Posted on 04/22/2005 12:38:44 PM PDT by kingattax
You give the journalist too much credit. Killackey probably did not know the difference between a stick and a pole, or between a club and a pole. To be really dramatic, call it a Filipino fighting stick. Though, an axe handle would sound bluntly scary, too.
Was it a ten-foot pole?
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No... it was only 28" long... but he gave her the whole nine yards !!! ;-))
I use to live in a neighborhood that had the most obnoxious out of control kid about 11 years old that terrorized the neigborhood anyways we had just put in sprinklers and I told him repeatedly not to run over the grass with his bicycle he did not listen I finally caught him and through him off the bike and threw his bike in the middle of the street, he started crying carrying on telling me he's going to call the cops I threw my phone at him and said "CALL EM! he ran off home never saw him again...
."Here, use this"
hahaha!
Thank you. That was my first thought.
Actually, the kid needed a stronger staff (pole) because his broke into three pieces.
I raised three sons in the 60s and 70s, and they'll be the first to say that they deserved every spanking, restriction and hard lesson they got. They used to tell me "we don't like you anymore", and I would let them know that I wasn't trying to win a popularity contest, but just DO what I told you to do (usually it was DON'T do it), or pay the consequences. It worked.
A "crisis counselor"??? When I went to Catholic School in New York City years ago, a friend and classmate of mine, Margaret and a few other friends were jumping on the roofs from building to building. The spaces between buildings measured about 8 feet if I remember correctly. Margaret jumped, missed and fell to her death.
We were all horrified, but there was no such thing as a "crisis counselor". Instead we got a Catholic nun who said "Margaret did something extremely stupid and she died for it. Now let us pray for her immortal soul". Guess what? Jumping from roof to roof stopped immediately and all my classmates and I survived just fine without a "crisis counselor". We did pray for a week in class for Margaret.
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