Senior citizens detained by police after waving to kid on a bicycle (Canada)

[JohnyCanuck]

Suspected attempted child abduction, doncha know.

PICTOU – Two Waterside seniors say they were accused of attempted child abduction after they waved at a child while driving by. Patsy McCara and her husband Gerald say they were detained for nearly two hours and questioned by the RCMP about the incident, which occurred about two weeks ago by the Pictou Sobeys.

Patsy can well recall turning up Veteran’s Drive in Pictou as the couple returned from her doctor’s appointment in New Glasgow. They were headed to pick up some groceries when her husband saw a little boy on a bike beside the Sobey’s store. Gerald waved his hand at the child as they drove by.

“We parked and both got out of our truck, my husband went into the tobacco shop and I went into Sobeys and picked up several articles,” Patsy said.

When she returned to their truck, Gerald was nowhere in sight, but an RCMP cruiser as parked immediately behind their red Silverado. Patsy put her groceries in the truck and climbed aboard to wait for her husband to return.

It wasn’t until a passerby asked why her husband was in the back of the RCMP car that Patsy realized something was wrong. She got out and spoke to an officer, who told her the Mounties had received a complaint that identified their truck as being involved in an attempted child abduction.

http://www.ngnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=305840&sc=49

[babylonsister]

1. Oh my gosh. Now being friendly is a crime? How sad. nt

[trumad]

2. New Meme...

Don't wave at children.

[Warpy]

3. That should have been cleared up by the time Mrs. McCara

loaded the groceries into the vehicle. Obviously they hadn't gone cruising back and forth and had an actual destination. A simple question and answer should have cleared it up.

I don't know who the bigger asshole in this case is, the paranoid busybody who called a wave in as a child abduction or the stupid cops who took it all too seriously once they'd talked to the alleged perps.

Why are so many people intent on demonstrating they were hiding behind the door when the brains were handed out?

[Echo In Light]

4. So, Canada likewise has overzealous Deputy Dawgs with too much time & power on their hands

[Odin2005]

5. WTF?

Thank God I don't live there. I adore kids and one of those pigs would certainly accuse me of that. :banghead:

[Canuckistanian]

6. This is VERY unusual for Pictou

Cops there are not pigs. I suspect they were sent on a wild goose chase by some "good citizen"

I hope that person gets charged for public mischief.