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J double R
03-22-2007, 3:08 PM
Scenario: Jack Pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.

1973- Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.

2006- School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck nor gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students.

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1973- Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.

2006- Police called, SWAT team deployed, arrests both Johnny and Mark. Charge them both with assault and breach of peace. Both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario: Jeffrey won't sit still in class, disrupts other students.

1973- Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class thereafter.

2006- Jeffrey pumped full of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his dad's car and gets a good whipping from Dad.

1973- Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.

2006- Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.

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

1973- Mark shares aspirin with Principal on the smoking dock.

2006- Police called, Mark expelled for Drug violations. Car impounded and searched for drugs and weapons.

Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.

1973- Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.

2006- Pedro's cause is taken up by the Democratic Party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement to graduate is racist. ACLU files class action suit 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 still can't speak English.

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

1973- Ants die.

2006- ATF, 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 running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found, crying, by his teacher, Mary. Mary picks him back up and gives him a hug to comfort him.

1973- In a short time Johnny feels better and goes back to playing.

2006- 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. Johnny's parents sue the school for a knee injury that has now altered his future keeping him from playing professional football and making heinous amounts of money just to run around carrying air wrapped in leather, therefore denying Johnny's parents a life of luxury. All running during school recess is banned.

just thought i would share these funnies.. ;)

FL22
03-22-2007, 3:13 PM
kinda shows you how crazy people are? i wish it was the 70's again...even tho i wasnt alive yet:p

Debra Mark
03-22-2007, 3:13 PM
LOL, JRR.....as someone who was around for both those years, you don't know just how true that IS!!!
I can remember getting a spanking from someone ELSE'S mother for acting up....and you never whined or complained about it, cause all it would get you would be another one...lol

;)

Cheech
03-22-2007, 3:17 PM
Man how I miss the good ol' days. . . lol.... OK, so I was born in '78, but even since then, things have changed.

Dixon
03-22-2007, 3:21 PM
born in 1970 and although these are quite americanised i still can relate.

1973 was a good year for me Sunderland (my football team)won the FA cup against all the odds i just thought i'd say that.

Cheech
03-22-2007, 3:24 PM
I remember my mom asking me to go to the store and buy her smokes when I was like 9.

It was so normal back then. Bread, milk and a pack of smokes (which costed 3.25$ , compared to the 9.75$ they're at now!)

Dangerdoll
03-22-2007, 3:30 PM
From experience, I can say I wish it was back in the 70's again. What an era!!

Some other things I can recall... back in those days, when we were bored, mom told us to go get lost outside.... we'd make hopscotch squares with rocks, we'd climb the most difficult trees, we'd catch salamanders and fish at the local creek, we'd go 3 block down the road to see what Jennie was up to... just recently, I heard someone talking about "play dates" and needed a full explanation of just what that was and still don't fully get why kids can't just go "get lost" these days.

Dangerdoll
03-22-2007, 3:31 PM
Man how I miss the good ol' days. . . lol.... OK, so I was born in '78, but even since then, things have changed.
YUMMY!! what a baby :D

aardvark1
03-22-2007, 6:41 PM
Ah, the good old days!

Was a Scout in the middle 60's (yes, I am that old, and no I didn't know Baden-Powell in person!) all of us boys in my Patrol would just take off and go hiking/climbing/swimming in the woods; usually taking along our 22 rifles to plink cans. Now have to have an Adult along...

Used to live in Milpitas California; would go up Calaveras BLVD and within 2 blocks was in the country. Visited there 10 years ago, now all "Ticky-Tacky" (again showing my age with that song reference)

Was on the school rifle team when in Junior High (now called Middle school-when did that change?). Would shoot after school; rifle came along with me on the school bus, in the office during school, back on the bus after school. Never heard of any shootings....

Got paddled once when in Elementary School (is that done today?). Got it worse from Dad when he found out...

Speaking of Dad and paddling-only lied to the Old Guy once. Never knew the old fart could run that fast! Chased me up and down the stairs with his belt. As I said, only lied once!

Funny, I turned out great. No mental problems.....

fishcatch22
03-22-2007, 7:09 PM
SIGH... things have changed since you-know-what happened. it's a very different world nowadays.



YUMMY!! what a baby RAWR! cougar on the prowl!

jm1212
03-22-2007, 7:32 PM
my grandma told me what would happen if you mothed off to the teacher- you would get beaten, and then if you told your parents (like you would now), they wouldnt call the school, etc, they would give you some more probably twice as hard for disrupting the teacher

Lady G
03-25-2007, 3:19 AM
And people wonder what is wrong with the world today:huh:

5xevy
03-25-2007, 3:27 AM
Funny, I turned out great. No mental problems.....

...says the guy with the shooting gun avatar...:D


Sorry- I just had to!

aardvark1
03-25-2007, 9:59 AM
:dance2::dance2::dance2::dance2:

Peg_legs
03-25-2007, 11:43 AM
I have to add to the getting lost part. When I was 4 and my brother was 6, we lived a couple blocks from the arcade that was on the other side of the freeway (New Orleans). We would walk to it alone without any adults and cross the freeway. Nowadays my wife won't let our kids out of the yard and not within 25 feet of the street. They can't go outside at all without a parent.

I also remember at about 4, going down to sit with the artists in the French Quarter alone. My grandparents had an apartment that overlooked Jackson Square. Nobody minded me wandering the quarter untill I told them about the drunk guy who climbed a tree to take a ****, then got arrested. Drunks were everywhere.

I wouldn't let my children wander the quarter alone at 15 yrs old now.

BTW, I'm 34

J double R
03-25-2007, 9:31 PM
i can remember at age 5 a drunk old hobo coming into my apartment complex and talking to me.(i was playing not 10 feet from my front door and in front of a window) next thing i knew, he had grabbed me and tossed me onto his shoulder. my mom knocked him in the head with a rolling pin. :) i wasnt allowed outside unsupervised at all ever until we bought out house 3 years later.

boofish2
03-26-2007, 1:23 PM
I remember buying ciggies by the carton for my mom too at age 6. By 7 I was latchkey kid (I think that's even illegal now lol) and if you acted up you got a spank for sure. We'd always play outside, go to the candy store with whatever change we had, never needed a cell phone, designer jeans none of that stuff. Wait, I think spanking is illegal now too. So silly, nowadays, kids can get in to much worse trouble on-line without even taking a step outside.
BTW, DD according to your standards, I'm a baby too! Wahhhh ;)

loaches r cool
03-28-2007, 11:11 AM
Not entirely pertinent and not in the 70's, but thought I'd mention when I was in high school (a very rural area) in the early 90's one of my friends brought a shotgun to school to take to a freinds house over the weekend (riding the bus to friends house from school). It was not wise and I dont mean to imply it was ok to do this, but nothing bad become of it. His intentions were fine, we all shot on the trap league and some of us shot skeet and sporting clays too. I can only amagine what would have happened if he was caught! Though we did split things up, ie one friend had the shells, one the barrel, and the other the receiver and stock. Just so that no one would have an operable weapon. Just one of those things you think back how crazy that was! Not everyone that caries a weapon to school is some lunatic intending to kill people lol.