[modeleng] Re: Giving rides to small children
- From: "Terry Lane" <tel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 05:29:18 +1000
That's a good question Chas, while children certainly need protecting, I
believe the problem to be on a far smaller scale than the media/public
hysteria would have us believe. The 'Great Unwashed' have need of a peg to
hang their collective phobias on - 20 years ago the whole human race was
going to be dead of AIDS by the year 2000, the last few years it has been
pedophiles. Far better, in my opinion, to focus on the many, many starving
children, or those suffering horrible neglect - mostly committed by those
very people that ARE allowed to put 'em on & off the trains.
> I'm not sure the phrase "do gooder" is the correct descriptor...but in
> fairness I'm not sure what would be a correct one. Is sexual predation as
> common as these rules in all areas of life imply it to be? FWIW, a couple
> of high profile cases in Tennessee recently were related to female high
> school teachers seducing their male students. In one case the woman did
> prison time and married the man when he was of legal age and she got out.
> Seems I recall she had his child while in prison. In another case the
woman
> got probation I think. Believe she married the guy also. Interesting
> "Letter to the Editor" asked if that wasn't the dream of most high school
> boys -- to get seducted by a hot young female teacher. Charles
>
> > Hi Gary and All,
> >
> > I havn't heard about any new regs but I am not at all surprised if some
> > were
> > invented by another do gooder.
> > There were details published on ths site about eighteen months ago.about
> > the
> > rules that some clubs were now enforcing to avoid any possible problems
> > and
> > this even included about who was allowed to sit next to a child on a
> > riding
> > car. I seem to remember that it even went as far that if a child fell
over
> > and was hurt a man could not pick it up.
> >
> > Sad days we live in.
> >
> > Regards Clif
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Garry60030@xxxxxxx>
> >
> >> Hi, has anyone heard about new regulations that might be coming into
> >> force
> >> regarding the handling of small children when giving rides?
>
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