They might if it was a 17 year old kicking a 2 year old. While dressed in an Easter Bunny costume no less!
“I have kicked small children” sounds a lot more bad-assed if you don’t add ‘…when I was a kid myself’.
Though one may question why anyone would particularly want to sound bad-assed in that particular way.
Maybe he was yelling a the phone because ummm the other guy was far away and might not hear him?
Yeah, I hate those guys too. There was one in a restaurant doing that, screaming into a phone, another guy walked up, took his phone and dumped it in the tea kettle. I paid for his lunch as a reward 
Who said I was trying to sound bad-assed? My first post in the thread was somewhat deliberately inflammatory, since people were asking for child haters. I clarified later, but that doesn’t mean the incident didn’t happen. The two posts aren’t contradictory. And I see that the OP still hasn’t come back to tell me what’s what.
starwarsfreek42 Personally I think you should control your dog better so he doesn’t bark when a kid rides up into your driveway. 
If we do, then it just means WE are no damn good. It’s not the child’s fault. The days when they would simply be referred to as “the bastard” are long gone (I hope).
What’s wrong with these damn dogs today. Why in my day …
I’ve had fantasies of letting the dog go and chase the kid down the street.
It makes you sound like a bit of a psycho, to be honest. Even in the “clarified” version, since you are at pains to point out that the only thing preventing you from putting the boot in is fear of punishment.
Well what was your motivation for telling a group of strangers that you kick children? Did you think we were going to nominate you for the Miss Congeniality Award? Seriously? You didn’t think you sounded way cool by telling people that you’re a menace to society? Really?
Bad bad BAD idea. I helped raise The Kid here. If I ever ever EVER saw a dog chasing her, I’d kill the dog and then go after you. No lie.
I think more people would agree with you on the latter than the former.
You’re one badass Easter Bunny. Did you pelt them with Cadbury Eggs too?
So keep her off my property.
Well, the strangers asked for examples, and I presented myself as one, rather expecting to be crucified. Seriously. Really.
Truthfully it would be way too much effort to chase down a kid and kick it. Ice water in a Super Soaker gun keeps them out of my yard more effectively than trying to catch them.
Chocolate footballs.
To me, this is some sort of awesomeness loop:
- OP
- Thread deems OP a judgmental ass
- Skeptics ask OP for examples of kid haters
- Kid haters decloak slowly
- Rejack ensues
- OP
On another note, I relate the following amusing anecdote, and ask the kidhaters’ opinion:
I am shopping in Wal-Mart at 8PM. I round the corner to see a 2-3 year old kid standing there staring at me. I say “Hello” because I’m not an asshole. Kid says “HELLO!” at a fairly high volume. Mom seems slightly embarrassed but it is kind of funny. We share that little “Kids!” smile. I move on to paper goods.
For the rest of my shopping trip, I can locate the kid as I hear him direct a hearty “HELLO!” to everyone he saw around the grocery section. Old people smiled. College kids waved back. Scary biker dude rumbled out “How’s it goin, man?”.
At no point did anyone go into berserk frothing antics as the "HELLO!"s echoed across the shelf-laden wastelands of Wal-Mart.
Now, this sort of behavior in an adult would probably not be funny and cute. Therefore I can assume that this little heartwarming tale of the friendly greeter was taken as yet another example of the deviltry of the underaged by the kidhaters. Yes?
I always chat up the keeblers in the store. They’re too cute to resist. Mr. K gets a little impatient because I have to do “Keebler Check” on all the baby carriers before I can move on. Check out the feet (invariably missing a shoe or sock). Check out the wrists that look like they have rubberbands around them. Extra points if I can get one to do a belly laugh.
That one’s kind of borderline, but I wouldn’t complain. If there was a constant HELLOHELLOHELLOHELLOHELLO going on, I’d probably get pissed. One day at my workplace a little kid broke away from it’s mom and screamed “HI DADDY!” and proceeded to bolt around the counter and grab the cashier in a bear hug. The cashier, an 18 year old guy who didn’t know the kid or the mom, said “Uh, hey, what’s up?” and scooped the kid up, held him at arm’s length, and placed him back on his side of the counter. It was pretty funny, in a random sort of way. Doesn’t make me hate kids less, but it was amusing.
The kid was probably Special Needs. In ivn1188’s anecdote, that is.
Nah…kids at that age are diggin’ the fact that they can create a sound and get a response. It’s a cause and effect thing and they eat it up.
He doesn’t really want to kick children, he wants to unleash the hounds. 
Yea I would too. When I was a kid I was selling chocolate to raise money for my baseball team. I went into a yard and got attacked by the Chow that lived there. When we went back my parents were contemplating suing them, something my Dad is generally opposed to. But I understood that I crossed the dog’s boundary, I knew that if we made a fuss the dog would be killed, and I saw the terror in the lady’s face over the whole situation and didn’t want to cause any more problems.
But if someone unleashed their dog on my daughter I would definitely go all SteveG1 on their ass too.