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

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I've only got two issues with the situation:

1. It wasn't his kid.

End of discussion.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Micjones

End of discussion.

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

[Lex Luthor]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

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

Originally Posted by KC Tattoo

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

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.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

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?

[Lex Luthor]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

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?

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.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

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.

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.

[Lex Luthor]

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

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.

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.

[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Brainiac

A "slap" won't knock out a kid's tooth. A punch with a closed fist will.

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.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

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

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

[Micjones]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

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

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.