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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2015/04/neighbors_of_free_range_kids_what_do_you_do_when_you_see_a_kid_alone.html

For locals, this article is enough to drive you bats!  It references a parking garage adjacent to the Greyhound Station, but the police report says the kids were picked up at Fenton and Easley which is 4 blocks closer to Elsworth Park (they would not have reached the area of the Greyhound Station yet).  There is a parking LOT adjacent to the Greyhound Station and a garage about a block away behind it (tucked behind the Nora School), but in most reports the garage is called the Fenton Street garage which for Silver Springers would not call to mind the lot tucked behind the Nora School which is not on Fenton Street.

This article is interesting, but the author needs to firm up her geography and think twice about using so many anonymous sources.  It does raise a good point though (hypothetically speaking since I can make no sense of her geography), what would you do if you saw a child entering a parking garage unaccompanied?[/quote]

The author claims to be a local -- in the piece she says she lives and parents in the same Takoma Park/Silver Spring community. Of course, the author tagline at the end says she lives in Washington, DC.[/quote]

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