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Saturday, June 1, 2019

Weird news - Son reported father for running red light

In school, students are taught traffic discipline, including when to stop at red lights, when to go, what are the various traffic signals. So whenever I drive, even though I follow stop lights, I get a reminder from my first-grader about following the signal, "Daddy, it's a red light, stop". Hopefully when these children grow up, they will be similarly inclined to follow traffic signals when they start driving (if driverless vehicles haven't taken over already).
The below case does seem a bit extreme though, where a 6 year old called 911 to report his own father for driving through a red light, after apparently having warned his father when he was doing that, even though his father tried to convince the son that he was taking a right turn which was perfectly legal. The police department put the call to their Facebook page to show the kind of calls they get, and not in a negative way (link to article):
When the light went red but the driver turned anyway, officer Robbie Richardson's training kicked in. Green meant go, yellow meant slow, and red, he was certain, meant stop. But the driver, turning right, just blew on through the light, his crime all but undetected. Officer Richardson, who spends his free time patrolling the streets of his Boston-area neighborhood, couldn't stand the injustice of it all - especially since the delinquent driver was his dad, and Richardson, a sassy six-year-old who'd left his Little Tikes toy cop cruiser at home, was in the back seat. So the kindergartner did what any good purveyor of justice would do, family loyalty be damned: he called 911.

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