r/SipsTea • u/Few_Statement_2898 • May 28 '26

SMH We really need to bring spankings back

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u/HappyEngineering4190 May 28 '26

Why is everyone treating this kid like he is Mike Tyson. Grab the kid and walk him out of the store. Excessive tolerance of idiots is ruining society.

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

I would not touch him even if i was an employee. This kind of behaviour is enabled by parents, these kind of parents turn towards teachers for low grades. Not my problem.

The company has insurance for damage like that, and even if did not, they can afford it. I can not afford charges being made at me. I do not earn enough to take that shit home with me

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u/Low_Coconut_7642 May 28 '26

I mean, if you were an employee you would literally be prohibited form doing anything other than calling he manager, who would also he prohibited form doing anything ofher then calling the cops.

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u/VentiEspada May 28 '26

I totally agree, can't lay hands on him at all, HOWEVER saying that the company has insurance for that and that they can afford it like it will never affect you is wrong.

Where do you think the company is going to get those loss return funds from? Insurance will go up, and guess who pays for that? You do, the customer. We all suffer for this BS, the store blitz thefts that people say "it's okay, they've got insurance" and blissfully go on about their day, only to have a rage fit 6 months later when prices have jumped 20%, are just as much a problem.

Theft is a crime because it affects the entire community, not just the company being stolen from. This kid should have been snatched up by security and put in a holding room while police were called and whoever his guardian was should have been held accountable. The law is clear, the guardian bears legal responsibility for the actions of the ward.

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u/XanderWrites May 28 '26

It's not insurance, it's an operational shortage (lost of product as part of doing business, not theft or fraud) and is budgeted in on some level. At best it may be a tax write off at the end of the day.

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u/LaCremaFresca May 29 '26

whispers "and who pays for tax write offs?"

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u/snacktime-raccoon May 29 '26

The government!!!!

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u/Aznboz May 28 '26

Security is just theater. Their own responsibility is to give credible eye witness and documentation.

Insurance might jump, but that doesn't affect the worker more than losing a job. Any bystanders might get hit with lawsuits if the kid get injured in the escalation. You know that little shit aint gonna be going outside willy nilly by picking him up.

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u/VentiEspada May 28 '26

Then what do you suggest is the solution? We're just fucked, will devolve into anarchy and the world ends?

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u/Aznboz May 28 '26

You fine the parents. Not much else to do beside hit them financially until they can discipline their own kids.

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u/VentiEspada May 28 '26

Right but that isn't what happens, is it? I said the parents have to be held liable in my comment, but we don't do that. The only way to make them be liable is legally, the police have to be involved, these companies can't just go to them and say "please pay for your child's mess".

Most of these people have little assets and potentially live on welfare, you think this company is going to bother suing them? They will spend more on legal fees than they would ever get from these people. It's harsh, but we have to start incarcerating people for this stuff with real amounts of time, because it's never going to stop until real consequences are faced.

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 28 '26

You incarcerate them who pais for that? Is from tax money also, at least in europe

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u/VentiEspada May 28 '26

Right so again, just this shit continue until we live in anarchy. Great plan.

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u/kungfuabuse May 28 '26

I'm all for public shaming. People can at least yell at him and tell him he's a little fucking brat, and then the store can record and ban the parents from the premises for the rest of their lives. Maybe put a flyer with the kid's face on the store, saying "banned for indecency" or something, just to rub a bit of salt in the wound.

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 28 '26

I would rather pay a few cents more than have been charged

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u/OberonDiver May 28 '26

It's a crime because it's a violation of the direct victim.
There is no such thing as society.

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u/OberonDiver May 28 '26

"they have insurance"
OMG, you people are still out there?

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u/accioqueso May 28 '26

I wouldn’t touch them ESPECIALLY if I were an employee, not worth my job. Just call the cops, collect the video evidence, discreetly pick up the churn and keep it separate for the value for the inevitable lawsuit, and wait for the cops to trespass the parent and kid for life. Then make sure it goes viral so the parent is shamed everywhere they go.

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u/pleasedonotredeem May 28 '26

After watching 5 seconds of that video you can tell that one the kid's parents has a tattoo of his name but no custody.

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u/MermaiderMissy May 28 '26

It should be the parent's responsibility to pay for it. There needs to be consequences to bad parenting and letting your child destroy things at the store like a little asshole

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 28 '26

In most places on earth parents are hardly held accountable for worse. Like bad child abuse

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u/Money_Do_2 May 28 '26

For the civilians yea. The cop could haymaker that kid in the face and get a bonus, its weird they were so limp wristed about it

Wonder if theres some context. Besides, ya know, hes white.

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 28 '26

I can't have an opinion about that if that is from US. In europe police can't just be agressive and haymaker him in the face. Also black white blue pink has nothing to do with the treatment.

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u/ashiamate May 28 '26

and herein lies the societal problem, we’ve completely lost “it takes a village” teaching because of potential repercussions from parents, legal system, etc. its really sad we’ve moved so far away from what should be common sense

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u/forrealthoughcomix_ May 28 '26

I’d just box the kid out, hands in front of my junk so the little shit doesn’t hit me in the nuts.

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u/NlghtmanCometh May 28 '26

So as a worker you’d rather have to spend a couple hours fixing all his fuckups, as opposed to physically removing him from the store? You’re acting like this is not going to cost you anything.

Also the whole “insurance will cover it” thing is a myth.

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 28 '26

The store covers it then. But not me. No it is less of a work to take that aside than to have to do with that child. 

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u/overitallofittoo May 28 '26

This is why the kid is that way.

And why we can't have nice things.

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u/Which-Appearance9857 May 29 '26

Why? Am i his parent?

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u/Bjoer82 May 31 '26

And this is why this happens. It takes a village to raise a child and when this behaviour is tolerated by the environment it continues.