Mind That Child!

Two fine articles this morning in the Dominion Post made me kind of laugh about the state of this country's child welfare, I just ----- the mind boggles

Parent 1: Is out enjoying the outdoors with his 4 year old and 2 year old sons, they are riding bikes.
4 year old tears of down hill (he has just been told not to) so 2 year old follows, 4 year old narrowly swerves corner next to road -2 year old doesn't and smashes his head on hand rail and gets knocked unconscious. Dad, thus freaks out and runs o his son's aid. Meanwhile 4 year old is still determined to keep riding, Dad says no as he tends to his 2 year old who is now slipping in and out of consciousness, once again 4 year old wants to take off next to the obviously dangerous road - Dad, now at the end of his tether flicks 4 year old whiny boy on the ear. But alas the do- gooders of New Zealand were watching....

On to story number 2

Parent 2: is fishing with friends and son in the deep waters of Marlborough Sound in NZ 's South Island - oh no man overboard!!! Dad's son has fallen overboard, so what does Dad do?
Keeps fishing???
The boy was found later floundering in the water by another boat, then they return him to Dad to a resounding - yep..... thanks and all that.

Which takes me back to story 1: The do gooders of NZ after seeing Parent 1 flick his child on the ear proceeded to call the Police and withing minutes Parent 1 was surrounded by 6 POLICE officers!!!
Because everybody knows that it takes 6 Police Officers to arrest someone.
Parent 1 responded by saying "I was teaching my son a valuable safety lesson, which he obviously needed instantly"
Mr Policeman says with shaking finger "You can't do that sir"
Please ...6 Police Officers tell Parent 1 what IS right. How about you beat the shit out of Parent 1 and arrest him in front of his children - whom he was trying to protect.

Nope thats too hard - maybe they should just hit McDonalds - it's what they do best.

Or even better send 5 of those Police Officers to arrest Parents that let their kids fall of boats and then leave them in the water for someone else to pick up

So It Begins

Well, here it is - a blog by me, probably not about me (too much) most likely to be about films, music, lies and other things that pop out of my brain.


So wait a bit , relax, put the cat out for the night and I will post some more stuff soon.

On a side not - we are going to see Kings of Leon tonight so I will probably do some kind of review tomorrow. Unfortunately security issues (I love saying that) mean there will probably be NO photos, although we may get some cell pics.

Chur