Mom should have maced/tasered the jerk.
“The suspect is described as a man in his 50s with a wrinkly, tanned face. He is around 6’3 and weighs about 180 pounds.”
This didn’t happen in FL, did it?
That’s a good way to get your ass handed to you in some places.
Not excusing the grumpy old man, by any means.
First, what grocery store has an elevator?
Second, did Mom apologize or try to hush the toddler at all?
If a guy assaulted my daughter in an elevator, he’d be lucky to get out of the elevator without being shot.
SnakeDoc
Fussy kids are worse than barking dogs. Parents, curb your kid.
Did the kid shut up?
Anyone want to bet alcohol was involved?
Heavy boot, old drunk’s ass, some assembly required.
We had an incident like this in Lubbock a few years ago. A 68 year old man with a phenomenally loud voice started screaming at a 4 year old for not getting out of his way at a local video store. The child burst into tears and the old bastage started laughing and taunting her. The clerk and some bystanders intervened, at which point the offender pulled rank. He was a professor of human services, alcohol counseling in fact, and was falling down drunk. The police were not impressed with his august position and threw him in jail.
WTF? People need to learn to control their brat kids. Why should the public at large have to listen to their whining and mewling and general misbehaviour?
Seriously, how long does an elevator ride take that this guy would become so aggravated as to resort to striking a crying tot? If it's more than a few minutes in a place such as a restaurant, you say something to the parent(s).
On a brief elevator ride? C'mon!
Dollars to donuts, this guy is an entitled lib.
Kid’s crying is supposed to be annoying. Otherwise a kid could die from hunger, sickness, or lack of ice cream. It’s just survival mechanism evolved over millions of years. The non-annoying ones died young.
If my kid was crying in a restaurant or library, I’d take him outside until he quiets down. If my kid is crying in a grocery store and I’m pushing a cart full of groceries, those around me can just suck it up. Kids cry. Big deal. Anyone other than me lays a finger on my crying kid and they’ll very quickly regret it.
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Grumpy Old Man Attacks Toddler for Crying in Elevator
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Although impractible for a couple of elevator transits per day...
The Grumpy Old Man might follow my regimen for surviving airline flights
full of crying babies and young kids intent of putting a shoe up
my, er, derriere.
Drugs. Over the counter drugs.
Diphenydramine (Dramimine) and/or Doxycycline (sp?) Succinate.
Both easily obtainable at WalMart in generic form at very reasonable prices.
Many is the time I’ve been deboarding a long (3-hour plus) flight and
have folks ask me how I survived one of the little screaming mee-mees
of civilian aviation travel.
I just tell them “Drugs”. Which I discovered due to my battle with
Meniere’s Disease (inner-ear dis-equilibrium).
i would have kicked his ask