Mum fake arrests her kid...

[ant3nna]

Daily Mail, sorry. What do we think of this?

I don't know who was worse, the stupid mother or the stupid cops. They should certainly be disciplined for that.

wow. That child is going to be afraid of doing anything wrong for a very, very long time. I can't imagine living like this.

i took my son to a police stationonce and they took him into an interview room and had words - was terrific.

ithink this is the american extreme version of this.

Why did she not take him to the fire service and get them to have a quiet word with him about the dangers of fires etc..that is what I did with my 6 year old when I caught him with his stepdads lighter upstairs..that is so extreme what that mother did

That was way OTT. Handcuffs ffs.

He is 5!!

Just showed DP this and he was giving it 'Too right' etc until he copped on to the fact that the little lad was five.

Custardo, how old was your son when you had the police interview him? I do think this would be a great idea for older kids. Mum used to take us to the police station open days, get us locked in the cells for a minute, then remind us of the cells when we misbehaved.

It's in America - what do you expect ?

I do hate it when people say to kids ' dont do that or policeman will lock you up etc etc'

KKids need not to be afriad of the police when they are so young but they are people they can trsut and turn to in en emergency - i.e when they are lost.

ithink he ws about 8. im not recommending it as a parenting technique,although i did expand on it right until he was about 16 - then he knew i was full of shit.

i told him that he gets three chances as a child off the police.

he got caught giving his brother a lift on his handlebars of his bike the police (WHO ROUND here clearly had nothing to do) pulled over and put him in the car and told ds2 to walk the bike home.

anyway i told his to be careful cos that was his second chance out of three.

when he was 15, he accidentally broke a window playing cricket. the homeowner ( clearly a sourfaced old bastard) told him to get in his car whilst he took him to police station. "i wasn;t getting in his car mum" ds told me later - quite right too i thought. so he actually i - shit - you - not ...waited for the police outside this guys house.

that was his third chance - which shit him up actually cos the police put himin a cell for a couple of hours becore coming for me - they took his DNA, removed his shoe laces and left him alone.

which i thought was a really fucked up shit thing to do.

so i called a brief and everything ( for a borken window)

fuckers