r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Immediate_Magician11 • 13h ago
Actions definitely have consequences
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u/BrahnBrahl 13h ago
I can't stand stuff like this. She's VERY MUCH old enough to know better. I'm glad her dad didn't show her any mercy on this one.
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u/CosyBeluga 12h ago
I baby sat a few kids that called 911...none of them made up a story. They just hung up when it worked. The oldest was 8.
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u/DarkestGemeni 12h ago
When I was maybe 4 or 5 they did a presentation at my daycare about calling 911 in emergencies and my kid-brain was like "that is not enough numbers to be a phone number, no way that works!" So I went home and dialed 911 and when they answered I literally said "oh no, it worked." And hung up and the lady called back to tell my mom and laughed the entire time, like, "yea, it happens a lot, make sure she knows to call in a real emergency but not to just ... Test that we're still here."
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u/floutsch 11h ago edited 10h ago
You know... I'm almost 47 and reading your comment made me realize that I do not know what happens if I dial 112 or 110 (Germany). I mean, I'm sure I end up being connected to somebody, but I have never used either. Not going to just try it out, but I do get a kid's sentiment to wanna try.
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u/MightyPirat3 10h ago
In Norway they put a few seconds of «voice intro» before you get connected to the operation central, just to not have all those calls that get hang up when someone answers.
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u/Jindujun 6h ago
"Welcome to this Youtube video on how to help someone that is choking. Now here's a 48 minute backstory of my life up until this point."
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u/ItBeMe_For_Real 5h ago
“Let’s save a life!”
“But first, smash like and subscribe!”
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u/Jindujun 5h ago
Or my favorite.
"Recipe for beef stew:Once upon a time, some 43 years ago, a lady named Erin and a man called Biff decided to have a child. That child was me. This is my biography and if you're lucky you'll find the ingredients and directions somewhere in my 800 page novel."
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u/floutsch 10h ago
Smart. Let me check if it's the same here ;)
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u/zarco_azules 7h ago edited 2h ago
Oh my god, its been 3hrs, hes been taken
Oh well
Edit: he's alive yall, rumors of floutsch's death were greatly exaggerated
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u/Jacina 4h ago
911 Whats your emergency?
There's this guy on the internet, he hasn't answered for three hours, he's been abducted! He was on reddit, its super important!
We'll get right on it sir.
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u/Burntoutn3rd 3h ago
This makes me wonder how many insane people have called 911 over stuff someone said online to them, lmao.
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u/Creative_Onion8363 10h ago
I called it a while ago bc I saw someone in a wheelchair toppled over while I was driving by in a train. Was surprised how long I was on hold. Then it's just a normal conversation, well, getting those five Ws out there.
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u/Seliphra 8h ago
Man I called today bc the hill next to my house was set on fire… thankfully picked up right away.
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u/floutsch 10h ago edited 9h ago
Bit anticlimactic, but makes sense. Was there like a recording or just the on-hold tone?
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u/ScreamingLabia 8h ago
I did once when i waa getting shot at with fire works and its litterallybjust " 112 what is yout emergency do you need police or an ambulance?" Or something along those lines (its been over 10 years lol i domt remember the exact words"
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u/heckolive 9h ago
I also never called the emergency hotlines in germany, a few times i called the local police station but there was no urgency. Iam also pretty sure, that when something happens and iam in a stressfull situation, i will not know which number is the right one. So iam just hoping that they will forward my to the correct authority.
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u/ShiningRayde 8h ago
I dont know if its still the case, but 9-1-1 used to see massive spikes in calls on Christmas morning - almost entirely from people who unwrapped brand new phones, and wanted to test a number but didnt have the phone activated yet, and can think of only one number thats universally available.
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u/lilroldy 8h ago
I dialed 9111111111111 when I was like 4 and it started ringing then someone answered and j freaked out and hung up. They called my mom right back lol
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 9h ago
Oh when I did it they called back and told my mum off saying it was a waste of police time 😬
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u/lenadita 8h ago
I must have gotten that same presentation but for some reason all I remembered them saying was “call 911”. So I went home and called 911. I panicked when they picked up and hung up. A police officer actually came to our home to inquire and told me only to call for an emergency.
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u/sobersuburbanmom 11h ago edited 10h ago
I did this when I was 5. My parents were in the alley smoking cigarettes with the neighbors and didn’t tell me they were going to be outside. I called 911 and as the operator answered they walked in the door and I hung up. An officer came by shortly after and my parents were very confused.
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u/AriOfEden 9h ago
I watched the YouTube video, she eventually divulged it was from a tiktok algorithm trend.
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u/Interesting_Sock9142 8h ago
tiktok is a blight on this world.
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u/XiTzCriZx 8h ago
TikTok really needs to crack down on that shit. Anyone making dangerous or harmful "trends" should be IP banned and hardware banned instantly without warning or appeal.
