Tuesday, October 17, 2017

1967: Chicken Bait at E. 200th St. and Cherokee

Kids walking in the street and being irresponsible with cars - a problem in Euclid. Go to any of those cancerous Euclid Facebook groups and see for yourself. Evidently, this problem goes back many years, despite being hotly debated by every third Euclid resident to this day.

I give you: Chicken Bait.

An open letter to Euclid Parents: Do you know where your children are at 9 or 10 p.m. every night of the week? Do you know your children's friends so you can tell what kind of examples your children have to follow? Do you know what your children do for excitement and thrills each high during the week? Do you really care if maybe some night the phone rings in your comfortable, warm house to let you know that your son or daughter is now dead-that he or she has just been hit by a car? Many parents in this area must not be able to answer these question very successfully. They must not really care about the physical, mental, or moral welfare of their kids. ANY WEEKNIGHT (or weekend) why don't you jump into your car and take a ride down 200th street near Cherokee to see if your children are standing in that crowd? Please drive carefully, because you are sudden bait for the current new games that go on each night. You are an excellent prospect for the game of "chicken." Your children find it great fun to run into the middle of the street in front of an oncoming car to see how fast the driver can push on the brakes. This has happened to us and we were lucky enough to stop. When you hear the screech of the brake and feel your heart pounding, your knees weaken and hear the roar of laughter from the "audience" please keep your temper because you can do nothing to step this game. DURING THIS WEEK there has been more than $300 worth of damage done in one parking lot on Cherokee ave. Did you give your children the switch blade that was used to slit three brand new tires Wednesday night? Did you maybe give your kids the BB gun that has been used to shoot out the light in the parking lot so the police or residents couldn't catch your child? A Chickasaw resident (Name withheld upon request)

Do you know where your children are at 9 or 10 p.m. every night of the week? Do you know your children's friends so you can tell what kind of examples your children have to follow? Do you know what your children do for excitement and thrills each high during the week? Do you really care if maybe some night the phone rings in your comfortable, warm house to let you know that your son or daughter is now dead-that he or she has just been hit by a car?

Many parents in this area must not be able to answer these question very successfully. They must not really care about the physical, mental, or moral welfare of their kids.

ANY WEEKNIGHT (or weekend) why don't you jump into your car and take a ride down 200th street near Cherokee to see if your children are standing in that crowd? Please drive carefully, because you are sudden bait for the current new games that go on each night. You are an excellent prospect for the game of "chicken."

Your children find it great fun to run into the middle of the street in front of an oncoming car to see how fast the driver can push on the brakes.

This has happened to us and we were lucky enough to stop. When you hear the screech of the brake and feel your heart pounding, your knees weaken and hear the roar of laughter from the "audience" please keep your temper because you can do nothing to step this game.

DURING THIS WEEK there has been more than $300 worth of damage done in one parking lot on Cherokee ave. Did you give your children the switch blade that was used to slit three brand new tires Wednesday night? Did you maybe give your kids the BB gun that has been used to shoot out the light in the parking lot so the police or residents couldn't catch your child?
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