Mostly unrelated but about cruising, our local city council here in the middle of no where Illinois banned cruising in the early 2000s because they thought it didn’t look good for the town to have a bunch of high school kids hanging out on the main street. It was such a stupid choice many local business fought against it because the kids would go buy fast food, candy, soda, whatever while cruising.
Fast forward a few years later and the kids had nothing to do here and drugs and parties became a thing. Now at least once a year some high school kid dies in a drunk driving accident or there is other trouble. I remember our local county sheriff back in that day saw it coming a mile away. He said “why would we stop the kids from cruising? Every kid in the county comes to town, spends money, and they are all in one place so we know they aren’t out causing trouble.” But the old fucks in charge on the city council couldn’t have kids having fun in town now.
Mostly unrelated but about cruising, our local city council here in the middle of no where Illinois banned cruising in the early 2000s because they thought it didn’t look good for the town to have a bunch of high school kids hanging out on the main street. It was such a stupid choice many local business fought against it because the kids would go buy fast food, candy, soda, whatever while cruising.
Fast forward a few years later and the kids had nothing to do here and drugs and parties became a thing. Now at least once a year some high school kid dies in a drunk driving accident or there is other trouble. I remember our local county sheriff back in that day saw it coming a mile away. He said “why would we stop the kids from cruising? Every kid in the county comes to town, spends money, and they are all in one place so we know they aren’t out causing trouble.” But the old fucks in charge on the city council couldn’t have kids having fun in town now.