Not universally, but more often than not, yeah. Or ride the school bus. (Well, and depends on the age of th ekid, of course.)Yeah, I really have to realize that the world is not the same like 35 years ago when I went to school. It used to be that everyone went to the one nearest, in walking distance (in the city at least). But now sometimes even small kids have to take the tram for a ride of 45 minutes, depending on which school they chose as there are different types, or being forced to go as the other one was full already (Dresden has a problem with too few schools and teachers and too many kids. They closed a lot of schools a few years back and that bites them in the ass now and many of those that are still left, are in a serious need of reconstruction. No work was done on them in the past 20 years
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Ah! That's why he looked a bit familiar. I do know him, a bit, but not sure if rom visits to Prague or from Iron Curtain days.
Are there also kids in America using the bicycle for their school way?
Occasionally, but not that much, in my experience. In urban places, it's probably easier and safer to walk than to bike -- there are crossing guards at intersections close to the school, but bike lane infrastructure mostly doesn't exist in the US, so you're sharing the road with cars, as opposed to having a dedicated space on the sidewalk, as in many European cities. Plus there's not necessarily a safe space for a lot of bikes once you get to the school. Most bike riding with kids, at least where I live, means taking the bike (by car) to an area of a park where there are paved trails but no cars and riding there. And in the suburbs, things are probably too far-flung for riding a bike to school to be very practical -- driving/school bus would be a lot easier.
Oh, hahahahaha!!! You have our beloved Hurvínek!!! What a perfectly crazy combination - but I doubt our friends here know about the Hurvínek character...which is absolutely endearing and crazy in the same time!
My extended knowledge about the USA, gained entirely from tv, tells me that children there always are driven by their parents or take the school bus :) I couldn't get it when I was little, I thought: "when do they build those schools so anyone lives nearby?" I'm sure it's not 100% true, but maybe taking a kid from his room was, in fact, the only way to do it. If he made himself look like he came through the front door and told the boy he talked to his mother, I could buy getting out through the window. If, however, the boy saw him getting through the window into the house, he'd should be suspicious from the start :)
I actually had wanted to do a third panel, with him on his way to the playground/basketball field. But it would have been too big to get it into one picture for Twitter.
But I guess that is a general thing in the USA - they are afraid to leave their kids out of their sight for even a second and even when they are old enough. If I think back about how I grew up...
Re: Might not raise alarmdieastraMay 30 2016, 10:09:24 UTC
I've no idea :(
Usually, when they kidnap them on the way to school, they tell them the mother is in the hospital and has asked them to bring them to her.
But with the mother right there in the house? Why not ask her if this strange man is really a friend of her?
Malcolm Merlyn is also called "The Magician" and it is believed that he can appear and disappear however he likes (he said that no prison can hold him). So an alarm may not work against that. However, if the boy had been taken by force, and by someone who can disappear, he should have looked more frightened at least!
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Not universally, but more often than not, yeah. Or ride the school bus. (Well, and depends on the age of th ekid, of course.)
Who is playing the role of the kid here?
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Ah! That's why he looked a bit familiar. I do know him, a bit, but not sure if rom visits to Prague or from Iron Curtain days.
Are there also kids in America using the bicycle for their school way?
Occasionally, but not that much, in my experience. In urban places, it's probably easier and safer to walk than to bike -- there are crossing guards at intersections close to the school, but bike lane infrastructure mostly doesn't exist in the US, so you're sharing the road with cars, as opposed to having a dedicated space on the sidewalk, as in many European cities. Plus there's not necessarily a safe space for a lot of bikes once you get to the school. Most bike riding with kids, at least where I live, means taking the bike (by car) to an area of a park where there are paved trails but no cars and riding there. And in the suburbs, things are probably too far-flung for riding a bike to school to be very practical -- driving/school bus would be a lot easier.
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But of course I have him, remember, I used him and Spejbl for your birthday greeting card ;) http://dieastra.livejournal.com/201233.html
They recently were in a German TV show and they cut off Hurvinek's strings and the men all left - and then he was moving by himself and flying!
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But I guess that is a general thing in the USA - they are afraid to leave their kids out of their sight for even a second and even when they are old enough. If I think back about how I grew up...
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Usually, when they kidnap them on the way to school, they tell them the mother is in the hospital and has asked them to bring them to her.
But with the mother right there in the house? Why not ask her if this strange man is really a friend of her?
Malcolm Merlyn is also called "The Magician" and it is believed that he can appear and disappear however he likes (he said that no prison can hold him). So an alarm may not work against that. However, if the boy had been taken by force, and by someone who can disappear, he should have looked more frightened at least!
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