It's hard for me to understand someone who would call the police on a kid mowing yards. You hear all these complaints from the older generation about kids these days not knowing the value of hard work or being too "soft" because they spend all their time in front of a screen. This is an example of a young person going out and offering useful manual labor to their neighbors in order to earn money for something they want. It's exactly how kids learn the value of hard work. Who could have a problem with this? I'm glad the police were willing to help him out, but I feel like at least one of his neighbors needs a slap to the face.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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Who could have a problem with this?
well you see, according to the pictures in the article the kid is Black.
Yeah I just can't qwhite put my finger on it.
Yeah I hear that a lot in my own town.
"Kids these days stay inside too much" kids go outside and they're calling the cops. Gee wonder why the kids don't go outside anymore.
You know, nothing summed it up quite like the whole Pokemon Go craze. It was wild, people of all ages were out like it was a festival every day. I've never seen main street so active before or since, and the parks too. That was like the best four weeks, perhaps a feeling I haven't had since being a kid on summer vacation, it really felt like summer meant something again.
And oh my god the old folks were livid. At kids playing. In the park. There are people in the city park, there aren't supposed to be people there, it's supposed to be empty and dilapidated.
Man it's wild to me how hard people hate on kids having areas to play. I live near an empty lot that used to be a pool and the city wanted to turn it into a skate park. There's some old grump with a homemade sign slung over their fence with "WE DON'T WANT A SKATE PARK" scrawled on it like?? Come on, give the local kids a safe place to play that isn't a parking lot. I'm for it and I don't even have kids!
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I can understand not wanting to pay a kid for lawn work, I've been broke before. Just say no thank you and go on with life.
That being said, we hire kids in our neighborhood all the time.
We have two girls (9 and 6, I think, never met them, grandma drives and "supervises") who come pick up dog poop, and we've had a kid for a couple years who turned mowing yards in the summer into an LLC and he just hired his first employee to help out with client growth.
I know if he wasn't a white blonde kid who looks halway decent (long hair, which just makes me jealous, but boomers would have a fit) then the Karen's would call the cops.
Someone in the neighborhood called the cops about a black woman going through mailboxes. It was a postal worker, in uniform, in a clearly labeled mail truck. I just don't get it.
I just don’t get it.
I get it. I wish I didn't, but I get it.
Honestly, just racism. I know a group of people who were knocking on doors advertising a community event and the cops were called on the one black dude they had with them. He always has a big smile on him and doesn't look threatening at all, so I find it hard to believe that it's not just racism.
I can't understand white someone would do it either.
I find it hard to believe the police turned up.
"Hello police, there is a kid mowing gardens." Isn't exactly a priority response call.
I doubt the neighbor that called said they were just mowing lawns. More likely along the lines of "suspicious black person has been walking around peoples houses" as they conveniently leave out that they are walking behind a lawn mower.
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Can't really grasp (edit: NOT grapes!) it either, have a theory but I hate being so cynical.
It's hard not to be cynical these days. The article didn't specify what neighborhood this took place in, but I'm sure this was a case of a kid who didn't "look right" for the neighborhood.
Yeah, when they say that they mean white kids.
They don't want blacks anywhere near their neighbourhood.
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FUCK YOU, KAREN!
A rare instance of good cops. Although I'm not so sure...They might've just wanted to spite Karen for the false report.
The kid knew this all along… Karen and cop are just pawns in his 4D chess.
The Karens are Chads in disguise and called the cops because they knew it was the fastest way to get the PlayStation.
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Good cops do exist. The problem is that when a good cops does something like this it makes a kid really happy, but when there's a bad cop somebody fucking dies. It's not that there aren't enough good cops, it's that any amount of bad cops is too many and instead of purging them the system protects them. I'd rather have 100% neutral competent cops than 99% good cops and 1% bad cops who are protected by the system to continue murdering people.
Definitely wanted to spite Karen, but that doesn't make them bad cops.
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As a European, I've heard that people will call the police on you if you happen to stroll through a neighbourhood. Apparently they feel uncomfortable when people move their body without a car
The was a black preacher who had the cops called on him for watering his neighbors plants while they were on vacation. They even arrested him.
Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.
Fucking nosy ass neighbors, man.
I think this is the root cause. Anecdotal evidence to support:
I'm white, my parents are white, and they lived in a posh neighborhood outside DC. For 3 years, Dad was working/living in England, so my sister and I would check on the house and/or I would go up to DC for a long weekend (I was living in NC at the time).
I arrived on a Friday night, unloaded the car, and was cracking open a beer to relax... And there was a ring of the doorbell. It was the cops. They said a concerned neighbor called, I told them my parents were currently living in England and came up for the weekend. I ended up digging through paperwork of my Mom's looking for something tying me to the address. While the cops were waiting, they saw multiple pictures of me and my sister hanging on the wall. They said "this will suffice. Enjoy your weekend."
The neighbor apologized the next day and asked if I had bought a new car.
Further anecdotal support:
I was out in front of my own damn house, where I've lived for multiple years, taking pictures of birds and shit. Some nutter I've never seen before rolls up on me and accuses me of "taking pictures of kids." There are literally no children outdoors because it's 107 degrees outside. But they wanted to be mad at someone so they found an excuse.
This is what America is. It's just a thin veneer of "freedom" on an underlying base of sociopathic paranoia. You're free to do anything you want, as long as some rando doesn't murder you for it.
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It's happened a few times to me, most of the time it's just awkward for me and the cop and they just politely ask me to go home.
One time they tried to gaslight me into thinking I was on drugs, didn't really work because I think I'd remember if I did a bunch of crack.
I think I’d remember if I did a bunch of crack.
Sounds like what a crack head would say
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I got into an argument with my girlfriend when I was going to University. I jumped on my bike to blow off some steam / just get some space with quiet. I'm riding down the residential street I lived on in a shitty party of town, and the fucking police helicopter lit me up for a good block and a half. That was about 30 years ago. I can't imagine things have gotten better.
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The neighborhood I grew up in was like that. I didn't notice until I moved away for college and then came back home to visit. It was a 100% residential neighborhood, with no businesses really in walking distance. Anyone out walking was wearing Walking Clothes^TM^.
If someone old enough to drive were just walking down the street as if it was their mode of transportation, not an exercise activity, they would at minimum be stared at with suspicion until they were safely away from the starer's house and at maximum have the police called "just to check out the situation."
It didn't occur to me that this was strange until I moved away to a mixed use neighborhood with businesses and residences and lots of people walking to get where they were going.
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Those neighbors should be heavily fined for wasting public resources. FFS
And this fine should be used to buy the PS5.
It's so nice that they didn't shoot the kid!
This is the 5% people are talking about when they say "95% of police ruin it for the other 5%"
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I am usually against yelling "racism" to every single bullshit, but I wonder would this posh neighbourhood react the same way is it was a white boy.
Depends on how he's dressed. Dressed like Eminem in the early 2000s, probably yes. Dressed with a pink polo and khakis, hell no.
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So they call the cops on you for mowing while black, too? Geez, just tell the kid "I have someone take care of that for me, sorry" and let it go at that.
You don't call the cops on someone in America unless you're hoping they make the evening news. Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.
Aww so sweet! okno it's like a politician kissing babies on campaign 1312
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