“Attention Walmart Shoppers:  Please refrain from beating stranger’s kids.  Thank you.  Price cut on School Supplies.”

Ah yes.  It’s back to school shopping at Walmart, where there are price cuts on pencils, paper, and child abuse.  Hmmmm.  So some crazy old dude walks up to a mom who has a crying two year old in tow and allegedly says “If you don’t shut the baby up, I will shut her up for you.”  He then precedes to slap the baby, hard, on her face three or four times.  I am assuming this man has a mental illness.  Or, he may be just some old crotchety child abuser who hates kids and women and thinks he is God’s gift to planet earth.  I am not a psychiatrist.

Of course pundits are all over this story, with the majority stating the baby slapper should go to jail, etc.  Others can not comprehend how the mother did not rip this man’s jugular out for slapping her baby (maybe she was just a little shell shocked and spent those seconds after a violent crime soothing her just beaten on child?  Maybe?  Mother blaming, again.)

Some talking heads and bloggers are asking for opinions on just how would you handle a  stranger’s screaming or misbehaving child who is out in public?  This question is absurd in and of itself.  It sounds so judgmental.  I will admit that before I had my own kids, I certainly was good at giving a mom the skunk eye if her toddler was throwing a tantrum at Starbucks while I was trying to enjoy my iced Quad Venti Latte.  Then, I spawned my own little creatures, and parenting judgments flew out the window.  I think of the time I had to call a priest in to perform an exorcism on a flight to Florida because my 15 month old was speaking loudly in tongues and spinning her head around in circles.  Like I said, I am not casting any stones on mom’s here.

But, the blogosphere luvs to caste stones.  So, here are some stoned comments from threads about this crazy old Walmart shopper child abuser.  Enjoy.  Happy Thursday.

“All of you talk so much s**t, you probably would have just watched in amazement. Everyone talks like there so big on here, you might have wanted to do something to him, but he probably would have beet your a** too….”.

“The blows should have been for the parent. Not the children. Where the hell do you think they get it from? Spoiled, selfish, pathetic, society.”

“THAT IS VERY VERY WRONG OF HIM. BUT THAT MUST HAVE BEEN THE WAY HE WAS RAISED.

IT IS SHAMEFUL….” (Justify much?)

“He is my hero! Kids are so spoiled today!”

RR