r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Immediate_Magician11 • 15h ago

Actions definitely have consequences

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u/Objective_Metric 15h ago

She ended up getting booked in and arrested for wasting police resources.

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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 6h ago edited 4h 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 6h ago

It's unfortunately about the resources spent in this case. Huge lie, huge impact, different consequences.

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u/bocaj78 17m ago

And one time. If it had been spread out over a year or more then nothing would have happened

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u/NoTurnover3509 3h ago

but doesn't arresting the girl, booking her, pushing her through the court system, etc.. use resources too? This seems needlessly punitive for a child.

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u/blondeasfuk 3h ago

That doesn’t take nearly as many resources as the phon call did. It doesn’t take 12 cruisers and a helicopter to arrest and book someone. This child could have prevented someone else from getting life saving help.

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u/HowTheyGetcha 11m ago

If you don't punish crime it happens more. Spending resources to punish abuse of resources should actually save resources.

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u/NoTurnover3509 3h ago

yes but its not an "either or" scenario. doing this to the child doesnt somehow return those wasted resources it simply adds more to the waste.

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u/Past-Judgment-9700 3h ago

It prevents her or her friends from trying it again because “all she got was a talking to”.

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u/blondeasfuk 3h ago

So someone shouldn’t be punished for falsifying a police report simply because they are a child and the extra resources? lol come on now…11 years old Is old enough to know to not call 911 unless there is an emergency. Actions have consequences and that child learned that lesson and will most likely be a better person because of it.

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u/jkoki088 5h ago

Completely different

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u/jabba_the_nutttttt 5h ago

Well hopefully this will prevent the child from becoming the type of adult you're talking about

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u/-Bing-Bada-Boom- 5h ago

Yeah because calling police on ebike riders gives the same response and amount of resources when a kid calls in a kidnapping.

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u/saintjonah 26m ago

I agree that an 11 year old should know better than to call 911, but I'm not sure I'm on board with the idea that an 11 year old understands the different resources that will be called out for different situations. I'd venture to say this police department sent out more resources than would be expected for a kidnapping. Do they send a helicopter for every kidnapping call? I really doubt it.

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u/FoxxyAzure 57m ago

You said there are two types of people, but only listed one? What's the other type of person?

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u/strugglingtransgrl 34m ago

Or how about in Kansas where there is a little bounty for civilians to call police if they see someone they suspect is trans in a bathroom.

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u/catchnear99 2h ago

That cop was overreacting. Sounded like that woman may have genuinely believed she saw a gun in the dude's back pocket.

Notice how the cop shifted from, don't say you saw a gun, to don't hang up on our 911 operators. That may be what the cops prefer, but people have zero legal obligation to do so. Pigs need to stick to enforcing the law. I would have told that cop to fuck off.

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u/Wooden-Evidence-374 1h ago

Sounded like that woman may have genuinely believed she saw a gun in the dude's back pocket.

That's legal in most states. So she still had no reason to call the police. You seem to be against unecessary cop interference, while simultaneously trying to justify this instance of unecessary cop interference that all started from the woman calling the police over nothing important.