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Title: 5-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Walks to School on Saturday, So Cops Arrested Dad
Source:
Reason
URL Source: http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/28/5 ... -boy-accidentally-walks-to-sch
Published: Dec 29, 2016
Author: Lenore Skenazy
Post Date: 2016-12-29 19:43:54 by Hondo68
Keywords: None
Views: 2677
Comments: 7
A 5-year-old in Berwick, Pennsylvania, woke his dad up on early a Saturday morning and said it was time to go to school. Daddy told him no, hon, it's Saturday—no school!—and went back to sleep. Now the dad, Jeffry Wagner, is facing child endangerment charges. Unbeknownst to him, his son continued to get ready for school and ventured out into the chilly day to make his way to the bus stop. Of course, no bus arrived, so the determined little boy started to walk to school. And then, reports CBS Pittsburgh: [A] motorist spotted him and called police, who picked up the boy. Wagner waived a preliminary hearing Thursday and will face the charge in county court. Because, of course, only the children of criminally negligent parents ever do anything unexpected. And any child who ventures outside is immediately in such grave danger, no parent should ever allow it, even if they're asleep. And no cop has ever had anything similar happen to him or her, because it's only abusive, negligent parents who sleep in on Saturday mornings. Throw the book at that sorry excuse for a papa! And let's hope that someday the child understands that it was thanks to him that daddy is doing time. That'll make the whole family a lot more functional. Poster Comment: Another kid learns to hate the jack booted thug cops, and their nanny state.Naturally
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#2. To: hondo68 (#0)
Why didn't the dickwad motorist talk to the boy before calling the gestapo?
#4. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Why didn't the dickwad motorist talk to the boy before calling the gestapo? What’s next, Fred? Maybe the “dickwad motorist” then puts the kid in his car to try and find out where the kid lives to take him home. Then another “dickwad motorist” spots the first “dickwad motorist” pick up the kid from the street who has been walking alone and calls the police to report a kidnapping. What’s next, Fred?
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest[A] motorist spotted him and called police, who picked up the boy.
Replies to Comment # 2. [A] motorist spotted him and called police, who picked up the boy.
So, the “dickwad motorist” talks to the boy and asks the him what he is doing. The boy answers that my dad is asleep so I am walking to school alone. Or, maybe something like happened to this 6-year-old Patz boy could easily also have happened to the 5-year-old Wagner boy:
I keep wondering why Jeffry Wagner “waived” his right to a preliminary hearing …
On the morning of May 25, 1979, Etan Patz left his SoHo apartment by himself for the first time, planning to walk two blocks to catch the school bus at West Broadway and Spring Street. He was wearing a blue captain's hat, a blue shirt, blue jeans, and blue sneakers. He never reached the bus stop.
Etan Patz photographed on September 16, 1978
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