“Children Will Be Affected in Horrific Ways Because of Your Beliefs”

It’s funny that he cites home invasions as being the real threat, since having the kids at home during such an experience is the last thing you want. Better that they are off playing in the park when that happens.

If I may suggest something; if you are a regular here – and you have young children at the present time – let them respond to this person after explaining to them that there are people who believe kids are no higher a life form than the single cell kind.
Sadly, I do not have kids. And I am more afraid of this person than any kid should ever be of me.

You can tell you really made an impression on this guy; he was so outraged that he forgot how to write grammatically, spell, and lay out a line of reasoning. 😉

I think someone sees a threat to his industry.

Just sad…

Hearing arguments about bubble-wrapping your kids from someone who seems to believe that an increase in home security systems means that it’s a dangerous world is a well, reckless and uninformed waste of my time. And if Mr. Security thinks that free-range parenting is the worst thing he’s heard in his 47 years – well, he needs to get out more.

Love what Uly said about drunken monkeys. I have to say that I am hugely impressed with the communication skills of our regular commenters on this blog. I have a hard time overcoming poor spelling and grammar, awkward syntax and annoying acronyms.

And happily, I can read comments on this site with nary a shudder. Love you people.

Failure to properly use homophones accounts for 12% of all word crimes.

(See I can make up statistics and be sarcastic, too.)

Two items:

a) “your infringing on the rights of all the children” — Funny that letting kids go outside infringes on their rights. I would have thought giving them free will and empowerment would be the opposite of limiting one’s rights.

b) Your friend there missed the chapter of Norman Vincent Peale’s book saying that if you want people to listen to what you have to say and weigh your opinion for its validity, you don’t insult them and call them names. I’m sure such a chapter is there, even if half the Internet and most of YouTube is of a different mind about how to get people to want to hear a person out.

May this person’s children grow up in a world where air is free, intelligence is valued, and most importantly… language and writing skills are taken seriously.

>”When I saw you speak on CNN, you remind me of my Saint of Mother only in the way you speak very eloquently and well educated. Your thoughts are well thought out and you appear to research your subject matter.

Regarding head location: He’s surprised to encounter a woman very “eloquent,” etc? What more would you have to do to escape his condemnations of being “uninformed”, “addle minded”?

Speaking of which, in his 47 years, he’s heard of no “”nonsense” worse than FRParenting? Has he managed somehow to also deprive his children knowledge of Nazism and the The Holocaust; supposed rationalies for other genocides, various wars, unspeakable terrorism, the Manson murders? Or for that matter, whatever purportedly drives the “desperate and insane animals” perpetrating the “home invasions” he envisions?

What does he imagine to be worse than “horrific”? In any event, a parent should feel free to inflict horrors on his own children? Why should a reader care less about your children than about children generally?

So we are supposed to keep kids home because of home invasions?

Home invasion is a specific crime in which the residents are HOME at the time it occurs. I have never worked on a home invasion case in which the victim was not specifically selected. None have been random. Most have been drug dealers (that is who has large amounts of cash floating around and is less likely to call the police). So if you know people who commit home invasions or are a drug dealer, you may need to worry. Otherwise, home invasions are pretty rare.

Since few I know leave their alarms on while home, except maybe at night, seems that most people get security systems to prevent burglary, not home invasion.

Either way, I have never had a home invasion or burglary client who also abducted children in their spare time so I’m not sure what the correlation is here.

There’s just the SWEETEST irony in any letter like this when it contains the words “your a complete idiot.”

*kisses fingers*

I love how the stats are a ‘belief’.

I know who I don’t want installing a home security system in my house. This guy is not the brightest crayon in the box, is he?

I was a telephone councilor. On most nights that I worked, I took at least 2 suicide calls in a 4 hour shift! The reasons of ‘I’m so depressed’ varied but most had one thing in common. Most problems stemmed from low self confidence.

The suicide statistics are thousands of times higher than child abduction. What’s worse is that for every suicide that occurs, there are 500 people that have strong thoughts about taking their own life.

The danger of low/nil self confidence is so obvious to me that it’s hard to comprehend that others don’t see it. It’s ironic that this letter talks about a person being so blind that they have their head in their ass and that their misguided beliefs put children in danger.

This rant reminds me of the SNL skit:
“Jane, you ignorant slut.”

