In the old days behavior like that would get you sent to reform school or worse.
All it would have taken is: wait til your father gets home.
Isaiah 3:12
King James Version
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%203%3A12&version=KJV
That mess didn’t take a couple minutes. He was going after it for quite some time so where were the cops or did mama not call them? He needs to be in juvie. The bad juvie.
my dad just beat us up. All 7 of us kids if we got out of line. Being a 3rd gen Sicilian and our relatives back in the old country of the “family’, calling cops was a no-no.
Yeah, like my dad kicking my ass. And probably Mom, too.
The ACLU shut down reform schools in New York, said put the kids in schools to show them how to behave. They took over the schools.
Oakley farm school and Columbia school for boys I remember the threats very well from my wayward Youth