Good citizen confronts neighbor for leaving her 4 and 6-year-old kids home alone for hours at a time: ‘She told me to mind my own business and my own kids.’

The neighbor needs to report this mom to the authorities. How old were you when your parents first started letting you stay home alone? I remember feeling pretty cool when I got to chill at home and eat snacks by myself in 5th grade. My parents couldn’t trust me not to eat a whole jar …
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Older pedestrian blocks driver from parking for long-awaited doctor’s appointment, he calls the authorities after missing the appointment: ‘She started taking pictures of my license plate’

Should people have the right to reserve a public parking space? Any driver who has wasted countless minutes crawling around a packed parking lot has probably thought that the answer to this question should be yes. However, when everybody who wants to park their car has the same opinion, things can get pretty chaotic very …
Seguir leyendo Older pedestrian blocks driver from parking for long-awaited doctor’s appointment, he calls the authorities after missing the appointment: ‘She started taking pictures of my license plate’

Mom steals iPad from her 8-year-old daughter and gives it to her stepdaughter, dad calls the police and reports her for theft: ‘Her view is sisters should help sisters out’

It’s not easy to parent when you’re divorced, especially when you’re trying to discipline your child. There might be behaviors that dad thinks are unacceptable, but mom couldn’t care less about. These differences arise in marriages, too, but they’re easier to discuss and get on the same page about when you’re living in the same …
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Misfit mom gets payback against the local tyrannical ‘mom-group’ when they involve her kid in a neighborhood spat, calling out their leader and setting the police after her: ‘She racked up $800 in tickets’

Neighborhood mom politics can make any woman feel like they’re back in high school again, vying for the attention and acceptance of the popular crowd. Except, the stakes are higher, because naturally, in the parenting world, parental feuds trickle down to the little ones, making a mom’s social life a big part of her kid’s …
Seguir leyendo Misfit mom gets payback against the local tyrannical ‘mom-group’ when they involve her kid in a neighborhood spat, calling out their leader and setting the police after her: ‘She racked up $800 in tickets’

‘My daughter was snatched from my hands’: Father of 4 gets tackled in public and arrested for kidnapping because his 3-year-old daughter has a different skin-tone than him

People can get incredibly weird about multi-racial families. They will go up to a mother who is a different race from their child and accuse them of taking them away from «their real mother,» despite knowing nothing about the child, the parent, or the circumstances of the child’s life. With fathers, accusations can turn more …
Seguir leyendo ‘My daughter was snatched from my hands’: Father of 4 gets tackled in public and arrested for kidnapping because his 3-year-old daughter has a different skin-tone than him

32-year-old man calls cops on 2 and 7-year-old children playing outside unattended, neighbor responsible for the kids screams at him for not letting them into his house: ‘The officer just let her leave with the boy and didn’t even go talk to the parents’

I hate that we live in such a surveillance culture. I understand parents wanting to protect their kids as much as they can, but forbidding kids from playing outside independently has a hugely negative impact on children. If they feel safe playing in their neighborhood without needing to ask their parents every five seconds if …
Seguir leyendo 32-year-old man calls cops on 2 and 7-year-old children playing outside unattended, neighbor responsible for the kids screams at him for not letting them into his house: ‘The officer just let her leave with the boy and didn’t even go talk to the parents’

22 Car Memes for People Who Can’t Parallel Park

There’s nothing like when you first get your driver’s license. First, you have to endure the dreaded driver’s ed and drive times, awkwardly driving around town with a stranger who expects you to make small talk while you’re internally panicking about being a new driver. Whatever they’re paying those instructors, it’s not enough. Then the …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Cops on Slides, The Planet of the Bass, and Mourning for Tater Tot

Also, Lizzo plunges into the cancellation meme cycle.

Grown Man Calls Police on Six-Year-Old Child After Sister-in-Law Steals Nintendo Switch

There are some situations where nobody is in the right. Everybody just sucks, and the entire event context is just kind of miserable. It appears we have the perfect example of that scenario right here on Reddit. The story goes, a father (/u/Flimsy_Wish_7885) throws a Fourth of July cookout for his entire family. Everything seems …
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