So he thinks “your a complete idiot” for realizing free play is an essential component for healthy children but wants children to be safe, indoors, with parental supervision because…home invasions?
All this coming from an illiterate home security salesman who capitalizes random nouns.

What horrific ways does he imagine outdoor play will cripple children? So he could bike to school at age 10 but today’s 10 year-old is in imminent danger? My 12 yo daughter has been biking to school for 6 years. Her danger? Her strong legs, strengthened and conditioned on hills, she is a big threat to her opponents on the soccer field. Honestly, I couldn’t be prouder of her independence and strength. But I guess I should have driven her all this time and kept her inside with the doors locked and the expensive alarm system activated to keep her away from the “desperate and insane animals” and subject her to a life of paranoia and anxiety unnecessary.

This is hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the security industry? My inner bookie is coming out. Ladies and Gentlemen place your bets.

3-1 he sits at a monitoring station for some home alarm company.

2-1 he is a wanna be cop walking a security beat at WalMart

3-2 He is a home alarm salesman

4-1 he installs home alarm systems

5-1 he is a bouncer at a bar

1000-1 longshot he has any actual law enforcement experience at all

Whenever someone like this takes the time to write a letter, but is only willing to go so far as to say “in the security industry” and not give their actual position within that industry he is probably sweeping the floors of the security company’s offices. That’s why there was no odds on that, because it is even money.

As for home security systems being in 10 times the homes as before? That really doesn’t mean anything if the starting number is low. Kinda like 10 times 1 is still only 10.

Now why are people getting systems? Fear? Maybe. Great introductory pricing? Probably. Or because they get a heck of a discount on their insurance? Most likely.

When we bought the home the first thing we did was get rid of the system.

I will match the effectiveness of the dogs against any alarm system. The dogs were never intended for security, and if you actually were brave enough to enter the house, they would probably hold the door open for you to carry stuff out. But the noise and chaos they make at first will deter any would be agents of hell.

Lenore –

I apologize on behalf of security professionals everywhere.

Security should be about balance, not fear.

I want my two kids to lead long, happy, interesting lives.

Security is only a small part of that.

I want police to focus on real crime, not hassling parents or kids.

I want my neighbors to know me and my kids, to watch them because we are part of a community together, not hide in their houses and call the cops at the drop of a hat.

Anyone who is serious about security knows that no one can guarantee perfect safety or absolute security.

Once we know security is not perfect, it becomes a trade off.

What security at what cost… and what other things can we do with that time, money, and freedom.

Keep it up.

Steve

I’ve often wondered if they insert the spelling and grammatical errors just to show they know they’re off their rockers?

It is true about the insurance thing. My mother’s house was burglarized while she was out of town – most likely one of my brother’s druggie friends as she lives in the middle of nowhere so you have to know the house is there. Her insurance company threatened to raise her rates substantially unless she got a security system so she did. She mostly uses it when she goes out of town. She’s never turned it on while in the house.

In the opening sentence:

“… and [I] work in the Security industry”.

‘Nuff said. He promotes this nonsense because it’s the idea that underpins his livelihood, never mind that there’s no substance to his argument.

Sounds to me like he’s trying to sell more home security systems….

…cuz that coulda come right out of scare-advertising copy.

I guess he just calls the times “bizarre and uncertain” because he can’t actually counter your statistics. He just assumes there’s some bizarre way in which his view is right.

I’m not sure what his 3% statistics is supposed to mean when he doesn’t tell us how many total break-ins there are, what percentage of home invasions are prevented by security, and what sort of activity usually happens during a home break-in.

I agree with the sentiment “sigh” shared about comments on this blog being very readable. I hadn’t consciously thought about that before, but I think it is true. Maybe we should go find some helicopter parenting blog and check the grammar in the comments section there to verify that this difference really exists.

Warren, your comment about your dogs holding the door open while burglars carry all your stuff out the door gave me a good laugh. 🙂

It’s not just the security industry, it’s the Security industry!

And what’s a Saint of Mother – is that truly a thing? I’ve heard people (not many, granted) refer to “my sainted mother”, but this is a new one for me if it’s for real.

I’m also kind of amazed that in 47 years he’s never heard anyone but his mother, oops Mother, speak eloquently and be well-educated.

I consider this really insulting. He clearly is a sexist… How dare that man calls you an idiot? He reminds me of those aggressive men who believe that a woman does not have right to her own opinion. God Save America from such!

