1957 vs 2007

[waynesan]

SCHOOL 1957 vs 2007 Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls intoschool parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.

1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.

2007 - School goes into lock down, State Police and FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck, or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.

Scenari o: Johnny and Jimmy get into a fist-fight after school.

1957 - Crowd gathers. Jimmy wins. Johnny and Jimmy shake hands and end up buddies.

2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Jimmy. Charges them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts otherstudents.1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra entitlement money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a w hipping with his belt. 1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2007 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

1957 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.

2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug

violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English. 1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes Engli sh, goes to college.

2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU, as expected, files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.

Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.1957 - Ants die.

2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents; siblings removed from home; computers confiscated; Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario: Johnny falls while r unning during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.

1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

[Marswolf]

This is far too true. And it could be 1967 rather than 1957. I was the mad bomber in my neighborhood in the mid 60s. The cops came and told me to cool it and I did. Hate to think what would happen to me today.

And we won't even talk about drinking and driving in the 70s.

[Mark@Sea]

Such are the wonders of 'progressive liberalism'. Substitute emotion for logic, appearance for result. Mix well with socialism - what has socialism ever really produced? I mean besides lots of corpses?

[Branket]

This could have been even later than '57 I remember being in some of those scenarios when I was younger and no one caring the slightest.

[Mike.357]

Sounds like how I grew up, well the '57 part of it anyway.

Mar's I bet at least 5 times in high school (76 grad)we were let go by cops after getting stopped with open containers in our car. I was driving twice when it happened. The worst was them making us dump out the beer. Never got more than a stern talking to and a threat to bust us next time. Times have changed. No way are they letting underage drinking go on, especially in cars.

[Marswolf]

I never got stopped for drinking around here. When I lived in Raleigh in the 70s, my friend Jack and I decided to go to the beach after we closed down the bars, so ended up at the seashore buying beer at a convenience store. Some cop came by and suggested we should go home instead. We did.

Then there was the time in Durham that we were out and had to relieve ourselves. So we just got out of the car on this dark road and let nature give us some room for more beer. Unfortunately our timing was off a bit and a cop happened to come by at just that time on a side road. He suggested we go back to Raleigh. Again, we did.

These days we'd have been under the jail.

[Guest Len]

It probably has lots to do with where you live as well as when you lived. In my county (Sumner), we still have plenty of kids being kids without everyone hearing about it on the court docket or in the papers. My LEO friends tell me some funny stories, that's for sure. They usually end with "...after we scared the s*** out of them, we sent them home."

Back in the day when I was MUCH younger I remember teaching a buddy of mine how to drive a stick shift. Needless to say, he was not benefiting much from my still-undeveloped teaching technique. We were pulled over by a cop who was pretty sure we stole a car, especially since it was not ours. Driving home with the cop following us was humbling to say the least. This was in the '80s and I was living in NJ. Still laugh about that to this day. Ah, youth...

[Guest c.a.s.]

I only wish I had lived back in those days. Even in elementary school it was all "politically correct"-ified. I'm glad that I had my grandfather (since parents are divorced), my independence, and now everyone here.

[Guest Disney]

That could be 1987. That is sad.

[towerclimber37]

Such are the wonders of 'progressive liberalism'. Substitute emotion for logic, appearance for result. Mix well with socialism - what has socialism ever really produced? I mean besides lots of corpses?

To steal a line from a movie, "when I think of a liberal I think of a republican and then take away reason and accountability"..

[Marswolf]

Boy, I'm getting nostalgic.

I think things were better when you could get a gun delivered to your house by mail or pick one up at the hardware store without a background check. And also before helmet and seatbelt laws, drug task forces, MADD. Medicare/Medicaid, anti-smoking laws and other nanny-state programs.

Can we just pass an omnibus act to eliminate all laws passed since 1957? OH GOD...THERE GO MY "ENTITLEMENTS."

[Guest bulletproof]

In elementary school all the boys had pocket knives and we showed them off to each other during recess. In 1965 I took a shotgun to school so it could be used in a class play. There was a place behind the gym where all the boys would settle differences with each other and the teachers usually knew about it when it took place and stayed away.