According to the Roxby Downs Sun, obnoxious sticky-beaks are getting stuck into kids having a bit of fun in the street:
I've stopped them when I see them and said "don't play on the road" but they just looked at me and got straight back into it.
And so they should. Mind your own bloody business.
Or how's this for an idea? Just slow down and watch out for kids in residential streets, you selfish dickhead. Seriously, checkout [Finnis t][], Pioneer Drive "and some smaller courts" nearby. Hardly major traffic thoroughfares, are they? And with [one third of the population the age of 15][], it's not like kids are an unexpected sight in Roxby.
Even the teachers are getting in on the act:
Giving kids an awareness of the fact that there are cars going up and down is really important that's why I remind my kids in the classroom to follow road rules.
Sure. But also, giving kids an awareness of the fact that there are cars going up and down is really important that's why I encourage my kids to play in the street. How else are they going to learn to handle themselves around traffic if they never experience it?
Anyway, good on ya the kids of Roxby Downs! Keep it up.
By way of contrast, [consider what else to do with the space between s][]:
The most importance space for children isn't the mall or the play date or the fun fair, it's that space right in front of their house. And this has largely been taken away from them by the comparatively frivolous use of getting cars from one end of the street to the other as quickly and painlessly as possible for the drivers.
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Harrumph, another example of a poxy nanny state mentality that's destroying this once great nation ... anyway I reside in a quiet one-way street, and walk down the middle and cycle on it at every opportunity. Other residents occasionally play kick to kick and I don't mind retrieving the ball, as long as the front garden doesn't get smashed around too much.