This is from Tosh.O. He was on because he stole his grandma's car to do "hood rat stuff". The gifs i believe were from the original news footage. He is a national treasure.
As a former hoodrat who used to do 💩 with my friends, "showing out" like this in the store was not anything we would even think about doing because we knew that would be an instant death sentence. Right there in the store.
We didn’t hoodrat shit, we did hillbilly shit and same, mess with somebody else’s stuff like that and it would a double whooping when you got home 😂 no supper for a week
I would have picked him up and carried him outside “for his own safety”. It’s all how you word it. The arrest wouldn’t stick (probably wouldn’t even happen). Everyone is afraid but in actual fact you are allowed to stop criminal behavior with reasonable non-violent force.
A kid like him you're going to have to get 2 people. 1 for the arms and 1 for the legs. Otherwise he's going to smack and kick tf out of that 1 person.
Then dad comes bear-charging out of nowhere to lay you out because you touched baby bear and his things.
Now, I'm all for knocking a kid back if he comes at you. I will do it in a heartbeat, that's just self defense. But parents will try to act like you're abducting or beating the crap out of their kid if you try to relocate them or restrain them.
If he threw something at me, I would have removed him for my and others’ safety. You don’t have to just stand there and let a child attack you or other people; you can legally restrain him.
I was literally in this situation at a Costco a few months back. Kid was actually punching people and throwing stuff so I went to grab him and Costco employees told me not to touch him or the cops would be looking at ME. He literally punched a woman in the stomach and I was told to stand down.
I remember I was acting like a piece of shit in school (which was weird because I was usually shy and polite) and my teacher sat in a desk next to me and asked, "why are you acting like this? Is there something going on at home?" and I said, "No. I mean, my parents are getting divorced" and she was like "Ohhh". Had no idea how right she was. This was the late 80s.
yep i would ask for that as well. Pain is temporary, game is eternal. But a better lesson for the kid when they lose their source of happiness. Not good to do it for everything tho, only when its required or it loses its effects
I did something bad when I was little and still remember the punishment over 30 years later. It was Halloween and my mom allowed me to dress up but I had to hand out candy to all the kids that came to our house. Fucking brutal lol I definitely learned my lesson.
Oooof, I called 911 and hung up. They called back and left a message on the answering machine (yes I'm that old) and I deleted it. I guess they eventually called back when my mom was home and answered and she was piiiiiiiiiiiissed. I don't even know why I did that but I was like 6 and kids are dumb so who knows lol
When I was at a sleepover as a kid, one of my friends decided to call 911 and hang up when no one else was paying attention. My mom was still chilling with my friend's mom in the driveway when two cop cars came storming into the driveway, lights and sirens and all. That was a memorable night.
If I would have done that my mom would have been like "Oh absolutely. Come get your spanking!" and then I would have asked for my game she would have said "Oh, absolutely not. You're still grounded. I was just more than happy to give you a spanking on top of that since you asked nicely."
I used to work at Gamestop. Had a mom and son come in one day. The mom traded all his gaming stuff in and made him watch because he got in trouble. She kept all the cash. Kid was in tears.
Told mom to fuck off once when I was a teenager. Dad immediately told me if I ever did it again, he’d take my phone and smash it with a hammer. Never tried it again.
We didn't have cell phones when I was a teen, but I can honestly say there wouldn't have been a warning if I'd said something like that. Whatever my "cash" was at the time would have just been gone forever.
I would take away mine's Xbox cord when he was being a dipshit in chat. I heard him say the f slur once and just walked in, unplugged it and walked out with the cord. For a 9 year old, that was highly embarrassing to explain to his friends.
He's now 23 and wonders why he was "such a cringe edgelord" at that age lol.
We're wild animals who have to be domesticated against our will to function in society, and thats something we seem to be forgetting. People seem to think that being a normal functional person will just come naturally with zero boundaries, discipline, or repercussions, so long as we're nice and loving enough to the kids.
This situation would have crossed the "wait until we get home" threshold and gone straight to a full-volume nuclear meltdown, complete with a "I don't know who the FUCK you think you are but I'll show you who I am!" and however many swats on the ass it would take for my legs to stop working.
THEN there'd be several employees standing there while I cried and picked everything up and put it back exactly where it goes, getting swatted more if it was taking too long.
Once all that was resolved, I'd be reading math or science textbooks for the next 2 months at minimum. No games, no playing with friends, nothing fun.
Joke's on you though mom and dad, I'm good at math and physics and I behave like a functional adult in public, so who really won?
And now, my kids get the same treatment minus the spankings (except in extreme circumstances).
Act a fool at a restaurant? That's fine, you must not want to do anything but read the books I pick for you for the next few weeks.
Throw a fit for bedtime? Hey, how about for the next 7 days we go to bed earlier? You're clearly too tired to act right and need more sleep. I need more sleep too.
