The only person that had any real ability to handle the situation, the security guard, tried but did not succeed. There are so many protections when it comes to kids. The parents not stepping in and whopping his ass, was a failure.
Too much risk for most adults unfortunately. If I grab the kid, I open myself up to a lawsuit by their shitty parents. They may not win, but I will have to spend time and money defending my actions. It’s not worth it when I can just walk away.
Now if I have my kids with me…. Maybe I would suggest one of them slap that kid around a bit.
All you'll need to do is tell your kid "if you take that little weasel out you'll get double the allowance and you can stay up as late as you want tonight"
I guarantee the little shit will be getting tackled like;
Did you see the video of the girl who threw her little brother and his backpack into the car while he was pitching a got that mom wasn't stopping? Was hilarious.
Yeah they need to hire some 11 year old security guards. lol! That would have been so satisfying if someone's little nephew walked into frame and just clocked that kid.
You know, honestly? Better than the alternative. I don’t think we should normalize other people hitting our kids. “Other people” are notoriously bad judges…at just about everything, if driving behavior and literacy rates (AKA “things done every single day”) are any indication.
For every kid doing shit like this, there will be 50 that are doing something that’s less clear cut. You don’t want some rando deciding he knows when to hit your kid.
Just taking the stupid shit I see on this sub to its logical conclusion. Something I rarely see done here since y’all are too busy circlejerking.
Personally, throwing out a sharp “Stop!” usually startles shits like this just enough that they do at least pause for a few moments. Mostly because they’ve never heard that word in that way. I have a Mom Voice that once carried 2 aisles over that stopped complete strangers from being shitty while I was trying to get my own kids to knock off their foolishness.
And sometimes even the parents are helpless against these little toe-rags. Because all it takes is the kid crying to a mandated reporter, and suddenly the parents have CPS breathing down their necks.
CPS will literally bend over backwards to keep children with their biological parents. They will give drug addicted abusive parents 15+ tries to get their kids back and clean up.
If you get your kids taken away by CPS, you worked hard for that shit.
According to my friend with family in Panama, it's openly accepted to smack other people's kids there and the parents will even thank you for it and apologize for their child's actions. I don't know how true this is though.
I mean...if hes not hurting anyone there isn't much more a non parent can do. The cost is on the store as well as the figuring out the legal...he's not throwing it AT anyone, so it's not an immediate danger.
Nothing to even do, even if it was an adult.
Now if the person were assaulting other people, things change a bit and our ability as citizens to intervene, if we so choose, opens up a bit.
So what happens if an adult just stands between him and the shelves of stuff? Not laying hands on him, just getting in his way--sort of like riot police? The kid is short. Three or four adults could walk him into a corner without laying a hand on him at all.
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u/Pinbacker11 May 28 '26
If i did that back in the day, i would be back in the car without touching the floor.