They Should Put a "Keep Children Away From Me" Tat on Each Parent

Ever go through one of those phases where you wanted to do something that seemed really cool at the time, but your parents forbade you from doing it, then years later you wanted to thank them from preventing you from doing that thing whose soft coolness shell would evaporate, leaving an enduring center of stupidity?

Like, say, trying to get that tattoo. Sure, at 16, you might want to show your loyalty to a particular athletic celebrity, but when the 21 century rolls around, that 1980s-era Hulk Hogan tat that covers your entire back will look, in retrospect, like a spot of folly.

Of course, you might have permissive parents who allow you to get tattoos. You might even have the really permissive — some might say lawbreaking — parents who will tattoo you in the privacy of your own home with homemade equipment. Such is the case in Georgia, where, you may be surprised, it is not only illegal to operate an unlicensed home-based tattoo parlor but also against the law for anyone under 18 to be permanently inked.

A couple in the Peach State got themselves arrested for tattooing several of their children, some of whom are not biological (don't ask), all with the same needle, which was made from a guitar string. The 7-year-old escaped the fate of his siblings and quasi-siblings because the couple considered him too young. (At least they drew the line, not literally, somewhere.)

The kids all wanted tattoos because the parents had them, but just because Jackson thinks the scar on Dad's knee is pretty cool doesn't mean I'm gonna start sharpening my knife on his patella.

These two geniuses didn't know that they broke the law. As ParentDish notes: "not knowing the law is not a defense, or as lawyers put it, Ignorantia juris non excusat."

Emphasis on ignorantia.
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