February 12, 2007

10-Year Old Strikes Blow For Good Manners

And threw in some depantsing for good measure:

A gang of girls attacked a woman at a discount store, hitting and kicking her and tearing off her clothes, said police, who arrested a 10-year-old girl accused of being involved.

The girl, who was not identified, was charged with assault and battery for kicking the 22-year-old woman in the head and stomach on Sunday, said Officer Eddy Chrispin.

The three other girls were not arrested, but police said they would seek criminal complaints against them. Their names and ages were not released.

The woman apparently had bumped into the 10-year-old girl in an aisle at a Target store and refused to apologize, Chrispin said. Witnesses told police the four girls then knocked the customer to the floor "where she was being hit, her hair was being ripped out, and her pants were taken off," he said.

Etiquette lubricates the wheels of social interaction, making public contact safe and predictable, and reducing the likelihood that you'll be on the receiving end of a public ass-kicking by a fourth-grader.

Posted by floridacracker at February 12, 2007 01:56 PM

   



Comments

My grandkids were little embarassed when I told some freak who was trying to start a conversation with one of my girls to get the hell away from us.
So,about a year later, they were in the park when a little,froggy, black boy came up and ask if that was their punk brother. The girls told him to get the hell away from them or they would kick his punk ass.
The boy went back and told the daycare worker he was with that those girls over there were cussing.

Posted by: the real Nancy at February 12, 2007 09:36 PM

Violence, and the aspect of sudden violence does quite a bit for good manners.

Then again Violence, and the aspect of sudden violence does more than quite a bit for basic individual oppression.

a gentle balance.

Noone offends my sister in law twice, noone offends my mother twice and noone offends anyone that myself, my brother and father or any male family member cares about twice. Then again, you have to be man/woman enough when you slip in your own crap.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 12, 2007 11:49 PM

I know I'm supposed to be grown up and all... but I really do see those little girls' point.

Posted by: Gordon at February 13, 2007 11:33 AM

"......The boy went back and told the daycare worker he was with that those girls over there were cussing... "

That's real...i.e., I don't get my way offending you, so I call in the authority to pull your wings off.

Posted by: csason at February 13, 2007 12:53 PM

"Etiquette lubricates the wheels of social interaction, making public contact safe and predictable, and reducing the likelihood that you'll be on the receiving end of a public ass-kicking by a fourth-grader."
- Florida Cracker

That'll be a famous quote some day, Donnah, or sure as hell should be.

Posted by: Mrs. R. at February 14, 2007 02:39 PM

Wicked Pinto,

Who the heck is Noone?
Are you a car or a bean?

Thanks

Posted by: No One at February 15, 2007 10:57 AM