Wow. Maybe this psycho lives in a neighborhood that made him so psycho. Of course some areas are more safe than others. Lenore doesn’t tell parents to allow their children to walk, alone in crime infested gang owned alleys after midnight. Good grief. You have to use a measure of common sense. As a parent I will make the final determination outside of what anyone tells me because the parents alone know their children and their neighborhoods. And if you don’t it’s your job to find out before allowing your child to free range it.

I think he means “my sainted mother,” a way of saying “my late mother.” He just doesn’t know the correct expression.

SMH. I have no words. This makes me very sad.

I found this on a US Dept of Justice website, as of 2010. *On average, household members became victims of violent crimes in about 266,560 burglaries annually. Offenders known to their victims accounted for 65% of these burglaries; strangers accounted for 28%.”

There’s also a discussion of the varying definitions of “home invasion” both in common usage and in laws and ordinances. At my 911 center, our basic definition is one of the ones listed in this document: an occupied residence being forcibly entered with the intent of robbing and/or harming the occupants. In a great percentage of ours the suspects and victims are known to each other, and it’s due to whatever “booty” (drugs or money) the victims had in the residence. the victims are often uncooperative with the police.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/vdhb.txt

I would suggest using a different graphic other than the CNN graphic for this post. I know the note was in response to your appearance on the show, but just looking at the headline next to the graphic, someone glancing over your page would get the impression that CNN called you out and said that to you during your interview. That was what went through my mind before I actually read the article. So the graphic next to the headline gives those words more credibility than they deserve.

We are fighting for our freedom to parent responsibly without being prosecuted or interfered with by authorities. I don’t care if my neighbors thing I’m weird. My kids will grow up to by your kids’ boss because I’m raising independent, self-confident people.

I had several folks mention they read free range articles and started conversing with me like I’d never heard of it. I respond with, “How much time do you have?”. Because right away I want to start giving them all of the crime stats Lenore has organized for us. Its safer than EVER people. We should be celebrating not hiding.

Thanks, Beth. Research was always the thing I hated most of all in school, and I don’t have the knack some have of knowing where to look and drilling down through various websites to find what I’m looking for.

Drunken monkey. Much better description than I was thinking!

Are “Beautiful Children” a brand of kids? And “your a complete idiot” is some solid stuff too. Sounds like a swell guy to take time out of his day to email insults at people he disagrees with, IMHO. I wish he was my dad, what with his 24 years of experience and all. Ha!

He works in the security industry and constantly bombarded with the crime statistics that are colored to favor the crime prevention industry. He’s obviously biased. I worked as a phone councilor and was constantly bombarded with people that have low/nill self esteem. I’m also biased. I recognize that. That’s why I try to be open minded.

Open minded is a concept that’s completely foreign to this troll

He works in the security industry.

Ipso facto, he has a vested interest in keeping people afraid of their shadows, and other non-existent threats.

His opinion can be safely ignored.

I noticed that injuries and illnesses seemed to go up instantly when I became a paramedic…

A person who works in ‘security’ claiming that the world is dangerous reminds me of an undertaker claiming that almost all of their clients are dead, and therefore, everyone is suddenly dropping dead.

Somehow, that 3% of break-ins are home invasions, if true, is trotted out to support…what exactly? That the world is unsafe? I don’t know if this number is up over time or not, but if it is, one way for it to go up would be a general reduction in break-ins. If break-ins in general fall, the remaining ones are likely being carried out by the most hardened of the potential burglars.

Also, mentioning that you speak very eloquently somehow reminds of me Joe Biden introducing Obama as a well-spoken, educated, Black man.

Security industry? Well then, it looks like you got an email from Paul Blart, Mall Cop.

Also, I have a hard time siding with someone so passionate, yet doesn’t know the difference between “there” and “their”. Ouch.

The most dangerous adults I ever came into contact with were my parents, and this “father” reminds me of them. Who’s going to protect kids from parents like that?

He certainly doesn’t take after his sainted mother in eloquent speaking!

The great danger of our time is….adult narcissism. The prevailing notion that if something COULD happen, it WILL happen. No amount of statistics or experience is going to dissuade people. Why? Because there is a kind of high that comes with the notion that one is a fierce protector of one’s children. Better yet, one can get the high of protecting one’s children in the face of cataclysmic danger, particularly when that danger is virtually non-existent.

When did we become a culture that wants to protect our children from the world, rather than preparing them for the world? But that’s the point of this whole blog and movement.

