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What does it take for a parent to get arrested? Surprisingly little. Scott and Heather Wallace of Hewitt, Texas, encourage their three boys to play outside on their own to build independence. One day, driving home from karate practice, 8-year-old Aiden misbehaved. So, half a mile from home, Heather stopped the car and told him, “Walk the rest of the way on your own.” He’d done it before. But this time, before he got home, someone called the police. “There’s a little boy walking down the sidewalk,” she told 911. “He’s a perfect target for somebody to kidnap!” Police picked Aiden up and drove him home. His parents share their story in our new video. “You weren’t worried about (Aiden)?” I ask them. “Not at all,” says Heather. Scott adds, “It’s a safe neighborhood.” It’s true. Based on data from the FBI, their town is among the safest in Texas. Nevertheless, the cops arrested Heather! They kept her in jail overnight. “It was terrifying,” she tells me. “I was just waiting, crying.” The cop told her, “To have an 8-year-old ... walk by himself, that’s a big problem. ... We don’t know who’s in that white van.” That’s just dumb, says Lenore Skenazy, author of “Free-Range Kids.” “99.99% of white vans are guys coming to fix your toilet or mow your lawn.” She says ignorant media mislead us about what’s really dangerous. News reports cite Justice Department data and claim “460,000 kids are reported missing every year!” But that just means: “460,000 children are late for dinner, stayed at school and forgot to tell their mom. ... The definition of ‘missing’ is missing for an hour!” Kidnappings by strangers are extremely rare. Just being in a car is 400 times more dangerous. “You don’t see people saying, ‘I could put Johnny in the car, but what if we’re T-boned?” Skenazy points out. “We’ve come up with a culture that sees a kid outside and fantasizes not just something bad but the very worst-case scenario.” The officer who picked up Aiden argued the worst-case: “You have a lot of crazy people out here,” he told Heather. “I don’t trust my child out of range (of) about 20 or 30 feet from me.” Twenty or 30 feet? “It was a lot of his opinion,” Heather tells me. Police officers can act on their opinions. Local prosecutors went even further. They indicted Heather, claiming she placed her son in “imminent danger of death” and acted “against the peace and dignity of the state.” Really! When her employer heard that, Heather lost her job. Good thing officials weren’t this obsessed with stranger danger when I was a kid. I walked half-a-mile every school day. Crime was much worse then. Even including recent upticks, crime has dropped sharply over the past 30 years. What’s changed is media hysteria. Any dramatic incident, anywhere, appears instantly on our phones. Frightened, gullible, math-illiterate officials say, better safe than sorry. Now Scott and Heather say that, too. “Will you drop your kids off again?” I ask. “No!” says Heather. “We’re scared.” “It’s not that we don’t think it was the right decision,” says Scott, “But what they decided for us was not very affordable. (Now) we don’t even leave them in the car to go into the convenience store,” “Not because someone’s going to take them,” Heather adds, “but because someone’s going to see and call the police!” Lenore Skenazy has persuaded eight states to pass “childhood independence” laws. They clarify that letting kids do things on their own isn’t abuse. “You don’t want the government telling you when you can let your kids do things,” she says. “You know your children better than they do.”

Georgia police sent on a welfare check said they found evidence that a group of people had moved into a dead man's home and stolen his property while he decomposed in a bathtub for months. Cobb County Police said they were called to the residence in Smyrna, a suburb of Atlanta, in early October by people concerned about the absence of 71-year-old Robert Westbrook. 'It’s a shame and it’s sad. It’s just sad. To take advantage of a dead person is just sick.'After entering the man's home, they found his body in a bathtub. “He was in a severe state of decomposition. It’s called mummification,” said Detective Daniel Goduto. They believe that Westbrook's body had been decomposing for about three months. And in that time, a group of burglars had moved into the home to ransack his belongings and steal whatever they could, police said. “Drawers were overturned. His master bedroom was completely just disheveled,” Goduto continued. “But then, there were items consistent with somebody still living there. The trash looked like it was taken out regularly. It looked like there was stuff in the garbage can that was fairly new.”A day later, a neighbor called police to let them know there were people in the man's driveway. Police responded and found four people loading Westbrook's property into their car. Westbrook's car was also missing, and police were able to trace it to a gas station, where they found three other burglary suspects. Police said they were using his credit cards and forging checks to steal his money. The suspects face a slew of charges, including burglary and fraud. “It goes to show their moral compass, if you will,” Goduto said. “I mean, they broke into someone’s home. They saw him deceased on the ground and instead of saying, ‘Hey, we messed up. Let’s call 911. We found this guy dead,’ they decided to just live there.”Westbrook is believed to have died of natural causes. When police tried to contact his family, they found that all of his relatives were dead. One neighbor told WSBT-TV that she didn't know Westbrook had passed away because he often kept to himself. “It’s a shame and it’s sad. It’s just sad,” said Sonya da Silva. “To take advantage of a dead person is just sick.”Scenes from the home can be viewed on WSB-TV's news video on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

You’d be forgiven if you’d never heard of the original Rivals of Aether - it was an excellent but niche Smash Bros-style fighting game with a modest yet dedicated audience. However, thanks to its slick new look and the clout of a well-known livestreamer, there’s a better chance of you hearing about Rivals of Aether 2. The long-awaited sequel has just dropped, and already it’s doing brilliantly on the Steam charts with over three times more players than its predecessor ever racked up on the platform. Continue reading Rivals of Aether 2 soars past its fighting game predecessor on launch day MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best fighting games, Best multiplayer games, Best indie games

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