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Grizzly old Roger Stephens, 61, went up and slapped a stranger's crying 2-year old four or five times to “shut her up.”
Look at that scowl! But geez, Grandpa, you can't just can't do that stuff anymore.
Broken hearted? Maybe you’ll like something over here instead?
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“I love that all the non-parents think it's possible to shut a 2 year old up.” - Patrick AIt is possible. And at the very least you can take them somewhere else until they calm down. This statement suggests to me you're not so much a parent, but you're just someone that has a kid. I think most kids learn to cry from their parents. They here their parents' cries and they learn their tenor and cadence from them. Also, many parents reward their kids cries with immediate gratification, because they can't stand the sound because it's a mirror to their own character. You might be a very annoying personality, so your kid cries very annoyingly with a strong sense of entitlement. Anyway, the biggest “cry-baby” is the old man that slapped the baby. I think we can all agree on that.
to Patrick A
Nobody is saying quieting a 2 year old is easy
but you do have to be a parent and have some control over the situation. If your kid is crying non stop, then you need to leave the store. Cant finish your shopping? Too bad! Its not the rest of the worlds duty to deal with the things you deal with because you've got kids. Thats just plain disrespectful! Throwing in “thats your loss” was the icing no the cake to your smugness. News Flash! Not everyone likes/has or wants to have kids! Shocking I know. It doesn't mean we want to see them get hurt, and it also doesn't mean we're not empathetic or supportive of people who do have children. Maybe we're just more realistic/unbiased and don't believe being a parent means you OWN the fucking planet!!!!
Free Roger!No one thinks that's it's feasible to stop a two-year old from crying. However, how impossible is it to take the brat back to the car until it shuts up?Face it, children are pollution.Free Roger!
I'm not defending it, but I find all of the “mother” comments on this story even more disturbing. Look, your little snowflake might be precious to you, but not to everyone else. They can be annoying and out of control and they are not the smartest/best/greatest and they are not the center of attention. Control your kid and set real boundaries and rules, everyone would be better off for it… including the children.
I love that all the non-parents think it's possible to shut a 2 year old up. If you want to know how easy it is, please go stand in front of a train with your arms up yelling “STOP! YOU'RE IN BIG TROUBLE, TRAIN!”Either you'll never have kids, which is your loss, or some day you'll learn the fun way why empathy is important.
If this asshat slapped my baby, no force on earth could keep me from hunting him down and breaking his kneecaps. I'd be waiting outside the jail with a baseball bat. I feel like breaking his face apart even now…
Jessica K.
thinks Old Man Justice in a Wal-Mart is
WTF & Trashyabout 5 months ago×
If he slapped my child, I would never stop smashing this dick's face in with whatever was handy. He would be a gritty, ugly puddle on the floor by the time the police handed me my medals.
Adam Y.
Old Man Justice in a Wal-Mart and
thinks it’s
Cute & LOLabout 5 months ago×
KillerMoth
thinks Old Man Justice in a Wal-Mart is
OMG & Trashyabout 5 months ago×
Paola D
Old Man Justice in a Wal-Mart and
thinks it’s
WTFabout 5 months ago×
JKSxo
Old Man Justice in a Wal-Mart and
thinks it’s
OMG & WTFabout 5 months ago×
did she just stand there and wait for him to finish? I would have been so full of adrenaline and rage that I would have picked him up and run him down the conveyor, flipped him upside down into a garbage can, fashioned explosives out of unique combinations of chewing gum, blown him up, then taken his pieces and stacked them in an end cap as a rollback.
And that's the censored version. God help me if anyone ever had the nerve to touch my kid.
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