Man slaps 10 year old kid in movie theater for being obnoxious
 

OK, im not saying what this man did was right, but in a way I applaud what he did.





http://www.seattlepi.com/local/artic...#ixzz1vc8qNZAL





An Auburn man accused of smacking a loud 10-year-old at a Kent movie theater could face months in jail if convicted of the felony assault charge now filed against him.

King County prosecutors contend 21-year-old Yong Hyun Kim knocked out one of the boy’s teeth after the child and several other youths refused to quiet down and stop throwing popcorn in April.

According to charging documents, Kim admitted to hitting the boy and appeared ashamed when confronted by police with the boy’s age. Kim allegedly said he thought the boy was an adult when he slapped him in the face.

The Associated Press reports the incident occured during a screening of "Titanic" in 3-D.

At 10:40 p.m. on April 11, Kent police were called to the AMC Theater at 426 Ramsay Way following a complaint that a man had attacked a child there.

Officers arrived to find to find the 10-year-old, his mother and several friends in the theater lobby. The boy was bleeding from the nose and missing a tooth.

The boy told police he wasn’t sure why Kim struck him. He said he was seated in the theater when a man with “long hair and … 3D glasses” stepped over a row of seats and confronted him.

According to the boy’s account, Kim said something to the effect of, “You know what, I paid a lot of money to see this movie” and punched him in the face.

For his part, Kim said the boy and others were talking loudly during the movie and throwing popcorn, some of which landed on him and his girlfriend, a Kent detective told the court.

Kim told police he confronted the group about their behavior, to no avail, the detective continued.

“The group laughed at him and did not quiet down,” the detective said in court documents. “Yong (Kim) said he hit one of the subjects in the face with an open hand.”

“I got so mad that it just happened,” Kim told police, according to charging documents.

Kim was arrested and later gave a lengthy statement to police. The detective noted Kim claimed he didn’t know the boy was so young until police informed him.

“When (the arresting officer) asked Yong (Kim) if he was aware that the person he struck was 10 years old … Yong hung his head down and said he thought the person was a grown man,” the detective told the court.

Kim has been charged with second-degree assault, a felony. Kim, who has no criminal record, was briefly jailed and has since been released.

Hero.

He should have slapped the mom first.

How do you mistake a 10 year old for a grown man? I call BS. I don't blame him for getting mad, but that's not the way to handle it. Should have called an usher to deal with the little brats. And what was the mother doing? Nothing apparently allowing the brat to disrupt other people's enjoyment (yeah, I know it was Titanic - hardy har har). Hope she learns a lesson here, too. Keep your brat in check and this kind of thing won't happen.

Titanic mistake.

I can't wait for the day they invent the people remote, complete with a mute button.

Seriously. Should have knocked all their teeth out. ****ing punks.

I enjoy how this was emphasized.

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She probably thinks she or her kid did nothing wrong. Because in today world, theres never any personal responsibility whenever your bratty kid gets out of control. Its always someone elses problem.

Say, where has Mecca been lately?

That's why I don't go to movie theaters any more.

I had a similar incident in Denver. (I think I even posted it on here.)

A friend of mine was on-call and at the last minute, got a call to go to another jobsite. So, I just went into the theater alone to watch Big Fish.

I could not have sat at a worse spot: To my left, there's this older gentleman who has the cold. Yet, he takes it upon himself to go to a public theater anyways. :shake:

Behind me, are three kids who love nothing more than kicking the back of my seat even though I asked them politely TWICE! to stop.

To my right, is a young lass who can't go 5 mins without checking her cellphone. Whenever she flips open her phone, the theater is illuminated by the glow of her phone.

Needless to say, I'm pissed. After a few minutes of this, I get up and pretend to lose my balance and grab the back of my seat. This allows me to intentionally drop a big cup of iced soda all over the kids legs seated behind me.

I then hastily move in front of the girls to my right and again pretend to lose my balance, kicking one in the shin and knocking over their bag of popcorn seated on the floor between them.

