In article <1I2gk.11621$nD.2945@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Kat says...
>
>
>"Banty" <Banty_member@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:g5qa8m025v0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article <lQ1gk.115492$gc5.92522@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Kat says...
>>>
>>>Tell them to call CPS. I believe that's the same thing as our Child
>>>Welfare. There's nothing they'd do. Take your child away from a good
>>>family that provides, loves, nurtures, feeds, offers comfort and
>>>stability... to put him elsewhere? Like a change of scenery is going
to
>>>"fix" everything?? Do you pinch him to cause him to screech? I highly
>>>doubt that! ;)
>>
>> Yeah - I wouldn't *tell them* to call CPS (unless it came right down to
it
>> and
>> they were in my face about it threatening that), but basically, don't
be
>> afraid
>> of it. It's *very* likely a bluff, but even if they call, and EVEN IF
>> they have
>> a "friend" there, that friend would have to be mighty unprofessional to
do
>> anything about a do***ented austistic child screaming because they know
>> him or
>> her.
>
>I haven't really had many people just casually say, "I'm going to
call..."
>I had one person that I felt was in my face about it and I told them to
call
>if that's what would make them happy and get them off my case and out of
my
>face! I have nothing to hide or reason to be scared!
The last time I had that personally had to do with where I was putting
snow when
I was digging out for my landlord when I was living in the Bronx and we
had a
22" snowfall. There truly was nowhere else to put the snow (the other
neighbor
in our postwar rowhouses had put their snow on *our* little postage-stamp
lawn
because *their* neighbors had put snow on *theirs*. I was continuing the
chain). They threatened to call the cops on me. Yeah right lady that's
what
the NYPD will be doing while dealing with a record-breaking snowfall :-/
But many neighborhood stories from this neighborhood and friends' and
colleagues' neighborhood so many seem to feature some threat from someone
with a
'contact' at just the right applicable enforcement agency.
>
>> And CPS is pretty tired of getting what's basically neighborhood noise
>> calls,
>> just like the ASPCA is. If there's an underlying real problem, fine,
but
>> once
>> they find there isn't abuse, they walk away.
>
>Here, I know, anything re****ted must be followed up. If they get a call,
>they have to go and check it out, and it does seem like a lot of the
times
>it's just a bogus call from someone with a beef with someone else or
>similar. When checked out, they do walk away and leave it at that.
Sure, CPS would follow up if they actually did call. But I still would no
never
mind about it, even with the thought of migrane-neighbor smugly peeking
through
their curtains when they show up.
Dollars to donuts, they won't call.
>
>> Banty (it's like how everbody's gotta cousin who's a lawyer...)
>
>LOL No cousin, but my best childhood friend (and DS's godmother) is
>currently in law school. I have emailed her up once or maybe twice to
ask a
>"wwyd?" question, and I have another friend that is just fini****ng law
>school ;) But yea, when it comes down to it, it seems a lot of people
have
>a best friend, close relative or something that is everything and
anything
>that might come in handy!
'Xactly.
Doesn't mean it might not help a lot to do some identifiable things that
indicate goodwill, even if it's not feasible to do exactly what they would
have.
Cheers,
Banty
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