This is so freaking real. Some old folks seem to want that kids just stay still in silence like a furniture when they're bored. No playing outside cuz "is annoying and dangerous", not playing with their phones cuz "is unhealthy and dangerous".

What the hell should they do then?!

Well duh. Play outside... Somewhere else! :P

So this reminds me of when I was taking my CCW class and going over hypotheticals and legal ramifications.

One scenario was you see a kid opening your fridge would you shoot the kid. Now there was a church group there that was also taking the class with us and a few of them raised their hands and one was called.

His answer was yes.

My group I was with all looked at each other and went WTF and just shook our heads, raised our hands and went of freaking course not because morally it would be soooo wrong even if it was legally okay.

Is this about the kids that got shot playing ding dong ditch the other day?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/us/ding-dong-ditch-boy-shot-houston-hnk

To be fair it was a millenial (42 year old) who did that. Still horrible. But yeah.

Lmao as if boomers are that young..

Referencing this

Carl, of all people? 😂

They want kids to play outside so they have something to shoot.

American boomers*

Cursed country.

This is the first thing I saw on Lemmy today and it made my morning, thank you lol

They’re done playing video games. They’re doomscrolling now

Man... My parents used to kick us outta the house in the morning. They would tell us we could come back inside for lunch around noon but then we had to leave again. We would bike around and get into all kind of shenanigans. Call them from a payphone and instead of saying our name for the call we would just tell them where we were super fast and then they would hear that and decline the call lmao.

As long as we came home before the sun went down or we called them from a friend's house to get approval for a sleep over they didn't really care what we did all day. Good times.

Grandad plays GTA irl and you just complain.

Only if you're black or brown.

I did this a lot as a kid. One time I went too far and my neighbor threw me up on a fence. He told me if I ever did it again, he would whip me with a belt.

Coming from the generation that started that game, lmao.

Ding Dong Death

gex

meme is killing it.

Replace the gun with a car.

How much of the "outside" can a kid access today without taking the risk of being it by a car ? As soon as he crosses the door of the house he risks his life.

I don't understand how we accepted that as normal.

Now compare that with a carless world, kids could go everywhere.

Abduction or aggression are still a risk but almost insignificant compared to the risk of being hit by a car, yet this is the one we are talking about.

I think calling the police is more true