Florida Man Rips Pink Headband Off 2-Year-Old Boy At Walmart, Calls Him a 'Faggot'

[onehandle]

The 31-year-old Davenport mother of two, who writes about her family life on AMotherThing.com, recounted an exchange with a surly burly homophobe who manhandled her two-year-old son, allegedly for wearing a "feminine" headband, before hurling anti-gay epithets at the toddler.

It all started with a recent trip to Walmart, which Katie says Dexter did not particularly want to take, especially without his favorite "lace flower headband." A few things you should know about Dexter: He is gregarious, happy-go-lucky, loves Dora the Explorer, and his favorite color is pink.

Katie says the incident occurred after a pair of teen girls asked her through giggles if her child was "a boy or a girl." After she happily responded "he's a boy," a man within earshot suddenly roared "THAT'S a BOY?!" Katie describes the patron as "very large with a bushy beard and a camouflage shirt with the arms cut off." His lace-up work boots had no laces, and "the fug of cigarette smoke" and "pong of beer" surrounded him.

Katie replied affirmatively, prompting the man to rip the headband off Dexter and, after lightly slapping the boy on his head, tell him "you'll thank me later, little man." Her maternal instincts kicking in, Katie moved in front of Dexter to shield him, before telling the man "If you touch my son again, I will cut your damn hands off." To which he responded: "Your son is a fucking faggot. He'll get shot for it one day."

http://gawker.com/florida-man-rips-pink-headband-off-2-year-old-boy-call-1029024463

[hrmjustin]

1. He should have been arrested for assulting a child.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Absolutely. What is wrong with people?

I can't recall such hatred as we have at this period of time.

I hope the boy is young enough to let this slide off him and not affect him in the future. What an awful thing to say.

[liberal N proud]

26. Better yet, child molestation

The biggot would be tagged with that for the rest of his life.

[Harmony Blue]

2. To the people that said this story couldn't possibly be

real. Time to eat some crow.

[KittyWampus]

5. Why? Here's what she posted on Facebook-

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.

For all we know, she's complaining about harassment from people reacting to her initial story.

If the guy did hit her child it should be on Walmart's tape.

And if someone hit my kid, I wouldn't blog about it and THEN call the sheriff's office several days later and only after people started questioning the veracity of your story. Would you?

[bunnies]

12. +1000

A stranger hits her child and she does nothing? Either the story is bullshit or she really sucks at protecting her child.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

51. Or, thirdly, the cops in her area may have a well-established reputation for not enforcing the laws

to protect ordinary citizens.

Some police agencies have developed that reputation.

[bunnies]

54. So thats a reason for doing nothing after a stranger assaults your child?

Come on.

[Demo_Chris]

14. Obviously. Her story sounds ludicrous. nt

[AZ Progressive]

24. Being judgemental and assuming a whole lot of things eh?

"I'm an expert and I've determined that because of this this and that, that she's not credible" (you think Walmart would be quick to release a tape on the internet?)

Seemingly a lot of Americans love to be quick to judgement. Stop making Americans look bad.

[pintobean]

34. "Stop making Americans look bad"

I would say that to Katie Vyktoriah.

[wercal]

37. Wal Mart will most definitely provide the tape

First of all, I'm incredulous that this stand off occurred without Wal Mart security swarming...but I digress.

If something bad happens to you at Wal Mart, here is how to get the tape:

1) File a police report
2) Go to the store and get the tape

This occurs every day, for fender benders in their parking lots.

[KittyWampus]

39. On a scale of 1-10, I actually would put the story at about a 5 as being credible. I've no definite

opinion and ultimately really don't care.

[wercal]

44. Last week when this story was posted here, somebody found some of her other fantastical claims

I tried to find some of them on her blog today....but, well, she took her website down.

This woman writes a blog for a living, and she has to keep coming up with interesting material. It sure would be tempting to stretch the truth a bit, wouldn't it?

But the next time she stretches the truth, she should pick a place that doesn't have more security cameras than Ft Knox.

[pintobean]

60. kicking

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023416166

[pstokely]

56. How long does Wallyworld keep footage from their union busting cameras?

?

[Bay Boy]

7. Why is it more believable now?

I'm curious.

[kiva]

15. Because it's all over the internet,

so it must be true.

[pintobean]

18. Because Gawker believes it

We all know that Gawker is always spot-on.

[LittleBlue]

57. Agreed. This is your typical insecure fantasy

Someone with an insecurity tells off a powerful personality in a public place.

Offer some proof. Saying "there were numerous witnesses" but mysteriously lacking one doesn't reassure me.

[wercal]

20. I'm sure she wasn't just steering traffic to her blog :)

This happened at Wal Mart, right? Personal experience allows me to know that she can file a police report, and Wal Mart will hand her the security footage.

Color me skeptical.

[Pelican]

21. Why?

What's different?

[Dr. Strange]

62. To that, I say..."Nevermore."

Wait, that's the raven. Sorry.

