...those stupid stick-figure family stickers with names that people put on the backs of their SUVs? 'Cuz guess what? Now I know the names, number and gender of all of your children, and usually your names and the names of your cat and/or dog, too. And I can probably find your address with your license plate number pretty easily, if I don't just follow you home.
"Hi, Tina. I'm a friend of your mom, Kathleen. She asked me to pick you up from school, because she had to take Fluffy to the vet. Get in the car, and we'll go pick up your brohters, Tommy and Billy."
It's pretty much begging someone to snatch your child.
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Scary thought. I don't have kids of my own, but I have nieces and nephews. I can't imagine what I'd do if some creepy bastard snatched one of them.
Another scary thing is, my wife and I have a co-worker who married a convicted sex-offender. The guy actually used to work with us, but got fired when he was arrested for having kiddie-porn in an online folder. Needless to say, even thought the we remain acquainted witht them, I have told my wife that if we ever have kids, he is not allowed anywhere near them.
A friend of my stepmom found a guy that she'd fallen madly in love with, was close to marrying, and giving him access to a lot of her finances. I even met the guy. He came across as quite nice and charming.
She came to find out the guy had served quite a bit of time in prison, and had a thing for duping women into giving him enough access to rip them off.
She very quickly arrange to invite him over one night when she had several friends present, bust him, and forcibly eject him from her life, in no uncertain terms. She had to change her locks and phone numbers, and otherwise rearrange a big chunk of her life.
There's scary bad people out there, and they will take any and every opening you give them. People need to be more careful, and the sheer stupidity of those car stickers I mentioned is astounding.
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I've got a bunch of those stickers on my car, but without the names. There's a man, a woman, about 3 little boys, 5 little girls, 2 dogs, and about 8 cats.
People always tell me "Wow, you've got a really big family, huh?"
And I respond "Hm? Oh, heh, no... that's a kill board."
A pedophile tried to snatch a friend of mine when we were kids but the friend wised up and bolted just in time. When we were older (and after said offender had been convicted and released for assaulting other kids) and we had become nare-do-wells, we began to do heinous things to this guy's house like chucking bricks strapped with lit firecrackers into his window at night, nailing teddy bears to his door, and using his porch as a latrine.
I don't know how to feel about what I did now that I am older and law-abiding. Honestly, I just can't get myself to feel bad about that.
I've got a bunch of those stickers on my car, but without the names. There's a man, a woman, about 3 little boys, 5 little girls, 2 dogs, and about 8 cats.
People always tell me "Wow, you've got a really big family, huh?"
And I respond "Hm? Oh, heh, no... that's a kill board."
~laughter~ Stay away from me, You Psyco!
Scary thought. I don't have kids of my own, but I have nieces and nephews. I can't imagine what I'd do if some creepy bastard snatched one of them.
Another scary thing is, my wife and I have a co-worker who married a convicted sex-offender. The guy actually used to work with us, but got fired when he was arrested for having kiddie-porn in an online folder. Needless to say, even thought the we remain acquainted witht them, I have told my wife that if we ever have kids, he is not allowed anywhere near them.
It's not the strangers you have to worry about, it is the ones close to you.
A former collegue of mine was just convicted of sexual molestation of a 12 year old girl. A year ago when he became my boss I left that job, because I thought he was self centered manipulator. After he left the position last November. everyone was dieing to tell me why he left, I just said "I don't give a ripp about what happened or why he left." He just recently got convicted for molesting his current girl friends 12 year old daughter. This guy was working with me at a youth center and actually became the Executive Director. Its just a total betrayal of trust right there.
I've got a bunch of those stickers on my car, but without the names. There's a man, a woman, about 3 little boys, 5 little girls, 2 dogs, and about 8 cats.
People always tell me "Wow, you've got a really big family, huh?"
And I respond "Hm? Oh, heh, no... that's a kill board."
Ha! Well, without the names (whether as a kill board or a depiction of your family) I'm considerably less bothered about those things. It's with the names attached that it veers wildly into irresponsible parenting for me. Especially when I've seen nicknames for kids used.
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A pedophile tried to snatch a friend of mine when we were kids but the friend wised up and bolted just in time. When we were older (and after said offender had been convicted and released for assaulting other kids) and we had become nare-do-wells, we began to do heinous things to this guy's house like chucking bricks strapped with lit firecrackers into his window at night, nailing teddy bears to his door, and using his porch as a latrine.
I don't know how to feel about what I did now that I am older and law-abiding. Honestly, I just can't get myself to feel bad about that.
This is veering dangerously into rant territory, bu here goes...
