tst123Neighbors call police on boy asking to mow lawns to save for a PS5, officers pitch in to buy him the console
corrodedIt’s hard for me to understand someone who would call the police on a kid mowing yards. You hear all these complaints from the older generation about kids these days not knowing the value of hard work or being too “soft” because they spend all their time in front of a screen. This is an example of a young person going out and offering useful manual labor to their neighbors in order to earn money for something they want. It’s exactly how kids learn the value of hard work. Who could have a problem with this? I’m glad the police were willing to help him out, but I feel like at least one of his neighbors needs a slap to the face.
Can’t really grapes it either, have a theory but I hate being so cynical.
It’s hard not to be cynical these days. The article didn’t specify, but I’m sure this was a case of a kid who didn’t “look right” for the neighborhood.
Who could have a problem with this?
well you see, according to the pictures in the article the kid is Black.
I can understand not wanting to pay a kid for lawn work, I’ve been broke before. Just say no thank you and go on with life.
That being said, we hire kids in our neighborhood all the time.
We have two girls (9 and 6, I think, never met them, grandma drives and “supervises”) who come pick up dog poop, and we’ve had a kid for a couple years who turned mowing yards in the summer into an LLC and he just hired his first employee to help out with client growth.
I know if he wasn’t a white blonde kid who looks halway decent (long hair, which just makes me jealous, but boomers would have a fit) then the Karen’s would call the cops.
Someone in the neighborhood called the cops about a black woman going through mailboxes. It was a postal worker, in uniform, in a clearly labeled mail truck. I just don’t get it.
OderusI just don’t get it.
I get it. I wish I didn’t, but I get it.
Flying SquidI can’t understand white someone would do it either.
Honestly, just racism. I know a group of people who were knocking on doors advertising a community event and the cops were called on the one black dude they had with them. He always has a big smile on him and doesn’t look threatening at all, so I find it hard to believe that it’s not just racism.
TurboDieselYeah I just can’t qwhite put my finger on it.
BlackmistYeah, when they say that they mean white kids.
They don’t want blacks anywhere near their neighbourhood.
I find it hard to believe the police turned up.
“Hello police, there is a kid mowing gardens.” Isn’t exactly a priority response call.
There are some astonishingly sleepy towns in the world.
OrangeI doubt the neighbor that called said they were just mowing lawns. More likely along the lines of “suspicious black person has been walking around peoples houses” as they conveniently leave out that they are walking behind a lawn mower.
Yeah I hear that a lot in my own town.
“Kids these days stay inside too much” kids go outside and they’re calling the cops. Gee wonder why the kids don’t go outside anymore.
You know, nothing summed it up quite like the whole Pokemon Go craze. It was wild, people of all ages were out like it was a festival every day. I’ve never seen main street so active before or since, and the parks too. That was like the best four weeks, perhaps I feeling I haven’t had since being a kid on summer vacation, it really felt like summer meant something again.
And oh my god the old folks were livid. At kids playing. In the park. There are people in the city park, there aren’t supposed to be people there, it’s supposed to be empty and dilapidated.
SivitriMan it’s wild to me how hard people hate on kids having areas to play. I live near an empty lot that used to be a pool and the city wanted to turn it into a skate park. There’s some old grump with a homemade sign slung over their fence with “WE DON’T WANT A SKATE PARK” scrawled on it like?? Come on, give the local kids a safe place to play that isn’t a parking lot. I’m for it and I don’t even have kids!
Depending on how close the fence was to the property line, that sign might be litter. Just sayin’
Dark_BladeHe’s a black kid. The people doing this don’t want black kids out, they want them inside cells or caskets.
IgnacioHe was clearly running away with the lawnmower in a zig zagging motion across the lawn so he could steal it
Not sure if you noticed but the kid is black
AnUnusualRelicHe can’t be, the police didn’t shoot him.
People shoot black kids for ringing bells, calling the cops is actually pretty mild. They want to scare minorities away from their neighborhood, and this is the legal way to do it.