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Kid Code
« on: November 14, 2018, 06:30:35 PM »
This is something I hadn't heard of, but it's a great idea. If you have kids, work out a code word so that if someone other than a parent or known relative has to pick them up, the code word is the signal that it's okay. It just saved an Arizona girl from being kidnapped.

https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/11/10/code-word-helps-save-girl-from-would-be-kidnapper-at-arizona-park/
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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2018, 06:48:28 PM »
This is something I hadn't heard of, but it's a great idea. If you have kids, work out a code word so that if someone other than a parent or known relative has to pick them up, the code word is the signal that it's okay. It just saved an Arizona girl from being kidnapped.

https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/11/10/code-word-helps-save-girl-from-would-be-kidnapper-at-arizona-park/

Huh.  I had one of those.  Mine was a simple phrase. 

And I did have a similar incident as a child.  A detective got all the details they could from me, because the dude in the van tried to pick up kids from several schools.

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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2018, 06:51:48 PM »
We did that with our kids a long time ago.
Our code word/phrase was "Fred Biletnikoff sent me"
The name came out of a running joke I had with co-workers while I was on shore duty in CT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Biletnikoff
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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2018, 08:46:48 PM »
We did that with our kids a long time ago.
Our code word/phrase was "Fred Biletnikoff sent me"
The name came out of a running joke I had with co-workers while I was on shore duty in CT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Biletnikoff

I suppose I'm dating myself to admit that I knew who Fred Biletnikoff was without clicking your link.
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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2018, 09:12:04 PM »
BTW: My "safeword" is "banana".
Example: I wanna shoot `em all! (banana)
The (banana) means the preceding is not to be taken seriously.

Love you all...
(banana)

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I might not last very long or be very effective but I'll be a real pain in the ass for a minute!
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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2018, 11:39:55 PM »
BTW: My "safeword" is "banana".
Example: I wanna shoot `em all! (banana)
The (banana) means the preceding is not to be taken seriously.

Love you all...
(banana)

:old:

That's brilliant banana
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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2018, 01:23:48 AM »
It started at work when my health was failing. My coworker would hear me grunting in pain and ask "Are you going to make it?" and I would reply "Yeah...(damn it)." and I told him if I said something "off" I would use the "safe word" "banana" so he would know I wasn't serious as my humor was pretty dark at the time and I was taking a lot of pain killers, legally.
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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2018, 09:44:13 AM »
BTW: My "safeword" is "banana".
Example: I wanna shoot `em all! (banana)
The (banana) means the preceding is not to be taken seriously.

Love you all...
(banana)

:old:

Echoing bedlamite, yes that's brilliant. Took me a minute to get it, though.  Duhage.

We love you too, Speedy banana banana.

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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2018, 11:18:19 PM »
When I was a kid my code word was drosophila melanogaster. 

My mom was working on a PhD in molecular biology and was using fruit flies for her research at the time.

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Re: Kid Code
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2018, 09:35:01 PM »
I remember walking to school in Houston as a kid.  I remember a van trying to pick up my older brother and I once.  We refused.  I remember my mother driving us to school later.  I can't recall if that was why but probably.  We moved out of Houston a couple years later.  

If you use a code word, might also make it clear to not get close to whoever it is until they give the right information.
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