Can we shoot stupid parents??

[Zkribbler]

So I'm in the grocery store. I walk passed a lady who's little kid is wearing a plastic bag at a hat. Then I head round the corner to the next aisle. There a family is laughing as their toddler is standing up in the seat of shopping cart and doing a dance.

Are parents going to Stupid School these days?!

[Hot Mustard]

Off-topic for a bit - I once thought out the details of a stupid driver system:

- everyone is given some sort of laser or signal pointer device
- every car is fitted with a receiver for the pointer signals
- people can freely point their devices at vehicles and designate the driver as "bad"
- initially only at extreme ends (top/bottom 1%), the cumulative scores have impacts - discounts on insurance and/or license points
- over time and as the system gains acceptance, you could add other penalties and benefits.

OK - back on topic - I'm wondering if something similar could work for parents...

[DaShi]

Just report them to social services and offer to take care of the kids yourself.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by dejon
Off-topic for a bit - I once thought out the details of a stupid driver system:

- everyone is given some sort of laser or signal pointer device
- every car is fitted with a receiver for the pointer signals
- people can freely point their devices at vehicles and designate the driver as "bad"
- initially only at extreme ends (top/bottom 1%), the cumulative scores have impacts - discounts on insurance and/or license points
- over time and as the system gains acceptance, you could add other penalties and benefits.

OK - back on topic - I'm wondering if something similar could work for parents...

Actually, a method outlined in a comic novel I read as a teen (it might have been ione of John Powers' Catholic-childhood novels) is even better, and simpler, though it only works for city driving:

In every town, there would be one driver given life-and-death powers over every pedestrian, and one pedestrian given life-and-death powers over every driver. Their identies are secret. Problem solved.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And just so I don't threadjack: of course we can shoot parents! Ask the Menendez brothers!

[Japher]

plastic bag as a hat

stupid kid! those are space helmets!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Actually, does anybody remember the old SNL routine with Dan Ackroyd as the unscrupulous children's toy salesman and Jane Curtain as a consumer advocate? His toys included an all-black Haloween costume and a giant bag of glass? One of their best skits ever.

[SlowwHand]

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[Japher]

I liked the oily rags and matches set

[Japher]

nice one SLoww

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Japher
I liked the oily rags and matches set

I believe one of the toys was, in fact, a plastic bag to be used as a space helmet ("Johnny Astronaut").

[Japher]

yeah, I steal a lot of my material

[Guynemer]

When I am elected Emperor of All Sentient Beings In the Universe, my first act will be to introduce a birth control substance into the water supply that affects men and women alike. Once you reach age 25 and prove that you are not a complete and total ****ing dumbass, you get the antidote.

[Zkribbler]

You got my vote