More children fun, now for parents!

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:39 am

Continuing on with "what's wrong with america", first we have veteran teachers getting fired for children seeing art, then the banning of the game called "tag", now this: http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?secti ... 3&ft=print

Parents pulling guns out at sporting events because their pwecious angel wasn't allowed to play enough. If you think that not enough game time will ruin your kid, try devoiding your child of a father because he's in jail for threatening people with a loaded firearm in front of 30 kids.

Okuni · Post by **Okuni** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:56 am

well, my Firefox connection is stupid. I get a blank page when it says done!

*shakes fist*

anyways...I don't think this country has a probably with guns; it has a problem with it's PEOPLE. You know someone isn't all there when they think that's "normal" reactive behavior of an adult.
When did common sense become uncommon?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:57 am

Sometime in the 20th century.

Okuni · Post by **Okuni** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:01 pm

How true, Cloud. How very true.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:02 pm

How much do you think very true is? Somewhat. You and I are on the same wavelength, Okuni.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:26 pm

Okuni wrote:well, my Firefox connection is stupid. I get a blank page when it says done! *shakes fist*

anyways...I don't think this country has a probably with guns; it has a problem with it's PEOPLE. You know someone isn't all there when they think that's "normal" reactive behavior of an adult.
When did common sense become uncommon?

Here ya go

Charges Filed in Pee Wee Gun Incident
By Jessica Borg
October 23, 2006 - Charges have been filed against a parent and a referee after a pee-wee football game turned violent Sunday. The parent allegedly pulled out a loaded gun.

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It happened during a game between the Burholme Outlaws and Oxford Circle Raiders on Sunday morning at Burholme Park.

40-year-old Wayne Derkotch is accused of pulling the gun. He was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment. According to police, Derkotch, a father of a player, started arguing with the coach because his son wasn't playing enough.

Investigators say the argument escalated into a fist fight, then the father allegedly pulled out a loaded 357 magnum after the coach started getting the upper hand in the fight. "We get parents like that all the time. Instead of letting us be the coaches and them be the parents, things happen. They get emotional," said coach Jermaine Wilson, who was allegedly attacked by Derkotch. The incident happened in front of 34 children just 5 to 7 years old, including Wilson's son.

"We're up there for the kids. It's all about the kids. Actually, I feel sorry for the ref. He was just doing his job, protecting the kids," said Wilson.

When the police arrived they witnessed one of the football referee punching the brother of the man with the gun.

"All I heard was 'Gun! Gun!'" said referee Shawn Henderson. "And I looked to the sidelines and saw the two gentlemen fighting and I got all the kids off the field."

Henderson declared the game over, but when he tried to restrain the alleged gunman, he says Derkotch's brother lunged for him.

"The gentleman kept coming at me and he attacked me. I felt attacked," said Henderson. "He was reaching for my throat. He was ready to get me."

But Henderson was the one arrested and charged with simple assault. He now plans to press charges against Derkotch's brother.

(Copyright 2006 by Action News and 6abc. All Rights Reserved.)

Sugarflower · Post by **Sugarflower** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:01 pm

All I can say is shameful.

glorff · Post by **glorff** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:52 pm

What is the difference between intelligence and stupidity?

One has limits.

sailorsv13 · Post by **sailorsv13** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:00 am

This reminds me of tons of incidences in which angry parents end up killing eachother at little kid hockey games...ridiculous! There is a serious problem with people in America today...should be a lucrative enterprise for psychiatrists!

~ Bri ~

Okuni · Post by **Okuni** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:15 pm

Not Sir Phobos wrote:

Here ya go

Charges Filed in Pee Wee Gun Incident

thanks, NSP!

It's horrible. A few years back; in Mass.; there was a fist fight between two dads at their kids hockey game. At the end of the fight, one man was taken into custody and the other was dead from a head injury caused by the other man's fist.

These incidents raise so many questions to me.
The biggest is:Why??
They signed the kids up so they can learn a sport. Or so the dads say. The ones that get into the fights and all the trouble, I think they're actually trying to live their own dreams thru the child.
Shameful.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:42 pm

Phooey! All we have around here is 2nd string university football punters stabbing the first-stringers in the leg to try to get first string!

And I thought we were really getting somewhere on the stupidity scale out here. Daaa-ng

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:43 pm

Whatever gave you that idea?

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:44 pm

Cloud wrote:Whatever gave you that idea?

I don't know, Cloud. I guess I'm just an idjut

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:45 pm

Only just? What is idjut, your job?

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:47 pm

Cloud wrote: Only just? What is idjut, your job?

Oh heck no. If idjut were my job, I could have retired a long time ago!