Jose wrote:

The scariest video I've ever seen was a short clip about kidnapping. A car
drives up to a kid and asks where Mulberry street is. The kid
goes up to the car to answer, and inside of a few seconds the back
door opens, somebody snatches the kid, and the car drives away.

What was scary was not that kidnapping is so easy, but rather, the
message which followed, which was that kids should run screaming if
somebody drives up and asks directions. It turns kids into assholes
who are so disconnected from society and so mistrusting of those
around that they will grow up into people who would think nothing of
firing a rifle into a crowd at school.

That was twenty years ago. Those kids have grown up now.

Jose

My wife was in Junior League a few years back and they do a project for 5
year old kids called Safety Town. They work with them on every thing from
how to cross the street to how to not talk to strangers. Near the end of
this WEEK of training I was asked to walk into the play ground looking for
my dog that I lost and see if the kids can put what they learned about not
talking with or going away with strangers to practical use.

I was able to get every single one of the 30 or so kids to walk off with me.
Scared the crap out of me and the parents that were watching the kids from
inside the building.