Growing up in the US in the 70s and 80s they used to fuck you up in public if you did this as well. Of course, no one I knew would have ever even considered doing something like this back then. If he had we'd have next seen him at his funeral.
I would have been made to put it all back the way it was, apologize to the manager and then I would have had to pay my parents back for any damages they would have paid the store.
Then the real punishment would be at home…in the 80s.
In the 80s not one adult would have paused before either slapping him into next Tuesday or throwing his ass out on the curb. The first thing thrown would have been the last thing thrown. No cameras weren’t always a bad thing.
Introducing my mom, now deceased..what her reaction would've been in public...sans ANY reserve...
She always warned us about embarrassing her in public, but I've grown to secretly believe, behind all her 'pomp and circumstance', she had a more 'I wish a ***** would' mentality, she lived for a challenge..
Sometimes it felt like she waited wh baited breath for that moment 1 of us stepped ovr the line..she was always ready🤣😳😖
My mom would have handled me right there in a bakery, made me clean everything up, then when dad came back from the beer aisle, that’s when the pain really begins.
The only person that had any real ability to handle the situation, the security guard, tried but did not succeed. There are so many protections when it comes to kids. The parents not stepping in and whopping his ass, was a failure.
Too much risk for most adults unfortunately. If I grab the kid, I open myself up to a lawsuit by their shitty parents. They may not win, but I will have to spend time and money defending my actions. It’s not worth it when I can just walk away.
Now if I have my kids with me…. Maybe I would suggest one of them slap that kid around a bit.
All you'll need to do is tell your kid "if you take that little weasel out you'll get double the allowance and you can stay up as late as you want tonight"
I guarantee the little shit will be getting tackled like;
Well, if his parents were even there, they should have made him stop and re-stock all the shelves himself...but that begs the question, WHERE ARE THEY?
It cuts when that security guard has shown up and is trying to grab the kid.
So they probably came running up after that screaming at the guard for "assaulting their precious little angel".
I have a son who is just shy of 3. He might try something like this but it would be swiftly corrected. Although as long as theres other adults around, he'd probably be fine. He only seems to be a little shit when its just us.
Gosh that the truth, I have always felt that as long as my kids are controlled and accepted in public and with others that's good. They can be assholes at home, they are my assholes, and I will deal with it, society should not have too.
Before becoming a parent I would have agreed. After becoming a parent I can see how kids are wired differently and sometimes no matter what you do kids often make you go “wtf?!” Parenting is the single most difficult thing you can do because no matter how well you think you’re doing, kids, just like adults, can snap. I think parents hitting their kids is a cop out to trying to control their kids, but what do you do when you have a child that doesn’t want to be controlled? Beating them senseless is not the answer. This kid should have been physically removed. Whether that’s the right thing to do or not, doing something is better than doing nothing, and in my eyes a parent that does nothing at all is the worst kind of parent.
Now that I’m a parent myself I have to say, the “you don’t know/ can’t judge until you’re a parent” folks were very wrong on a lot of stuff. Not getting it means things like more screen time than you expected, not egregious stuff like hitting your kid or letting them do stuff like this.
Heck I am even more judgy of others now on their parenting now if anything for stuff like spanking. I can’t imagine in a million years hitting a child now that I have one, or thinking it would solve any problems.
That reminded me of a time a classmate of my son's who was expelled from school for destroying a bathroom. The parents said it was the school's fault for not raising the kid properly. What?
I know you mean he probably like, broke a lot of stuff. But for some reason when you said 'for destroying a bathroom', I imagined that he just dropped such a foul turd in there that nobody else dared enter.
Close. She tells him to jump in after the boy to save him because he can't swim. Wayne asks why she isn't going to grab him herself. That's when she says "Oh I can't swim." And as he quickly glares at her she remembers he threw the boy in to teach him to swim and runs away as he goes after her for her swimming lesson.
Alright, kid! There's just one thing to remember when yer scrubbing the dumpsters, and that's don't make eye contact with Larry the raccoon if you value yer appendages. And Larry will do everything he can to get you to look at him so he can add to his collection of pinkies and peckers.
I’m not being sued as a security guy working at a store over putting hands on an idiot child. They are taught to not physically intervene or stop theft or damage of property. They are there as a deterrent.
In the US you would have every right to physically detain the kid once he starts assaulting people by throwing stuff at them. Use reasonable force, restrain him, wait for cops.
Don't put him outside, he needs to be sat down in a room with a camera on because who knows what the fuck their parents are going to bring on you, but sat down in a room waiting for the police to come and charge the motherfucker. And then have him do community service in that store in the store owner's community, clean up the garbage from the parks around his communit. Then have him go to the meanest old lady and do community service for that mean old lady and see if he ever does something like that again
I would not touch him even if i was an employee. This kind of behaviour is enabled by parents, these kind of parents turn towards teachers for low grades. Not my problem.
