> My co-worker let his kids play in the cul-de-sac for an hour while they watched from the house. An anonymous neighbor reported them to police, and a sequence

> My co-worker let his kids play in the cul-de-sac for an hour while they watched from the house. An anonymous neighbor reported them to police, and a sequence of embarrassing calls at work ensued, statements to police, follow up visits from police, etc. And this is not some dangerous part of the city. This is suburbs, as safe as they come. But apparently you are never safe from neighbors with an agenda. The society is sick. It has the moral equivalent of cancer, or some auto-immune disease, eating it from inside.