Robert Hairless
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It's a far different world from the one many of us knew, and many of us still don't know it.
Yesterday a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old walked into a Port St. Lucie, Florida, police station and demanded that the receptionist give them all her cash. Take a look at the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/03/14/kaple.kids.rob.WPBF.
The young entrepreneurs held their hands under their jackets to imply that they had guns.
In a room just across the lobby a group of police officers were taking a class. The receptionist called on them to handle the situation. They did. The kids were put on the ground and arrested.
There is an unsubstantiated rumor that The Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center have called for a ban on assault kids and fingers. I can't veryify that Paul Helmke of the VPC declared that "Nobody needs high capacity hands. Kids should be limited to one finger." There is little doubt among the public that there is a growing danger from kids with fingers and that these proposed solutions would solve the problem if the NRA would stop blocking progress.
Another unsubstantiated rumor is that the community is angry at the kids' treatment because they are good kids who never would do anything to justify such police brutality, and they demand an investigation.
What should be done with the kids, other than to teach them how to read plain English and to recognize the difference between a police station and a bank? Would field trips help?
Yesterday a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old walked into a Port St. Lucie, Florida, police station and demanded that the receptionist give them all her cash. Take a look at the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/03/14/kaple.kids.rob.WPBF.
The young entrepreneurs held their hands under their jackets to imply that they had guns.
In a room just across the lobby a group of police officers were taking a class. The receptionist called on them to handle the situation. They did. The kids were put on the ground and arrested.
There is an unsubstantiated rumor that The Brady Campaign and the Violence Policy Center have called for a ban on assault kids and fingers. I can't veryify that Paul Helmke of the VPC declared that "Nobody needs high capacity hands. Kids should be limited to one finger." There is little doubt among the public that there is a growing danger from kids with fingers and that these proposed solutions would solve the problem if the NRA would stop blocking progress.
Another unsubstantiated rumor is that the community is angry at the kids' treatment because they are good kids who never would do anything to justify such police brutality, and they demand an investigation.
What should be done with the kids, other than to teach them how to read plain English and to recognize the difference between a police station and a bank? Would field trips help?
but you beat me to it xD
