And do you know what will happen if you do? The kid will report you to the authorities, and you will face charges of child abuse. Then the wannabe cops (social workers & parole agents) will take your kid away and put him in “protective” care. You go to jail, possibly along with your wife (for being aware of the abuse but not reporting it), you lose your kid, and you are branded a criminal for the rest of your life.
Paranoid? Not realistic? Ask my cousin (his address is at the Fox Lake Correctional Center in Wisconsin). Nicest guy I know. The kid is a real smartass. He deserved to be booted about up to his waist.
Another cousin of mine was threatened by his daughter when he told her that if she did a certain activity she would get spanked. Her reply? “If you spank me I will report you to the police for abusing me”.
The point you might be missing here is the extreme frustration engineers face because of the risks they have to face every day. Nobody should have to come to work and wonder if they will make it to the end of the day without a rock breaking their window or hitting them, or someone shooting at them, or someone trying to derail them. Except for you guys (police and military)that knew and accepted the fact of the potential for violence when you took the job (which, believe it or not, I have the utmost respect for).
These low-life vandals know they will not get caught, so they act with impunity. I know the police put up with quite a bit of crap every day. But you might be surprised by what train crews have to put up with.
So yes, there is quite the desire to try to protect oneself while on the trains. In most cities a train crew does not dare operate with the windows open. Not that big of a deal in the cold weather, or in the summer with a nice new locomotive with air conditioning. But when it is 90 degrees out with a dew point of 74 and a wind of 0 mph, with the train travelling all of 10mph in a yard transer movement with old, hot, ratty power, an open window is the ONLY possible relief.
We civilians cannot possibly imagine the BS the police must have to go through on a daily basis. Being a cop is dangerous, boring, exhilarating, tedious, and largely thankless (come to think about it, that sounds like an engineers job also).
Eric, you’re probably a nice guy. You sound decent enough here on this forum. Indeed, most of the cops I’ve known were good people. But I’ve also known a few that concerned me, due to their “interpretation” of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Those are the pinheads that ruin it for you good guys. The older cops are usually much more mellow. They have realized that they are not going to ‘save the world’, tha
Sadly, you may speak the truth. It is something I will deal with when the time comes. I will not have my child grow up like some bratty kid threatening lawsuits when nothing goes their way. If they throw me in jail for that, it merely indicates how far this country has fallen.