Posted on 09/19/2013 5:09:54 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Applebee's called police on family and threw them out of restaurant because their kids were 'too active'
A couple said they are 'heartbroken' after staff at Applebee's called police on them because their children were being too active, it emerged today.
Eli Gau and his wife Lillian Maliti admit their sons Ryan, three, and Ethan, one, can be a handful at times but nothing that would warrant being asked to leave a 'family-friendly' restaurant.
On Sunday night the family of four went to an Applebee's restaurant in Katy, Texas, for dinner.
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Everything seemed normal until Ryan wandered away from the table, as children sometimes do.
Mr Gau told KHOU 11News: 'They're kind of active. They act like children. They're not adults.
'I went and grabbed him, and as I was grabbing him and coming back, the manager was walking to me.'
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The latter would be my guess.
Dont Mess with Texas...yes they needed their butts whipped. My parents would never tolerate a kid of theirs making a scene.
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Eli and his brood mare apparently don’t have their own standard of disruptive behavior so they must rely on others. Perfect Obama voter types.
There is probably more to the story. I don’t think cops were called because a 3 year old wandered off one time.
Some kids that young just should not go to a sit down restaurant.
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/eyeroll
Doesn't this simpleton writer, Rachel Quigley, have a grown-up editor?
Liberal parenting 101
Too active or just need their rear ends busted?”
I’m not the parental police. Reporter said the children were ages 1 and 3, but I would suspect the youngest was closer to two after watching them run around - and it was 9:15 at night when they arrived at the restaurant and ordered. Dad was interviewed on TV and said he felt “disrespected”. They weren’t Amish but couldn’t quite figure out the accent - certainly wasn’t Texan.
I would suspect that the kids were really wound up as children sometimes tend to get when they have missed a nap or bedtime. Mother appeared a bit clueless.
We rarely go to Appleby’s but I don’t recall seeing too many really young children there, particularly that late at night.
As soon as a person says the word “disrespect” all my sympathy goes away. Use of that word says a lot about attitudes and probable behaviour.
I believe Miss Quigley is quoting the parents. I take it that Ma and Pa have come to expect 3 year old Junior to just jump up and run from the table at any moment because they have not taught him to sit still and OR ELSE!
My parents would drag my brother and me out of that restaurant make both our head swims
LOL!
We get good old fashioned butt kickin at home LOL!
I suspect their kids are being deprived of corporal punishment...
I generally avoid Applebee’s. Most of the ones I’ve been to, the adults were acting like disruptive children.
Fixed it.
child free housing...child free airplanes...child free restaurants....
people used to LIKE having children around....I still do....when I got married a long long time ago, children were still welcomed and celebrated...not spoiled, but cherished...
don't know about this situation, but Applebees calling the cops?......insanity...
People used to stop at our table and compliment us on how well behaved our children were. That's probably never happened to these incompetent idiots who will most likely now sue and win.
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