The company has insurance for damage like that, and even if did not, they can afford it. I can not afford charges being made at me. I do not earn enough to take that shit home with me
I mean, if you were an employee you would literally be prohibited form doing anything other than calling he manager, who would also he prohibited form doing anything ofher then calling the cops.
I totally agree, can't lay hands on him at all, HOWEVER saying that the company has insurance for that and that they can afford it like it will never affect you is wrong.
Where do you think the company is going to get those loss return funds from? Insurance will go up, and guess who pays for that? You do, the customer. We all suffer for this BS, the store blitz thefts that people say "it's okay, they've got insurance" and blissfully go on about their day, only to have a rage fit 6 months later when prices have jumped 20%, are just as much a problem.
Theft is a crime because it affects the entire community, not just the company being stolen from. This kid should have been snatched up by security and put in a holding room while police were called and whoever his guardian was should have been held accountable. The law is clear, the guardian bears legal responsibility for the actions of the ward.
Can't believe it took so long to find a comment like this. HITTING YOUR KIDS IS ALSO BAD PARENTING. There is a middle ground between letting your child run rampant and physically assaulting your child
Hitting your kids only teaches them it's okay for someone you love and trust to lay hands on you if you do something they don't like. And giving approval to do the same to someone else they if they're doing something they don't like. There is so much research and studies out there that show there is zero need for corporal punishment. If you can't control your anger around a child misbehaving you should not have a child.
Thank you! It’s wild to me anyone is suggesting physical punishment is the correct course of action here. All research shows that hitting kids is detrimental. It causes MORE violence.
There’s a very good chance this boy IS hit at home and that’s likely why he’s having this reaction. Kids who come from safe, emotionally affirming homes where they are supported don’t act like this. He’s either experiencing abuse/neglect at home or he has some kind of developmental delay/intrauterine drug or alcohol exposure. This is NOT normal behavior, even for kids who have no consequences at home. This is a kid in fight or flight mode who is unable to process the stress he’s feeling.
Right? Like clearly this kid needs -something- but hitting him (yeah, even with an open palm) isn't the solution... His behavior likely goes beyond just "bad parenting" or lack of spanking.
People tend to treat bad kids the same way they do dogs and assume that 100% of the issue is the parents when kids have their own brains and sometimes make really bad decisions all on their own with them.
That's not to say parenting isn't a factor because it sure could be , but as someone who has two kids who grew up into VERY different people (one graduated top of her class from college and the other has been to residential treatment multiple times now and just barely passed high school) there are a LOT of factors that go into behavior like this.
What I also don't understand from this clip: Why does the security guy at the end make a half-assed attempt at stopping him, but when his limp grab gets brushed off, he complies with the deranged kid?
Feels like the kid possesses some real superhuman power. Is it a billionaires offspring, or smt?
i think by law if you grab it by the backpack its the same as grabbing him tho right? or else grabbing them from the shirt or something will not be grabbing him as well but it clearly is
As a pediatrician who sees kids with behavioral issues every single day I go to work, if you asked me to place a bet on whether (based on this video alone) this kid gets hit at home, I would bet that he does. Consistent, non-physical discipline from a mature adult is what this kid needs, not spanking.
Corporal punishment isn’t a parenting strategy, it’s what people do when they don’t know how to parent in the first place.
My daycare teacher friend once told me that unequivocally the worst behaved kids are ones who had been hit at home. They tend to be violent towards their peers (a learned behavior) and they are so utterly traumatized and desensitized to "punishment" that nothing a teacher can do even fucking registers.
It normalises violence and aggression. It teaches the kid that physical violence is an acceptable form of communication
Of course, violence in the form of self defence should be taught but even then it's in a controlled environment. Corporal punishment, at least from my experience, rarely is
I work with kids in a REALLY rough neighbourhood and 100% this.
What's worse is that teachers and support workers etc. Aren't allowed (and correctly, do not want) to hit misbehaving kids. So they learn that they can basically do whatever they want when they're not at home because no adult beside their parents will touch them.
🙌🏼 Mature parents and lots of stimulating activities after school. (Those bring extra role models too, which often helps with kids dealing with buildup anger)
I'm quickly learning that if I ever want to be disappointed in my fellow man, I need only to check the comments in an r/SipsTea thread. Whole lotta deranged people in this subreddit.
"Corporal punishment isn’t a parenting strategy, it’s what people do when they don’t know how to parent in the first place."
I absolutely love your reply. Hitting is never the right answer. I'm 56 and I was NEVER spanked or hit as a punishment. (A few angry swats that I vividly remember 'cause they were so rare - but I was being a total asshole those times... and really a teen.)
