That used to be a common, dangerous, and officially-warned-against method of trash disposal in Jamaica when I was a kid. I do totally know what you mean about the dangers of that method.

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad you're not there anymore, omg.

I think everyone here thinks I'm trying to justify the kid's bad behavior and his mother's lack of care. I'm not! I just think that for too long our society has held children's bodily autonomy as best as a privilege to be revoked as a punishment and at worst as nonexistent. And also it gives the mother ammunition to claim that LW was "dragging my kid all over the back yard" or whatever. But I'm already getting a drubbing so I probably shouldn't even get into those.