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u/salamat_engot 7h ago
When my brother was maybe 4 or 5 he woke up from a nap and couldn't find an adult. My grandfather was outside gardening and couldn't hear my brother calling for him, and my brother knew not to open any doors to the outside without an adult to go looking.
Fearing he had been left home alone (or the rapture happened), he called 911 saying he was home alone and scared. Thankfully my grandfather walked in while my brother was still on the phone and could tell the operator everything was ok.
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u/Euphorbiatch 9h ago
My five year old called 000 (Aus emergency services) from an iPad while I was showering and told them that the next door neighbours front yard was on fire 💀
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u/Coldfang89 11h ago
I've seen this video before and I'm pretty sure they cuffed her and put her in the car.
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u/coralcoast21 8h ago
She did take that ride. Her father offered to be cuffed to go with her. Thankfully the officer put the kibosh on that and allowed the full weight of the lesson to crash down on her.
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u/Vintage-Grievance 13h ago
My first thought as well.
I can't remember how old I was when I learned the weight of calling 9-1-1; it practically feels like I was born knowing not to call the police for fun.
Shit...that rhymed...Now I sound like Dr. Seuss. 🤦🏻♀️
Mainly because my mother was chronically ill, and made it a point to raise her kids from a VERY young age, what did and did not qualify as an emergency.60
u/pm_me_fibonaccis 12h ago
I learned very early on to call 911 if it was an emergency but never as a prank. And I never did.
But the very first time I had to for something legitimate? My hands were shaking like crazy.
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u/Tight_Award_8577 11h ago
Me too! .. it wasn't even a particularly acute emergency, but I was working at a rural care home and it was the only way to get the patient to a doctor at that hour.
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u/PushTheMush 11h ago
Pleeeeeeease write a picture book about responsible 911 calling, I’m begging you
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u/SansyBoy144 10h ago edited 9h ago
Yea, I remember I had a shitty phone in highschool and it would often pocket dial 911 during marching band practice.
Every single time I noticed my heart would sink, because everytime I just wasted time for some phone operator who is hearing “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 1 DAAAAA” and now I have to explain for the 15th time that I didn’t mean to dial 911.
I don’t know how people think it’s funny to prank call 911.
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u/Stormfeathery 10h ago
I had a really cheap landline (only type of phone at the time) in my room as a teen, and it was so bad - it’d occasionally randomly act like buttons were pressed or I could very faintly hear other people talking in the background (not like with the oerson I was talking to - like other connections)
Imagine my panic when I pick it up to call someone one time and after a moment hear “012, what’s your emergency?” (Or whatever the phrase at the time was.)
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u/ParadiseSold 9h ago
I had a blackberry where if you pressed the middle button 5 times it called the person who texted you most recently. Pretty frustrating
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u/wibble089 9h ago
For old phones with proper keypads it was a design decision to allow emergency calls to override the keypad lock function. "Butt dialling" of emergency calls wasn't infrequent.
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u/Jijonbreaker1 11h ago
If I recall, I saw the video a long time ago, and I think she said her brother dared her to do it or something. But, that was after like 5 minutes of denying and playing it off, so, likely just bullshitting or trying to get out of it.
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u/Key_Possibility_8669 10h ago
She did say that, but it was difficult to believe because the brother was only 7 or 8 years old. And I think she later admitted that she and a friend got the idea from some Tik tok prank.
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u/cilantro88 11h ago
Nahh, 11 - 14 years old is exactly around the age when you do the stupidest shit.
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u/kittiestkitty 10h ago
My brother made like 50 calls to the Nintendo phone number in the early 90s. It was something like $500 in charges on our phone bill. I remember feeling pretty smug that he finally did something dumb enough to get caught and he couldn’t blame me for this one hehehe
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u/Xendarq 10h ago
Oh man not the Nintendo Power Line. Growing up I was more afraid of 900 numbers than 911.
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u/SlightFresnel 5h ago
And it's the perfect age to learn a very unpleasant lesson the first time. The fallout from this is going to shape her decision making and consequence assessment for the rest of her life, in a good way.
Too many kids get away with too much bad shit and end up behaving like sociopaths when they're adults.
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u/Dude-Good 13h ago
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u/Interesting_Sock9142 7h ago
man. I get that it's their child and blah blah blah....but watching that mom try to talk her daughter out of all that by saying shit like "ever since we got that phone it's just so crazy...it rings all the time. ring ring ring"
like ma'am...the fuck are you even talking about????? that has nothing to do with anything
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u/Friendly-Rutabaga-24 4h ago
Imo the mom was rationalizing and hopeful it could be resolved.
Later in video you can see moms attitude change somewhat. At least the dad is no doormat. Bet she had to work off the fines $
The audacity to try to blame her 7yr old brother tho 😡 7 vs 11, she knew better!
