Adult Slapping a Child

Taking your side, I do understand not all 12 year olds could lift the back of a VW, drink in bars without being questioned and date woman in their 20's like I did at that age.

You can always contact the officer and advise him/her that you are wanting to pursue the matter. Or get a copy of the report and ask to meet with one of the assistant prosecutors.

Whether this person thought your son was older makes no difference to me. He knew it was a school bus stop because he had already complained about the kids to the school or more likely to the school board. So he knows they are juveniles and apparently he had no fear of them since he stopped his car, approached them and engaged them so aggressively.

Your son may have to face the music himself for his own actions whether that be for battery, impeding traffic or both; that would be up to the prosecutor.

I remember my first new bike. The first thing my mother told me was to stay out of the street with the bike. One day I rode my bike in the street and was hit buy a car. There was no damage to the car, bicycle or myself. The lady pulled right over and and my mother walked over and slapped the shit out of me while screaming "what did I tell you about staying out of the street?". Maybe if OP would correct their son, this event wouldn't have happened? It sounds to me that this kid was in the street blocking traffic and refused to move to the side of the road all while having a shit-ass attitude. I would leave well enough alone and see if sonny boy learned a lesson, because after my ass kicking I learned mine.

I agree 100%. I would hate to see junior graduate into the people who would block the road in the projects at 3am trying to stop cars going to the hospital. I would have run down any one that refused to move after they were warned by the horn, headlights and revved up engine.

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Quoting Who'sThatGuy

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I remember my first new bike. The first thing my mother told me was to stay out of the street with the bike. One day I rode my bike in the street and was hit buy a car. There was no damage to the car, bicycle or myself. The lady pulled right over and and my mother walked over and slapped the shit out of me while screaming "what did I tell you about staying out of the street?". Maybe if OP would correct their son, this event wouldn't have happened? It sounds to me that this kid was in the street blocking traffic and refused to move to the side of the road all while having a shit-ass attitude. I would leave well enough alone and see if sonny boy learned a lesson, because after my ass kicking I learned mine.

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My old neighborhood....the teens were cocky and liked to walk spread out across the street, side by side, and knew there was traffic coming but would not budge. It was even in the neighborhood bulletin thing for parents to address this with their kids.

I heard later that someone in the neighborhood got sick of it, came up behind them at the speed limit, slammed on the brakes while leaning on the horn, burned rubber even....all I know is those kids soon turned very polite when it came to moving when traffic was coming.

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Quoting PandorasBox

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My old neighborhood....the teens were cocky and liked to walk spread out across the street, side by side, and knew there was traffic coming but would not budge. It was even in the neighborhood bulletin thing for parents to address this with their kids.

I heard later that someone in the neighborhood got sick of it, came up behind them at the speed limit, slammed on the brakes while leaning on the horn, burned rubber even....all I know is those kids soon turned very polite when it came to moving when traffic was coming.

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A lot of people seem to be assuming that whatever was going on was automatically the fault of the 12 year old. That the 12 year old had to be behaving in a rude or cocky way. I have a bit of a problem with that.

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Quoting llworking

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A lot of people seem to be assuming that whatever was going on was automatically the fault of the 12 year old. That the 12 year old had to be behaving in a rude or cocky way. I have a bit of a problem with that.

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And I have a bit of a problem with assuming that the kid was Saint Kevin.

I don't believe either statement is correct.

Look. We have a jerk of an adult who slapped the kid - CLEARLY the wrong thing to do.

We have no clue whether or not we're dealing with Saint Kevin or his evil twin. I believe the truth is somewhere in between, and that's why I'm not going to either deify Kevin or condemn StupidBloke to hell. And that does not mean - clearly - that I'm condoning StupidBloke. Or Kevin.

Yet.

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Quoting Dogmatique

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And I have a bit of a problem with assuming that the kid was Saint Kevin.

I don't believe either statement is correct.

Look. We have a jerk of an adult who slapped the kid - CLEARLY the wrong thing to do.

We have no clue whether or not we're dealing with Saint Kevin or his evil twin. I believe the truth is somewhere in between, and that's why I'm not going to either deify Kevin or condemn StupidBloke to hell. And that does not mean - clearly - that I'm condoning StupidBloke. Or Kevin.

Yet.

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You and I will have to agree to disagree on this one. I don't care if a 12 year old is the devil incarnate, an adult simply does not get out of his car and confront a child or children and then strike one of them over something so petty as the children not being close enough to the curb to suit the adult. If the adult feels that the situation is serious, the adult calls the police.

I myself have sometime been vastly annoyed by the behavior of teens or tweens. I once was driving on a semi through street that goes through the middle of our local high school campus after school hours. A team of crossing country racers was training and running along that street. I was smoking a cigarette in my car. One of the students yelled out, "stupid ##itch, no smoking". Another yelled to him, "dude, that was a grownup".

I did not stop my car and get out and confront them. I called up their coach and pointed out that the behavior was not acceptable even if I had not been a "grown up". The coach agreed and dealt with it.

If the guy in this thread wasn't getting the action he wanted by complaining to the school, then its highly likely that they guy's complaints did not have much validity.

I don't assume the kid was at fault, but I won't say he wasn't. The adult sure didn't handle it well either, confronting the kids.

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You and I will have to agree to disagree on this one. I don't care if a 12 year old is the devil incarnate, an adult simply does not get out of his car and confront a child or children and then strike one of them over something so petty as the children not being close enough to the curb to suit the adult. If the adult feels that the situation is serious, the adult calls the police.

I myself have sometime been vastly annoyed by the behavior of teens or tweens. I once was driving on a semi through street that goes through the middle of our local high school campus after school hours. A team of crossing country racers was training and running along that street. I was smoking a cigarette in my car. One of the students yelled out, "stupid ##itch, no smoking". Another yelled to him, "dude, that was a grownup".

I did not stop my car and get out and confront them. I called up their coach and pointed out that the behavior was not acceptable even if I had not been a "grown up". The coach agreed and dealt with it.

If the guy in this thread wasn't getting the action he wanted by complaining to the school, then its highly likely that they guy's complaints did not have much validity.

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I do understand where you're coming from. And again I think the guy is a prize prune. But if we're going purely on looks, not every 12 year old looks 12.

(I passed for 15 when I was 11, and I was clubbing when I was 15. And the only time it didn't work was going to a club where the DJ knew me fairly well and asked why we were so happy giddy. My darling sister informed him that it was my 18th birthday. When down like the Titanic, that did).


But yeah - it's essentially a moot point. I admit that.