# yet another reason i think people need licences to have kids -kid tries to sell toy for food **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 16, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004 "2016-08-16T18:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/1 "2016-08-16T18:07:43Z")
here ya go … I don’t have words [MSN](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/parents-arrested-after-7-year-old-who-hadn%E2%80%99t-eaten-for-days-tried-selling-teddy-bear-for-food-police-say/ar-BBvDsNE) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/2 "2016-08-16T18:12:42Z")
[Here’s another one](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mother-62-charged-with-murder-after-six-year-old-son-beats-his-newborn-sister-a7190176.html). ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/3 "2016-08-16T18:54:55Z")
you know I was going to put this in the pit so I could really say what I think of things like this but didn’t … ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/4 "2016-08-16T20:11:59Z")
You can still call non-posters all kinds of names and curse up a storm outside the Pit. Like this quote from one of my favorite Philosophers. > [@](#): > > Fuck, > fuck, > fuck, > mother mother fuck, > mother mother fuck fuck, > mother fuck > mother fuck > noise noise noise -Jay ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/5 "2016-08-16T20:32:05Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > you know I was going to put this in the pit so I could really say what I think of things like this but didn’t … You could ask a mod to move it. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/6 "2016-08-16T20:35:28Z")
Do you really think someone here is going to say: “hmmmn. Sounds bad, but I’m sure those parents had their reasons?”. This is RO, recreational outrage. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/7 "2016-08-16T20:51:48Z")
What’s wrong with RO? ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/8 "2016-08-16T20:53:49Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > What’s wrong with RO? i think it just usually goes in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/9 "2016-08-16T20:56:41Z")
Meh. Like I pointed out, **nightshadea** can ask a mod to move it. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/10 "2016-08-16T21:13:14Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > here ya go … I don’t have words [MSN](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/parents-arrested-after-7-year-old-who-hadn%E2%80%99t-eaten-for-days-tried-selling-teddy-bear-for-food-police-say/ar-BBvDsNE) Obviously parenthood hasn’t transformed those parents lives in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/11 "2016-08-17T01:59:51Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Obviously parenthood hasn’t transformed those parents lives in a good way. But the hill to die on is that they were transformed, right? See? See? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/12 "2016-08-17T02:21:31Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > Do you really think someone here is going to say: “hmmmn. Sounds bad, but I’m sure those parents had their reasons?”. In this day and age when so many our nation’s children are raised on socialist nonsense like public schools and Christmas, I salute these parents who gave their child the only thing he really needs: the gift of self-reliance. And as we can see, it worked out just fine; the little lad instinctively adopted the principles of free market capitalism. If that nanny-state civil servant hadn’t interfered, that boy would probably have made his first million by now. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/13 "2016-08-17T19:10:25Z")
you know I think that was satire but ive seen people argue that the state should just stay out of it … things will work out for thyem selves ect … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/14 "2016-08-17T19:12:44Z")
sad thing is ive seen arguments where the parents beat the kid half to death for something trivial "why did they take the kids away more kids need discipline like that " ect ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/15 "2016-08-17T22:13:24Z")
> [@ZPG\_Zealot](#): > > Obviously parenthood hasn’t transformed those parents lives in a good way. You should have seen them \*before \*they had kids. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/16 "2016-08-18T07:14:13Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > [Here’s another one](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mother-62-charged-with-murder-after-six-year-old-son-beats-his-newborn-sister-a7190176.html). This happened in my town; it was just sickening. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/17 "2016-08-18T13:56:09Z")
[One from my neck of the woods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collingswood_Boys). The 911 tape is just sickening. When the operator asks how old the boy looks, the caller says “About ten.” When Jackson says “I’m 19” the caller just loses it, saying “He says he’s 19. Omigod!” ---
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-reason-i-think-people-need-licences-to-have-kids-kid-tries-to-sell-toy-for-food/763004/18 "2016-08-18T14:13:14Z")
FYI - YOU can become a foster parent and help to temporarily house kids like these. Sometimes the state will have to remove kids in an emergency like this, but have nowhere to house them. ANYBODY is better than the parents these kids had! You can be a single person, etc. and do a MUCH better job than they did. Search [google.com](http://google.com) for foster parent along with the name of your state.