Nerfherder
Honorary Master
Not necessarily, but it would change how things would appear to people making judgement.
Look part the hype and look at the content of their statement:
They state that he grabbed her child. They didn't state why he grabbed her child. If you think that is insignificant to the matter at hand, then this argument is over. It is completely significant because it would confirm that he was simply defending his kid. He stated quite clearly that her kid was hitting his on the head, and spur don't seem to deny that. So taking that into account consider this:
He sees his kid being hit by her kid. He then confronts the lady who tells him to f**k off. Meaning that she doesn't care that her child (or the child in her care) was hitting kid child. Under those circumstances, he reacted in the way that I think many people here might identify with.
Is it OK to grab another persons kid though... I'm a Dad of a 3 year old girl and I almost had a minor flip out over a little boy hitting my girl. The boy ran and I was more interested in looking after her than sorting out the little boy but in a way I'm glad I wasn't able to hit him because then it becomes more about my reaction then his behavior.
The calm logical thing to do was go take it up with his parents, don't touch someone else kid unless its 100% necessary. This chop is always going to be the bad guy now because he went straight to dishing out punishment on the kid.
I know it must be really hard not to because like I said... I have been there. You will never come out on top when you are the guy hitting the 10 year old.