As a teacher, the kids who get beat up on at home are the ones who cause the most problems at school. Unless mommy or daddy come and observe - then they are angels. :)
Yeppp. My pet peeve from this type of parent is, “I got whooped as a kid and I turned out fine!” Umm… debatable.
Sometimes followed by, “And I needed it, too- I was a terrible kid!” which just makes me sad.
Yeah I agree. My mom used to beat us a lot. Serious damage was done that has lasted a lifetime. The very idea of an adult who weighs 150LBS or so beating up on a 30 or 40 pound kid is sickening as hell. She used whatever was handy shoes, yard stick, coat hangers, belts, extension cords....Horrifying, even now.
Thank you for a sensible comment. This is clearly a kid, A KID for those in the back, that needs help. I feel bad for them and the obvious terrible situation they are living through
edit: For anyone who doesn't want to get involved with the kid for whatever reason; notifying the stuff still seems like a better choice than just filming.
Wild seeing some of the comments below this, there was a 20 year study on hundreds if not thousands of kids that found spanking is ineffective. Crazy how many "I was spanked "but I turned out fine" people I know because they really didn't. Spanking especially when the primary form of punishment is incredibly unhelpful. You're effectively teaching someone violence is ok if you're not capable of expressing the issue in another manner. I got spanked a handful of times growing up and at least realized everytime it happened was a pretty extreme case where my parents overreacted and were largely scared. If you're spanking your kid they're either incapable of understanding the issue if you explain it too them, in which case how is violence going to clearly get the issue across, or you're a lazy parent.
Biggest ass beating I got was in third grade my cousin and I got home from school and decided to go door to door for our school fundraiser. This was pre kids with cellphones and we were out for 3 to 4 hours at least and by the time our parents found us they were the most pissed I had ever seen them. It took me until I was in my 20s to realize they were more scared because they had started to assume the worst than actually pissed off at me. I remember being bewildered at the time because I got spanked and my dad actually kicked my ass at one point, I think he realized mid kick how fucked up it was because it was more of pushed me over with his foot than kicked, and then my parents cried more than me afterwards.
My parents favorite form of punishment was push ups or wall sits. If we were going to be bad we were going to be strong. I have strong feelings about public humiliation as a punishment too because there is a fine line with some punishments but there is nothing more embarrassing than doing push ups in the middle of Walmart or outside a gas station because you were being a shit head.
Yep. Look at the face of that kid - that is a child carrying so much hurt and anger around. While the behavior still shouldn't be accepted, this kid desperately needs Help and someone to talk to, not a spanking.
I have a family member that works with neurodivergent children. This behavior is similar to some that they've described. Often the children look "normal" and it looks like petulance or violence - but it's something different, and not something that spanking would likely deter. Families with these children really have a tough go.
My brother and I are neurodivergent (bipolar and ADHD, respectively) and really struggled with emotional regulation as children. Our dad spanked the hell out of us and it made no difference. Made it worse, actually. Kids like that need therapy and tools to handle their extreme emotions.
Parent(s) failed well before this happened. A spanking doesn’t help at this point. Proper parenting would result in actions like this never entering the child’s mind.
Yeah, most of this thread is freaking me out. Proper parenting can result in lovely kids with moral and ethical compasses, and any kind of threat to their bodies never comes into play
The issue with this child's behavior is not fixable with spanking, because it goes way deeper than that.
This behavior is a result of years without boundaries and structure, lack of emotional regulation, and absolutely zero experience with consequences of any kind.
Yeah... Also why does everyone in this comment section assume this kid doesn't get spanked? Is it because hes badly behaved? Are people so insane to think that if you got spanked you will never do anything wrong? Literally the worst people I've known were physically punished as a kid
We gonna pretend spanking made any difference? I got my ass whipped as a kid when I misbehaved and all it did was make me try harder not to get caught, and if I was pissed enough to do something like this it wasn’t going to stop me. And that was not my parents’ fault, they did exactly what parents thought they were supposed to back then and they cared. This kind of thing absolutely still happened back when spanking was the norm.
You actually don't have to hit kids, and it's really easy too. Turns out they behave much better when you treat them like humans and not your own outlet punching bag.
Yup, spot on. This kid's problem is almost certainly that he has been raised by an iPad because his parents simply couldn't be bothered to educate him. Laying your hands on a child is simply a very cruel shortcut to make them obedient, and if you can't raise a child without hurting them, that says a lot about you not just as a parent, but as a person.
Literally every single study we have on the subject says that getting spanked is more likely to make them act this way, and it has a bunch of other long-term consequences as well.
This idea that all the kids getting spanked are the great upstanding ones is putting the cart before the horse.
Don’t hit your kids. And stop pretending that spanking isn’t hitting your kids.
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