Use your brain. Biden never released the Epstein files. If Trump was in them to the extent that you crazy think, it would have been the perfect October surprise.
More likely, Bubba is all over them, and people are afraid of the Clinton Body Count.
Every kid in my neighborhood roamed freely during the day by the time we were 7 years old. 9-year-olds can definitely hang out in a tent and play with their phones for a few hours without anything bad happening.
Arrested? The cop who arrested the guy needs to be arrested. What a joke.
This. Same for me and all the other kids in my neighborhood (I'm now age 56) who were as far as I knew, all free-range kids too. Meaning my parents had no idea where I was between end of school until dinnertime most weekdays. That's only 4 hours, but really, I could have been anywhere in 3-mile radius at age 9, which seems more to worry about than a kid in a known location/known meeting point all day.
I only have memory of having a baby sitter one evening in my entire childhood. . . my parents (and us kids) decided that wasn't necessary and felt weird in fact to have a stranger in the house. Even on the rare days if they had plans to be gone all day, morning to evening, without us kids on the weekend, we felt totally comfortable home and wandering the neighborhood all day.
My 9 year old could look after himself for much longer than that..
What do you think is going to happen?!
Scenarios:
The kid gets ill and needs medical attention.
Someone does something bad to the kid.
The dad crashes his bike and has to go to the hospital or worse dies during the swim.
I am pretty free range parenting, but 10 hours at 9 seems a little too long to be unattended.
And he was pulled off the course at 10 hours with more time to go. The kid would've been waiting for probably 12 hours or more. I'm sure sure the kid was thrilled to be waiting there all those endless hours by himself waiting for his dad to finish a race. No way would I do that to my kid without either one knowing how the other was all those hours.
The guy is a jerk and irresponsible parent for leaving his 9 yo there like that all day long.
American culture has got to where people think they are responsible for someone else's kids, and they run wild with the virtue signaling and feelings warfare.
A kid left in a VIP tent, where the parent knows where he is, and he can tell the VIPs who he is and what he's doing there, is in basically zero danger. And entirely capable of looking after himself, just as he could in a restaurant, grocery store, or neighborhood park.
This drama started when the local Karens decided oh no, there's a kid here, must be in danger, we have to do something, we should be mad about it. When the sensible thing to do is say, "oh your Dad's in the race? Well hope he does well, let us know if you need anything. Snack bar's over there, toilet's over there, there's some couches and chairs, have fun."
Too many people around without lives, that's the real problem. They need problems and make them at every opportunity.
A kid left in a VIP tent, where the parent knows where he is, and he can tell the VIPs who he is and what he's doing there, is in basically zero danger. And entirely capable of looking after himself, just as he could in a restaurant, grocery store, or neighborhood park.
No problem except the VIPs should not need to ask questions about who the kid is. The father should have made the kid's identity a clearly established fact before the start of the event.
American culture has got to where people think they are responsible for someone else's kids, and they run wild with the virtue signaling and feelings warfare.
A kid left in a VIP tent, where the parent knows where he is, and he can tell the VIPs who he is and what he's doing there, is in basically zero danger. And entirely capable of looking after himself, just as he could in a restaurant, grocery store, or neighborhood park.
This drama started when the local Karens decided oh no, there's a kid here, must be in danger, we have to do something, we should be mad about it. When the sensible thing to do is say, "oh your Dad's in the race? Well hope he does well, let us know if you need anything. Snack bar's over there, toilet's over there, there's some couches and chairs, have fun."
Too many people around without lives, that's the real problem. They need problems and make them at every opportunity.
Agreed. All Karens should be arrested and held without bail. From the time I was 5 I was untethered and free to play wherever I wanted. By the time I was 9 that meant all day with my friends frequently biking 2-3 miles away, only returning when the streetlights cam on. Dinner, then back out until 10pm.
This whole thing is ridiculous especially from the caterwauling Karens.
The dad crashes his bike and has to go to the hospital or worse dies during the swim.
I am pretty free range parenting, but 10 hours at 9 seems a little too long to be unattended.
And he was pulled off the course at 10 hours with more time to go. The kid would've been waiting for probably 12 hours or more. I'm sure sure the kid was thrilled to be waiting there all those endless hours by himself waiting for his dad to finish a race. No way would I do that to my kid without either one knowing how the other was all those hours.
The guy is a jerk and irresponsible parent for leaving his 9 yo there like that all day long.
I did some research. The guy is a back-of-packer. He did the swim in 1:47:29 and the bike in 8:16:09. Total time for these two legs of 10:03:38 and was in about 2,000th place when he was pulled off the course at the bike-run transition with a Marathon to go. Looking at past results, this would have taken @ six more hours. In other words, his plan was to leave a nine year old alone in a strange place for over 16 hours.
My opinion is that this is pretty clear child endangerment although he did give his son a high five at the swim-bike transition.