's like every week another ho-teacher gets busted. Where were these teachers when I was in high school?! That's where all the action is these days, not some bogus scandal at Duke.

NUK

Hutch 866 you and I agree that this guy is a complete nut case. He stays on this blog all day and night writing dribble that only a shallow minded person like himself could enjoy. He is the perfect PTC parent with bad kids. The teachers are wrong for giving their kids C's rather then A's, even when they did no work at all. The police and wrong for writing them tickets or arresting them for shoplifting, DUI etc. Everyone know that kids in PTC are untouchable. Just ask police officers that work there that have to deal with good old mom and dad. Everyone is wrong that says the word NO to either child or parent. Gee the apple does not fall to far from the tree.

Dollaradayandfound you need to get off the booze. Or you need to go check into a hospital that can deal with the major mental problem you seem to have. I really feel sorry for your family and neighbors as you are a true nut. I would feel sorry for your friends if you had any.

Advise: GET A LIFE

Hutch 866 you and I agree that this guy is a complete nut case. He stays on this blog all day and night writing dribble that only a shallow minded person like himself could enjoy. He is the perfect PTC parent with bad kids. The teachers are wrong for giving their kids C's rather then A's, even when they did no work at all. The police and wrong for writing them tickets or arresting them for shoplifting, DUI etc. Everyone know that kids in PTC are untouchable. Just ask police officers that work there that have to deal with good old mom and dad. Everyone is wrong that says the word NO to either child or parent. Gee the apple does not fall to far from the tree.

Dollaradayandfound you need to get off the booze. Or you need to go check into a hospital that can deal with the major mental problem you seem to have. I really feel sorry for your family and neighbors as you are a true nut. I would feel sorry for your friends if you had any.

Advise: GET A LIFE

Just get a bigger gun! You will feel better. You have to be one of those 20% of cops who live for uniforms, guns, and sirens, and tickets, and stopping cars!

You are wrong again as you are all the time. I am not a cop but know plenty of them and they live to get a chance to jack up a parent like you with a mouth and ideas that make kids the way they are today. You have no conception of the dangers of life and what happens when grown ups like you allow behavior that is anti-social and dangerous. I believe you spent plenty of time in your life on the back side of the 8 ball. The one thing I do know is that you are a complete nut.

Let me see if I have this right, it's the police's fault that these kids are that way? If they get a ticket for speeding or running the stop sign,or passing the bus thats loading kids and they feel picked on, they should feel picked on. If they're having sex parties and drinking that's not the cops fault, it's the permissive parents and nuts like you that cause that kind of behavior.

Driving down the road in PTC had a cop turn his lights on behind me, thought he was pulling me over, but instead passed me thought he was responding to an emergency, little futher down the road saw the same car and cop at the convience store looking through the drinks as I also stopped there to buy some snacks. Now if I'm not mistaken being thirsty is not an emergency so he should never had his lights turned on like he was pulling me over or responding to an emergency. Resident of PTC for 18 yrs before moving.

Either your making this up completely, or the officer was called off of a call that he was responding to and then decided to stop at the convenience store. Obviously he did not blue light you to go get a drink - no cop is that stupid. They know they could land in a position of severe civil and criminal liability if such misconduct led to an accident or other incident. Best case scenario, they'd probably get fired for doing something like that.

I have also seen cops turn on the sirens to go get coffee! Also, firemen. Some repeatedly cut you off to immediately make a right turn with no sirens or lights. (just yesterday). SOME, not many.
Speed limits mean nothing to most of them. I know, they are in a hurry to get somewhere there might be a crime happening! Most cops however are straight.