One of the major differences I see in our time versus my own (when admittedly the earth’s crust was not quite as cool as it is now), is that whereas parents once allowed kids to do things, grit their teeth and hoped for the best even when they were unsure if the kids were ready to do whatever; today’s parents give their kids very little leeway for fear of what a rare accident how an upsetting outcome would reflect on them. The balance of the inevitable risk/reward ratio that has always been an inherent part of parenting has shifted. Rather than being considered in the context of the child, this kind of fear shifts it to the context of the parent.

Now that parenting is a competitive activity, fueled by blogs and sensationalistic news media, the desire is to “win” at that, rather than do what is best for an individual child. In our extensive and ongoing interviews with parents, the objective we hear is “being the best parent,” not raising a confident, competent child. These two positions are not synonymous, though they often are presented that way. When the focus is on the parent and his or her experience and how she or she is perceived in an ever-broader community (Thanks, Internet.), the desire is for the perfect result. But parenting and growing up is a messy process for all involved. It’s trial and error, but millennia of survival of the species would indicate that there’s a lot more success than today’s fear-mongers-for-profit would want you to believe.

Yes, accidents will happen. Tragedies will occur. But shouldn’t the consideration always be what’s best for the individual kid? Some kids will be ready to go to the park at 7. Some at 10. But all kids want, and need, at some point, to spread their wings. We must continue to fight back against those who would want all kids wings to be clipped because of adult fear, or more appropriately, fear-driven ego.

I cannot believe I just spent precious time from my life reading that drivel.

Mary, in case your question is serious, a home invasion is a break-in where the residents are home at the time of the crime, per Donna. (Donna, do they also have to be awake and aware of the break-in, or merely present?)

So all burglaries that take place when the home is empty, account for the other 97%.

None of which has anything WHATSOEVER to do with Free Range parenting. Free Range parenting does not oppose alarm systems, and no other facet of the philosophy has any bearing whatsoever on what happens when people break in to your home, whether you’re there or not, except for the aspect that we might be more inclined to leave our kids home without an adult supervisor. Still, even that doesn’t bear on the home invasion stats, since those stats do not in any way reflect whether kids were with parents or caregivers at the time, or without them. Nor does the presence of a parent automatically make a home invasion situation either disappear, or become less dangerous.

(I steadily resist using the word “alone” because that’s the word the media/helicopter types like to use indiscriminately, regardless of how many children were present. And two or three or more children together are not “alone,” regardless of how desirable it might or might not be to leave them without adult supervision in a given situation.)

“(Donna, do they also have to be awake and aware of the break-in, or merely present?)”

Generally aware of the break-in. A “home invasion” is considered a violent crime, as opposed to a property crime. It usually anticipates that the victims are aware of the invasion, in contact with the perpetrators and a certain amount of intimidation is used against them. I’ve had cases where a burglar broke into a home while the residents slept and that was not something we considered a home invasion.

In my state, home invasion an actual defined crime. To be committed the perpetrator has to enter a dwelling with (1) the intent to commit a FORCIBLE crime, (2) armed with a weapon, and (3) while a person authorized to be there is present. There is no stated requirement that the occupants be aware, but a forcible crime is a crime against a person – eg armed robbery, rape, child molestion, kidnapping, assault, battery – so it seems hard to have that without having the person also awake and aware. I suppose it would be possible for someone to be raped or otherwise assaulted without ever waking (good sleeping pills?) so maybe …. The law is only a year old so there have been no appellate decisions interpreting it yet that I am aware of.

Christopher Byrne,

Bravo!
5-minute standing ovation
(the sound of two hands clapping)

Lenore, keep on doing what you are doing. I share a lot of your articles with my colleagues at Wal-Mart (who are very intelligent and well read by the way). We are all appalled by the way the government and busybodies interferes with parents who want their children to grow up healthy in mind and body.

@Warren, Wal-Mart does not have wannabe security guards. What we DO have are undercover shoppers who go around the store “shopping” while making sure as much as humanely possible that theft is minimized. Also we have cameras to help with security. Just to let you know. (Also most of us who work there are educated with proper grammar and spelling.)

@Rachel,
I’m glad I’m not the only one thinking alternate ‘let it go’ lyrics. A little while back, I mentioned an idea for alternate lyrics and my then 3 year old started singing them frequently.
“Let me go, Let me go,
Don’t hold me back anymore.
Let me go, Let me go,
*Wave good by and close the door.
I don’t care, what the neighbors say.
Let me run and play.
Their fears never bothered me anyway.”

