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I remember when I was a kid and we were visiting my uncle Bobby. Some man had become angry with his two children and had kicked them out of the car and was making them run in the ditch next to the car. One a very busy highway. He would drive ahead of them as they ran screaming trying to catch up. They were maybe 6 or 7 years old.

Uncle Bobby's house was right next to the road and he saw all of this. He walked out and told the kids to follow him. The man pulled over and started to cuss uncle Bobby out. Uncle Bobby told my dad to hang on to the kids. Bobby stepped into the house and seemed to instantly return with a Winchester rifle. Which he promptly stuck it in the man's gut and said he better pray because he had just a couple of seconds to live. After a couple of moments and after the man peed all over himself uncle Bobby said "now you know scared those kids are. If you ever do something like that again I'll find you and kill you".

Uncle Bobby was on a Underwater Demolitions team during WWII, a pipe fitter in the Middle East (he told me that the Arabs were crazy 20 years ago)and the kind of man that would stick his hand in a bucket of blue crabs and clean them while talking to you. Never looking in the bucket, or at the crabs. A man's man.

Uncle Bobby has been dead for many years. But I wish he would have been around to see what happened with these kids and maybe scare the pee out of the parents. By the way, the Winshester was not loaded, today it hangs on my study wall.

I wasn't there or anything, but Uncle Bobby would have done better to brandish the rifle while keeping it pointed in a safe direction. The message will be recieved just the same. Remember, a gun is always loaded. Other than that, he sounds like a great guy and the perfect Uncle.

In the ditch digging case, there is not enough info to go on. I do not trust the state for a minute when they start accusing the parents, because an investigator can really pile on the charges. Not to say that that is the case here, there really isn't enough info in the article to say.

But I don't think digging ditches in the cold weather constitutes abuse. If it does, my parents have some explaining to do, and my grandparents would have been locked away for a thousand years!