Wed 26 Mar 2008
Outside a bar, Ambridge. Evening.
A father is standing with his six-year-old son.
Child: [pointing at his father and running away into the Sunoco parking lot] STRANGER DANGER STRANGER DANGER!
Father: You get back here! That’s stranger danger over there!
— Overheard by Rachel and Dommy
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March 26th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Um … OK. I’m assuming that the person who sent this in *knew* the people in question (”six year old son” is a pretty specific description). Otherwise, I’d be pretty freaked out.
Here’s a tip: If a child is running away from an adult screaming “stranger danger! stranger danger!” don’t *assume* the adult is their parent. Calling the fucking cops.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
my thoughts exactly…
March 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
The kid may have just been being a little shit. It doesn’t say that the kid was screaming anything, and if both father and son were laughing about it, it wouldn’t have given the poster any cause for concern.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Yeah, kids will do that at that age. My friend’s kid, at age 5, once screamed “He’s touching my penis!” in a crowded supermarket, just for shits and giggles.
Nevertheless, it’s best to let the law decide. As a father, I’d rather be hassled unnecessarily by the cops over a misunderstanding than run the risk of having my kid hurt because someone assumed he was playing a joke.
(Please, please, please don’t let this turn into a civil liberties debate. I am a yearly contributor to the ACLU and EFF.)
March 27th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
The submitter wrote that the child looked to be six years old. I streamline stuff a lot so it reads better.
March 28th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
before she died in her sixties, my mom was a card. The doctor would ask how old she was and she would say “sexty-sex.” In warm weather when the windows were open she would lay in bed and scream that we were beating her, even calling out the names of neighbors to come help her. Then she would laugh her butt off. My point is that Kat could be correct.