In the past 3 years members of my family have been burglarized 3 times, items of value have been stolen out of their secured home and garage.  Items anchored in my own yard that have been here since my dad built the house in 1990 remained untouched until someone stole them last year to sell them for scrap.  Friday my granddaughter's bicycle which was barely a year old was stolen from her bus stop in broad daylight, yes, it was locked up and yes some one came along and took some thing that was not theirs to take.  What little independence she was allowed (one block down, two blocks over) is now gone.    It really makes me wonder where in God's name the parent's are when they see  a child they know that does not own a fairly new pretty purple bike why they don't question it, do they truly believe these things just somehow fall out of the sky?  Not much importance is placed on stolen 4-wheelers, x-boxes, games, bikes, sculptures etc. by the LCSO but those things mattered to us...we worked hard to earn the money to purchase those things or in the case of the sculpture it was commissioned by my dad from an artist in Connecticut.  If Haylee's bike is ever found it'll be in a canal somewhere or trashed in the woods.  I really do despise this place more and more every single day.

It really does seem as though parents just don't care anymore. I'm sick of telling other people's kids to behave when I'm at the store. I do tell them if I have to. I had one so called 'Mom' tell me not to correct her children, I told her that if she had done it, I wouldn't have had to. They were running in the aisles and throwing some can food back and forth, when they almost ran into me (because I wasn't about to get out of their way) I told them, "Who told you kids it was ok to run and act crazy in a grocery store?! Stop it now!" Parents need to control their kids and not let them do whatever whenever. Without discipline, morals, respect and manners, these kids will be future inmates. I can't stand it when some little punk gets in trouble and the parents stand there and talk about what a nice kids he is and act surprised that he got in trouble, give me break! That is true sometimes, good kids do get their butts in trouble, but I think most of the time it is lack of good parenting that steers these kids in the wrong direction. 

I'm sorry about your grand daughter's bike Yankee.

mwilson, did you talk to that kid's Mom?