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.

I took a public bus to summer camp the summer between 1st and 2nd grades. Granted, the bus was between Somerville and Medford, but still. Once I fell asleep and woke up in Harvard Square!!!11! But it was still OK.

And anyway, that kid was a New York City kid who rides the subway on a regular basis. It's not like some tourist kid who would freak out! He had the tools he needed to get home.

Shit, when I was 12 or 13 (so older than that kid, but not by much), my best friend and I decided the fun way to spend our day was to get on the subway and get off at a stop we'd never been to before!

I first rode a city bus alone when I was 13 or 14. Actually, it may have been the first time I rode a city bus at all, and I know it was the first time I lived anywhere served by a city bus, so my experience wasn't necessarily typical.

Also part of the "not a parent" crowd, but I'd probably let an intelligent 9 or 10 YO ride alone on a fairly short trip througn a familiar route.

I was 20 before I ever took public transit by myself. 'Cuz that was when I first needed to, and lived in a city that had it.

My parents' farm is 1 1/2 miles from our small town. I think I was about 9 or 10 when they started letting me ride my bike to town, along the moderately busy 2-lane highway that our farm is on.

Is Waking the Dead all done?

Done done? I don't know. BBC America has been very lax with the mysteries recently. I am assuming that the current Wire In the Blood is repeats, though. I should check.

You watched the Frankie Munoz Criminal Minds right? They're not usually like that.

Yeah, that was bizarre. So, second chance.

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.

Providing the list is more culpable than aiding and abetting? What's an example of A&A?

Kids are so different, you know? My one sister and I could have done the subway home thing alone at nine or ten. The other sister was pretty shy at that age and would NOT have enjoyed it. She could probably do it, but it would have been very upsetting for her.