neat fluff piece about changes in how far kids are allowed to roam from home [dailymail]
june 19, 2007 @
14:31
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me and my neighborhood buddies would ride our bikes all over the southside of rochester: the pool, the pizza place, the mall, the pizza place, the movie theater, the fair, the pizza place, you name it. it didn't seem crazy at the time, and i gotta admit that it still doesn't today. now if you'll excuse me, i need to get back to work digging a moat around my house. (fd: a british buddy of mine insists the daily mail is "a veritable paranoia-machine and possibly the most obnoxious newspaper in the country". i still think it's an interesting story, though.)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462091&in_page_id=1770
dad thought:
And when I was a kid I rode my bike all over st paul and took the bus when it was too far to ride. But then university avenue wasn't bordering a combat zone. There had been no shootings for years.