Eh, watch the video if you want, though I don't see the need to sit through the whole thing. Anyway, this Michigan mom, Lisa Snyder, got a talking-to from the state because there's a law that says you can't watch kids that are not your own for more than four weeks without a license.
Was she running an illegal daycare center? Nope, just watching three neighborhood kids, at no cost, for less than an hour each morning while they wait for the bus. Turns out some busybody neighbor called the authorities.
I wish there were someone in my neighborhood willing to provide shelter and security before the AM pickup. The few bus stop memories that remain involve either freezing my ass off, getting soaked enough for the glue holding together my cheap Modell's tennis shoes (the kind you picked out of a bin; each pair was fused together with a plastic tie and to try them on you had to clomp around with a right shoe from one pair and a left shoe from another) to fall apart, being pummeled by a snowball or having a handful of snow dumped down my back, or the possibility of involvement in a brawl — and that was just on the first day of school.
Fortunately, there's some elected-official dude trying to update the law so people in this poor woman's situation aren't treated like those unlicensed daycare centers, which really are an issue.
They should find the neighbor who called the cops and let the kids Snyder watches egg her house. That, my friends, is justice! Or something like that.
Egg the house? In the good old days kids would set fire to the driveway belonging to the neighborhood annoyances like this stool pigeon. Now that would send the proper message.
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