This country is getting far too over regulated!

[JLM]

Lego Store detains 11-year-old boy for shopping without an adult - Calgary - CBC News

I was going to the local grocery store for my mother when I was four years old. There were kids out logging with their Dad by the time they were 10 or 11.

 

[SLM]

That's not regulation, it's just the stores own rules. Regulation would be if those rules were imposed on the store by government.

They're just requiring parents to be present and take responsibility for children younger than 12. They should, and do, have a right to set whatever age unaccompanied minors can be in their store. It isn't a child care facility, and they don't want to be responsible for other people's children.

Also, I don't think the age is coincidentally the same age as the Youth Criminal Justice Act covers either, 12-18 years. The act defines a child as someone who is, or appears to be less than 12 years of age.

 

[tay]

Lego has had a problem as parents were dropping their kids in the store whilst they went shopping, for hours.


Lego is tired of being used as a daycare........

 

[gore0bsessed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh

 

[JLM]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Adam_Walsh

And that has what to do with what? Every endeavour in life from walking to the store to fishing in the pond to pruning the apple tree has the odd tragic outcome!

That's not regulation, it's just the stores own rules. Regulation would be if those rules were imposed on the store by government.

They're just requiring parents to be present and take responsibility for children younger than 12. They should, and do, have a right to set whatever age unaccompanied minors can be in their store. It isn't a child care facility, and they don't want to be responsible for other people's children.

Also, I don't think the age is coincidentally the same age as the Youth Criminal Justice Act covers either, 12-18 years. The act defines a child as someone who is, or appears to be less than 12 years of age.

Kids have to be encouraged to do more for themselves and rely less on adults to hold their hand. Government regulation has also gone far overboard, creating useless jobs for bureaucraps!

 

[taxslave]

Not just the government. Big companies have the same bureaucratic mindset. We now have to have a hotwork permit for cutting and welding in the shop. Last week a surveyor got tagged by a forklift, both were at fault. One of the managers suggested that maybe from now on surveyors should need a permit to work in congested areas. Somehow they got the idea that a permit cures everything.

 

[SLM]

Kids have to be encouraged to do more for themselves and rely less on adults to hold their hand. Government regulation has also gone far overboard, creating useless jobs for bureaucraps!

I don't disagree but that still has nothing to do with regulation. This is about a private business making a rule about what happens on their premises. Premises for which they have liability. Are they erring on the side of caution with respect to age levels and responsibility? Maybe but they aren't running a childhood development centre, they're a store selling a product.

I've worked in retail, I've seen parents who send their kids off to the toy department so they can shop in peace. Do you know the chaos an unsupervised child can cause?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I propose we deal with this over-regulation by implementing more regulations.

 

[JLM]

I don't disagree but that still has nothing to do with regulation. This is about a private business making a rule about what happens on their premises. Premises for which they have liability. Are they erring on the side of caution with respect to age levels and responsibility? Maybe but they aren't running a childhood development centre, they're a store selling a product.

I've worked in retail, I've seen parents who send their kids off to the toy department so they can shop in peace. Do you know the chaos an unsupervised child can cause?

Yes!

I don't disagree but that still has nothing to do with regulation. This is about a private business making a rule about what happens on their premises. Premises for which they have liability. Are they erring on the side of caution with respect to age levels and responsibility? Maybe but they aren't running a childhood development centre, they're a store selling a product.

I've worked in retail, I've seen parents who send their kids off to the toy department so they can shop in peace. Do you know the chaos an unsupervised child can cause?

That's a sign of the times, parents seldom want to discipline their kids anymore that's a job for teachers, day care workers etc. but at the same time God help them if they dare lay a hand on dear, sweet, little Johnny the menace.

 

[SLM]

I propose we deal with this over-regulation by implementing more regulations.

Let's deregulate.....no, wait.....re-regulate......um, hold on......

Ah fu*ck it, let's just go have a beer!

 

[CDNBear]

Ah fu*ck it, let's just go have a beer!

One of the most regulated products in the province.

 

[SLM]

One of the most regulated products in the province.

FML! That sh!t is everywhere!!!8O

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Ah fu*ck it, let's just go have a beer!

Ah beer it, let's just go have a f*ck!

 

[JLM]

Ah beer it, let's just go have a f*ck!

Now you're talking some sense!

 

[Colpy]

There should be a law!!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Now you're talking some sense!

I also just propositioned a mod. When you proposition a mod, you better make damn sure the mod WANTS to be propositioned. Or at least will take it in good humor.

 

[JLM]

I also just propositioned a mod. When you proposition a mod, you better make damn sure the mod WANTS to be propositioned. Or at least will take it in good humor.

She understands those things! (She could say No)