Man Who Offered Lift To Teen Girls Says He’s Victim Of ‘Good Deed Gone Wrong

[Serpo]

BARRINGTON, Ill. (CBS) – Two 13-year-old suburban girls are being credited with helping police catch a man who offered them a ride home.

Barrington police say the teens were alarmed and disturbed by the offer and took down the man’s license plate. But as CBS 2′s Mai Martinez reports, the man says he was only trying to help the girls, not harm them.

“This is a good deed gone wrong,” Rodney Peterson says.

During a March 2 snowstorm, he saw two teen girls leave a Shell station while he was pumping gas.

“I just noticed these girls, that they had no umbrella, no coats or hood or something of that nature and I just felt like I should help,” Peterson says.

When he drove off, he saw them a short distance away on Prospect Avenue near Waverly.

“I just pulled up and said ‘How far do you have to walk?’ And one of the girls just replied, ‘We’re OK,’ and waved me on.”

Peterson says he drove off and thought nothing of it until Barrington police showed up at his home three days later.

The married father of three, who has a fourth child due in June, listened in disbelief as police told him the girls reported the encounter and he was being charged with disorderly conduct.

His explanation did not assuage the police. Peterson’s wife of nearly 12 years can’t believe it.

“It really was a good deed, just misinterpreted,” she says.

Despite his being charged, the Petersons don’t blame the girls, their families or even police for following up.

“The question comes into why I was charged,” Rodney Peterson says.

Peterson is due in court on Monday. He’s facing a maximum $750 fine.

Barrington’s police chief said the girls in this case were “alarmed and disturbed” by Peterson’s actions. He said the right thing to do in a situation like that is to call police and tell them that the teens need a ride.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/03/16/man-who-offered-lift-to-teen-girls-says-hes-victim-of-good-deed-gone-wrong/

[Neuro]

What a sick society! Let no good deed go unpunished!

[Gaillo]

What a sick society! Let no good deed go unpunished!

Yep. That, and teach people that the police are the only people to go to for help! :o

[solid]

Yep. That, and teach people that the police are the only people to go to for help! :o

The sad fact is, as men we have to be very careful who we talk to, and who we try to help. In our society today, men are assumed to be child molesting rapists. To stay out of trouble, don't talk to young girls, don't talk to kids, etc. The police chief is right, the best thing to do is just call the police and report people who may need help.

It's mostly in urban areas though, I think.

I recall one time I was fishing near a small town out in the country. Walking back to my car, with my fishing pole, I suddenly found myself surrounded by several young girls. They were very nice, and asked me a lot of questions about flyfishing, etc. No parents around, and honestly it made me very uncomfortable. Finally, two women walked up, mother's of the kids. They thought nothing of it, and were nice too. That was refreshing actually, to not be assumed to be a criminal. That doesn't happen in the cities.

[AndreaGail]

the theme of the scary white single male abducting and killing or raping women put out by hollywood MIGHT be the only one to surpass holohoax movies

[palani]

Does a minor have the capacity to testify against someone?

[Twisted Titan]

He said the right thing to do in a situation like that is to call police and tell them that the teens need a ride.


I would wager my entire stash of Three silver dimes that the desk sgt would laugh his friggen head off if you made a call like that.

[Down1]

He said the right thing to do in a situation like that is to call police and tell them that the teens need a ride.


I would wager my entire stash of Three silver dimes that the desk sgt would laugh his friggen head off if you made a call like that.
In a small town the police might check on the kids.
The harsh truth is he just has to keep driving.
Don't ask kids for directions either.

[General of Darkness]

Haven't some states re-enacted the good Samaritan rule or something like that?

Personally I won't even be in the same room by myself with kids these days, you never know what those little fuckers or their parents might say for some money.

[BrewTech]

If people want to be paranoid snitches, then they can walk home in the fucking rain. This society needs to learn that it reaps what it sows. I won't offer help to anybody - not because I don't want to, but because most people seem to want to see others as their enemies, and as this story shows there is just too much risk...

I agree, if he called the police and told them there were some girls walking home in the rain, they would probably ask why he was wasting their oh-so-precious time telling them about it. "What do you think this is, a fucking taxi service...?"

