... as Alice once said.

I was spending a quiet evening, chatting with my eldest daughter and watching a movie when there was a knock at the door. I said, "Come in" and there stood my 17 yo daughter ... with two policemen standing behind her. I was kind of in shock because even though she hasn't exactly been a peach to get along with lately (it's the "I'll be 18 in a few months I can do what I want" syndrome) she was never one to get into legal trouble.

The officers informed me that she was jumping out in front of cars to impress her friends and nearly caused an old woman to hit her. I was in shock but I guess I looked upset because they left her in my custody with a comment to "discipline her as (I) thought fitting".

We asked her what was going on and she said that she, her niece (who is 14) and some of their friends were standing at the end of our street, laughing and talking and didn't notice the woman until she was upon them; apparently my daughter was the one directly in front of the group. She said the police asked for her license and thought it was strange that she didn't have one, even though you have to be 18 to drive here.

She also said that they asked if she was "high", questioned her about drug use and made her empty her pockets (which were empty except for a pack of cigarettes). They lectured her about the cigarettes and told her to get in the squad car or she would go to jail.

Okay, she's no angel but she was straight, not copping an attitude and cooperated with everything they told her to do. She was the only one out of the group that they escorted home.

This is the same police who, last year when my next oldest daughter (also a teen) was jumped by two girls, did nothing because the girls were crying and said she attacked them, even though she was sitting on our back steps talking to some friends at the time and they jumped her from behind. Two of them.

Crazy.

you know no one answered that because there too lazy to do all that reading, i did, anyway...


oh yeah, hi

sometimes police officers will take advantage of citizens who are ignorant of their rights. the important thing is, did the experience settle your daughter down

Yeah, Bulldog; it seemed to. She's going away to school and she doesn't want to set foot out of the house until she leaves.

I give it a week until she's back to "normal". And I know her older sister is never going to let her live it down ...

btw i know this is but did you happen to read this thread http://mingle2.com/topic/show/308515

No worries. Bulldog. I read the post and wrote a reply. I'll help her any way I can. Thanks.

awesome, remind me that i owe you a big kiss on the mouth next time i see you

I read it too. Sometimes kids are just arsholes and you gotta live through it. Take as much as you can in belief and the rest on faith that you raised them right and just with a good heart. They do come around

Cops are pigs.