Someone ain’t getting any Christmas presents from Grandma ever again.
I got the hot end of a switch many a time as a kid. I survived.
I had to go pick one out and bring it to my mom. If it was too small she would go get one that wasn’t.
Psyops, southern style.
One day while burning leaves the fire made its way to the bush and burned it. I didn’t exactly get in its way.
So Ma just went to the Bolo paddle (without the ball).
Those cops need to get whupped with a switch.
Poorly written article, from what I can glean, it may have been the welts on the arm that triggered the arrest and charges. Arkansas is pretty lenient on corporal punishment. She should have aimed at the buttocks, though the girl may have been squirming away.
I never had a switch used on me, however my dad had a nice selection of belts for when I got out of line.
My grannies were running a criminal enterprise if that’s an arrestable offence.
Meanwhile, the Merkun Crimnel Jesters System just can't seem to figure out what to charge Hillary Clinton or Lois Lerner with...
My Mother and Father would have been in jail more than out.
They grabbed anything that was handy. Mostly a stick of wood fromt he woodbox. Brooms, whatever, they used them.
We NEVER deserved it EVER..heh heh.
It’s legal in Va to spank but if the cops or CPS get called in and there are marks, you’re going to be arrested and charged.
Hitting someone with an object hard enough to leave welts is just plain wrong, especially a 12 year-old. That said, this old gal was a great grandmother at 58? To cram 3 more generations in there she couldn’t have been much over 12 when she first gave birth. Probably a real nice family.
Ay, que barbaro! My mom and my aunts were all criminals armed with switches from the dogwood bushes on the ranch...
But 12 seems a bit old for switching-if we acted out at that age, it was no TV, no leaving the property, no company and extra ranch chores for a week...
Boy, if this was the mentality back in the day my grandma and father would be doing life without parole. Grandma used a switch, dad preferred the belt.
Grandma, should get a restraining order on the child and have no contact with her. No birthday gifts, no watching her, ect. Let the girl’s parents deal with her, and let her find out that Grandma doesn’t have to be there. Might be good for the other grandchildren to see that there are consequences for their actions.
Just my Mother`s words “ Go Get a switch! Now!” would strike terror into all of us kids and boy did we straighten out fast, not to mention nuns with rulers and bloodied knuckles therefrom...Nuns with rulers and class bullies was always fun to watch, better than tv. Do they put nuns in jail now?
Yeah, but it was a Cisco 4500 series.
I never deserved any of the switchen’s I got from any of those mean old ladies in my life. :p
My mother never used switches. It was whatever was handy. Hair brushes, extension cords, wire hangers and when I made the mistake of telling her it didn’t hurt, she used the skillet instead.
a great grandmother at age 70?....doesn’t that sound very young to be a “great” grandmother especially with the great granddtr being 12?
Isn’t Hot Springs where Billy Jeff grew up?