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Mom Jailed for Letting 10-Year-Old Walk Alone to Town

"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," says Brittany Patterson.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Seems less to do with cars and more to do with citizen/government stupidity:

"It's not quite a mile from his house."

Looks like Georgia DOES have a "Reasonable Childhood Independence" law...

https://letgrow.org/states/

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (13 children)

The sheriff disagreed.

"She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened," recalls Patterson.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (2 children)

In a town of 370 people? How many cars were on the road? 3?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I live in a rural community. What scares me the most is the dumbass hicks flying around in their giant vehicles, both old and young. They’re always driving like their houses are on fire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Here's where the problem is. The sheriff is viewing the potential for the kid to get hit by a person driving a car as the kid's fault, when of course the fault should lie completely with her person operating heavy machinery.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

When I go running on country roads in spandex and sandals, the hicks in the trucks go by real friggin' slowly. Like, aggressively slowly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Maybe they just want to objectify you for a bit, if you're in Spandex?

I assume that's the case when I cycle in rural areas in Spandex.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Probably around 370 in total, but at any given moment, 3.

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