Question asked. Dumb questions often are.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/people-who-dont-identify-as-a-man-or-woman-want-to-know-why-isnt-anyone-hooking-up-with-me/

Hint: if I wanted to go out with a guy, I'd go out with a guy.

Question asked. Dumb questions often are.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/people-who-dont-identify-as-a-man-or-woman-want-to-know-why-isnt-anyone-hooking-up-with-me/

Hint: if I wanted to go out with a guy, I'd go out with a guy.

White House picnic:

https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/879030062409932801

Wow, that title header:

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/238762/dykes-vs-kikes

You are never too old to learn:

Programming may seem like a skill best left to the younger generation, but 81-year-old Masako Wakamiya has proven that people of all ages can crack the code. As the designer and creator of Hinadan, an innovative and one-of-a-kind app, the Japanese mover and shaker is undeniably skilled in the art of modern technology.

http://mymodernmet.com/masako-wakamiya-hinadan-app/

Why I'd have to think twice about helping a lost child. This poor guy will spend the rest of his life battling against a false accusation that will, on social media, circulate forever.

This is why Detroit is bankrupt: A tax increase was imposed on residents to "raise revenue for parks and schools". Suckers!

Or maybe they know that using that money on public education is a waste of time ie. Teachers' union fees here, administrative fees there, etc.

Part of Trump's legacy - destroying all trust and respect of the mainstream media:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/879648931172556802

America is being made great again:

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/879782839457259521

Not a link, but an observation: I suspect that more than one person featured on the TV show, "My Cat From Hell", a Jackson Galaxy production, have written to our Goddess for relationship advice.

Why I'd have to think twice about helping a lost child. This poor guy will spend the rest of his life battling against a false accusation that will, on social media, circulate forever.

Especially since the kids parents are still insisting the guy is a child molesting kidnapper.

The one question I have, this guy was at the park with an off duty cop when he noticed the lost kid, so where was is cop friend when all this went down?

I read about that just before coming here. The trick, I think, is not to TOUCH the kid if at all possible - OR walk behind it. If you have a phone, call 911. The parent can't blame you for that, most of the time. If you don't have a phone and the nearest person who might have one is a football field away, you can turn it into a game - ask the kid "hey, can you catch me? I'm going to run away!" Then start running toward the crowd. Or something like that. After all, you'll never live it down if the kid wanders into traffic or drowns, which is exactly what happened in England, IIRC, years ago - and the man's name ended up in the media anyway. That won't look well in the eyes of strangers - or employers.

More on the case:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/27/a-man-helped-a-lost-toddler-find-her-parents-police-say-he-was-smeared-online-as-a-predator-and-fled-town/?utm_term=.1ec214f661d2#comments

Top-rated comments, so far:

mnsombat
6/27/2017 7:19 AM EST
"All that matters is that my daughter is home safely"

Well, next time she well might not be because nobody will be willing to help out for fear of being smeared by people just like you.

Hiro_Protagonist
6/27/2017 7:34 AM EST
So dad doesn't bother to keep track of his 2-year-old daughter, then panics and gets his friends to hold the good Samaritan trying to find her parents, so dad can beat him up for awhile. The samaritan doesn't press charges for his injuries, or for being plastered all over the internet as a pervert, yet you "make no apologies" because "all that matters is that your daughter is home safely?"

Crappy parenting, crappy behavior, and proof that ignorant self-righteousness makes the world worse, every time.

Lore Fisch
6/27/2017 8:18 AM EST [Edited]
Some time ago my husband and I found a 3-year-old girl alone on a bridge across a river. She was happily running across the street, to and fro, to look at the water on both sides. I had to hold her to keep her away from the street, and she started screaming. I managed to calm her and to make her lead us to her home - half a mile away. She had wandered away unnoticed. My husband then said he wouldn't have known what to do if he had been alone, fearing he would have been seen as a predator.

This father who can't take care of his child doesn't want to apologize? Lock him up for criminal assault.

More comments:

PinTexas
6/27/2017 7:49 AM EST
I would say that if you are male and see a lost child, you should get another person to join you in the hunt for the parent. You'll need the witness.

Bad Hambre
6/27/2017 11:06 AM EST
As a secondary teacher, I experienced this behavior every week.

1) Some parents do not know how to parent properly.
2) When their failings are made obvious by a third party, they blame the third party.

gmcclure1
6/27/2017 3:29 PM EST
I returned a young boy (he was about 3 or 4) to a playground from which he had wandered. He had wandered off, following 2 girls who were pulling a red wagon that he wanted to ride in. They were 3 blocks from the playground and the 2 little girls were screaming at him to "leave us alone! We don't know you!" I happened upon this scene and convinced the girls that we - WE - needed to return him to the playground -- and that he'd go only if you let him ride in the wagon. We got back to the playground, police were everywhere, and I was happy to let the girls take the credit for being heroes. I, a single, African-American male, did not need the hassle! Being a good Samaritan can be a double-edged sword!

Oh, yes - I'd say THIS time the Daily Mail did the right thing:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4643834/Good-Samaritan-falsely-dubbed-child-predator-flees-town.html

Namely, a name and photo. Of the "dad." As in, not someone who deserves to be a dad in the first place.

After all, you'll never live it down if the kid wanders into traffic or drowns, which is exactly what happened in England, IIRC, years ago - and the man's name ended up in the media anyway. That won't look well in the eyes of strangers - or employers.
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Found that tragic UK case - it's from 2002.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Clive+Peachey+

Clive did the right thing for his family even though it resulted in the death of that girl.

The care center that girl wandered away from didnt call the cops, they went out looking themselves and when they happened upon the girls family LIED about what they were doing and kept lying for nearly an hour.

Had Clive picked the girl up those center workers would have lied about him as well

He could have found a phone and called. He didn't.

Btw, turns out that the man in Florida who got beat up is of Indian background. FWIW.