finally - cops are cracking down on serious crime. this pisses me off - a simple phonecall to the parents would have probably fixed this.
Highly unlikely. If it's anything like over here the parents don't care. Anyway, what kind of a parent lets a 7 year old on a motorbike alone.
Depends on the type of motorbike I guess. They have those silly little mini-bike things now...I don't know what they're called. I remember back in the 80's my cousins used to ride around on sort of mini dirtbike/three-wheeler kind of things. I'm sure they were older than 7 though. Probably 10 or 12 maybe. For a 7 year old it surely had to have been one of those scaled down minibike things. Still too stupidly dangerous.
About bloody time, get through to them young instead of letting the little ****s do what they want. He might only be 7, but I'm pretty sure he will think twice about annoying pedestrians in the future.
operating a motorvehicle without a license operating a unregistered motorvehicle on the roads wreckless driving wreckless endangerment gross negligence definitely worth arresting the kid... should have arrested the parents too negligent ****ers
I don't see a problem with this. At the end of the day people moan that little scallies causing havoc get away with anything and that police do not do enough. The parents don't seem to care about the kid and have obviously not brought him up teaching him right from wrong. With this police incident there is at least some hope he has learnt something.
Any word yet on what type of bike it was? As someone else mentioned, there are a lot of really small motorbikes (under 90cc). Some aren't much more dangerous then a normal pedal bike... And the article didn't mention ANY of the offenses listed above (cderalow). I think it would depend on circumstances. But the best thing to do (IMO) would have been to take the kid home and have a talk with the parents. If there was some kind of endangerment to the kid or to someone else and the parents were supporting it and/or encouraging it and/or indifferent to it then they would be able to take further action. There isn't enough information in the article to base an opinion on.
I guess this is all to do with the "zero tolerance" policy that has become so popular these days. I know if I had a minibike as a kid in the 80's and was caught by a neighbor or the police driving it on a sidewalk where I was endangering anyone, I would certainly be brought home to my parents who would give me a thrashing my bum wouldn't forget. These days I'm not surprised at all. The mistake is treating children as if they were adults. At the least the parents of such a kid should be punished as well. Again, when I was growing up my parents would be responsible for fines and even criminal charges if I was under 16 I think.
i was just giving prime examples of why it would be worth arresting the kid... not necessarily the things he was charged with
no the mistake is treating kids and parents as retards also where the hell did you live that criminal liability rested on the parents? i know(#include <standard disclaimer> (iirc,ianal)) that civil liability(possibly also criminal fines) is shared between child and parent here until they are 18 depending on the bike this is either stupid or valid I know some rednecks whose 8ish year old has a fairly decent dirt bike and rides it on the footpath here :| (bike is unregistered and permitted on the footpath as long as under 20km/h (strangly this speed limit applies on bike paths and push bikes as I learnt(77 in a 20 is not a great thing)) and in that case i would support the kid spending a night in jail and some sort of fine. but if it was a tiny little mini bike (<50cc) and it was not doing any resonable speed and if the footpath was not heavily populated then take them home and maybe just maybe(if he was being a prat) impound the bike (if possible)