I find an empty row, a few rows behind everyone, and enjoy the rest of the movie in pure solitude. :p

Same thing happened to my cousin Vinny a while back.

Hopefully Setsuna learned his lesson now that he has lost a tooth due to this behavior. :)

Are people really defending a grown man knocking out a ten year oldkid's tooth by hitting him in the face?

The theater we go to now serves food and alcohol, and no brats are allowed in without parents. It's wonderful.

I generally go to movies before noon. Never have any problems with anybody. Rarely more than 20 people in the whole theater.

The 10 year year old also reported that Kim called him a rittle row rife punk.

I'm willing to bet they didn't throw any more popcorn after that. And what's Kim thinking hanging out and finishing the movie?

I can't believe people are applauding a child being assaulted for ANY reason.
Wait...yes I can. This is ChiefsPlanet. The home of "intellectual dishonesty".

and then kicked the theater mgr in the ass.

I tend to agree, but I can concede that it's POSSIBLE that he couldn't tell the difference in the dark of a movie theater.

And here comes the butthurt. HE ASSAULTED THOSE POOR INNOCENT CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 O THE HUMANITY.

Quick, start a prayer thread.

in my house, kids are not to be heard unless spoken to. the theory is, kids are ****ing asshole kids (like this) unless they are properly disciplined. but hey, I know I'm in the minority compared to asshole ****stick american kid worshipers like you.

Sometimes in life...we need a good ass kicking.

An open hand slap that knocked out his tooth and bloody his nose. That's a hell of a slap.

Asian perspective.

3D glasses add 10 years to the characters you are about to hit.

a man should never smack another persons kid. Did the kid deserve it? yes.

Right on cue.
Too bad you started this post with the qualifier, "in my house".

:LOL:

My wife and I do this. We go to the earliest show available on a Sunday. Even newly released showings are pretty quiet.

Yeah, Sunday during church hours is a great time.

Sunday morning's good for the grocery, too.

Same here. Early shows are great.

Now I'm not saying he should have killed her... but I understand.

You know one of the kids said "you can't touch us, we're just kids." MYTH BUSTED!

I've only got two issues with the situation:

1. It wasn't his kid.
2. He hit him hard enough to cause permanent damage.

Aside from that, the kid probably deserved it.

Not necessarily. At 10 years old, could easily have been a baby tooth.

True. Regardless, hitting a kid hard enough in the face to knock out a tooth is going too far (unless it was about to fall out on its own or something).

End of discussion.

Yep

I'm sure he thought it was a grown man talking in a child's voice and throwing popcorn.

It's actually in our best interest to applaud. We have no connection to the guy who got arrested, and there's a chance that we'll end up in a theater next to a quiet kid as a result of his actions. The guy sacrificed himself for the sake of society, and should be remembered with a moment of silence every time we walk into a movie theater.

He shouldn't have hit the kid, but if you throw popcorn at someone in the movies expect to get punched in the face.

Although "Kim" is wrong for hitting the 10 yr old, the adults that were with the kid should have corrected him for acting up in the first place. Considering the expense it is to go to the movies these days, the experience does not need to be ruined by an unruly kid nor should the adult let that behavior take place. The adults with the kid should have had their teeth knocked out for letting the little bastard act up in the first place.

Curtis got slapped, again!

I'm thinking it was a group of kids alone. I don't think the parent showed up until after he got hit.

Curtis Bowen is a fat black son of a bitch.

I don't subscribe to that 100 percent of the time. It takes a village you know.

The title of this thread is pretty damn misleading. A "slap" won't knock out a kid's tooth. A punch with a closed fist will.

The article quoted in the OP didn't say he slapped the kid. It said he punched the kid.

A 10 year old kid doesn't deserve to get punched in the face by an adult for being loud and obnoxious in a movie theater. There is no defending the adult's behavior. He needs to serve some jail time for assault and battery. If he did that to my kid, I'd wind up in jail for assault and battery, but at least the "victim" would be an adult.

A slap might knock out a baby tooth, especially if it was already loose. And actually, the story says hit, slap, smack and punch. So who knows what really happened?

