As a teacher, I'm agreeing with everything you say. There's no harm in calling for something you are not sure on. There IS harm when you could have called and you didn't. Being a required reporter gave me a lot more balls to report. You could save someone's life.

I'm wondering if it would be appropriate in this situation to talk to the little girl and maybe try to get the mother's name? Or is it too risky? I would assume if a parent is sober/conscious it would be too risky, but what about here?

Thanks, this is the advice I really have been asking friends about but never heard, concerning my next door neighbor and her seemingly endless supply of children and the terrible screams and noises coming from the house.

Seconded. Report it and let a professional deal with it.

Are you supposed to call 911 and hold the family there until the cops show up? That seems really difficult.

I'd like to also add, please do not assume that someone else will call the police or already has.

Agreed I work in this field. I always say nothing is too big or too small just pick up the phone. I've seen one too many kids slip through the cracks because someone decided it wasn't their place.

12 or not, if you want to buck up, you have.......wait, what was it said on True Detective? "If you want to play a man's game you have to pay a man's price." or something like that.

I read this this morning and realized that you can add up all the existentialist writings of the twentieth century and it still won't amount to one tenth of this story's distillation of what it means to be a lonely soul in a meaningless universe.

This is exactly the same problem we run into with soup in a bread bowl. It sounds so fucking clever - we'll put one thing in the other thing! It'll be adorable! - but then when it's in front of you you're screwed. You have two foods that should be eaten concurrently but you're forced to have all of one before you can…

I literally would not be able to make it through one bite without vomiting. Balut and Hakarl are thus far the ONLY things I've written about that I have never actually tried.

Please do not, under any circumstances, do an image search for "parasitic twin".

It's lame, but I partially judge celebrities based on their Twitter accounts. Kim has one of those accounts in which the celebrity actually talks about real stuff, interacts with people, makes jokes, posts random things, etc., while Thurston's account is one of those annoying promotion-only accounts that is obviously…

"only to make a fool of Kim Gordon"

You guys all see it, right?

My husband is from the Philippines, and he is too horrified to try balut. I try to be open-minded about food, but I'm pretty sure that as long as there is still other food to eat, I won't be trying this.

A REAL MEXICAN?! A no one has taken your Mexican Card away for eating chipotle?! They took my Foodie Card away for eating chipotle.

It's not the best by a long shot, no. Also I like mine garlic heavy. But I'm of the opinion that guac, like pizza, is tasty even when it's bad. As long as you start out with decent avocados, that is.

I put it on an asiago bagel the other day. And guess what I put on the other side...sriracha. Mmmm...tasty. I think I'll do it again tomorrow. Food blasphemy FTW!

Totally agree.