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Originally Posted by Lin
but give a little lee way , thats all Im saying . do you not remember what it was like to be a child ? Its not (in my mind ) a big thing to eat a lollypop on a bus . Why bring the courts into it and criminalise him over something like that. Im sure its not a 'permanent record' sort of thing but it still brings him into contact with the court system over something that could be dealt with on a more personal level.
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14 is not exactly a child, he's old enough to know better. To take it to the extreme, if he murdered someone, we wouldn't excuse it as - -oh he's just a child, remember what it was like when you were a child.
At 14, I had a healthy respect for the law. If a sign on the bus said no food or drink, you can be darn sure I would heed the sign.