The town I live in; Ticonderoga, NY; has been used by the New York State government as a f#!!ing dumping ground for sex offenders, white-collar embezzler-types, and other criminals for decades. For example, about an hour south, a guy was convicted of killing his girlfriend, but pleaded insanity, so he got sent here. Now Marky the Murderer lives about two miles away from my house.
Thing is, the government can't figure out why crime rates are going up in northern New York. Are they stupid? It's because THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE DUMPING ALL THE CRIMINALS! F@#+ing SIMPLE, and they can't f+%%ing figure it out. And all the while, there are "reformed" pedophiles, drug dealers, murderers, and even MOBSTERS running loose. I don't understand. F!!* it. That's why I keep guns in my house.
I've got a bunch of those stickers on my car, but without the names. There's a man, a woman, about 3 little boys, 5 little girls, 2 dogs, and about 8 cats.
People always tell me "Wow, you've got a really big family, huh?"
And I respond "Hm? Oh, heh, no... that's a kill board."
That made me chuckle. :)
I do agree with the OP about putting those things on with names though. I never thought about it before, but it's begging for trouble. I never intended to get any of those anyway, because my wife and I think they're tacky (in every instance but Fatespinners) but now we have another reason to avoid them.
I've never seen these stick figurey bumper / window things. Where does one purchase them, and what do they represent (just a fun thing, or what)?
You can probably pick them up at an auto store, or maybe order them out of a catalog. I'm not really sure how you get them. But anyway, they're typically stick figure representations of people or children, presumably to let random passersby know that you have a family. You stick them on the back window of your SUV.
I never knew why people put those stupid "Baby on Board" things in their car windows either.
I never knew why people put those stupid "Baby on Board" things in their car windows either.
Ours is taped to his sun shade. I put it up to let the EMT's know my offspring is inside in case we wreck, and take it down when I'm driving alone.
Okay, keeping the sun off your kid's face, I can understand.
Baby on Board has a point: Besides mwheeler's alerting the EMTs, it serves as something like a 'student driver' sign. It explains why you might accelerate more slowly and generally driver more conservatively. (Why you need an excuse to NOT drive like a moron and not get honked at is another discussion.)
As for the 'kill markings', my theory is that they're put up by people who have no life outside their family. I'm not saying loving your kids is wrong, but if you had a family just because 'it's just what you do', well, alittle agressive bragging is a defense mechanism to avoid considering how empty your life is.
On the subject of bumper stickers; I have a neighbor that has a bumper sticker that is literally a parapgaph on the back of his/her car. I have never taken the time to read it, but I find it obnoxious. I would understand if this was NYC or something, I would have something to read in traffic, but this is Nowheresville NY and we have no traffic, ever. Don't make bad bumper stickers.
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On the subject of bumper stickers; I have a neighbor that has a bumper sticker that is literally a parapgaph on the back of his/her car. I have never taken the time to read it, but I find it obnoxious. I would understand if this was NYC or something, I would have something to read in traffic, but this is Nowheresville NY and we have no traffic, ever. Don't make bad bumper stickers.
And, like, don't make bad things.
I'm a fan of bumper stickers, but one of my favoritest things to read on the back of a car is:
If you're going to ride my ass, at least hold onto my ponytail.
;)
I think pedophiles should be neutered.
SAMMICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Over here people don't have bumper stickers at all -we have those 'baby on board' things and sometimes people have a Garfield toy or a football sticker on the window telling you which team they support but thats about it. Weird. People keep their eyes down and tend not to look at other drivers too much over here -for fear of road rage and a beating at the traffic lights, lol! ;)
It must be so awesome to live somewhere people stop at traffic lights.
It must be so awesome to live somewhere people stop at traffic lights.
The UK is covered in CCTV so you have to be careful. Big Brother is already here in dear old Blighty. Speed Cams everywhere, Traffic lights have them mostly, all major cities are covered in them, housing estates have them -even I (and some of the neighbours) have a security camera outside our homes watching the street for trouble.
Also most mobile phones have video cams now so if you cut someone up on the road or act like a nutter while driving -people whip out their phone and snap you or your licence plate if they want to contact the police. (I've done so myself when we've been cut up at a roundabout but only to make the other driver sweat in fear for a while, didn't actually tell on him). :)
We have gangs of teens that run around like those children on Hostel who 'happy slap*' you now as well.
(*google it)
We're all stars darling! :D
The UK is covered in CCTV so you have to be careful.
Part of me thinks that might be a good idea, but only on the roadway.
people whip out their phone and snap you or your licence plate if they want to contact the police.
I tried that exactly once. Turns out people with firearms don't like having their picture taken.
