Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lluis showed: Subject: [Leica] Street games http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1004239bw.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/nz7arx Hi Lluis, When I was a kid living in Toronto, Canada. We were always playing "Cowboys & Indians" harmless games without thought of being "PC" correct. Why? Well it wasn't a big deal, I might be one of the Indians for an hour, get killed a half dozen times, then we'd get an ice cream cone or soda pop and when we started again I'd be a cowboy! All simple kids shouting "bang I got you!" Note: rarely did we ever use the word "Killed " you! Today we see kids playing like this with "toy guns" that are so real police officers can't tell the difference until they have it in their hands. Or in a very very sad case a young boy has been shot because he made it look like he was going to shoot an officer. Yours is an interesting photo because so often today in newspapers or TV we see young boys like this one with a real weapon, "AK47 or machine pistol" of some kind, but it's the real thing and they really kill rather than yelling out."Bang I got you!" Them were the good old days of childhood imagination and not the realties in killing today. Too bad. So sad! ted