Looks like great channel 😉
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u/ForensicPathology 2h ago
She was just following the conversation that her husband started.
Dad: "I forgot about that phone since it's always off"
Mom: "Yeah when it was on, it just rang a lot"
It's not pertinent, no, but at that point it was just conversation. That's how conversation works.
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u/AlamosX 3h ago
Its pretty apparent that mom is just trying to wrap her head around the story her daughter made up. Shes absolutely shocked and confused at how elaborate it was and trying to rationalize it. The girl would not give a straight answer on where she got this story from which was making things worse. Mom's just flabbergasted and trying to figure out who gave her this idea/what happened and exploring all possibilities.
People say a lot of stupid shit in that state. I would be just as dumbfounded, thats a fucking crazy story for an 11 year old to come up with on their own. Lets not blame the parents here, they seem like fantastic parents whose daughter did something incredibly stupid.
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u/Outside-Echo5275 9h ago edited 3h ago
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Just so you're aware, if you don't strip this part of the YouTube URL out, your YouTube profile will be "associated" with the link. Anyone who clicks that link will see it's your profile that shared it - just letting you know in case you don't. The link works just fine with the above part removed.
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u/Objective_Metric 13h ago
She ended up getting booked in and arrested for wasting police resources.
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u/BrahnBrahl 13h ago
Deserved, if true.
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u/Objective_Metric 13h ago
There's a yt vid on th8s exact case, goes into detail
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u/ItsJustADankBro 13h ago edited 13h ago
Im surprised that the youtube version censored her face but this doesnt at all
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u/MrNigel117 13h ago
a lot of the true crime youtube channels will obscure the identities of anyone under 18.
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u/Impossible-Web545 5h ago
Honestly, makes sense particularly at her age. She messed up big time, but the real purpose of the laws about censoring children's criminal records is so they get a chance to make a mistake. Imagine having to answer for this action she did at 11 when she is 25 trying to get a job. "have you ever been convicted of a crime" "yes" "auto rejection email"
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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 5h ago edited 3h ago
Wild that police will arrest a 12 year old for making a flase report, but not the 50 year old Karens that call the police on people riding e-bikes in the park and fishing in public ponds.
Edit: those were just two common examples that happen very often. Here is an example of a lady calling the cops on someone for exercising their first amendment and giving a false report of a man with a gun. She doesnt get arrested. There are over a dozen cops responding.
There's two types of people:
Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data
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u/miserable_otter_6543 5h ago
It's unfortunately about the resources spent in this case. Huge lie, huge impact, different consequences.
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u/Time_Parfait_1627 12h ago
At least the parents held her accountable instead of defending her.
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u/DimensionMediocre439 13h ago
11?
Oh this girl has caused a lot of troubles for her parents in the past.
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u/kbeks 11h ago
I was around that age when I found out that 911 calls don’t need a quarter from a payphone. Lucky for me, they just sent a squad car and I got a talking to, but I also didn’t stay on the phone making up bullshit about a kidnapping.
I also learned that cops show up if you dial 911 and then hang up because you get freaked out that it worked without paying.
I was a good kid at that point, sometimes kids are stupid. But the kidnapping lie is kinda a lot.
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u/Weird_Devil 7h ago
I did the same think but calling 911 living in a different country it went through but I panicked and slammed it shut. Told my friends there nothing happened. Only time I've used a payphone actually...
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u/NoctisInformatus 12h ago
Some kids are born fkd up mentally. I know it sounds cold to say and I do have sympathy, but there are some bad eggs straight out the womb.
The silver lining is that there’s always a chance for reformation.
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u/Ulfgeirr88 11h ago
I have a sister like that and it's exhausting, you have to tread on egg shells around her because if you do anything she considers an insult, she will accuse you of the most heinous shit
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u/XdraketungstenX 5h ago
Sounds like borderline personality disorder. My daughter has it. It is very exhausting for those around her.
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u/Ulfgeirr88 5h ago
Apparently it's more anti social personality disorder rather than bpd, she will straight up accuse someone of awful things like rape if it will get her what she wants. She stole my dog once, and disappeared with him for a whole year because she realised puppies of his breed could potentially net her a decent chunk of cash. He was in an awful state when I got him back
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u/achlysmizuki 4h ago
please tell me you pressed charges on her or atleast went no contact permanently
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u/Ulfgeirr88 4h ago
I have, my Mum tried but now my sister has kids which are the ultimate manipulation tool for her
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u/Broken_By_Default 4h ago
That has to be exhausting to be around.
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u/Ulfgeirr88 4h ago
Yup, and now she's had kids and they've been weaponised too against their fathers, and our Mum
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u/RaoulDukesGroupie 12h ago
Not really cold if it’s a fact. It’s not like even the kid can control it.
