Wow. I haven’t been in a fight in over 20 years now, but this would to the trick.
Police say a 61-year-old man annoyed with a crying 2-year-old girl at a suburban Atlanta Walmart slapped the child several times after warning the toddler’s mother to keep her quiet.
A police report says after the stranger hit the girl at least four times, he said: “See, I told you I would shut her up.”
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There was a great aunt who, back in the 1920s or 30s, watched a neighbor boy drop his trousers and pee in front of some girls, thinking it was funny, as little boys do. She told him to come, took him inside her house, dropped his drawers, Mecuricromed his balls, and then told him to go to his mother and tell her why they were red. I laugh my ass off every time I think about it…Of course, the above case is the flip side of the coin.
And I’ve tried “Clear Eyes” and I still can’t get the red out!
correction: great aunt of mine
“What man hasn’t secretly desired to boot a child in the ass?” — W.C.Fields
I don’t even know what to make of this story. People should not be smacking each other’s kids. But “child owners” need to learn to keep them in line. I’ve seen too many people chatting away on cell phones in grocery stores as their kids tear up the place. Maybe we should be allowed to smack the parent? That sounds like a good solution. . .
Uhm… the child WAS TWO! We have all been there when we have had an unruly-even volatile child in a store. It happens to the best of us and if you forget those days-or they never happened to you… then I say to you to go home and thank your wife for raising your children for you-lazy ass.
If anyone touched my two year old they would be in the emergency room. Ain’t gonna happen-no way, no how.
I agree June… I might end up in jail over that. The closest I’ve come was a few years ago my daughter was three, we were in a restaurant and she had to “potty”. I took her to the Men’s room (Mrs. Turbo was at home) and we did the quick-march straight to the stall. Coming out some guy told me she should be in the ladies room to which I just looked at him and said “Shut up.” He did and we went back and enjoyed our lunch. I don’t usually do that.
+JMJ+
To add to June’s comment:
We’ve all literally been there in the sense that we’ve all been two years old! I’ll bet that old guy was a “terrible two” himself!
Yeah, the old guy over stepped, or flew right past and set them on fire, the boundaries. However, I’d love to know what the mom was doing while the child was throwing a fit.
I present two cases: One was at a museum where my 3 year old child was playing nicely and some huge punk of 5 came up and dragged him off the toy. I looked for the mom, and she looked at me, while on her cell phone, and said that she didn’t know what to do, he was just so mean. I didn’t lay hands on the child but I did get down on his level and very plainly told him that my child was playing there and he would get off right now and wait his turn. He did and the mom actually thanked me, again explaining that she just couldn’t do a thing with him.
One was at store where the mom was trying on various clothing while her 3 year old hellion was crawling under other peoples doors and pulling crap off of hangers and yelling at her. I was in a fitting room listening to her tell him that she was not going to tell him ONE MORE TIME to stop. After the 3rd time, I yelled, I bet you do. I was rewarded by hearing a smack on the butt of said child, and applause for me.
So I understand the sentiment. You watch these parents just sit there and do nothing at all and it eventually gets to you. He should have never ever ever touched the child, and I would have called the police too, but I get why he wanted to.
I agree. I see examples like the one you mention all the time now, parents who simply don’t care what their kids are doing no matter how much havoc they cause in stores.
When I worked in a bookstore I once had two brothers, about 7 and 5 running around and around the store yelling and knocking over books. I glared at the mother for a moment and saw nothing was going to be done. I said in my sternest voice, “Boys, you can’t run in the store.”
The mother’s head snapped towards me and she said, “You did not just speak to them like that, did you?” She grabbed her kids and left, which was what I wanted anyway.
But I would never slap another person’s child.
Just so we’re all clear… I love all these little kid stories about 4-9 year olds. I sympathize… no one dislikes other people’s ids more than me (hyperbole — sort of) No one touches my 2-year old — EVER. I completely understand the bad parenting angle. I don’t care if my kid is running full speed around Wal-mart while I text message my friends. Feel free to speak your piece — keep your damn hands off my kid.
Yes.. that makes me sound like Francis from Stripes, but I won’t lighten up. Odds are with a 2 year old there was a meltdown going on…. Not so easy to control — despite what all the books say.
For the record, I no longer speak to the friend who touched my child in anger. She didn’t hit him, but she grabbed him in anger. J had bitten her child, but I was on my way to the scene, ready to swat his diaper. She just got there first.
I am a stern parent and have never tolerated a lot of monkeyshines, but even I know the 3 rules with infants, toddlers and young kids; If a child is sick, tired or hungry he or she is not in a “teachable” mode. That is not the time to try to instill behavioral changes, nor should one expect good behavior. Treat the symptom, get the kid some food or rest, and leave your goals and feelings out of it.
I sympathize with the guy,actually…you can’t go into a store in Memphis nowadays without 5 or 6 little bastards running and screaming while their wide ass mother (Father…who knows?)smacks her lips
The story only says that the 2yo wouldn’t be quiet, not that she was tearing stuff up. Don’t get me wrong, I see plenty of examples of “parents” not doing their job. I often point them out to the Urban Kids and say, “if you behave like that,” followed by some sort of threat that should not likely be published. But to slap my child? I’d be in the cell between June and Floyd, on the phone to Urban Dad. And then trying to peel *him* off of The Slapper…
And Tracy, great stories!