WTF?? Those Kids were Innocent and having fun until those damn Police Threatened to take them away from their Parents over something so innocent and silly thing.
read this post
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...dils-park.html

Peter Adams, a Conservative Councillor on Poole Council, reported the Family to the Police.

this guy should be kicked out of the Council for being like that it is pretty unlawful to Threatening the Family or Families with Arrest.

So their kids were unobserved long enough to pick 80 flowers, be reported to the police about it, be observed by the police for 20 minutes, and the parents *still* didn't see them picking flowers? Sounds to me like the officers were doing the couple a favor telling them they need to mind their **** kids better. Pulling up 80 flowers goes beyond "picking flowers", that's defacing public property.

From the financial point of view, daffodil *bulbs* are $0.50 each. 80 of them are worth $40. Now they're gone and you have to wait a whole year to get them back, assuming the bulbs were still there. Grown daffodils are $3 a piece, which would mean $240 to replace them. Finally, the grounds keeper will have to be paid to go over and replant several things to fill in the gaps created by these carefree children. Planting 80 plants would take a considerable amount of his time.

Instead of being ticked at the police and writing the paper, the parents should stop thinking "our kids can do no wrong" and teach them to respect things that aren't theirs instead. The price of the damage is on par with a broken window. I'd like to see this same couple not report one of those to the police.

Is that all the newspaper has to talk about? wow.

the police were called in and explained that the park is for everybody and they would let them off as long as their children did not pick the flowers. whether you agree the flowers should be picked or not the police did not threaten to take their children away. they said the parents would be arrested if they continued to allow their children to damage the park after being informed that it was illegal. there is a big difference. the parents have now been warned that what their children was doing is wrong. only by going against that warning would they get into trouble.

again whether the councillor should have asked the parents first instead of calling the police is debatable but he did nothing unlawful. taking the flowers whether you like it or not was a crime. it might seem silly and trivial but the next set of people cant enjoy the gardens if all the flowers have been uprooted. children damage things. do you let them write on the walls just because they are children? the police calmly resolved the situation and unless that family continues to let their children damage the flowers then nothing more will come of it.

id ask you to be a bit more respectful to the police of my country who are only doing their job instead of referring to them as 'damn police'. they were absolutely in the right to tell those people to stop their children from damaging a public place.

imagine walking through a park and enjoying the flowers then think about how it would look if someone child was allowed to destroy it simply because they were playing.

my apologies
but it's Counciller's fault.
he should have simply walked up to them instead of calling Police on them

yes perhaps he should have done.

Maybe, but you never know how people will react these days. Some might thank you, others might start screaming, and a few may even be violent.

Judging from the parents' reaction in the article, my guess is that they would have been screaming bloody murder no matter what the situation was.

Alright people - everybody out of the thread before it gets nasty.

Hey remember the episode where the Crusher Whelp (TM) goes to catch a frizbee or a ball... or something... and lands head long in a garden and next you know they got the euthanasia coming for him?

Yeah, it's something like that.

Power gets abused, Kids misbehave, water remains wet and I am willing to bet threads get locked.

*obnoxiously loud noises of drinking the last bits of liquid from a soda cup with a straw follow*

Batting a thousand with these, Caboose.

I agree with Archie here.

The kids should not have been out there tearing up bunches of flowers. A flower or two each, fine. 80? That is going a bit overboard and bordering on defacement of public property. How would you like it if you had a nice flower thing going and 3 girls tore 80 of them up? And better to teach the girls a lesson now before they move on to bigger things.

I may be evil, but even my evil has standards. I am more of the affably evil.