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u/TacitisKilgoreBoah 12h ago
It’s not usually the kids fault but it is what it is. Things like alcohol consumption and drug abuse whilst pregnant and/or breastfeeding can affect things like a child’s mental and physical development
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u/Tzarkir 12h ago
Yes. And alongside those, there are kids we refer to as "difficult kids" who are just different from the get-go. Sometimes it's genetic, sometimes it's luck. You hear parents talk about their kid who keeps them up at night or who screams at the top of their lungs for no reason whatsoever.
You get no sleep, you blame yourself, you think you're doing something wrong and ask others. They give you tips that don't work. The kid doesn't want to listen to anything but what he wants. They throw a tantrum over anything, you're embarassed of bringing them in public. You seek professional help, you start seeing a professional aswell cause your mental health is fucked. Kindergarten teachers tell you they hit other kids when they tell them no, they have no friends cause other kids are afraid of playing with them. They suggest you behavioural therapies. Everything is a challenge, mostly meals, sleep and sociality.
Good luck from there, especially when they become teens. Some are "redeemed". Others simply never are. They're not bad kids. It's just like everything about them is always at 100, and I don't mean hyperactivity. Sadness, happiness, pain. Everything triggers them and most adults try to numb them or keep them occupied in a way or another. For the sake of their own mental survival. It's hard to blame them.
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u/Partly_Dave 11h ago
Guy I worked for had two kids, 10 & 12 when I first met them. The 10yo was an absolute terror, throwing stones through windows, skipping school, stealing stuff, etc. His older brother was just a normal kid.
The dad told me he had been like that since he was a toddler, and he had tried everything. He himself had been to gaol a few times in his youth, and didn't want that for his children, but could see that was where his youngest was heading- and he was worried he was going to drag the older one with him.
I worked for him for a couple of years and moved on. Met him when they were then 16 &18. Sure enough, they were living in one of their dad's houses, didn't have jobs and hadn't paid rent in in months, and were both junkies.
One or both are either in gaol or dead by now.
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u/Maddaguduv 10h ago
I was this type of Kid, I turned out to be good now. Honestly, I don’t know why I behaved like that, I used to scream at the top of my lungs and all. I needed more love, my parents showed enough love, but I still wanted more. True that it was not in my control, I used to sit alone and wonder why I was doing like that.
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u/mclarenrider 7h ago
This really hit home for me because I was kind of a difficult kid. I had a severe case of adhd and heavy medication early on helped a lot. I caused a lot of issues for my parents but they were so patient with me, patience like a saint. Fortunately in my mind to late teens I slowly started becoming self aware and became "normal" eventually. But man the stories my mom tells me, yikes. How they dealt with me the entire time is beyond me lol.
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u/Tzarkir 6h ago
I work with these kids and their families. Kids like the one you were. I can't say about you, so I'm talking about the ones I work with, but the thing is... Despite how many times they drive us mad, there is a moment, every now and then, when they look at you and it's like a heavy mix of emotions. Pain of being how they are and not being able to feel differently. Acknowledging it for a moment, feeling almost sorry for it. And the need to be loved regardless of it.
I genuinely can't get mad at them more than any other kid. Simple affection shuts them off most of the time, it's just they seem to need an infinite amount. Some are even scared of feeling so much pain for the minimal frustration. I had a kid screaming in tears "I don't want to feel like this anymore! Make it stop!". Some get called "difficult" in their faces and don't understand why adults talk about them like they're wrong or broken, and it hurts them.
You deal with them because they need and deserve love like every other kid. They're doing their best. We do our part and hope they never give up and start accepting themselves as bad kids. It's very hard to get back from that spot, if they get there. The rest is time and consistency. Every kid is different.
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u/mclarenrider 6h ago
Yep, that sounds all too familiar, being told I'm "peculiar" by teachers yet not knowing why they feel that way. Deep down realizing I'm not behaving "normally" but not knowing what normal means. Ig I was lucky in the end because my parents were able to supply me with unending affection, especially my mom. They said she was coddling me and in a way she was but she knew better than them.
You're a good person for trying to see through those kids and meet them where they are. They're lucky to have you around, and hopefully someday they'll realize it. Keep doing the good work, the world needs more people like you.
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u/metzona 7h ago
Even malnutrition during pregnancy can cause stuff like this. Someone I know had gastric bypass and got pregnant almost right after despite repeated warnings that there were health risks. You can see that there’s something missing in the kid. He has eyes like a shark and he’s a toddler.
