Posted on 06/01/2010 11:48:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Someone else's crying kid can be annoying, but one man in Surfside took the matter into his own hands and now police are looking to get their hands on him.
The unidentified man allegedly grabbed, then slapped a 3-year-old girl for crying loudly while they were in a grocery store elevator earlier this month.
The grumpy old man then bolted out of the elevator and away from store employees as the mom frantically tried to explain what happened, surveillance video taken just after the incident shows. "He just went and grabbed at her face. And she says that her skin hurt from it. He just grabbed at her face, and he wouldn't take his hand off,"the child's mom told WSVN. The mom's other daughter, who was also in the elevator, was not attacked. The video doesn't show a good picture of the man's face, but police have put up flyers looking for the vigilante disciplinarian.
The suspect is described as a man in his 50s with a wrinkly, tanned face. He is around 6'3 and weighs about 180 pounds.
If you have information about the incident, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
Yup. :)
Lol, if a person’s day can be ruined by a moment or 2 of hearing a child fuss then that person has pretty thin skin and, one can only pray, are childless.:)
A no-neck-monster’s behavior in public tells me a book load of information about the lack of/laziness of parental discipline and a total lack of respect for others.
There is a fine line between discipline and abuse when it comes to dealing with certain types of children. Bad behaviour in a child does not always equal bad parenting. My child was diagnosed with “oppositional defiance disorder.” Nope never heard of it before either, but we couldn’t even get her to go in a 5 minute timeout in her room, One time at the age of 8, my husband attempted to physically hold her there and she yelled and kicked at him. She would get violent. Would you have had him get violent back? Fortunately, she behaved pretty well when out in public though....just lucky there I guess. Wouldn’t want people thinking I didn’t respect them.
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