A village protects children first and foremost. I wonder if that 10 year old kid has a dad.

Dude did what most of us would LIKE to do in this situation, but hopefully have enough sense NOT to do.

I'll concede the point that it could have been a slap rather than a punch, since the perpetrator called it a slap. It doesn't really matter, because he hit the kid hard enough to knock a tooth out of his head. Saying "it could have been just a baby tooth that I knocked out of the kid's mouth when he pissed me off" is not a viable defense.

That concept is only applicable where love is there to balance any action taken.
This man had no prior exposure to that child. Completely unacceptable and utterly indefensible.

Lol. I have no sympathy for the kid. I wouldn't have done it myself, that's just not smart.

But some of these little shit head kids deserve it.

It's probably no coincidence that this happened two days after a Chinese company bought AMC Theaters. I suspect there'll be a lot more people being slapped around by Asian men in theaters going forward as they consolidate their control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/bu...hollywood.html

I hope everyone realizes that this is how the Chinese invasion of America will take place. Americans getting slapped in theaters. Americans staying at home. Empty theaters, slowly getting populated by Chinese soldiers. And then one day, probably during a Jason Sudeikis movie, all of the theaters in America will be filled with platoons, companies, and brigades of Chinese infantry, and there won't be a damned thing we can do about it since they all bought tickets. And then during the closing credits they'll storm out, shooting and stabbing with their bayonets, and it will be the end of America as we know it.

This.

There are better ways to handle noisy children than jumping over a row of seats and assaulting them. He could have just jumped over a row of seats and yelled "SHUT THE **** UP!"

And the kids woulda laughed in his face and probably thrown popcorn or soda at him, thus making the situation worse.

The only option the guy really had was to to tell an Usher, get them escorted out and he probably coulda got free comp passes out of it too.

Maybe if you’re dropping a sissy chick slap on him, but the Radar family keeps the pimp hand strong and we’ve been known to knock a bitches fillings loose.

The parent was part of the problem in this story, dummy. So your little safe haven might not be so safe. JERK!

Hey! Me and mah posse don't take shit from any asians. This missing tooth will give me street cred. :harumph:

Sorry, I flew off the handle just now. I'm sorry. I miss you. :(

Not defending the guy at all, don't get me wrong. Just taking issue with people assuming things without knowing the facts. It could have been a punch, but we don't know - the suspect called it a slap, the victim called it a punch (the article calls it several things); the kid lost a tooth, that we know; but we can't say "permanent damage" because it could have been a baby tooth that was barely hanging on. That said, it could have been a permanent tooth that will have to be repaired. Hell, unless they found the tooth, the kid could be a little liar and he lost the tooth earlier eating popcorn. The point is, we don't know what the facts are, just what was presented in the article.

I just don't like assumptions.

Maybe. But these kids were 10 years old. They also might have been so scared that they peed their pants and immediately quieted down.

I admit your option is better. I'm just saying that just about ANYTHING would be better than what he did, and I'm surprised at the number of people in this thread who have defended him.

Saying that he struck a 10 year old kid in the face isn't an assumption. All of the other details could affect the severity of his punishment, but he admitted that he assaulted a 10 year old kid.

I'm appauled by this. A grown man actually went to see Titantic 3D? WTF?

Did I say otherwise? I didn't intend to, if so.

I'm appalled by this.

An apology is great, but there was no excuse to hit frazod and knock out his tooth.

Can somebody please tell frazod that I miss him??? :(

It was probably just a baby tooth.

Just kidding, buddy. miss u

I know, right? My first though was he deserved to get jeered.
I’ll admit though, I took Mrs. Radar to see it when it came out originally but in my defense the only two parts I enjoyed were its ending and when Leo DiCrapio died.

If only someone had pimp slapped some of the idiots that post on this board when they were children, it would probably be a lot more enjoyable place to hang out.

This is so full of fail...

My id applauds this guys actions.

Again, unlikely, but it's not unheard of for a boy to have started puberty by age 10.

I'm not saying that it's likely, but that it's POSSIBLE that the dude was genuinely mistaken.