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fiery -> Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/2/2009 8:19:02 PM)

Allegedly because she was crying. Unbelievable! He looks like a mean old grouch for sure.

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The mother said a stranger later identified as Stephens approached them and said, "If you don't shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you." A few moments later, while the mother and the crying child were in another aisle,

Stephens allegedly grabbed the girl and slapped her across the face. Police said he hit her four or five times. "See, I told you I would shut her up," the suspect allegedly told the mother.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/02/georgia.tot.slapped/index.html





dianerene -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/2/2009 9:27:18 PM)

 
wow!  I cannot imagine what I would do if another adult struck one of my children, but I have a feeling the police would be taking ME away.

of course, my first thought was "see?  nothing good ever comes out of walmart"



ChristineB -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/3/2009 9:39:29 AM)

LMAO!  Now that is FUNNY diane!  I agree wholeheartedly, I never go there, but I would go insane if someone ever slapped my kid, or even if I saw that!



fiery -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/3/2009 1:47:13 PM)

I can't believe he did it even after she'd moved away from him to another aisle too!

I shop there all the time. If you haven't been awhile you'd be pleasantly surprised actually. They've revamped and improved all their generic range to try hold on to all the new customers that are cutting back and started shops there and the product quality's great. 



dianerene -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/4/2009 2:16:35 PM)

I hear many people talking about how great a place it is, but I wont shop there.  I have yet to walk into a walmart that I felt comfortable in - the aisles always have pallets parked in the middle of them, everything seems jumbled and messy, nothing seems to be put back where it belongs and I just feel yucky walking into them.  I don't mean dirty yucky, it's just a feeling that I get and I just can't wait to get OUT!  lol  Target, OTOH, I visit at least 3 days a week.

but as far as this incident - I dont even know what to say.  As a parent, of course I feel badly when my child's behavior disrupts another person, but you know, it's just a part of life.  I do my best to keep my children at a reasonable volume and out of people's way, but if you take it upon yourself to discipline my child, you better believe you will have worse after you than the police. 



fiery -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/5/2009 10:27:20 PM)

It must depend on the different stores and their managers when it's big chains, diane. We have a superstore and it's never like that. In fact I've never seen many pallets on the shop floor at all come to think on it so they may do more overnight or very early. It's clean as a whistle. My experience of Target on the other hand was that it was shambolic! We don't have one here but I did in our old neighborhood. You had to watch your feet in the aisles because they had stuff strewn on the floor that was spilling out from the shelves. I was scared to take anything off them because they were so jam packed and haphazard in case something else came tumbling down and broke.

But I digress as usual from the topic. [:(] I was thinking today, I haven't seen an update on this story. Doesn't that seem a little strange that all is quiet in the media? Unless I missed it but I'm pretty sure I didn't.





dianerene -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/5/2009 11:56:58 PM)

I haven't watched much of the news and out here it is all about the fires and michael jackson, both of which I am done hearing about - lol. 



SuperSandyB -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (9/27/2009 10:08:50 PM)

I don't think the man was mentally stable! Though I'm sure a lot of people read this article and thought "it's about time" [:(] seriously though, it wasn't his place. Some kids are just more energetic than others.



fiery -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (10/2/2009 3:15:20 PM)

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ORIGINAL: SuperSandyB

I don't think the man was mentally stable! Though I'm sure a lot of people read this article and thought "it's about time" [:(] seriously though, it wasn't his place. Some kids are just more energetic than others.


I agree Sandy, and I think that could be why the news story seemed to just die away. Not that that usually stops the media, right enough. There's something behind the scenes here because the press just don't let something like that go.



Thelma -> RE: Stranger slaps toddler in Walmart (10/9/2009 11:28:46 AM)

This is the first I've heard of this!  I was horrified!  Absolutely appalling!!!!!!!!  OMG....I would have shot him a look that would have pierced his soul when he threatened to shut my kid up.  To actually touch my child, I would have gone postal on him!!!  There would have been no controlling me, I would have completely snapped. 



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