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8-year old pepper sprayed by police (pg. 2)
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| Lews |
| I'm sure I don't know the whole story, but judging by that little blurb sounds like it was the right call. |
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| Theresa |
| Threatening to kill people while wielding a weapon is grounds to pepper spray him. Like someone mentioned, the kid needed to be controlled, and physically trying to do so would have resulted in possible serious injury to both himself and the police officers. Pepper spray was totally called for and that kid needs to not only be taken out of his home, but he also needs some serious counseling. |
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| gmilf |
The mom is making him into a victim when he was wanting to kill people, she's enabling his behavior. He said he hates school because it takes him away from his mom, he's a demon child because of how his mother has raised him and he will probably end up in jail before he's out of high school.
The police would have caused more damage trying to restrain him than just shooting some pepper spray at him. I'm sure that stuff is painful but a quick blast won't cause any sort of permanent damage. I'm not sure what I would do if a kid went beserk on me like that. The protocol is to get everyone out of harms way and close them in the room, you aren't allowed to lock them in but you can hold the door shut until they calm the down. They'll eventually tire out while the parents come to get them. There was no need to call the cops if the mom was really on the way, which is why I think that perhaps she wasn't really coming at the time, or she hadn't come quickly in the past 2 instances when he pulled the same . |
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| gmilf |
| When kids fight I have this sort of barking yell voice that scares the out of them and gets them to stop immediately just to look around for Satan. in the confusion I step between them and they are usually about to cry at this point so I just have to act like I am mad at them even though I am just on damage control at that point. btw, good teachers won't let it get to that point in elementary school. The teacher has not set up the proper classroom environment if other kids are not peer pressuring the child to act appropriately. (long winded responses sorry!) |
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| Lews |
| Yeah, definitely the teacher's fault this kid pulled out a stake and tried to start killing people :rolleyes: |
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| DJ Itchy Tits |
probably deserved it. there are some mean kids out there. i used to know a little black kid called drew. he used to say 'stupid ficken biatch. im gonna kick your ass motherfocker. ' he was like 4 and was drinking pruno.
true story. |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| should pepper spray his parents instead |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by gmilf
When kids fight I have this sort of barking yell voice that scares the out of them and gets them to stop immediately just to look around for Satan. in the confusion I step between them and they are usually about to cry at this point so I just have to act like I am mad at them even though I am just on damage control at that point. |
reminded me of a great story from high school:
one day i was getting into my math class junior year. two seniors got into a fist fight in the hallway as classes were starting, right outside of the room at the other end of the hall from my class. this one dweebish teacher i had (who later turned out to be a potential child-molester) ran out of his classroom and instead of trying to break up the fight he just belted out "EMERGENCYYYY. EMERRGENCCYYY" and then ran back into his class. My 70 year old professor from germany ran down to the end of the hall, grabbed one kid by his neck and held him up to the wall while pushing the other kid out of the way with free hand. was ing glorious |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by gmilf
When kids fight I have this sort of barking yell voice that scares the out of them and gets them to stop immediately just to look around for Satan. in the confusion I step between them and they are usually about to cry at this point so I just have to act like I am mad at them even though I am just on damage control at that point. btw, good teachers won't let it get to that point in elementary school. The teacher has not set up the proper classroom environment if other kids are not peer pressuring the child to act appropriately. (long winded responses sorry!) |
Reminds me of a trick I used with customers who were acting like idiots, panicking and causing a scene when what they really needed to do was shut the up and answer the questions I was asking so I could fill their order. I'd wait until their back was turned or walk out of their view and clap my hands as loud as I could. It basically forced them to stop thinking 1,000,000 miles an hour along the lines of bull continually perturbing them and pulled them into the moment, where they could actually focus on their problem. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
I'd wait until their back was turned or walk out of their view and clap my hands as loud as I could. |
That's how I scold my cats when they claw the furniture. |
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| Lews |
| Same. Or I get a squirt bottle and chase them around the house screaming, "Bad kitty!" and shooting them. |
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| EddieZilker |
| We have a cat who is absolutely terrified of compressed air-cans, so if that's handy, I like to use it. But the water-bottle works, too. |
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