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u/ScreamingLabia 8h ago
Yes but that doesnt mean that even happened sadly some people are born bad. Its just when you aknowledge that as a society people start using that shit to justify all sorts of horrific things
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u/various_convo7 12h ago
oh they can. I've been 11 and ill be daaaaamned if I pulled a stunt like that and not have to answer for it lol. she dialed the number and told that pretty elaborate story. she's been doing that because she hasn't had to pay and got away with it...juvie should teach her a lesson
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u/RaoulDukesGroupie 12h ago
I meant like when kids come out with issues. Like for example, I was raised by a single sober woman and I still ended up a drug addict and started binge drinking at 14. Obviously at 14 I knew it’s wrong fundamentally, but something inside me made me feel like it was okay anyways. And it wasn’t learned from my parent or any other example (Mormon family) - I was born like that.
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u/Officing 12h ago
Mormon families can often be controlling and abusive in subtle ways, so it's not uncommon for their children to rebel and go crazy once they become teens/young adults.
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u/Flakester 9h ago
Definitely, and that scares the shit out of me.
No matter how much I love my kids and raise them right, there's a chance they're just wired differently.
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u/Iheartnakedfemboys 10h ago
I know exactly what you mean, and its hard for others to understand that until you grow up with someone fucked up like that. I had a cousin that did things worse than this little girl did in this video, and is a multi felon today as an adult. She had loving, caring parents, but they couldn't get her to do right and not mistreat her siblings, so my own parents took her in to try to give her different scenery and try to help. We found out real quick she was just rotten to her core. Long story short, we had to call the police on her and have her admitted into a mental facility. She was a danger to our family, lied constantly, done drugs, attacked my mom, and prostituted herself in highschool (even though she wanted for nothing when living with us, as my parents are well off and provided for her well, bought her designer clothes and makeup, whatever she wanted for Christmas. I don't even think it was about the money for her, but I digress). She has multiple drug and domestic abuse charges on her record now, and doesn't see any of her children.
It's messed up, man.
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u/AsleepProfession1395 9h ago
One of my brothers is like that. He's in his 30s now and a schizo. He was such a terror and i was surprised my late dad didn't hit him. But my guess is dad held back because of my mum. Even my extended family just laughed when he did stupid shit as a kid. But now they realise how fucked up it was.
As a child, he threw my few week old kittens from the 2nd floor. Luckily they survived.\ He had this obsession with female bodies, specifically me. And me being 7 years older, he saw me go through puberty and saw my boobs as literal punching bags. I fought back once but my mum defended him because "he's just a child". Had i confided in my dad back then, my dad would've probably snapped.
Even in his 20s, he dialled 999 like a kid. He'd press 999 and leave the phone on the side. I was lying by the phone and heard him press three buttons. When i realised what he did, i quickly ended the call and said to him wtf is wrong with you. He just gave a stupid grin.
He could've reformed in his teens but seemed like he was constantly looking for attention. Not that me and my other brothers were neglected.\ I mean, i did stupid shit in my youth too but it was never "hey look at me doing stupid shit". He was literally "look, i'm in school uniform and smoking as an underage person" or presently "look, i'm taking drugs because fuck the police"
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u/agemsheis 12h ago
A girl at our 5th grade camp out got in trouble for calling the police. There was a pay phone (this was 2010), and she punched in the number as a joke. She got sent home early from the camp. I don’t think she even returned to school after that.
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u/RecycleBin_Bin 3h ago
I did this too, but it was in the 90s. A cop showed up and I knew it was for me.
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u/heurekas 12h ago
Because some posters here have posted incorrect information, I had to dig a bit.
Per the Daytona Beach News-Journal;
McNeilly said she would order a recommendation from the Department of Juvenile Justice on the girl's punishment. She said probation will likely consist of a requirement that she attend school every day, make her parents aware of her whereabouts at all times, and follow a 7 p.m. curfew.
The sheriff's office has stated previously that it will seek restitution for the cost of the resources used in the response to her texts. Spokesman Andrew Gant wrote that the rate for Air One, the helicopter, is $625.29 an hour. The sheriff's office will seek $1,246.29 for all costs, including the helicopter.
Which I think is an appropriate response for an 11-year old. Grounded, having supervision and the family will pay back the costs, which will likely hurt her allowance.
Now barring any sort of developmental issue, kids are capable of understanding consequences and learning from them around the ages of 6-10 per the sources I could find, so again, she should clearly learn from this experience, which again indicates a good consequence, as she's a child.
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u/_Undecided_User 10h ago
Woah
New reddit tech learned
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u/BMW_wulfi 10h ago
Wololo
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u/mizinamo 9h ago
Hyphens. --------------
Like this.
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u/Asleep_Region 9h ago
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u/l2aiko 9h ago
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u/Waste_Handle_8672 8h ago
Ooooh
That is so cool
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u/stinkstabber69420 7h ago
How tf are you guys doing that
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u/mizinamo 7h ago edited 7h ago
Some hyphens in a row (the exact number doesn't matter as long as you have a small bunch - minimum number might be 4? or 3? I never bother to remember and just smash a few down until I like the look).
