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More likely... Breaking News... the "concerned citizen" that called the police ends up being the parents and their wacko free range attention seeking friends. [/quote]

Well, as long as we're speculating, I think that the neighbor who called the police had it in for the parents, and this was a good way to get back at them. Because otherwise I absolutely cannot imagine why a neighbor would see elementary-school-aged children the neighbor knows, walking down the sidewalk on a Sunday afternoon, and think, "Hey, I know! I'll call the police!"[/quote]

You are making a big assumption that it was someone the parents know. Multiple people would find it concerning to see unaccompanied, very young looking children, in an urban park. Also we have no idea how these kids behave. Maybe they looked scared or lost, or maybe they said something weird to a concerned bystander.[/quote]

You can speculate, I can speculate, everybody can speculate! Yay!

But in fact they were not in a park, let alone an "urban (eek) park)".  They were two and a half blocks from home, so it's unlikely they looked lost. And if they looked scared, or said something weird to a concerned bystander, it was probably because they were worried that the police were going to come pick them up, as the police had in January.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-range-kids-and-our-parenting-police-state/2015/04/13/42c30336-e1df-11e4-905f-cc896d379a32_story.html[/quote]

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