No one is letting on what was up between the two boys....but it must have been serious
“Reasoning. Calm, cool reasoning.”
Mike Brady
I’ll be the kid wished he was wearing a depends!
Good for him. I bet the kid backs off now!
That Dad understands that you talk to a bully in terms he understands. Bully’s do not understand polite conversation, that’s a sign of weakness. However, being thrown against a fence and a taser held to your face conveys a message that most bullies are capable of understanding.
Stupid? Which one? The guy who pulled the taser on the kid, or the kid who picked on a kid with a psycho dad? Personally, I’d say both.
Schools are horrible in dealing with bullying behavior. They let things slide as “kids being kids” when if the behavior going on were to occur in the workplace between adults, someone would go to jail.
OK, I’ll don the flame suit.
He should have tased the kid from behind, and then told him in his ear that either he finds a new profession besides ‘bully’, or he better start wearing rubber undies.
He should have been told that’ll he’ll know when and where every time he even contemplates intimidating another kid, and he’ll be there to make him soil his trou.
This, of course, after exhausting the limited and feckless resources of the school staff being notified, and after having been told there is little they can do about it, and after having been told by the police there is nothing they can do about it.
(All personal experience)
The alternative is talking to the other parent, and if you are lucky enough to find that they can exert some influence on the lad, then of course you don’t have to resort to that.
But, however, there are times where you have to place the protection of your family over the considerations of what the reciprocal use of violence on a bully will do to the poor boy in question.
There is no reasoning with tyrants. I would have tased him, gone home, and had a snack. Provided all the other avenues were exhausted, mind you.
With this 66 year-old nutcase - anything or nothing could have triggered his craziness. There is nothing in the report to corroborate that his *son* was bullied.
The 11 year-old (alleged) bully could have said something about the other kid’s *old, old, old, old man*.
He should have tased the punk
Miami? Dad should get the kid some Brazilian jujitsu classes. Screaming pain usually deters bullies.
Schools have absolutely no idea how to deal with bullies. they've been working on the problem for a few centuries, and they have squat.
Children -- yes, children -- should live in fear of angry adults. They need to learn proper behavior. Bullying is not proper behavior. So, some adult has to come along and traumatize the punk.
Totally serious. If my kid came home and told me that someone had tazed them, I'd ask "Why?" and if the answer was "I was bullying their kid" -- I'd taze my kid myself.
And then I'd say "Don't do that, m'kay?"
Go after the bullies father mano y mano.
I read all the responses. I also have 3 kids, including two teenagers.
My observation is that we live in an age of no consequences, and that is why bullies get away with what they do. Kids do and say whatever they want, because there are very little, or no, consequences for actions. This, in my opinion, was partially brought on by the internet, where people can call each other names, insult, degrade and threaten without consequences. We see it every day, even here at FR.
That behavior has spilled over into the real world, especially with kids. For example, I had a 12 year old boy on my baseball team tell me to “f**k off”. Seeing what he writes on FB on a regular basis made me realize he was talking to me like he was speaking to people online.
Many parents are too weak-willed or simply unaware or uninterested to meet bad actions with consequences.
He should have watched the movie My Bodyguard first.
Give the kid a copy of “Enders Game” by Orson Scott Card. Let him figure it out on his own.