Not The Onion

12358 readers

283 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

422

Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town (reason.com)

submitted 1 week ago by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

152 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 week ago (23 children)

A woman who saw him walking alongside the road—speed limit: 25 in some places, 35 in others—asked him if he was OK. He said yes.

Nevertheless, she called the police.

So it was all that Karen's fault...

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A family friend got a police visit because she lets her kids ride their bikes out of view of home. Like they go a couple streets over and ride around but apparently that's neglect now

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I grew up on the southeast side of Portland. When I was 10, I rode my bike to Multnomah Falls and across the river into Washington State. I moved away just before my 11th birthday so I'm very confident about my age. I also rode all around Portland. Into downtown, down to Lake Oswego, over to my aunt's in Gresham...

The worst thing that ever happened was an older kid on a bike came up next to me and tried to push me off of my bike, but it didn't work and I took off and he was chasing me. I wove thru traffic and parked cars at a shopping center and he ended up slamming into a parked car at full speed. :)

load more comments (21 replies)