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Old 30-06-2008, 11:41   #29
polly
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Re: has the world gone mad.. or is justified?

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Originally Posted by derekgas View Post
I was (as mentioned in another thread) in Lytham on sunday, 3 girls aged around 7 - 9 were wandering aimlessly, looking worried, all I could think of to do at the time was take my daughter and walk behind them untill a fairly drunken mother came to find them, she also looked worried for the missing trio, once I saw they were back with the mother (despite objecting to her state) I carried on where I left off, 2 minutes up the road, a boy and a girl were jumping off a wall onto a sand hill, it was high on one side and it was fairly obvious what would happen if they fell the wrong way off the wall, we watched for a minute or so, then found a pcso who stopped the children from climbing the wall, the father turned up after around half an hour, with a glass of beer in his hand, he told them to carry on playing and he would be back in half an hour for them, they were about 9 and 10, he went back across the field, and a main road to the pub he came from, then after 5 minutes the mother turned up, obviously angry and took the kids with her, I couldnt work out if she was angry because her husband had left them there, or because they had been interrupted having thier drink. It impacted on our day, and is sad that so many just leave thier kids to fend for themselves for the sake of selfishness.
It is very sad, and comes back once again to the biggest danger to many children is not a stranger but their own parents.
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