Free-range kids picked up AGAIN by police

[Anonymous]

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Except the kids look homeless.

Good grief. Do you have children? Are your children always dressed in new, clean, fashionable clothes, with combed hair? If so, you're doing it wrong.

No, my kids are alway sweaty and dirty. But they don't look like a vagabond.

I get it is very Takoma Park to look like a vagabond ... But that heir cut is just wrong.

Could you please post pictures of your children? Actually, a line-up of pictures would be useful, because I'm not sure that I can reliably distinguish between sweaty/dirty and vagabond.

I woulda if I was the media who're this Range Arover mom is.

My H rock the Takoma Park homeless look quite often, and I have no problem with people thinking he is homeless.

Own it!

[Anonymous]

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It is very clear and the lawsuit will go nowhere.

How much experience do you have practicing law, and did your law school issue a crystal ball along with the diploma?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Though it sounds a little harsh, I totally agree with the letter to the WaPo editor below:



"As a retired law enforcement officer with 38 years of experience, I think the Meitiv parents should simply send a certified letter to local, state and federal law enforcement, including Child Protective Services, relieving those agencies of any culpability in the event their children are kidnapped, molested, injured or worse during their “free-range” escapades. They should also pin a copy of that letter to their children’s outer clothing. I suspect such parents would be the first to sue law enforcement and the county in the event anything were to happen to their kids."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/should-parents-allow-their-children-to-range-freely/2015/04/16/89dd6ada-e2b7-11e4-ae0f-f8c46aa8c3a4_story.html

Unfortunately, that would have no legal effect. And we as a society generally do not accept that we should let them perish for their parents' stupidity.

You're correct of course, but it calls them out at their own game. Rightfully so, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Though it sounds a little harsh, I totally agree with the letter to the WaPo editor below:

"As a retired law enforcement officer with 38 years of experience, I think the Meitiv parents should simply send a certified letter to local, state and federal law enforcement, including Child Protective Services, relieving those agencies of any culpability in the event their children are kidnapped, molested, injured or worse during their “free-range” escapades. They should also pin a copy of that letter to their children’s outer clothing. I suspect such parents would be the first to sue law enforcement and the county in the event anything were to happen to their kids."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/should-parents-allow-their-children-to-range-freely/2015/04/16/89dd6ada-e2b7-11e4-ae0f-f8c46aa8c3a4_story.html

""Free-range" escapades" is what we're calling it now? It used to be just plain kids out being kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Though it sounds a little harsh, I totally agree with the letter to the WaPo editor below:

"As a retired law enforcement officer with 38 years of experience, I think the Meitiv parents should simply send a certified letter to local, state and federal law enforcement, including Child Protective Services, relieving those agencies of any culpability in the event their children are kidnapped, molested, injured or worse during their “free-range” escapades. They should also pin a copy of that letter to their children’s outer clothing. I suspect such parents would be the first to sue law enforcement and the county in the event anything were to happen to their kids."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/should-parents-allow-their-children-to-range-freely/2015/04/16/89dd6ada-e2b7-11e4-ae0f-f8c46aa8c3a4_story.html

""Free-range" escapades" is what we're calling it now? It used to be just plain kids out being kids.

Freedom of speech, don't you know. People can call it anything they want.

[Anonymous]

Hipsters call it chicken strutting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

It is very clear and the lawsuit will go nowhere.

How much experience do you have practicing law, and did your law school issue a crystal ball along with the diploma?

Not PP, but I'm a lawyer and also think the suit is baseless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It is very clear and the lawsuit will go nowhere.

How much experience do you have practicing law, and did your law school issue a crystal ball along with the diploma?

Not PP, but I'm a lawyer and also think the suit is baseless.

Same. And I work for the County. (Not for either involved department, though).

[Anonymous]

Has everyone read the police chief's email to county councilman Hans Reimer? It's on Reimer's public FB page.

[Anonymous]

And if you read his page, be sure to scroll through the comments to see where Reimer posts (a few times) that neighbors in the area have repeatedly called the cops on the family for years since they've been allowing the free ranging since the younger one was a toddler. Toddler. That's according to neighbors who told Reimer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And if you read his page, be sure to scroll through the comments to see where Reimer posts (a few times) that neighbors in the area have repeatedly called the cops on the family for years since they've been allowing the free ranging since the younger one was a toddler. Toddler. That's according to neighbors who told Reimer.

Riemer should not be posting hearsay about that family. Not cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And if you read his page, be sure to scroll through the comments to see where Reimer posts (a few times) that neighbors in the area have repeatedly called the cops on the family for years since they've been allowing the free ranging since the younger one was a toddler. Toddler. That's according to neighbors who told Reimer.

Talk about hearsay. There was a comment where a neighbor called the family "odd," which has been taken down. Are you referring to another comment that has been taken down?

[Anonymous]

There were a few comments where he says a number of neighbors have told him that the kids have been roaming around alone since the younger one was a toddler. I doubt Reimer would have posted that if he had heard it from a stranger. He probably trusts the source.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And if you read his page, be sure to scroll through the comments to see where Reimer posts (a few times) that neighbors in the area have repeatedly called the cops on the family for years since they've been allowing the free ranging since the younger one was a toddler. Toddler. That's according to neighbors who told Reimer.

Talk about hearsay. There was a comment where a neighbor called the family "odd," which has been taken down. Are you referring to another comment that has been taken down?

You guys don't know what hearsay is. If it's not being offered as evidence in a trial, it's not hearsay. There's nothing prohibiting him from posting it. By your logic every newspaper every day is publishing hearsay. Think, people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And if you read his page, be sure to scroll through the comments to see where Reimer posts (a few times) that neighbors in the area have repeatedly called the cops on the family for years since they've been allowing the free ranging since the younger one was a toddler. Toddler. That's according to neighbors who told Reimer.

Riemer should not be posting hearsay about that family. Not cool.

Nope, he didn't post hearsay. Everything he wrote in his letter is factual and verifiable. Manger rocks!