Police block M-way to pick up toy

[jonathan95]

[nadia]

No offence but thats kinda silly, I mean come on as if you would call the police and ask them to get a stuffed tiger! Gosh, they have better things to do then play 'Nanny' to little kids! Seriously

[jonathan95]

true,

But look at it from this point of view.

Kids teddy goes out of the window.

Dad stops kids in tears, dad tries to get to teddy big ugly truck not watching what he's doing breaking the law eather eating a sarnie (sandwitch) or on the phone or something not paying attension looks up splat there goes daddy for trying to get to the kids teddy, I think it was a right thing to do for the safeness of it that road is a fast moving one, and not every driver pays that much attension.

But I do agree with you that the police most of the time have better things to do. Like stop drunken idots, catch small children smashing windows,

than making sure a family member isnt killed trying to get a kids teddy bear of a fast moving moterway.

[nadia]

Yeah I do see where you're coming from but there are more stores with plenty more stuffed tigers

[jonathan95]

true, but kids get attached to particular toys, and if its not the same then parents can be in for a rough ride.

thinks of samantha's and dolly there was a time where you never saw them apart, and if she didnt have it for bed then could we hell get her to sleep.

kida can be funny that way.

[nadia]

My brother said exactly what you just said. But I really do think that calling the police was a tad extream!

[jonathan95]

I think the man called the police station not 999,

if he had called 999 I think that was a bit bad, but calling the local station isnt so bad cas its not afecting the emergancy system.

[Puck]

The girl is 10. I think she should have been old enough to deal with the loss of a toy .

[Leo Wyatt]

I agree with Kevin. 10 is old enough not to cry over a toy. I didn't cry when I was 10 when my sister threw my barbie out. I was way over that extreme. My 6 yr old daughter don't even cry over toys.

Police needs to be watching after criminals, and people who are speeding and stuff. Not just put a block just to find a toy. The dad needed to step his foot down and said no. Kid must have been spoiled in my opinion.

[Starbuck]

While it is a tad bit......... I can't think of a good word to go there. That toy is infact a road hazard, seeing as a tiny pebble will cause a car to flip at high speeds.

And, btw, I'm 15 and I cannot sleep without my stuffed dog, and would bawl my eyes out if anything ever happened to it.

[webtaz99]

I thought soft toys were supposed to be belted in.

[Seven of Nine]

Although the article mainly concentrates on the "social" aspect of the toy's rescue, there is also the safety aspect. If a strong gust of wind (and motorways can get very windy) had picked up the toy, it could have caused a major crash on the motorway, where top speeds are meant to be 70 mph (though some people do go a lot faster). We already have enough accidents on our roads without having another one caused by a stuffed toy.

[Hitchhiker]

[Lord Borg]

^ I have some stuffed toys im attached to, a couple I have had most, if not all my life, one was made by my great-grandmother, and i would be very distressed if something happend to it

[nadia]

/\ Yeah but would you call the police and get them to find you're toy?

[Starbuck]

Hell yes I would. If my stuffie flew out of my car and landed somewhere on the highway, I would call the coppers and make them go get it.

[Lord Borg]

[jonathan95]

ok 1 i am drunk.

But I d like to Point out to Nadia.

that so far your opinion has been you wouldnt call the police.

yet so far a good number has said that they would call the police out simply in this situation as it was a safty risk mainly.

and as you can see a lot of people are still attached to there childhood toy's no matter how old they are.

what people are simply saying is this: (from what I see)

1. If it was there toy than they would do the same thing as this couple did to save a childs toy. rather that risc a worse sanario/
2. a lot of people in this world are still insicure and like to have a safety thing like a toy or a blanket.
3. the parents in this case acted with in the most safest possible was. they instead of risking there own live's on a bizy road called in people that could contain with the most understanding of the public.

so far nadia's argument has simply been but its the police
the police if they had better things to do would simply not have attended in such a short time as they did, we here in the UK still bleave in a person's trade that is help those who would them selfs.

Think of it this way,

If that father of that child had went out on his own got hit by a car and died.

It would have been
Police,
Ambulance
Fire Brigade

instead of just a few cop cars to make an area safe to retreive something off a road in which it could have casused death.

[IntrepidIsMe]

[borgslayer]

Why even report such a thing?

[nadia]

[IntrepidIsMe]

Absolutely nobody.

[nadia]

Ok, well thats really stupid of who ever wrote that to say it because it was MY opinion ok, so there's no need for anyone to get all hanky panky at me!

[Five - seveN]

LOL. I find this very funny. Who would expect this is still possible in today's ever-stressful society? I like this move, a lot.

[madlilnerd]