WTF?? Those Kids were Innocent and having fun until those damn Police Threatened to take them away from their Parents over something so innocent and silly thing.
read this post
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366401/Sisters-aged-4-6-10-threatened-arrest-picking-daffodils-park.html
Peter Adams, a Conservative Councillor on Poole Council, reported the Family to the Police. :eek:
this guy should be kicked out of the Council for being like that it is pretty unlawful to Threatening the Family or Families with Arrest. :mad:
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From the financial point of view, daffodil *bulbs* are $0.50 each. 80 of them are worth $40. Now they're gone and you have to wait a whole year to get them back, assuming the bulbs were still there. Grown daffodils are $3 a piece, which would mean $240 to replace them. Finally, the grounds keeper will have to be paid to go over and replant several things to fill in the gaps created by these carefree children. Planting 80 plants would take a considerable amount of his time.
Instead of being ticked at the police and writing the paper, the parents should stop thinking "our kids can do no wrong" and teach them to respect things that aren't theirs instead. The price of the damage is on par with a broken window. I'd like to see this same couple not report one of those to the police. :rolleyes:
again whether the councillor should have asked the parents first instead of calling the police is debatable but he did nothing unlawful. taking the flowers whether you like it or not was a crime. it might seem silly and trivial but the next set of people cant enjoy the gardens if all the flowers have been uprooted. children damage things. do you let them write on the walls just because they are children? the police calmly resolved the situation and unless that family continues to let their children damage the flowers then nothing more will come of it.
id ask you to be a bit more respectful to the police of my country who are only doing their job instead of referring to them as 'damn police'. they were absolutely in the right to tell those people to stop their children from damaging a public place.
imagine walking through a park and enjoying the flowers then think about how it would look if someone child was allowed to destroy it simply because they were playing.
my apologies
but it's Counciller's fault.
he should have simply walked up to them instead of calling Police on them
yes perhaps he should have done.
Maybe, but you never know how people will react these days. Some might thank you, others might start screaming, and a few may even be violent.
Judging from the parents' reaction in the article, my guess is that they would have been screaming bloody murder no matter what the situation was.
Yeah, it's something like that.
Power gets abused, Kids misbehave, water remains wet and I am willing to bet threads get locked.
*obnoxiously loud noises of drinking the last bits of liquid from a soda cup with a straw follow*
Batting a thousand with these, Caboose.
I agree with Archie here.
The kids should not have been out there tearing up bunches of flowers. A flower or two each, fine. 80? That is going a bit overboard and bordering on defacement of public property. How would you like it if you had a nice flower thing going and 3 girls tore 80 of them up? And better to teach the girls a lesson now before they move on to bigger things.
I may be evil, but even my evil has standards. I am more of the affably evil.
The first thing my grandmother (she raised me for the most part) taught me when we went ot the beach the first time was that if I saw a snail or a crab or a flower, maybe a pine cone, whatever, to leave it. Because if I took one, and someone else took one and then everyone in the town took one, there'd be nothing left.
In my adult life I now, thanks to that, understand why it says "The removal of any flora or fauna prohibited by state law" on all our parks. Also, taking fauna could also take any number of horrible routes.
Is this concept so hard to understand?