I just made some kid cry

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

By me saying "Thats not how it works in Canada" I wasn't referring to the law - I was saying that if the kid breaks a window and is at fault, you take him inside to write down his phone number, and the parents find out, generally it's a wash.

Then I'm not sure what we're arguing about. My comments were about risk of being prosecuted, not whether or not he should be.

By taking the kid into his house, he put his future in the hands of people he didn't know, and these people had every right to prosecute and if the were DICKS he'd be in JAIL. I'm not sure how this differs from America to Canada.

[KillerGremlin]

Typh, I think the reason Prof S is pointing this out is because here in America everyone is a douche bag and Prof S is jaded and rightly so. Too many lawyers (lawyer = inherently evil/douche bag), too many people that press charges over CHICKEN SHIT.

Yeah, common sense and RESPECT dictate that the parents wouldn't press charges because paying for your window is the decent thing to do. And if that's cool beans in Canada sweet. It's just hard for us Americans to accept or believe because we have been fucked hard in every legal crevice you can find over stuff that should never have been escalated to a court of "law."

[Typhoid]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Typh, I think the reason Prof S is pointing this out is because here in America everyone is a douche bag and Prof S is jaded and rightly so. Too many lawyers (lawyer = inherently evil/douche bag), too many people that press charges over CHICKEN SHIT.

Yeah, common sense and RESPECT dictate that the parents wouldn't press charges because paying for your window is the decent thing to do. And if that's cool beans in Canada sweet. It's just hard for us Americans to accept or believe because we have been fucked hard in every legal crevice you can find over stuff that should never have been escalated to a court of "law."

That's actually exactly what I was implying.

[Swan]

Alright, don't want to go back and reread my opening post to see if I said it, but I never actually took him into my house.


A neighbour came out and asked what was going on, so we dealt with it more or less in the street/trail/front yard

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Swan

Alright, don't want to go back and reread my opening post to see if I said it, but I never actually took him into my house.


A neighbour came out and asked what was going on, so we dealt with it more or less in the street/trail/front yard

You said you "drug him back to my place". I think thats where the confusion was.

[Swan]

Yeah, I didn't think there was too much of a difference bewtween the two but whatever.



And my mom is dealing with it now, so she called the kids mom and she threatened to call the cops on me because I swore at him

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by Typhoid

That's actually exactly what I was implying.

And I was saying that his life was put in the hands of people he didn't know, regardless of nationality. Even Canadians can be dicks.