Reply to "Kids unattended at train shows"

Sure there was. The father is liable for what their kids do. I'd have called the cops, just to make a point.

Still, there's not much you can do with people who will pick up your 'do not touch' signs to move them aside so they can pick up something (seen that happen several times). My primary hobyb is displaying WW2 US stuff at historical themed shows. You can't imagine the stuff that happens with us. I had a kid pick up a workinglight machine gun owned by a pal of mine and started to walk off with it. When cornered, the kid innocently said, "I'm taking it over to my Dad so he can see it," and pointed to someone a good 100 yards away. he even tugged on it, refusing to let it go, still intent on his mission. This was at a large airshow and getting a cop over wasn't tough. He went and got the father, walked him over, and explained what had happened. No anger to the kid from the father, I was the source of his anger. The cop was more shocked than I was, pulled him aside and later came over and explained that the kid was comitting a felony (walking away with a funbctional machine gun), and that finally lit the bulb over the Dad's head.

Had an entire family toss out all the crates (including a very rare and valuable bazooka rocket crate) and stuff in my WW2 Jeep at a show on an Army base and made it into their lunch table. Some of my stuff had bene tossed several feet from the Jeep. They even refused to get out when I came back and saw what'd happend, citing that their tax dollars paid for it, so they'd get out whenever they wanted to and not before. Got an MP to come over and they refused to get out for him, too. The MP's hand went on his taser and things got ugly, verbally. The MP later said, "I thought you were playing a joke on me, Sir, I wouldn't have thought people could be that stupid."