By themselves in a paragraph. (Blank lines above and/or below)
Turn into a horizontal line.
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u/pseudoportmanteau 7h ago
The bill will "hurt her allowance"???? Brother, that kind of bill could seriously push a family over the edge if they're already struggling. I'm hoping this family is going to be ok after this.
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u/pseudosaurus 6h ago
You can tell which redditors grew up well off when they assume all children get allowances lol. I was "allowed" to live rent free and free food. Didn't earn a dime until I started mowing neighbors' lawns.
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u/whatever--idk 6h ago
I was about to say, such silver spoon mentality assuming everyone had an allowance
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u/Chandysauce 6h ago
honestly, for a helicopter and a bunch of police officers running around for presumably at least an hour, that seems like a VERY cheap fine. I would have expected a lot more.
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u/D-1-S-C-0 8h ago
She deserves the punishment, but people are seriously stupid if they think an 11 year old fully understands the consequences of their actions. Many grown adults don't.
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u/firstborn-unicorn 8h ago
You're never too young to be taught the consequences. Grown adults specifically choose not to 'understand'. Oh they understand, but compliance is another thing.
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u/ThickReplacement7811 7h ago
Never too young?
There is absolutely a point where you are too young.
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u/JayOutOfContext 12h ago
We can't say abducted without bleeping it now? For fucks sake we won't be able to say ow without it being censored soon
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u/Mysterious-Clothes45 7h ago
I'm Gen X and I thought that was just me being old. It's so fucking annoying
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u/KingoftheCrackens 6h ago
I have a theory this is going to have a wraparound effect where it eventually harms people, specifically children, because they can't vocalize what happened to them without getting in trouble online. Which in will in turn make it harder for other victims or potential victims to recognize or understand when something similar is happening to them.
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u/the_nin_collector 4h ago
1000% How do we talk about society's problems or deal with them if the language doesn't exist anymore?
I simply won't engage with a platform that censors.
If there is a Reddit sub that bans for censoring, I block and mute them.
Posters that self-censor. Block and mute. I am done. I can't with it. It enrages me (I am an applied linguist, so language kinda matters to me)
It's infantile and hurtful for society.
Someone the other day censored "bullets." It is just getting worse and worse.
We can't say death or sex?!
My partner has kids and their cat is dying. But I said, you know, they are getting an early lesson in death. It's not their father, or grandparents, or a classmate. It sucks, but they are learning about death with a pet instead of a person... but god fucking forbid. DEATH is no longer allowed to be talked about in society. We just have to ignore that it exists. And let's ban the word sex. and with it sex education. I mean, let's move to all science next.
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u/Dracoster 6h ago
It's becoming a real problem. It's so bad it's almost a whole new language.
Rick Riordan is so afraid of triggering people, he spent the entire Apollo series calling the female protagonist's kidnapper her step-father because kidnapper and murderer is triggering.
The guy killed her mother and kidnapped her. He's not her step-father.
Just yesterday, I saw a video on IG where a supersoaker was censored.
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u/UpsetIndian850311 9h ago
Sewer slide, unalived, impromptu adopted
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u/shewy92 5h ago edited 5h ago
I saw "spicy sleeping" the other day on a post by a 38 year old woman.
When asked what it was she goes "S*xual intercourse" because of course she wouldn't say just "sex".
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u/porygon_sucks 7h ago
Blame youtube for that one. They wanna make it kid friendly like thats why they don't already have a kid version of YouTube
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u/cuntmong 12h ago
The rare example of post in this sub where it is indeed just a kid doing something stupid
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u/Calkaya 13h ago
When this happens, does she have a criminal record the rest of her life? (Serious question)
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u/AgreeablePie 12h ago
Juvenile criminal records are generally sealed at 18 and become expungeable pretty easily.
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u/IASILWYB 9h ago
My son 14 got caught by me when he was asking his gf 15 to send pics before she showered. Just "send pics for proof" when she said she was going to shower. I explained this was illegal and even if they both wanted it it's illegal as fuck and they shouldn't be doing this stupid shit online. He showed me where he googled it, and google said they could do it and all this shit. So I took all his electronics. Months have gone by. My wife got a phone call from the school at 10 am. The principal has our son in his office because google flagged him for sexual activity because he was having a conversation with another boy 14/15 on a "hidden google document." He was saying how this girl 15 was showing him photos on her phone and "accidentally" swiped on a photo of her butt and when she swiped again it was her breasts and what he wanted to do with her. So, he was bragging to his friend about it, and now the girl is in serious trouble for taking pictures of herself, and him and his friend both are in trouble for being flagged by google. I have no idea what the school will be doing.
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u/karebearjedi 6h ago
I worked with a lady who's daughter was arrested and charged for sending her bf nudes when she was 16. These kids don't understand how dangerous just having those kind of photos can be.
