Where are the Parents

[Dill]

(01-15-2019, 10:12 AM)GMDino Wrote: An 11 year old is a threat?

Jesbus we have some fake alphas out there in the world.  "Get off my lawn!"  LOL

As to kids in the mall: Varies ones around here (that are still open) put rules in years ago restricting what ages can be left alone and what hours others can be there without a guardian.  I hesitated to drop my 16 year old daughter and her bf off one time because I didn't know the rules at the time and I told her that if there was any trouble for the security to call me immediately.

Also, at 49 I can remember kids being aholes in malls for 30 years...nothing new under the sun.

I have to say, though, I share some of Bfine's distress about this.

Kids have hung out at malls for years.  Yes, but when I was young, and for decades after, I never saw the level of disrespect for adults that is common now.

It is not ok to punch a child, even if the child punches you.  That said, I think something is definitely wrong with this girl who challenges an adult breaking up a fight. She did come at the guy and put up her dukes like she was ready to go a round.  Where was HER head doing something like that?  Why did she think she could engage an adult as an equal, first verbally, then physically?  50 years ago people would tsk tsk the man but also call this a lesson for an unruly kid. When she woke up, did she and her friends think it was really unfair how this guy she was going to punch knocked her out?

The problem here is not just the guy, which I think was Bfine's point, or part of it, and if so I agree.

Further, I wonder if the guy has PTSD? If so, that was a bad situation for him. He was surrounded by hostile  yelling tweens, one of whom shoved him in the back. Looked to me like he was already triggered when he first shoved the girl.  Then when she came at him again, and put up her fists, he went into "eliminate the threat mode."  But the ROE is all different in civilian life.