I’m very impressed, Madawc - it’s pretty rare that a physically adult man can scare a 12-year-old by slamming him to the ground and threatening to attack him more. You must be one bad Mofo, able to scare the hell out of someone what, half your wieght?
However, there’s one chink[1] in your armor. If your mad skillz at martial arts consist of some TKD classes and experience beating up and/or intimidating 12 year olds, you really, really might want to reconsider whether you can handle an actual adult man in a fight. While I’m sure you’re man enough to beat the crap out of a 12-year old and his big sister like you threatened to do in the OP, adult men are a whole 'nother story, especially if they decide to bring a basebal bat or other aid to the party. And, oopsy, a fully grown man threatening grevious injury to a 12-year old justifies the use of deadly force in this state, so you might be the only one in legal trouble.
[1] that wasn’t deliberate, but I’ll leave it in because I find it amsuing and I’m not to worried about whether a “man” who gets his jollies threatening 12 year olds might take offense or (horrors) attack me.
Not to ruffle any feathers but what if…just maybe the kid actually did say “chump” instead and was being honest with you? Could it possibly be that you just heard a negative word when there wasn’t one?
If so, then boy that outburst wasn’t deserved by a 12 year old kid.
He was a kid for goodness sake…even IF he did say the word “chink” he probably didn’t deserve a response like that. He probably has heard such crap from his parents or other ignorant KIDS.
You missed out on a great opportunity to teach this kid a valuable lesson. If he did indeed say what you think he did now he’s just bragging to all his friends about the psycho asshole chink he met at the park.
Pity. You could have possibly influenced this kid in a good way but all you did was respond to hate with hate.
All of you are missing the point here. Madawc has definitely changed that 12-year-old’s behavior. Now, in the future, when he and his friends see Madawc walking his dog, the 12-year-old will say to them, “Don’t say the word “chink” around that chink. He’s crazy.”
Wow. I can’t believe a grown man would beat up on a kid, and then actually tell people about it. Wow.
Sure, kids are assholes. But that’s their job. Most of them grow up to be productive members of society.
As for the sister, of course she’s going to side with her brother. If I saw some oaf yelling in my brother’s face, do you think I would join in and call my brother an asshole for something I’m not even sure happened? Fuck no! She did the right thing by telling you to calm down and just forget about it. Double asshole points to you for getting in her face. And she wasn’t “taking the word of anyone,” she was taking the word of her brother. Someone she’s known for ~12 years. You’re the random crazy asshole she just met on the street. You think she’s going to take your word when you’ve shown her that you can’t function like a normal human being?
I dunno, I don’t think Madawc was completely out of line. Assuming everything in the OP is accurate and true, the 12-year-old was overdue for a lesson in humility, and it sounds like he got one.
On the other hand, I wouldn’t have been yelling at the sister/girlfriend when she came up and asked what was going on. I’d have simply calmed down, pointed to the 12-year-old, and said “He was being a racist asshole,” then left it at that. Probably not easy to do, given the heat of the moment, but we’re talking hypotheticals here.
No, beating up on kids is not a good thing, but IMO neither is letting racism and bigotry occur without a proper response. “Evil flourishes when good men do nothing,” and all that. At the very least, now the kid will know that being an ass in public carries the risk of getting his ass reamed.
OH yeah, this rates about a 10 on the bullshit-o-meter.
If it is true then shame on you , you ignorant asshole. If you assaulted my child like that I’d have your ass in court so fast it would make your head spin. And then I would talk to my child about his/her choice of words because it’s my place, not yours.
First of all I don’t believe the kid said chink. Who uses that word anyway?
Second, if he did say it, don’t you think it would make better sense to talk to the kid calmly about the effects of racism and why it is A Very Bad Thing®.
You acted like a jerk and you owe that kid and his family and this board an apology.
Oh, and if by the slightest chance your story is true and it was my 12 year old son, you would be sitting your ass in jail right this minute with a lawsuit pending.
Oh yeah, and how many people use the word “nigger” eh Mermaid?
Being a (gasp) chink myself I can attest that it’s common enough. I would have probably done just about everything Madawc did but probably minus actually hitting the kid (ironically I’m also well versed in Tae Kwon Do).
I’m against hitting kids in general but some of the fuckers I’ve seen are at least as tall as I am (5’6"). Lets face it,12 year old kids these days aren’t exactly 60 lbs little shits, most of them weight more than I do.
I say it was wrong for hitting, but right for the lession. And what if this stupid kid made a “nigger” remark to a black gang member? This encounter could have been much worse.
Hell, what if he’d made the chink remark to a Chinese gang member? Not that I condone what madawc did (but careful readers will note, neither does madawc) but this kid got off lucky.
Where are all you people getting that Madawc beat this kid up? All I see in the OP is that the kid got hit with the gate, and Madawc has said that he didn’t do that on purpose. He didn’t knock the little snot down - he fell down on his own after tripping over a rock while backing up. Nor did the OP at any point mention laying hands on the kid at all, or the sister either. Just a lot of yelling.
I don’t think it was a very productive use of Madawc’s time, but neither do I think it merits people telling him they’d see him in jail. You’d clap someone behind bars for just yelling at someone? Come, on, people - that sounds like the behavior of a parent with raging “don’t get between me and my cub” syndrome, the kind of parenting that sometimes results in them automatically taking their kid’s side without stopping to find out the facts. (Why couldn’t MY parents have ever blindly defended me fromthe consequences of running MY own smart mouth?)
Nor is there any indication of how old Madawc is, or even what sex. For all you people know, Madawc is a 14-year-old girl. Don’t jump to conclusions.
But, oops, what if the kid possibly saying a bad word was a gang member, and the ‘anti-racist, pro-street fighting’ guy threatened the kid, who then whipped out a knife or gun and made for a real bad day?
What I see is that he hit the kid with the gate. Sure, he says he didn’t do it on purpose, but if he really didn’t mean to hit the kid with the gate, then he would have cut out the macho shit after doing so. It may not have been his plan, but he certainly showed no remorse about ‘accidentally’ doing it.
Slamming someone with a gate and threatening them, to the point where they’re tripping over their own two feet is not ‘just yelling at someone’. I don’t think that physically assaulting someone (remember the gate, regardless of whether he meant to or was blinded by his rage) and threatening them is an appropriate response to something that might be an insult when the person insists they didn’t say it and apologizes anyway.
Vocal insults simply don’t justify the use of physical force, and someone who hears what might be a slur but slams a gate into a person and continutes to threaten a kid after they’ve denied that they said it and apologized anyway are just bullies looking for an excuse to beat up on someone.
