# RO: Family teaches 6 year old about stranger danger in a very bad way! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 6, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012 "2015-02-06T23:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/1 "2015-02-06T23:24:09Z")
Holy crap. They taught the poor kid by having him kidnapped, bound, stripped naked, threatened with sexual abuse and a gun, told that he would never see mommy again and would end up nailed to the side of a shed. I don’t think I have ever posted RO before, but holy crap that is some serious stupid and horrible abuse. Linky: [Missouri Family Allegedly Kidnaps Boy To Teach Him Lesson About Strangers](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/family-kidnaps-boy_n_6627222.html). Oh, and since this is the pit: fuckity, fuck, fuck, fuck. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/2 "2015-02-06T23:44:46Z")
If you’d fuckin’ look, there’s a fuckin’ thread over in [MPSIMS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=748536) or whatever the fuck they fuckin’ call it. Supid fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/3 "2015-02-07T00:22:51Z")
What the fuck is RO? And I have a bag of cactuses, that family knows what they can do with it! Fuck cactii! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/4 "2015-02-07T00:30:36Z")
**R** ighteously **O** utraged? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/5 "2015-02-07T00:34:04Z")
What would they do, I wonder, to teach their teenage daughter about the risks of date-rape? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/6 "2015-02-07T00:38:11Z")
Oh, _Missouri_, of course, they had to **show** him. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/7 "2015-02-07T00:44:01Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > **R** ighteously **O** utraged? **R** ecreational **O** utrage. The kind of stuff that one would expect anybody to be both outraged by and confused that any human being with an intelligence level above that of a tumbleweed could come up with such a harebrained scheme, much less that several others would go along with it. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/8 "2015-02-07T03:08:31Z")
I don’t think it’s the strangers he should be worried about. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/9 "2015-02-07T03:23:33Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > I don’t think it’s the strangers he should be worried about. Remember, the vast majority of child abductions are by non-custodial parents/relatives or family acquaintances or someone the child knows… Very few are actual strangers. [From here.](http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/child_abduction/4.html) > [@](#): > > The most reliable research available indicates that there are only 100-130 cases of stranger abductions a year in the United States. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/10 "2015-02-07T03:27:43Z")
> **[Beginner's Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298)** > > There are a number of terms commonly used on the Straight Dope Message Boards, that are basically “in-jokes” or references. There are several threads listing such, I have tried to compile them all into one post here. If anyone has additions or... [Quote=C K Dexter Haven] RO – “Recreational Outrage” describes when a poster expresses righteous indignation and gets highly worked up (outraged) over some issue, typically some news occurrence that is completely irrelevant to the person’s own life and has no effect on that poster personally. The poster derives (recreational) satisfaction from expressing outrage and moral indignation, frequently including a sense of moral superiority, thus differentiating Recreational Outrage from other forms of outrage. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2015, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-family-teaches-6-year-old-about-stranger-danger-in-a-very-bad-way/712012/11 "2015-02-07T12:11:18Z")
Anyone else _not_ find it difficult to imagine some citizen who’s not in on the joke using lethal force to try to rescue this kid? This is why I shy away from Child Abduction LARPing.