Just got back from a 6 mile walk/run. Can barely move. I'm blaming all of it on the convicted killer!
While I on this path today, near a park, I saw this girl who was approximately 5 years old, ALL ALONE! She was at least 3 football field lengths away from any person, and along a trail that backs up to some shady places. Anyone could have grabbed her and nobody would have even known.
Sorry to say, I FREAKED OUT and yelled at her to run back to her family. She stared at me for a few moments, and I again told her very forcibly to GO BACK TO YOUR FAMILY, someone could take you. I watched until she was almost half way back to whoever she was with..the park was packed with people. It was so odd. Who leaves a little girl all alone..I mean all alone, near a wooded area? Grrrr. I should have found out who her parents were but I was afraid I would really go off. :stormingmad:
Sorry for the rant and O/T. WTH is wrong with people? :banghead:
I don't want to be in an overly paranoid society.
I am not trying to say that you are, but I ran around like crazy alone until the sun went down when I was a kid. I jumped of rooftops, set of fireworks, played in flood water, fished for crawfish in ditches with the other kids, shot bb guns, played with fire, etc, etc. I am alive, and guess what? There were serial killers back then, and rapists, and kidnappers, and what not.
I don't want to see children tied to there parents...that is just sad.
That being said, there is nothing wrong with being vigilant, just don't let watching all these horrific cases get you hyper-vigilant. 5 is a little young, but that is just an estimate, no?
Sorry, but I just think kids should be kids and not grow up terrified of everyone/everything.
It's a different decade, but things have not changed that much.
No disrespect to you, I know you feel as though you are just looking out for others.