12:40 A call from Allison(my Sister) tell me "we're heading to lunch, then we'll change my daughter and head to the park"
1:10 I head over to the park figuring they wouldn't be more than 10 minutes away(40 minutes for lunch and a diaper change)
At this point I pull my camera out and play with my new lens about 30 seconds, I'm curious about the exposure, and getting ready to take some shots of 2 of my nieces
I quickly decide that this may not look good, so I put the camera in the back seat and decide to clean up my car a little
1:40
What I notice next is a little attempt at covert opps by a female parent of couple of kids playing in the park. Right then I figure I'm being watched, what I also figured that one of them(the husband was there barely listing his head the whole time) would walk up and tell me that they are uncomfortable with the length of time I was sitting there and the fact that I had a camera on me. That NEVER happened.
So the Mother walks away towards the houses, and the Father continues reading the paper. 10 minutes she comes back with her van. About 5 minutes after that Karen(my other Sister) comes by with an update about how long they would be. You, I needed to get some sleep before work, but I also wanted to see my nieces.
2:05 ..Everybody is there except Al and her youngest daughter.
Not 10 minutes later a Cop pulls up .... Suprise Suprise ... I had to laugh, since when my sister had shown up for an update I joked about them calling the cops.
I won't tell you the rest of the story, but leave it as fact that I am the last person to get excited(or stressed) about things. Other people weren't that "easy going"
Anyways,I have questions for you parents out there.
What would you have done? would you confront me? what sequence would you do things in? How long would you have waited before confronting me??
ME? well since I don't have kids here's what I would do if I did.
NOTHING for first 30 minutes but watch and see if he's taking photos of my children. If he did, I'd confront him right away, AND call the cops. If he wasn't taking pictures I'd wait a few more minutes and I'd walk up and express my concern about a guy, alone, sitting in front of a playground, and I may even ask him(nicely) why he's been sitting so long. I'd also take his plate down just in case. Now if he were to leave, I'd call the cops, but if he stayed and his family shows, I'd forget the whole situation.
Would anybody do something different??
Did they act wrongly in this situation? YEP!
Why do I say this? because I'd expect some respect from people. Chances are extremely small that he was a "bad person". It also showed a little bit of possible voyeurism by the parents, like hiding in your house watching from you bedroom and gossiping about what your bad things your neighbours kids are doing behind their backs without confronting the parents. Shows some balls and walk up to the person and ask, somebody doing nothing wrong would understand.
So was I pissed off they called the cops? NO
Was I pissed of that they didn't show enough common courtesy to come and tell me they felt uncomfortable YEP
Have I lost a little more my sense of community and some respect for the way in which society is headed YEP!
Brent
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