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if they charged him with something just for noticing two young girls on the street!

[Book]

Barrington police say the teens were alarmed and disturbed by the offer and took down the man’s license plate. But as CBS 2′s Mai Martinez reports, the man says he was only trying to help the girls, not harm them.

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::) Yeah...we would be pleased if our own 13 year-old daughters accepted rides from strangers.

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::) Yeah...we would be pleased if our own 13 year-old daughters accepted rides from strangers.

Excellent point Book!
The proper thing to do, would be to offer to call the girls parents if they had no cell phone.
Who would want their daughters accepting a ride from anyone these days?

[BrewTech]

Excellent point Book!
The proper thing to do, would be to offer to call the girls parents if thay had no cell phone.
Who would want their daughters accepting a ride from anyone these days?

I wouldn't offer a ride because I instinctively know how the offer would be seen. Of course, if the guy had stopped long enough to talk to them, that would have been sufficient to arouse enough suspicion to charge him. Even offering to call their parents would have been a bad idea. Best not to show any interest at all in helping people that are not in life-threatening danger, and maybe not even then.

[Glass]

Does a minor have the capacity to testify against someone?

nope. Can't even testify in court, so court appearances by juvenilles is what?

[palani]

nope. Can't even testify in court, so court appearances by juvenilles is what?

Hearings are of two sorts ... argument and evidentiary. I suspect there are few evidentiary hearings these days and anything by a minor would be considered just part of argument.

'Course it would be MISTAKEN as testimony.

[midnight rambler]

Haven't some states re-enacted the good Samaritan rule or something like that?

Personally I won't even be in the same room by myself with kids these days, you never know what those little fuckers or their parents might say for some money.

If I go to use a public rest room and a <8 y.o. boy is in the restroom alone, I leave.

[midnight rambler]

Further proof this country is lorded over by Satan.

[palani]

If I go to use a public rest room and a <8 y.o. boy is in the restroom alone, I leave.

If I go into one and find a female I figure I chose the wrong door.

[BrewTech]

If I go into one and find a female I figure I chose the wrong door.

I've seen women use the men's when there's a long line at the women's. I can't remember if anybody gave a shit.

[zap]

Really sick and sorry our society has become.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Guy offering a ride to someone with no jacket in a snowstorm is not a crime.

[FreeEnergy]

Had to look up that Barrington, IL shithole. Apparently , suburb of Chicago. When was the last time anything good and not socialist with agenda come out of Chicago?


Ever since jewish gangs took over that city and called themselves in movies "italian mob", ever since jewish canadian family gangster Bronfman sold liquor (approved by the Queen) through the borders into the city during prohibition, etc. - that city went to hell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_mobsters
click through the names looking for "chicago" and "chicago outfit". start with jewish Ike Bloom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_Bloomh

Bronfmans, and billions that finance zionism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bronfman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman,_Sr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bronfman

[willie pete]

if it was as it was told, I can't see how a court could call offering a ride to a couple of minor girls in inclimate conditions "disorderly conduct" ....police use disorderly conduct as a catch-all, if they can't come up with anything else...also, if this guy was never in the system, he IS now.....now they have a file on him

read your state's "disorderly conduct" statute, typically it's for fighting, public drunkeness....etc ...NOT trying to render aid to someone....

[Uncle Salty]

Here is what is so fucked up about this; the girls are somehow offended and that is the crime. The guy just asked a question and went on his way. No harm, no foul, but feelings now constitute a crime? Hurt someone's feelings or if someone has an unreasonable reaction to words and a crime is committed?

And some people wonder why people no longer give a shit. This society has been so conditioned against goodness and humanity, it is appalling.

[vacuum]

The main issue I see here is that the guy is being charged.

[dys]

Here is what is so fucked up about this; the girls are somehow offended and that is the crime. The guy just asked a question and went on his way. No harm, no foul, but feelings now constitute a crime? Hurt someone's feelings or if someone has an unreasonable reaction to words and a crime is committed?

And some people wonder why people no longer give a shit. This society has been so conditioned against goodness and humanity, it is appalling.

You see this with restraining orders all the time. Women 'feels threatened', guy forced to leave home regardless of facts.

dys

[Book]

The guy just asked a question and went on his way.



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