Everyone knows that the only way to enforce a law, and to encourage others to abide by it in the future, is to commit epoch-defining acts of cruelty, like I did when I pranced through town playing my pipe and snatched your children from you.
"The media creates this idea that the world is crawling with these evil creatures who are perched like vultures just waiting to snatch up your child or invade your home," he said.
Many people balked at the immediate fostering of the baby, but the judge's full findings show no desire to "snatch" the child, just a series of questions, sad and unwieldy, to which there could never be perfect answers.
They arrive in time to apprehend Prine as he attempted to snatch the child, and take him into custody.
In the 1936 movie "Fury," a lynch mob shows up to snatch accused child kidnaper Spencer Tracy from his jail cell.
This kind of fake kidnapping has become commonplace in Brazil over the past several years: Why actually snatch a child when you can just make some empty threats and trick people?
This despite the fact that the British writer Warwick Cairns, author of "How to Live Dangerously," has calculated that if you wanted to guarantee that your child would be snatched off the street, he or she would have to stand outside alone for 750,000 hours.
There were nights when the invisible wolf, carried along by the fire wind, would come and snatch at the child with its jaws, try to take it away and carry it back into the hills.
Perhaps it drowned out those voices in his head that told him to snatch small children.
Raymond says that Sakura is "just as smart, just as tender" as Toby, and he doesn't seem to notice the mothers, at their windows, yelling to their children to cross the street when he is on the block walking Sakura, or the fathers running out to snatch the children away.
Breathing taxpayer-funded oxygen from taxpayer-funded tanks, these strangers even have the authority to snatch our children from their beds.