*Perhaps this line should be “Say ‘have fun’ and close the door”

At 4 my daughter has taken to speaking clearly, and passionately, of her desire to go do things and go places independently. Granted her desires often exceed her abilities at this point. So she would be waiting on several of her wishes, even if there were no CPS peril.

But she also has reasonable desires. And without CPS peril, I could give my daughter a few minutes to cross the synagogue and fetch a napkin without following her. And we wouldn’t have needed the conversation a little while back where she begged me to stop following her, and asked me to go back to the library and my book, but, I had to respond with ‘I can’t allow that’. She has decidedly spotted the cult of inconvenience. She asks often, why can’t you keep doing x, just because I want/need y? That is the hardest part of explaining the limits I’m putting on her. I can explain ‘If you can’t open the door, it’s not safe to leave you on the other side of it.’ But I can’t get her to understand why a police officer in our synagogue makes it less safe for her to fetch her napkin alone, rather than more so.

What good is security, if it takes our freedom?

Mary,
It was a joke. You know…..humour. Sheesh.

I have a fondness for the deactivated security system in my house – the doors still beep when opened, and that was a huge help when my youngest was two and delighted in trying to run out of the house on me, especially when she figured out how the locks worked. It hasn’t been useful otherwise.

@Roger the Shrubber,
It wasn’t across the room. It was from one side to the other of a sizable building. Through the entire school area, past offices, and out to a social area by the front doors. There are about a half dozen places closer to where I was with appropriate paper products, but they are in dispensers mounted well over her head, rather than on a table where she can reach. So she wanted to go get a napkin from the social area, because she could do it herself.

I did such things at her age (and extremely small size) and the hens clucked about it then too. Thought I would go off course, or leave the building. They rushed to scold my mom about it but mom told them to calm down and open their eyes to what I was capable of. I don’t want to risk it when it is easier to complain to authority than give me a tongue lashing.

Our congregation was the last in the area to start paying for off-duty cops, and I would have liked for us to stay without. But that is my beef with the board, and their ‘but everyone else is doing it’ rationale. There are some really great parents who make it possible to proto free range our younger kids at the synagogue. The police officers aren’t even overly stringent. People still drop elementary age kids off for Hebrew school right in front of them…. come to think of it, maybe I just need to have a little chat with the officer and feel the situation out a little better.

P.S. Congregant is still the word.
Thanks for the help in thinking this through.

[…] and work in the Security industry.

Considering his language skills, I’m guessing he’s a security guard.

My roommate once dated a security guard. Nice enough guy, but he definitely had a twisted view of reality on account of having been shot at a few times. He was one of those people who didn’t like to sit in a restaurant with his back to the door, just in case something happened.

I’ve seen police with a similar attitude. I’d imagine that the first time you deal with some child being abused and killed, it makes you think twice about what could happen.

Personally, I feel sorry for these people.

Why do I think that a person in the “security” industry is not an unbiased commentator? Back about a hundred years ago, one of the predecessors of the company where I worked for many years ran a ad campaign: “Let electricity be your watchdog! Burglars will not raid where there is light!” Unwritten message: If you have us connect your home to our electric system, the bad guys will be more likely to hit the fellow down the street who still uses kerosene lamps. Nowadays, we have campaigns to “harden the target”, with locksmiths selling deadbolts and home improvement stores selling doors that would stop a charging rhino. Police-blotter reports on the nightly news make even the more peaceful communities seem to be crawling with creeps and housebreakers. Gun manufacturers and sellers want every law abiding citizen to buy their products to combat the evil army of thieves and bandits. There’s profit in peril!

@Nancy Boyle: Now please don’t comment again until you can provide us with a list of all the kids who DIDN’T get murdered between 1981 and today. Oh, and a reliable source saying crime has increased would be nice, too.

@Roger: 360 million? I thought it was 318? What country did you guys just conquer? 😛

Donna,

I am not without sympathy for any parent that loses a child. But are you like me? Getting sick and tired of hearing about Adam Walsh?

All these overprotective fearful parents hold him up like he is the poster child for constant parental supervision. The thing is he was with his mother. He was supervised. And I do not remember anyone back then or since then calling for his mother’s head on a stake for letting him get killed. (I am not saying it was her fault.) That is how they are treating the Metiv’s and others, yet Adam’s parents are folkheroes.

