STRANGER DANGER TEST GOES WRONG

In Westlake, Ohio, a single-parent father came up with a brilliant idea to test his teenage boys about stranger danger. Bilal Abdul Mani set a rule that his 14- and 16-year-old sons should never let anyone, other than four close relatives, in the house when he’s not home. Then he had a friend pose as a threatening ex-convict. The man knocked on the door and was let inside by the 14-year-old. Once inside, the “stranger” said their father owed him money and threatened them, saying something about chopping up bodies. This whole time, Dad was listening in on a cell phone. The boys locked themselves in a bedroom, jumped out a window and ran to a neighbor’s home where they called 911. The police came and sorted out the charade, and now a prosecutor is considering child-endangering charges against the father and his friend. The father, Bilal Abdul Mani, said that his plan went terribly wrong. “Knowing that they reacted the way they reacted, no, I would have did it another way,” said Abdul Mani.
* Hey, nobody said parenting was easy.
* “I would have did it another way”? So not only is his parenting bad – he’s also got bad grammar.
* Maybe that’s why he had trouble conveying the idea “Don’t let anyone in the house.”
* On the bright side, the kids finally got the message.
* Just as a rule out there, if your charade involves several major crimes than I’d say rethink it.
* And yes, I am counting the talk about chopping up bodies as a crime.
* Uh oh, next up the father wants to teach his sons about the dangers of arson.