Originally Posted By: Russ
It was bad parenting. He’s a victim of never having been taught to hug a tree and to not roll off a cliff (gravity is working fine in Malibu).


Now, now, Russ, not everyone has had the chance to be exposed to the outdoors. Some people are effectively urban survival specialists. By the same token, we can fault many expert woodsmen for not having good urban security habits, not being able to tell a good block from a bad one, not being able to brush off con artists, not sensing which area might be a good place to set up a robbery, not always being on the lookout for criminals illegally carrying firearms and other weapons, etc.