G.R.-centric [Was: Re: OT: Concert Etiquette]

[Beth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Bumbledor" <bumbledor at c...> 
wrote:

> > > {Silverthorne}
> > > All it takes nowadays is for a child to swear that it 
was 'abused' for an adult to end up on the 'wrong' side of the law. 
Even parents can be penalized legally for giving their child a quick 
smack on the butt inpublic if someone else sees it, and decides that 
they're witnessing 'childabuse'.

Laura:
> > Actually, what you've said is sort of an urban myth,

Bumbledor: 
> Myth my blooming arse! I saw a parent give a child a good swat in 
D&W store and within 8 mins, cops were there intergating her and 
berating her.  And I told the cops the kid was lucky he wasn't mine, 
cause it would have been 2 swats!

[snip]
Laura:
> > Again, maybe it's just because I live in Downeast Maine 
(admittedly,
> > we're all kind of stuck about ten or twenty years in the past),
Bumbledor:
> Ah, that explains why you seem to be comming from lala-land.
> Nothing at all like the big cities of Detroit, L.A., Chicago, or 
NYC.
> 
Laura:
> >but
> > from I've been told,

Bumbledor: 
> What you have been told, and what is REALITY are two different 
things. And the problem here, is that you have NO idea what reality 
is for those who live in the bigger cities. Swat a kid there, and 
they can and sometimes do, get taken away right then and there.

Beth: Just curious as you continue to get heated and use ALL CAPS 
(you do realize you are shouting, don't you?): Are you claiming that 
D&W is located in large city? Because from my experience, and I'll 
bet I'm one of the few on this board who would recognize that 
obscure store name, West Michigan has one largish city with a 
multitude of suburbs. It may think it's big, but it still has fewer 
than 200,000 people. And having moved away from the area, I've since 
been told by a woman who used to work in legal aid there that the 
area _had_ one of the highest incest rates in the country. Perhaps 
there is a reason authorities are removing children quickly these 
days?