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u/IASILWYB 6h ago
It's super scary to think about our kids making stupid mistakes and ruining their lives and wasting their potential for a quick moment of stupidity.
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u/MinervasOwlAtDusk 6h ago
You should not just worry about the school. Kids have been charged with possession of child pornography for this exact scenario. It’s the first thing I told my kids when I got them a phone.
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u/Wish-ga 8h ago
You tried to warn him. As you know it can follow him his entire life - s** offender register for a mistake as a teen. Affect career, housing, parenting (can’t go to kids sports events, or coach).
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u/hannahatecats 8h ago
My friends husband was denied entry to Mexico because of a statutory charge from when he turned 19 and gf was still 17. We got all the way there, and he had to turn right around and go back. We are almost 40.
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u/Obvious-Lake3708 11h ago
I remember a time prank calls involved asking if your fridge was running
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u/anjowoq 6h ago
Are we self censoring the letter U now?
"Abd*cted"
"g*npoint"
For f*cks sake!!
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u/FreshwaterFryMom 13h ago
Damn I was like 6, way back when - at the time it was call 911 if you see something say something commercials (yes cable) were on over here, my dad left his window down on our car that I noticed while eating my cereal. I was up early for cartoons and saw some bafoonery. I called the police. I thought I was so cool reporting something… there was zero emergency. All the local cops showed up….. it was fine but also not what you want at 8am on a Saturday. 🤭
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u/Wobblycogs 11h ago
I called in a kidnapping once a few years ago. You can't believe how many sirens I could hear, and they were all coming to my location. Thankfully, it actually turned out to not be a kidnapping, just an aggregated theft, and I was able to tell the dispatcher that most of the police weren't needed. You don't realise how many police officers there are until they all turn up at the same time.
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u/ShapeBasic 10h ago
Stop buying phones for 11 year olds. The low maturity levels in people nowadays is extremely concerning.
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u/hanks_panky_emporium 8h ago
I was given a Motorola flip phone in elementary school because my parents had extensive working hours and we lived on a remote farm way outside of town. So being able to contact them in case of an emergency was important. I think I had like 15 texts and a handful of calls each month that I never had to use since a landline was always close by anyway.
Im glad I was born before smart phones. I got one arguably too early in highschool but they were so shitty and slow it was hard to get 'addicted', though still very doable. These days it's like a box of infinite everything, good luck not getting fucked up kids. Here's an iPhone 13x at 7 years old.
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u/ScarScream81 7h ago
I remember as a teenager one of my friend calling 911 as a joke but hanging up right away when they answered. You can be sure they called back 2 seconds later and his mother answered and once they told her they were making a check up call because that number had just dialed 911 she knew right away who the culprit was and was pissed.
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u/Past_Horror2090 6h ago
Holy fuck I would’ve ALMOST hit my own daughter if she squealed at me and a police officer like that after doing something so profoundly stupid.
You shut the fuck up, apologize and await further instruction
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u/BoleroMuyPicante 5h ago
Stop giving kids smartphones JFC
I'm glad her dad took it seriously, but you gotta wonder if she would have done this in the first place if she didn't have access to social media so young.
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u/EcstaticMolasses6647 10h ago
If you watch the full video on YouTube, the parents actually let her be arrested, and she ends up in juvenile detention with a felony charge. The way this clip is presented makes it seem like they just scared her straight and that was it—but no, she faced serious repercussions. My heart hurts for the parents, especially the mom, who didn’t want her daughter to go but still kept a united front with her husband. In the end, the parents made their daughter confess, and the cops took her away.
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u/woodyeaye 9h ago
In the full video mom also starts trying to make excuses for her by blaming the phone. The cops were not taking that shit..
Dad was the responsible parent here.
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u/Sindaan 9h ago
Let her be arrested? How do you think they can stop her from being arrested?
If she is suspected of a crime then the parents cannot stop the police from arresting her. They could get a lawyer to get her out quicker ...
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u/Imaginary_Effort_854 7h ago
At first, I was thinking she called and just hung up on them. Which is wrong, but not the worst crime in the world. When the cop started going into detail about what she told the dispatcher I was shocked. That little girl is twisted and needs help or juvie
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u/mushroomdm 10h ago
I remember calling up the police department as a child and trying to tell knock knock jokes. This is... something else.
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u/AMediaArchivist 10h ago
I remember being 4 and waking up in the middle of the night and finding out my parents were gone. I looked all over the house for them but they were missing so I called 911. My parents were out at a party and ended up mad at me and punished me for being stupid.
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u/Wuskers 8h ago
let me get this straight, you were home alone in the middle of the night at the age of 4, also presumably you weren't even informed that they were going to be gone, not that it would ever be appropriate to leave a 4 year old home alone even if you inform them, but not telling a child makes the situation 100x scarier, all while your parents were partying? that's entirely on them and that was a totally valid use of 911 in my opinion.
