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To each, his own.
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My kids ride in cars, but if they drive like buttheads or if I find out their friends do, those type of rides will be eliminated. They can ride with boring Mom in a seat belt instead of raising the risk factor by joyriding at excessive speeds.
My opinions/feelings about the matter are based on a number of life experiences, including when the daughter of one of my best friends had her throat slit by a neighbor and the fact we have a registered sex offender in our neighborhood. Add to that the fact that another man has conveniently chosen to park at one of the parks in my neighborhood for no real reason on several occasions (this is a park INSIDE a subdivision). When an on-the ball neighbor approached him to ask him if he was waiting for someone, he left. That neighbor had a hinky enough feeling that she reported the incident(s) to neighborhood watch. Turns out the guy is a repeat sex offender and he has several different cars, not just the one he's been in in our neighborhood. The *advertiser censored* doesn't live in my subdivision. My neighborhood has several tot lots and neighborhood parks and I see why it could be a lure for people that are up to no good.
If grown women can be abducted in broad daylight in a parking lot (Dru Sjodin, Kelsey in Kansas, etc.) why couldn't a sex offender in my neighborhood take an opportunity when he can't see that anyone's watching their child?