[Recursion]

66. Oh, the sweet, sweet irony

Mommy Blogger Of Pink Headband Fame Hospitalized For Mental Evaluation

[Cali_Democrat]

3. These sick assholes go after little children like that

He should be arrested and charged with assault.

[NuclearDem]

6. Toddlers will be toddlers.

Also, I understand there was a 2 year old involved.

[Blue Owl]

8. Whenever Florida and WalMart appear in the same sentence...

Watch out...

[Harmony Blue]

10. Go to any Walmart in northern Florida after the sun drops

and watch low income Republicans crowd the stores as they frolic in this "utopia". They rail about government interference and how Walmart is great and yet they proceed to use to their foostamps card to buy up the crappy food that walmart sells.

The irony is thick but also so sad to see how low income Americans can be so easily manipulated by Republicans.

[Blue Owl]

29. Talk about disaster capitalism!

Epic train wreck...

[cali]

33. wow. do you realize the irony of your post? It's about as elitist as it gets

anyone who picks out low income Americans as being particularly easily manipulated by Republicans isn't paying attention.

Furthermore, there are limited options for people on food stamps and denigrating people on food stamps for shopping at Wal-Mart is ugly.

the tone of your post and the obvious scorn you have for poor people is sad to see.

[Harmony Blue]

35. Most Walmarts in Florida are about 10-15 miles apart

Which requires you use a vehicle. Most of the sensible low income individuals do NOT shop at walmart but at the local grocery stores instead. What the low income Republicans that drive around in their big gas guzzling trucks don't understand is they burn more money (gasoline) driving to Walmart than they save from the crappy foods they buy.

[cali]

45. please. try to apply a little logic. That they're 10 to 15 miles apart,

does not, as you oddly appear to believe, mean that everyone who shops at one, lives 10 to 15 miles from one. To the contrary, odds are that most people live only 5 to 7.5 miles from the closest one. And how the hell do you know that most "sensible" low income individuals shop at local grocery stores instead? How do you know that most low income people who grocery shop at Wal-Mart are republicans? Got anything to back those claims up? Anything at all? Of course not. You're pulling it out of your hat. How do you know what these low income republicans drive? You don't. You're just making shit up to fit your frame of beliefs. It's a nasty form of confirmation bias.

And by the way, in the original post of yours that I responded to, you bitched about poor people on food stamps shopping at Wal-Mart without specifying republicans- not that that would make it much better.

And how is the grocery section at Wal-Mart crappier than most other supermarkets? I've only been in a Wal-Mart grocery store once, but it carried the same selection of foods as other supermarkets. People on food stamps shop there because they believe that they get the most for their food stamps. Maybe they're right, maybe not but YOU have no way of knowing that.

Your contempt for the poor couldn't be clearer.

[bluestate10]

67. Poor people and stupid poor people are two distinctly different groups of people.

The poster was referring to stupid poor people, the type that instinctively vote against their best interests and proudly bellow their stupidity.

[cherokeeprogressive]

58. The Walmarts I've been to sell the EXACT same brands of groceries that every other grocery store

does.

And FWIW, their produce isn't half bad. Where do you get this opinion that Walmart only sells "crappy food"?

[Raine]

61. Yes. Out of curiosity I went into one of their markets recently and the food items were EXACTLY the

same as any other market. I don't like Walmart for the way they treat employees etc but labeling them with ridiculous bullshit charges sure doesn't help our side.

[bluestate10]

65. As long as republicans let them keep their guns and repeal Obamacare, those people don't

care that they are getting screwed everyway possible in all other aspects of their lives. Obamacare is the best thing that could happen for those people, they are just too fucking dense and easily led to recognize that fact.

[ceonupe]

11. I could say when ever Florida and a mother of a child

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Are brought up I could say...


Casey Anthony (edited for factual errors)

Ill wait for more information but I do know walmarts have almost the entire store on video tape so there should be video of this.


I hope she is not exaggerating the truth. I don't doubt someone confronted her and said mean things about the pink headband but I don't believe someone snatched it off his head.

[Captain Stern]

47. Well, you could say that....

....but then some nitpicking jerk would probably point out that Susan Smith was in South Carolina.

[ceonupe]

50. and i would respond

she sure was and edit my post noting it

[uponit7771]

19. this is not right ... lol

[spin]

30. Walmart is the place people go to try carrying a concealed weapon for the first time. ...

In Florida they get their concealed weapons permit and do the "Walmart Walk."

Perhaps I should point out that I live in Florida and have a concealed weapon permit. I have done the Walmart Walk but I personally dislike Walmart stores. I only visit one when absolutely necessary. What will probably upset some posters here is that I tend to order most of my stuff from Amazon.com rather than buy it at Walmart.