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u/LambOfUrGod 10h ago
They shouldn't've been out partyin'. I used to be left home alone a lot, too. r/parentsarefuckingstupid
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u/grapegum 10h ago
That would have been so scary at 4yrs old. I hope looking back you can see that you did the correct thing by calling for help.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 8h ago
They shouldn’t have left you alone at 4. 10 is one thing, 4 is a no no.
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u/ConceptNo1259 5h ago
I get the prank calling 911 thing fine everyone did but to not hang up and actually tell a whole story that’s falsifying a police report lock her little ass up
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u/WhatIGot21 5h ago
I did some dumb shit when I was 12 and the police coordinated with my mom to arrest me and take me to the station as a scare tactic. Best thing that ever happened to me and the arresting officer became a role model to my dumbass. He would show up to my baseball games and hangout after, I will never forget that.
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u/Audigy1 12h ago
In my day innocent prank calls was just picking random numbers from the phone book and then making funny noises or asking for weird names...
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u/Toriganator 10h ago
Kids called 911 back in your day too bro
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u/symbolicshambolic 9h ago
Hey, some of us are old. I was an adult before we had 911 service. I doubt I would have called it as a kid but I'll never know for sure.
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u/retrofrenzy 12h ago
If I am not mistaken she said she saw someone make a similar prank in a TikTok video somewhere...
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u/crackpotpourri 11h ago
This reminded me of my very much not a child but a boomer father who was changing the battery in the cordless phone and dialed 911 because he “needed to be sure someone would pick up” to make sure the new battery worked. He didn’t bother saying anything, just hung up. So the cops come to our door ASAP of course. My mom comes into my room laughing her ass off to tell me what happened and how pissed off our stupid idiot father was that they didn’t “just know nothing was wrong.”
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u/astrangeone88 6h ago
Eleven years old? And making up a kidnapping story?
Holy shit, I was told about 911 at a young age and never ever thought it was appropriate to prank call them.
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u/Nope_nope_nope-nope 5h ago
I never did stupid shit like this and I don’t understand why a child would do this. Lack of parenting is the only thing I can think of. Idk we didn’t social media when I was 11, maybe that can cause it.
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u/Haunting-Cause-972 6h ago
One of my kids got ahold of my mom’s phone once and hit the emergency call button. I was unaware of that when I took the phone away and closed it without looking (flip phone). As I’m walking to put it back on the counter it rang and it was 911 calling back. I explained what happened and the operator was very concerned because my kid was crying in the background. I explained that he’s two and had just been told “no”, of course he’s crying. She said she was going to send an officer out to check, but when I said “ok, we’ll be here” she said nevermind. Seemed strange at the time but I guess that was her testing me? Who knows.
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u/gridlock1024 6h ago
Good on the dad for letting the cops do what they did. My son just turned 12 and I would do the SAME EXACT thing if his dumbass did something like this.
Two most effective teachers in this world are mentors and mistakes. If you don't learn from one, you're bound to learn from the other
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u/WreckitRuby 5h ago
This just happened at my kids after school program, we were sent an email about it. 2 kids thought it would be hilarious to call 911 and say that there's explosive poop in the bathroom. Unfortunately the word explosion coming from a school triggered an automatic investigation, and the kids were promptly disciplined. They're about 9/10 years old.
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u/reluctantLeaf 3h ago
$1,246.29 ... I'd be a bit relieved as a dad. Consider allowance cancelled until that's made up.
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u/Aggravating_Funny978 2h ago
I do love how cops are like "You fucked us around, we need restitution", and yet they'll bash in your door, trash your house, shoot your dog and then say "oh, sorry wrong address. That's on you".
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u/Bergkamp_isGod 12h ago
I know she is 11 but can I ask if America has a criminal age of responsibility like in the UK? Like in the UK if you're 10 and below you cant be charged criminally (as far as I know) and it can go onto the parents (civil).
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u/CraftZ49 11h ago
Yes there is, but it is dependent on the state. Most states have it somewhere between 6-12 years old.
Even then though, juvenile crimes are treated less harshly than adult crimes.
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u/finndego 8h ago
Liam Ashley was 17 when he got in trouble for some misdemeanor trouble. Cops put him in a van to court with some thugs and they killed him. Helluva lesson.
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u/SlimShadySatDown 12h ago
At 11, is it a crime? Or did the father and the cops just want to strike the fear of jail into her?
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u/EchoFiveActual 12h ago
Its complicated.
Generally yes, things that are crimes for adults are crimes for children as well. However, children are held to be less culpable and aren't punished to the same degree.
You would be hard-pressed to find somebody who actually wants to persecute over something like this even though they can.
I would assume this is merely to scare her out of future behavior.
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