Posted on 02/19/2019 7:43:50 AM PST by bgill
I chased one of my daughter’s BFs away with an iron pipe once...................
My guess is he will get more time than a gang-banger will get for a gun crime.
My dad did something similar to this over 50 years ago to a 12 year old boy who was bullying my 8 year old sister. He didn’t slap him though...he grabbed him by the scruff of his shirt and lifted him to eye level and shook him good and told him there’d be hell to pay if he ever laid a hand on his daughter again. He didn’t!
My kids would be wearing a ridiculous costume and sign and standing in front of the school if they bullied someone. Punishment has to leave a mark and I’m not talking about a little slap.
Just takes one no vote on a jury. He won’t see jail time.
And nobody else will every screw around with his step-daughter ever again.
“The bullying should have been brought up to the school and the reprobate’s parents and eventually the cop at school, if things did not resolve. Also, perhaps self defense training for the girl might have helped, at least to build some self confidence to stand up to the bigger.”
Go whine to other adults, and train the girl how to fight boys? That’s gay. Neither of those would have stopped the bullying.
No matter what else, nobody else will dare bother that girl again. He fixed that problem.
I had to address a parent once about theirs sons actions toward one of my daughters. They didn’t care. It was all I could do to contain my rage.
I talked with the teacher. She didn’t care. In front of the teacher and principal, I told her if he did it again, since none of the adults would address it, she had my permission to trounce him since she had the absolute right to protect herself. Principal was shocked to silence.. not even any sputtering...just wide eyes.
She didn’t have to... word got back to him. He left her alone the rest of the year. Moved after that. Course some of the other boys distanced themselves a bit as well.
+1. He sounds irrational to me.
Gubmint schools are all about teaching the peasants what it's going to be like under the gubmint's thumb when you're an adult.
You'll be bullied, and you won't be able to do anything about it...
Idiot! he could have paid some Mexican kid to do the job and never been caught!
The slap itself probably did little damage to the boy, but the reality of a 12 year old, facing down a full grown man, that has shown he is willing to use his physicality against him, is a DAMNED MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE.
Boys need to be PHYSICALLY reminded they are not as bad as they think they are, and while public humiliation can be memorable, believe me, no tween or young teen who has been put in his place physically by an adult man, will EVER forget that experience.
Once they started accepting federal money, the fix was in.
The next day, the victim told his teacher he was afraid to go to lunch because he didn’t want to see the suspect’s stepdaughter.
Never ever hit a child unless you or someone else’s life is in danger. My guess is he will be prosecuted and lose!!!!
Agreed. A better solution would be to go to the child’s house and let the dad know that if his boy bothers the girl again, I’d be coming back and having something a bit more more energetic than a discussion with him.
Problem was young people raised on those shows developed unreal expectations of married life. When they got married, reality stepped in and the divorce rate skyrocketed to where the average marriage lasted only twelve years.
Of course, we solved that little problem with what we longer call ‘shacking up,’ and by the phenomenon of ‘single moms.’
I chased one of my daughter’s BFs away with an iron pipe once...................
Kinda reminds me of a story told by Dr. E.V. Hill, a famous black pastor. He told of a young guy, whom he described as “a gorilla” (HIS words), who roared up to the house on his motorcycle, and, when Dr. Hill answered the door, announced, “I’m here for yer daughter!” To which Dr. Hill replied, “ No you ain’t! “, and slammed the door in his face.
Boys need to be PHYSICALLY reminded they are not as bad as they think they are, and while public humiliation can be memorable, believe me, no tween or young teen who has been put in his place physically by an adult man, will EVER forget that experience.
————— I understand your point, but there are plenty of boys that age, who come from abusive homes, for whom a slap would be little or no deterence.
OTOH, when I was about ten, a group of us girls marched to the home of a classmate, who had committed some rascally crime against us, which I have long since forgotten, rang the doorbell, and ratted on him to his mother. She called the guilty party to the door, and promptly pulled his pants down, and waled on him right there in front of us! She thanked us for informing on him, and shut the door, as he ran crying, from the scene. We stood there, in shock, for a few moments, then stumbled away. We couldn’t believe our eyes, and actually felt sorry for him. (Who wouldn’t?) I wonder what ever happened to old Drake... he sure never bothered us again!
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