Colma California

Free reign to do what?

the child threw a tantrum complete with eardrum busting screams.

Free reign to do what?

glitterbag wrote:

the child threw a tantrum complete with eardrum busting screams.

In my day kids got a thing called a "beating" for stuff like this. A quick slap to hopefully shut them up, and if that didn't work, outside for a hail of slaps, then home to an early bedtime.

I don't believe a child has to be hit to learn to behave.

The thing is, we were never led to believe that the world, nay, the universe revolved around us, and that we were some 2nd coming of Christ.

We’ve all had to stand in line next to some insufferable brat of a child who won’t stop shouting out his desires for the entire world to hear. But most of us don’t have the gall to do what one Burger King customer claims to have done.

In a post on Reddit (cue the disclaimer that his entire story may be B.S., but it’s worth discussing anyway), a man claims that he was just trying to end his bad day on a good note by treating himself to some BK.

“When behind me comes this woman yapping on her cellphone with a little monster of a child,” he writes. “This kid was out of control, screaming, punching his mother throwing around a gameboy whenever something didn’t go right in the game.”

He says the mom paid more attention to her phone than to her kid, who was screaming about how much he wanted an apple pie.

The customer says his already bad headache got worse and so he asked the mother nicely to quiet her kid down.

“Immediately she gets up in my face telling me I can’t tell her nothing about raising her child and to mind my own business,” recalls the customer, who says the mom rubbed it in by calling her kid “sweety” and assuring him that he’d get his pie.

By the time the customer got to the front of the line, he says he could only think about how the loudmouthed brat and his mom had spoiled this little trip to BK.

“I then decide to ruin their day,” explains the customer who ordered all 23 pies the store had in stock.

“I take my order and walk towards the exit,” he recounts. “Moments later I hear the woman yelling, ‘What do you mean you don’t have any pies left, who bought them all?’ I turn around and see the cashier pointing me out with the woman shooting me a death glare.”

The opening story sounds like bullsh*t to me.

COLMA, Calif. -- A shopper at a Northern California clothing store said she was punched in the face after telling a mother to quiet down her child, who was throwing a tantrum.

Natalie Bree Hajek-Richardson told CBS SF Bay Area that she was in the checkout line of the Nordstrom Rack in Colma, Calif., when a child between the age of 4 and 6 began throwing a loud tantrum.


"It didn't bother me that the child was throwing the tantrum, but the volume was very loud, it was hurting my ears," Hajek-Richardson said.

Hajek-Richardson said she nicely asked the child's mother to quiet the child down, and was met with hostility.

"She came to the side of me and told me not to tell her child what to do. And I told her that I didn't ask your child what to do, I asked you very nicely to calm down your child just a little bit," Hajek-Richardson said.

Hajek-Richardson said she then returned the harsh words.

"I told her to go to hell and she told me I'll see you there," she said.

When Hajek-Richardson left the store, she said the mom followed her to her car.

Video shows a woman in a red shirt walking toward Hajek-Richardson, before both women fall to the asphalt. Hajek-Richardson said she was punched twice in the face.

Police told CBS SF Bay Area they were reviewing the surveillance video.

I don't believe a child has to be hit to learn to behave.