The UK is covered in CCTV so you have to be careful.Part of me thinks that might be a good idea, but only on the roadway.
people whip out their phone and snap you or your licence plate if they want to contact the police.I tried that exactly once. Turns out people with firearms don't like having their picture taken.
Woah! Thankfully people over here don't have guns that often. :) Knives and hypodermic needles are the weapon of choice for UK skumbags. :( In a way thats more scary.
Yikes; needles bad. At least bullets tend to be clean!
Yeah, I had a little internal chuckle over "cut up" on the roadway (which does happen if you are crazy enough to get out of your vehicle). Our colloquialism is "cut off," which I'm not sure of the connotations of where you are. Not to give the impression its anarchy or anything here though, most people are very nice (just red apparently doesn't mean "stop" in Detroit).
I think pedophiles should be neutered.
Neutered without pain killers.
The UK is getting to be quite psycho lately, there are places you wouldn't dare to go even in broad daylight now and its kids of 12-17 or so that seem to be causing all the hassle. Heroin/coke/rock is dirt cheap and you can't walk through the town centre in this area without spotting some living dead or being politely mugged*.
People convert 'show/display' guns into live guns quite often now (but thats mostly in the bigger cities) so gun crime is much more common now. The needles thing is terrible, they can be found laying around all over the place; I walked past a dirty syringe on my way to the comic shop the other day -I was wearing canvass shoes at the time and was very worried in case I stood on one. Its sickening.
*Being politely mugged is where they come walking over and ask for spare change or a smoke -if you say no or point out that you have nothing to spare the 'polite mugger' then says something like "Let me check your pockets then?" or just starts to pad you down and check you himself -usually while a overly thin sidekick watches you with a scowl/sneer. Much fun! :(
Neutered without pain killers.I think pedophiles should be neutered.
Or (two birds one stone) perhaps we could make a gun that fires pedophiles at the naughty young offenders? No? :/ :P
You know it's bad when people start fleeing "here" for safety!
Speaking of needles in the shoes; the #1 most important item for EMT survival = good boots. I can't tell you the number of times I've been vomited or urinated on, and I have three cats and a little one, so I don't want to be tracking hospital schmutz into the house. The other day I kicked open the stall door here at work (I have a thing about touching bathroom surfaces), and seeing the big black mark on the door, checked my boots for the heck of it. Giant J-shaped needle buried in the rubber in the bottom (surprise!); thank goodness for steel plated soles (makes air travel a real pain though)!
perhaps we could make a gun that fires pedophiles
I think I just heard the sound of genius.
Oh yeah and I got stabbed once (kind of -just a quick clean poke with a stanley knife in the right buttock actually) All because I wouldn't share my pizza with a gang of strangers!
Didn't share it though.
I thought I'd been kicked or punched at first and kept on walking away and ignored them (there was quite a few of them hanging around a doorway) they weirdly didn't follow or try to take my pizza -this puzzled me so when I got out of sight I looked at my bum and saw all this blood!
Lol, I think they must of thought I was a geeky terminator or something because they didn't come after me. My lack of reaction must have messed with them?
Yay for confusion!
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Oh yeah and I got stabbed once (kind of -just a quick clean poke with a stanley knife in the right buttock actually) All because I wouldn't share my pizza with a gang of strangers!
Didn't share it though.
I thought I'd been kicked or punched at first and kept on walking away and ignored them (there was quite a few of them hanging around a doorway) they weirdly didn't follow or try to take my pizza -this puzzled me so when I got out of sight I looked at my bum and saw all this blood!
Lol, I think they must of thought I was a geeky terminator or something because they didn't come after me. My lack of reaction must have messed with them?
Yay for confusion!
The UK sounds like a strange, strange place...
Neutered without pain killers.I think pedophiles should be neutered.
Just shoot them and put them in the ground. They are no different than rabid animals.
At the risk of being flamed horribly: Pedophiles are troubled individuals who need counseling, not death. If you or your child are abused and seek retribution against your attacker, well, that's an entirely different sort of thing. J-random-cry-for-help, not so much.
At the risk of being flamed horribly: Pedophiles are troubled individuals who need counseling, not death. If you or your child are abused and seek retribution against your attacker, well, that's an entirely different sort of thing. J-random-cry-for-help, not so much.
My only issue with this is that most sex offenders and pedophiles are repeat offenders (hence the reason for the Megan Law as much as I disagree with the premise of it) and that sex crimes usually horrifically scar their victims for life. I know it may be controversial (which is why I am going to shutup about this now) but I say: shoot, shovel, shut-up.