[Demo_Chris]

9. Not that any of this actually happened. nt

[snooper2]

16. That dude!

"very large with a bushy beard and a camouflage shirt with the arms cut off." His lace-up work boots had no laces, and "the fug of cigarette smoke" and "pong of beer"

I've seen him at the Wal-Mart off 75 and Spring Valley! She forgot to add that he had a mullet and Go USA tattooed on his neck LOL

[Pelican]

22. Every stereotype rolled into one...

[snooper2]

27. And she is a blogger and on twitter constantly..but gets ATTACKED and doesn't instantly

tweet about it or take to social media

She conveniently has a picture of her boy wearing a headband (she probably just took off a rack)

She doesn't call the cops then when this supposed attack happens or tell anybody working there, but she DOES call the cops when people threaten to send her pizza deliveries online LOL




SURE!

[REP]

49. Has her phone out to take pics of her kid at WalMart, but none of the attacker and doesn't call 911

And her son, who never ages on her blog, always has a non-gender conforming attire story around Pride season ...

[pintobean]

48. That worked out well ^^^

Get off my lawn.

[skypilot]

32. And a "Romney/Ryan" bumpersticker...

...on his pick-up truck.

The excerpt that you posted is exactly where I started to become very skeptical of this story.

[Initech]

17. That family should get the hell out of Florida if they get the opportunity.

WTF is wrong with people? This is 2013 and people are still hanging onto archaic, irrelevant forms of gender that don't make sense anymore. Let kids be kids.

[NCTraveler]

23. Story is crap.

Hope the kids are ok in her care.

[snooper2]

25. After reading pages of posts at GOMI

this story is bullshit-





Mermaid Vibrator said

squishedhed said


1). You call the cops over potential pizza delivery threats, but not immediately after an intimidating stranger touches your child? I used to get worked up when strangers got even too close to my baby, let alone touch him.



This. I admit that I go from zero to bitch in 2.5 seconds. I know not everyone is like that. I would have punched someone who called my child a name and/or touched him. I probably would have been arrested for assault.

Fine, she's not like me. But she's willing to call over INTERNET THREATS, but not actual physical assault of a child? Bullshit.



Not only call them, but the sheriff was at their house, took the report of the original incident, all of the pizza threats and gone in under an hour. ON A SATURDAY night.

Alas, her ploy for a mixer sadly went back to being "given" $15 every time she "serviced" her boyfriend.

In all seriousness, I do feel for him, in less than 6 months of meeting her, she was pregnant (still married to the other guy) and now with another baby being married to a crazy woman who will make his life a living hell.


http://getoffmyinternets.net/forums/mommy-bloggers/a-mother-thing-true-story-or-bullshit/page-16/

[LWolf]

28. 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/10023407875


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.

[Just Saying]

31. I have no problem with being skeptical

About what is on the Internet. But the character assassination against this woman is disgusting. What cord did she strike with you that you feel the need to make personal attacks?

Everyone is not going to react the same way you do to a traumatic experience particularly in front of her children. As a mother, I can tell you strangers do make comments and even touch kids. As I said on the other thread about this, some mean well but others are just plain rude. It's not that hard to believe something like this could happen.

[cali]

36. comments about this woman on this thread are indeed vile- bordering on sick

people are suggesting she's not a fit mother? Disgusting is right.

and you make a good point that people don't all react the same way. I can easily see reacting as she did.

[gollygee]

38. +1000

I have no idea why people are freaking out about her like this. I can see it happening as she says, and I can see her embelishing. Either way, she doesn't deserve the level of vitriol she's gotten.

[Comrade Grumpy]

41. How people KNOW this story is false is a mystery to me. Skepticism, sure...

....but this absolute certainty based on I don't know what is unsettling and unseemly.

[AlinPA]

40. One member of the republcan base just making a point.

[benld74]

43. Yeah, the one on top of his head!

[malaise]

42. Should have been my fugging son

They would have called the undertaker for him

[shenmue]

52. Somebody call the police

What a freak.

[REP]

53. The irrepressible Kate Vykhtoria, in her own words

I found out later in life that I had pretty severe ADHD, which is part of the reason I made things up. I preferred my richly detailed stories to what may or may not have been ACTUALLY happening. However, around the time I left high school, I had a talk with myself and decided that I would never lie again. And for two years I didn’t.

...

But every now and then, I get a feeling… like a tingling on the back of my neck… and it tells me that maybe now, at nearly 30 years old, I should get it under control. Maybe I’m too old for this sort of behaviour. I’m a mother now. Maybe it’s time I settled down and fell in line with the rest of the populace.

And then I think, “What fun would that be?”

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1CVbVmBxSm0J:amotherthing.com/2011/11/page/2/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us because her blog is mysteriously off-line

[bunnies]

55. So she freely admits to being a pathological liar.

But Im sure *this* one is true.

[arely staircase]

63. oh boy nt

[Nye Bevan]

59. Has the Confederate Flag-flying pickup truck guy been arrested yet? (nt)

[cherokeeprogressive]

64. How many people know the word GULLIBLE isn't in the dictionary?