Assisting the Police

There I was walking the dog when I saw a young child about three roaming about, it did not worry me as I new he lived in the street and that his parents had probably just let him out into the garden to play, they know that the back gate does not close and off he goes, no point going round to tell them he is in the street as you would get nothing but abuse, so went home, decided to go and pay the paper bill, to see two police men running all over the street, so on asking them what was up I was told they were looking for the boy I had seen earlier, it seems several people had rang the police saying that this young boy was by himself in the street, I told them where he lived and he was, they went round to see the parents, I saw them on my way back returning to their cars, they had found him at the house I had told them to go to and had spoken to his parents, I told them it was a waste of time because he is always roaming about with no supervision, so as it turned out all was well, but it meant that two police officers and their cars were tied up for 90 mins wasting their time and our money on some thing that should never have happened, the parents should be ashamed but you can be sure they had not a care in the World.