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Thread ID: 142973	2016-10-22 23:39:00	Dealing with (to) bullies.	fred_fish (15241)	PC World Chat

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1427723	2016-10-24 02:10:00	When I was a very small boy, and I mean about 6 or 7, I shot an old soldier with a pea shooter. He complained to the police who later came to interview me about this serious infraction of the law. My mother found me hiding under the bed and dragged me out to be interviewed by Sgt Noel Smith, a very senior Whangarei policeman at the time. Grasping me by the ear he led me off to a very private, very stern lecture, and left me in no doubt that if he ever had to speak to me again on such a subject I would be jailed! I can advise that I have been on the straight and narrow ever since. What a shame there aren't police like Noel Smith still around. Or maybe there are.	Richard (739)
1427724	2016-10-24 03:49:00	When I was a very small boy, and I mean about 6 or 7, I shot an old soldier with a pea shooter. He complained to the police who later came to interview me about this serious infraction of the law. My mother found me hiding under the bed and dragged me out to be interviewed by Sgt Noel Smith, a very senior Whangarei policeman at the time. Grasping me by the ear he led me off to a very private, very stern lecture, and left me in no doubt that if he ever had to speak to me again on such a subject I would be jailed! I can advise that I have been on the straight and narrow ever since. What a shame there aren't police like Noel Smith still around. Or maybe there are. I am sure they are still around, Richard. They're just not allowed to intimidate naughty kids (or any naughty adults, for that matter) any more. It's much the same with teachers, although I only taught adults and none of them were naughty. IMHO the police are far more realistic about the seriousness of treating the 'baddies' with kid gloves than are a section of our judiciary or some politicians. p.s. You did say pea shooter and not P shooter, didn't you? :devil	Marnie (4574)
1427725	2016-10-24 03:51:00	Marnie, when I was 6 or 7 nobody had ever heard of a P-shooter, I can assure you.	Richard (739)
1427726	2016-10-24 22:07:00	Marnie, when I was 6 or 7 nobody had ever heard of a P-shooter, I can assure you. He was joking R.	Cicero (40)
1427727	2016-10-24 22:42:00	He was joking R. She :) and I was.	Marnie (4574)
1427728	2016-10-25 00:20:00	And I knew SHE was Cic!	Richard (739)
1427729	2016-10-25 03:11:00	Had a couple of incidents when I was younger: First was the victim, got assaulted by a high-schooler while waiting for a bus (Actually on my way to work for PCWorld). Got some half-baked written apology letter and the guy had to do something like 50hrs community service. Heard through the grapevine that he'd reoffended 3x before he finished high school and was known to local police, but they were pretty powerless to do anything about it. Second time was funnily enough from a young child on "Crossing patrol" about 2-3 years back, would regularly flip me off and hurl generic 7yr old insults as I would drive away from the intersection that he was being the "crossing guard" for (You know where they stand there with their arms up to stop other kids crossing at a T-intersection). After this had carried on for about 3 months, I was leaving the intersection one day he decided to hurl a rather long set of insults, so I immediately pulled over on the opposite side of the road. Got out of my car and leaned on my drivers door with my arms folded. I called out to the kid on the opposite side of the road, and asked him if he would like to come and repeat what he'd just said, as "I wasn't able to hear it the first time". The little punks face went from smug to wetting himself faster than I've ever seen anything in my life. He shook his head, I said "Good, let's hope it stays that way". I get a business card of the local police constable on my doorstep when I show up at home the following night asking me to ring him. So, I call him the following and ask him what's up. Seems the "parent supervisor" in charge at the time had heard / seen part of it, but neglected to mention that the boy had been hurling abuse at cars. Turns out he was the son of the "parent supervisor", and was known to the police as well for getting in trouble elsewhere. Again though, unfortunately there's not a lot the police were able to do, even though they wanted to. Can't exactly press any form of charges against a 7 year old, and sadly the law doesn't hold parents responsible for that sort of misbehavior. **** happens, right?	Chilling_Silence (9)
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