Oz ,'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DH's philosophy is that our species has spent nearly 4 million years trying to get OUT of nature.
In a state of nature, there is "no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Hobbes)
In a state of nature, there is "no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." (Hobbes)
But what does Calvin say?
If anyone hasn't seen the montage of David Caruso's blackout lines while taking off his sunglasses, YOU NEED TO. It is amazing: [link]
ita, I lost my copying of your question to the Caruso link, but I'm not positive. My unresearched answer would probably be that if, by providing the safe deposit numbers you knew the object of the conspiracy was to rob a bank, then yes, it's possible to be charged with felony murder. Aiding and abetting, that I'm not sure about.
We become so bent out of shape over something as simple as letting your children out of sight on the playground that it starts seeming on par with letting them play on the railroad tracks at night. In the rain. In dark non-reflective coats.
Uh, I'm not sure letting your kid out of sight on a playground is the same thing as letting a nine-year-old kid loose in New York City. But IANAParent, I guess.
Most of the people I know who grew up here were riding the subway alone by 9 years-old. (Especially if they were attending a school in the opposite direction of both parents' workplaces.)
I can't remember the age at which I was allowed to take the subway alone. Maybe 12?
I took the bus alone much younger than that. It was how I got to/from school.
Justice Department data actually show the number of children abducted by strangers has been going down over the years. So why not let your kids get home from school by themselves?
I dunno. Maybe the number is dwindling because parents pack the pale, fragile little pickles into the bullet-proof SVU and have them tagged with GPS.
Possible.
I took the bus alone much younger than that. It was how I got to/from school.
My sister and I took the city bus to school in elementary school. When we went to a public neighborhood school, we walked by ourselves.
I was allowed out to play alone on our block in Milwaukee when I was probably 5 or so, but I had to be in sight of the house. I could walk alone to the drugstore/movie theater/school starting at 7, I think. All those places were a block or two away in a very nice neighborhood, though, and I wasn't allowed anywhere my parents hadn't said was okay.