I personally do blame John Walsh for a lot of what parents have to deal with today. He has been more of a curse than a help.

@Papilio
“360 million? I thought it was 318? What country did you guys just conquer?”

I think that includes illegal immigrants.

I might give his letter at least some credence if he could spell correctly. Nah! I don’t think so!

@Nancy Boyle, let’s address your points one by one:

> “I cannot believe that the parents of the ten year old and six year old are at it again and that THEY are threatening to sue anyone. They DESERVE to lose custody of those kids.”

This is not yours to decide. Even CPS was unable to prove neglect, that’s why their previous investigation found it to be “unsubstantiated”. Many pointed out that the Constitution gives parents a lot of freedom in these kinds of decisions, which means the decision of letting them alone at the park is likely to be well within the parent’s discretional rights. On top of that, custody is not revoked to punish parents, but in the sole interest of the children: in this case it’s absolutely clear that the children are better with these parent than in foster care. Even if you disagree with some of the parent’s decisions it doesn’t mean the children are suffering from that.

> “A ten year old cannot be expected to protect a six year old. Those kids deserve parents who give a damn. What is their problem that THEY can’t get off their asses and take their kids to the park. These are not caring parents they are lazy parents.”

The problem is “protect from what”. From getting lost? Of course he can. From a psychopath armed with a shotgun rampaging through the park? He cannot, but likely neither *you* can protect your children or yourself from that.

> “Crime has not lessened it has increased and you are totally irresponsible to put that crap into the “minds” of idiots who would actually listen to you. Do you ever look at the news? Probably not, because you wouldn’t want to confuse the crap you spout with facts.”

It’s not a matter of opinion, facts are available from government organizations in the form of publicly available statistics. Check the facts, read the official statistics, notice how the rate of crimes per population are almost constantly decreasing and try to figure out who is “spouting crap”.

@Nancy Boyle:

Yes, I watch the news. The news, however, is trying to get viewers/readers…whatever. The news is SELLING a STORY. Just like any other advertisement, it shouldn’t be taken as a unbiased review on the product. Check out stats or ebay listings for those, depending on whether you’re talking about actual dangers or actual quality of product.

@Wow…, on top of your explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic#Media

> “After seeing news stories about child abductions, people may judge that the likelihood of this event is greater. Media coverage can help fuel a person’s example bias with widespread and extensive coverage of unusual events, such as homicide or airline accidents, and less coverage of more routine, less sensational events, such as common diseases or car accidents. For example, when asked to rate the probability of a variety of causes of death, people tend to rate “newsworthy” events as more likely because they can more readily recall an example from memory. Moreover, unusual and vivid events like homicides, shark attacks, or lightning are more often reported in mass media than common and un-sensational causes of death like common diseases.[8]

For example, many people think that the likelihood of dying from shark attacks is greater than that of dying from being hit by falling airplane parts, when more people actually die from falling airplane parts. When a shark attack occurs, the deaths are widely reported in the media whereas deaths as a result of being hit by falling airplane parts are rarely reported in the media.”

I guess Nancy Boyle posted and ran….come to think of it, I have a hard time staring at my kids in order to protect them AND being on the computer. Sigh. I’m a terrible mother.

Apparently someone in that exchange is uninformed and spreading a “jumble of nonsense” but it isn’t you. in addition to his many typos (improper capitalization) and apparent lack of understanding the difference between you’re and your or then and than; how can your thoughts be well thought out and it appear as though you have done your research if it is also uninformed and nonsense. I think this guy is a complete idiot. Good point too about him not being able to hear you if your head was in your ass (which is not a proper noun unless you have actually named your bottom).

Papilio — Niederland. Don’t you watch the news?

@Mary: Was it Wal-Mart that published the study showing that having employees say hi and offer help is at least as effective at preventing shoplifting as any other security measure?

Oh, gosh! Look how he capitalizes random words like “Father” and “Beautiful Children” and goes on to say that you remind him of his “Saint of Mother.”
Either he’s a wack-o or English isn’t his native language.
I vote for wack-o.
And “home invasion” is just a new, scary cop term for “burglary when people are home.”

@Papilo: Google translate says that ‘Neiderland’ is German for ‘Netherlands’.

@Clarke:

Getting that ‘under 14 unattended’ a better definition might be a good start? How you’d do that, I don’t know.

Yep Ulys right…… He is obviously an insane psychologically challenged drunk monkey who’s been doing drugs.