"What Happened When My Son Wore A Pink Headband To Walmart"

[apples and oranges]

Soon enough, we were done with our shop and were making our way toward the front. As we passed through the produce section, two teenage girls began giggling and one of them asked, "Is that a boy or a girl?" I smiled and said, "He's a boy." I looked on at him adoringly as they continued to giggle.

Out of nowhere a big booming voice rang out. "THAT'S a BOY?!" The man was overly large with a bushy beard and a camouflage shirt with the arms cut off. He had tattered shorts and lace-up work boots with no laces. I could smell the fug of cigarette smoke surrounding him, and there was a definite pong of beer on him.

"Yes," I said simply, still smiling.

With no notice, the man stepped forward, grabbed the headband off of Dexter's head and threw it to the bottom of our shopping cart. He then cuffed Dexter around the side of his head (not hard, but that is not the point) and said with a big laugh, "You'll thank me later, little man!"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-vyktoriah/what-happened-when-my-son-wore-a-pink-headband-to-walmart_b_3696113.html

[msongs]

1. so what happened when the cops were called and they showed up? nt

[librechik]

2. i'm afraid that man would have pulled back a stump

if he had cuffed one of my kids.

[MADem]

3. This was discussed a few days ago here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023397366

[TrogL]

4. Possible hoax but either wouldn't surprise me

Some authoritarians have no boundaries

[TwilightGardener]

5. I love it when people use their kids for little social experiments to give them

something to blog about. And post photos of their children for the general public's consumption. Yeah, good idea.

[Demo_Chris]

7. This.. nt

[Harmony Blue]

9. How is this a social experiment?

[TwilightGardener]

11. I'm not sure this even happened--doesn't ring true to me. If it did happen, it sounds like

she was "trolling" for a reaction. Which is a really weird and exploitative thing to do to your own child--unless you earn your $$ being a professional "mommy blogger" who needs content to write about. It's either fake or a forced/invited situation. Edit to add: she shouldn't post pics of her kid for "proof". Most parents guard their children's privacy (though I guess the Facebook age is changing that).

[morningfog]

14. The kid wears what he wants. How is that trolling?

I know some young boys who want to wear skirts and pinks and purples.

[LanternWaste]

15. I imagine many people pretend they're clever enough to deduce a person is trolling for attention

I imagine many people pretend they're clever enough to deduce a person is trolling for attention by dressing their children in a colored head-band...

[KittyWampus]

8. SO- a guy hits your kid and you blog about it but don't complain to the sheriff until several days

later and only after people on the internet question the veracity of your story?

Furthermore, this woman called the sheriff to complain of "ongoing harassment".

Frankly, I suspect she called the sheriff cause so many people were calling her out for what they suspect is a bogus story.


The Polk County Sheriff's Deputy has just left our home, and all information about the original Wal Mart incident and the ongoing harassment has been documented and is being dealt with. I have been advised NOT to say any more about the situation, as the investigation is ongoing, so thank you all for your support, but I am going to be offline for the next while until all of this is resolved.

[Gman]

12. The description of the guy is too stereotypical

And leads me to suspect this may never have happened.

[LWolf]

13. How many do we need on the front page today?

There's the original from a couple of days ago, which is still on the front page:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023397366

And the other one posted just today, making a total of 3:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023407951

I know things get reposted in GD for those who didn't catch it the first time around, but this one has been on the front page for 2 days.