two perfectly sober adults walking their children home along a well lit main road at 10:50pm on a Sunday night?
It was DH's birthday so we had a meal out and allowed the kids to stay up late, they're in bed now.
They all wanted to get a taxi home, it was literally a five minute walk down one street, so I refused and made us walk.
A Police car sped past us. DH made us walk off down a side street because apparently the Police car will have "Radio'd in about us and they'll send another car out to us, they might phone SS" 
This is the reason why he never wanted to walk in the first place he reckoned.
You are "not allowed to have young kids out late in England"
If this is true, which I am certain it is not, it's the first I've heard about it. What time are young children allowed out til then? DH will not clarify, he just says "not late" 
AIBU?
To think the Police will have had no interest in....
D0oinMeCleanin · 23/06/2013 23:32
BWAhahhaaaaa unless they are (I shall resist saying the actual names) members of those families (and you and I know the ones with R and the ones with B and the ones with T for their initials Dooin 
) the police here won't give a flying fuck about you minding your own business walking home quietly
Good grief, let's face it, people here have been stabbed and bled to death on the pavement while everyone stepped over them before now - it's hardly Britain's Nosiest Town... 
I know, Saidar, I was just pointing out what I thought. If we'd been sitting in a beer garden all afternoon and couldn't walk in a straight line or if the kids only had party dresses and flip flops on, then I might see his point, but this wasn't the case.
We were going to go and sit in a beer garden all day with the dogs but we've had rain and thunder and lightening 
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Yes, Mary, he is, which is very odd because he's the most law abiding person I know.
Ha! This made me smile, 25 years ago when DS1 was tiny and didn't sleep not through the night until 5 and still doesn't but that's another issue, I digress DH took him for a walk at 3am, got stopped by the police who asked him what he was doing, DS was screaming blue murder..he is reply was 'if you can get him to sleep , he is all yours!' They told him to carry on. He had a wave from them whenever they were on patrol after that!
Midlife
I remember doing the same thing with DD1. I got pulled over at 3am, the policeman leaned in the window, heard her screaming fit to burst went 'Ahh, as you were' and walked away
Oh gosh, I am a total law abiding rule following person and this sounds totally reasonable to me. Its good to hear of others that are totally irrational
My OH would say something like that.
DD had three weird spots directly in a line on her spine and I didn't know where they came from. He wouldn't let me take a photo and post it on here asking for help in case one of you called social services
Well the silly thing is we've had the kids out late before, admittedly not the night before a school day, but we've walked home from NYE parties at SIL's slightly worse for wear with the kids when we haven't been able to get taxis.
He rang me one Boxing day evening to tell me if 2yo dd1 woke up to keep her awake because we'd been invited to a house party and there would be another child her age there. He was fine to ask me to walk her there to meet him at 11:30pm, although that was on our street, so I doubt we'd have got a taxi to take us even if we tried
It was just last night. I have no idea why.
I don't know if they saw us ducking down the side street, they had the sirens on and were speeding so I very much doubt they even saw us, much less radio'd in about us I am fairly sure they had more pressing things on their mind
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