I read a story about a sex offender who attempted to kidnap an 8-year-old girl while she and her family were shopping at Wal-Mart in Waterville, Maine. This happens every day but it’s not such a common occurrence in rural Maine. It serves as a reminder that our children should never be out of our sight even for a moment.
Perhaps you were simply being overzelous in the title, but I fail to see how bearhugging our children while out in public really accomplishes anything.
How bout this: Teach your children not to go off with strangers, and if the stranger grabs them, teach them to scream. A stranger in this case being anyone they don’t recognize. I would think pretty much the first thing you teach your kids about being in public is the old ‘I know your parents’ line.
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Even when they are 45 and have been living somewhere else for over 2 decades? Seems a little draconian/obsessive to me…
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Even when you’re dead? Bit difficult, unless you believe in the afterlife…
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Keeping your children in sight does not protect them from psychos with laser-sighted rifles, diabolical muslims flying hijacked planes, rabid dogs, bird flu, a tsunami, earthquake or hurricane, bad drivers, drunk drivers, other DUI drivers, anthrax, Saddam Hussein, consumerist culture, advertising, becoming a religious fanatic or the simple fact that everyone dies.
But yeah, it’ll probably protect them from the odd would-be kidnapper/child abuser, so despite the fact that it’s neurotic and impossible, I agree with you…
Yes, I’m being immensely satirical and insulting. I couldn’t care less…
I wondered myself why the girl didn’t scream but perhaps she went along with the man because she naively believed that the man was telling the truth and was actually taking her back to her mother. Children should be taught not to go anywhere with a stranger no matter what the man says. They should be made aware that child molesters will employ any methods or trickery under the sun to get what they want.
So children know all women, do they? There couldn’t be any female sexual molestors out there, could there? Oh no, because the press hasn’t whipped up the gullible classes into a fervour about that, have they?
Yep, definitely someone who is basing their entire view of the issue on tabloid rhetoric and propaganda. Terrific…
this reminds me of monty python 
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Tabloids? The daily newspaper is a tabloid?
No, you didn’t…
The origin of this specific story is irrelevant, the attitude that if you let your children out of your sight for one moment then a sexually crazed man in his 40s with a dodgy beards will whip them up, carry them off and abuse them until they can’t even remember their own name (more or less what you’ve said) is one propagated by tabloids.
It’s rather difficult for parents to watch their child all the time, but in a store, that’s just negligent.
Education should be the most important thing to do. I believe that the parents should be completely honest about the dangers.
I know, let’s attach such extensive surveillance and satellite tracking systems to our children that they look far too ridiculous for even a rampant child sex maniac to find them attractive. That way, at least we’ll be able to track their movements when they get swept up by the hurricane created by those nasty terrorists with bird flu.
Alternatively we arm our children with syringes loaded with pure heroin. That way, should some would-be nonce try anything the child can give them a jab of skag, thus disabling them. Or, we electrify all our children by means of individual electric fences. We might have to genetically manipulate them first so that they naturally grow a non-conductive shell to protect them from the electricity but at least they’ll be protected from kidnappers and pedophiles.
On the other hand, some of those kids might grow up to become sex offenders. In which case the electricity-resistant shells might become a powerful weapon.
So, the chances are that either your child is going to be the victim of a horrendous attack by a Belgian called Valerie with small round glasses and a wimpy moustache or they are going to grow up to become a Belgian called Valerie who goes around perpetrating these crimes.
You can’t be too careful - just don’t have kids, then you don’t have to worry about it. And kill all the children that you’ve got - in the long run you’ll be doing them a favour. Maybe that’s what drove that stupid, sick bastard that was being discussed in the thread in the Rant House. The fact is that this is a stupid discussion to which I’ve provided a thoroughly stupid answer.
I think you’re overreacting about what I chose as a title to this thread. My point is to be a little more watchful. I don’t expect parents to be perfect.
What stupid, sick bast–d are you referring to in the Rant House? Are you talking about a specific thread in that forum?
“Man throws sons off balcony”