this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
381 points (97.5% liked)

Not The Onion

12272 readers
1411 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:

  1. Links to news stories from...
  2. ...credible sources, with...
  3. ...their original headlines, that...
  4. ...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
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

lol yeah traumatize her family by showing up unannounced to take their mother away, while also undermining their mother's authority as a parent. Just another day in the line of duty.

[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago

When I was 12 or 13 I'd walk into town to check out the used cd stores all the time. Seems pretty normal.

[–] oxomoxo@lemmy.world 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

As a middle aged father of two grown boys, one of the things I wish I had done better was encourage them to go out on their own more. Their mother would always be so worried, and knowing she has the best intention for them I would give in.

Also there was a couple of years when they were young I would try to force them to go outside and play, but they would quickly become bored and come back in the house. This was so frustrating at the time and then I realized that there were no other kids playing outside either. When I was growing up in the 80s and early 90s, I practically lived outside with my friends.

My boys are significantly more dependent on us, much less capable and their development seems stunted or slowed, which I am sure is partly due to the pandemic, but also due to the sheltering that has become normalized in our culture. Allowing this to happen is one of my biggest regrets as a father, which all things considered I guess isn’t that bad while keeping things in perspective.

I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the abundance of information has a side effect of over protectiveness. This makes some sense as it would be evolutionarily beneficial to protect against potential threats, however media is tricking our brains to believe that these threats are both abundant and persistent.

Children need unsupervised freedom as part of their development, it allows them to learn how to navigate the world in a healthy regulated way, and how to deal with challenges, like problem solving or social interaction. The perception that the world is a dangerous place that children need constant protection from is flawed. If that were true, we would have never have survived as a species.

[–] Steak@lemmy.ca 20 points 15 hours ago

I was like 3 towns away when I was 10. At this rate we will raise adults that can't think for/do anything themselves. Let the kids live.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 28 points 18 hours ago

Land of the free.

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Lol, back when I was a kid, getting grounded was a punishment. Not a legally binding rule parents must enforce at home at all times. Lol, America is fucked.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 34 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Reason.com is a libertarian propaganda mill. This story is meant to pit you against the state so you can swallow their other bullshit.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So you think this woman deserved to be arrested?

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

What I am wondering is what this publication is leaving out of the story in order to sell their perspective on everything. Maybe it's nothing and this really is just a DCFS gone mad (there are certainly cases in which this is true), or maybe there's more to the story and they are just glazing over it to make things sound better to their point of view.

Either way, this is a Republican run state which is the party that likes to court libertarians so I am pretty skeptical of everything regarding this.

Republican run state which is the party that likes to court libertarians

Hasn't the last 20 years or so proven their actions very differently from their claims?

[–] oxomoxo@lemmy.world 18 points 15 hours ago

This is why you check the story against multiple sources. Just search “brittany patterson georgia” and you will find this has gone viral and there is tons of outrage over this.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Does that make the actual story any less disturbing?

[–] frezik@midwest.social -2 points 7 hours ago

The question is what they're leaving out of the story. Maybe this is a full accounting and law enforcement needs to chill the fuck out. Maybe it's not the whole story and law enforcement are doing their job correctly. Maybe it's still an overreaction, but more justifiable. In any case, there is no reason to take Reason at their word.

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 34 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Free country where a 10 year old kid can’t even walk alone. Meanwhile in Germany parents of 6 year olds are heavily encouraged by school to let kids walk to school alone and stop being such a cry babies because nothing is gonna happen and they should learn to be independent.

Also why did they arrest her? In my country when the state thinks you committed a smaller crime and there’s no reason to believe you’re gonna fly they just send you a letter.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 13 points 15 hours ago

why did they arrest her?

It's Georgia

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

At 10 I was riding my bike into town, 2.5mi, on roads with limits as high as 50mph.

Sometimes I'd ride my bike in on a Sunday, get a lift home, skip the bus from school, walk to my friend's house, play Nintendo for an hour, and ride my bike home. I'd get there the same time the bus would drop me off and I got to play Nintendo for an hour.

[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

I was waiting for the part of the article where something tragic happened to the kid to warrant the mom’s jailing.

Not… him just going for a completely normal walk…

[–] juliebean@lemm.ee 64 points 1 day ago

your kid goes for a walk? believe it or not, straight to jail.

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is what 24/7 news does to the brain. It completely fucks up people’s sense of how risky things are.

As humans we tend to assume that the probability of something happening is proportional to the number of times we can remember hearing of it happening.

Many people think children walking or playing alone are at high risk of getting abducted because they hear about it “all the time” on the news. Yet they don’t think twice about sticking their kids in the car and driving somewhere.

Statistically though you’re orders of magnitude more likely to kill your child in a car accident, than have them abducted by a random stranger while allowing them to play or walk somewhere unattended. Car accidents are common so they rarely make the news, Child Abductions are extremely rare And frequently make the news. The mom in the story could have literally driven the child to the town and put the child at a greater risk in doing so then letting the child walk there alone.

Both the cop in the story, and the Karen that called him, Have a completely distorted sense of how much risk this child was in, And it’s all because the news media makes us think the extremely rare is relatively common.

In recent years, the media has told stories in fear mongering ways in order to drive more ratings, Which is only the amplifying this effect.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Not disagreeing with you. Just making clear that it is actually worse.

A Karen and a cop can’t put someone in jail. It takes a prosecutor, a judge and a jury of her peers.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 4 hours ago

A Karen and a cop can’t put someone in jail. It takes a prosecutor, a judge and a jury of her peers.

This is not factual. A cop can bring anyone into jail that they have just about any made up reason to.

It takes all those extra individual to put you in prison.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/jail-vs-prison-difference

[–] dgmib@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

I’m no expert, but I think you’re mixing up jail and prison. Prison would require a judge, jury and trial. But a cop can unilaterally throw someone in jail temporarily until their first court appearance.

From the article:

They [the sherif and a deputy] told Patterson to turn around and put her hands behind her back. As three of her kids watched, Patterson was handcuffed. The sheriff took her purse and phone, put her in the cruiser, and hauled her off to jail.

load more comments
view more: next ›