Cops Called on Dad for Playing Catch with 14-Year-Old Son at Park
A few weeks ago, Adam Washington was tossing a football with his son, age 14, at a park in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Not too far away—but far enough to avoid being bonked by a ball—his wife was pushing their toddler in the swings.
And then two Lower Merion Township Police Department cop cars pulled up.
“I said to my wife, ‘I think they’re going to come down and give us a hard time,'” Washington tells Reason. “And she said, ‘For what?’ And I said, ‘For throwing this ball in the park.'”
Washington was right. The cops, a man and a woman, got out and approached him. They informed him that someone had called the police to report “two men” playing catch. The male cop asked Washington for his name and birth date.
Interestingly, the female cop already knew his name, because Washington owns a boxing gym in town and he’s also a local real estate agent. He had ducked out to the park—which is about 150 feet from his home—for a rare moment
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