Father gets punched by angry shopper for bringing daughter into men's room at Walmart

[davidn3600]

Christopher Adams was suckerpunched by a hate-filled shopper for letting his 5-year-old daughter use the boy’s room in an eerie echo of the trans panic sweeping America.

It was just another Sunday afternoon family trip to their local Walmart until a Utah dad’s restroom break turned into a bruising rumble.

Christopher Adams, a 6’3”, 250-pound construction worker from Roy, Utah had come to the Clinton-based bulk store with his wife Tiffany and his two kids for storage bins and blinds for their windows.

Then he heeded nature’s call at around 2 p.m. from his daughter Emery, 5, and his 7-year-old son Kyler, as first reported by KSL.

“There was a family restroom but with two kids that have to go to the bathroom I just decided we’ll all go to the men’s bathroom and get it done,” Adams told The Daily Beast while he was attending his son’s soccer game Wednesday night.

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“What the fuck is she doing in here?” the man said, according to Adams. “It is inappropriate that she’s in here.”

Adams said he tried to keep cool.

“I was just like, ‘Wait, what? What is going on?’”

Adams tried to tell the guy to back off.

“I told him ‘Whatever A-hole.’”

Then the guy “instantly snapped,” suckerpunching Adams in the mouth.

“He pushed me and I caught myself and then he punched me in the face,” Adams said. “I took it and then moved him out of the bathroom… He was just exploding.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/26/maniac-attacks-dad-with-daughter-in-men-s-room-at-walmart.html

[Bad Dog]

1. Some people really have got their priorities right.

5 year old girls are such a threat to fully grown men.

[mythology]

4. I practically pee myself in terror at the very sight of them

[Bad Dog]

5. They know.

That's why they do it.

[NutmegYankee]

2. That NC Law has just set off the nuts everywhere.

I've seen this sort of thing before, and no one cared or at least understood that the father wanted to keep an eye on the little ones. Now suddenly it's resulting in violence.

[HereSince1628]

6. It's remarkable how much pent up anger seems to be just waiting for a release

that makes violence 'justifiable'.

As a nation, as people living in close proximity to one another, we've got serious problems, and they aren't about the bathroom presence of children too young to have an awareness of sexuality

[NutmegYankee]

7. There is a massive amount of stress in our society right now.

People feel powerless to attack the real issues, so they build it up and then release it on emotional topics like this one.

[HereSince1628]

8. But is -this- REALLY an emotional topic? It hasn't really seemed so until fundy-sharia

In a society filled with divorced fathers, there are MILLIONS of cases where small kids are taken into opposite sex restroom and locker rooms. Even for non-divorced fathers, there is an expectation that fathers will have kids with them during errand running.

What are all those fathers to do?

I taught my daughter to swim at age 3 at a yMca. I sure didn't leave her alone to find her own way in the women's facilities.

[NutmegYankee]

9. Some people use faith as their weapon against a world that they perceive as hurting them.

I don't think the Fundy freakout is even remotely reasonable, but I can see how this issue suddenly gave otherwise quietly angry nuts (over other issues like wealth and economy) an issue to suddenly champion. They get to release their rage and "defend" a value system they hold dear (religion). And now we see it coming out, like the idiots who walk through Targets yelling.

This whole bathroom debate is just bizarre! Transgender people were using restrooms for decades without anyone giving a damn. And parents - it's a DUH! But now people will make it an issue when it doesn't matter.

[HereSince1628]

11. I understand people's response to threat/risk

but what about young children accompanied by their parent in an opposite sex restroom represents such a threat?

The only threat was the father told the guy to mind his own business, which made the other guy feel his authority and rightness was diminished and needed support via application of force.

[NutmegYankee]

14. Some people think their action is in the childs best interest.

And being told to go away and mind their own business invokes an extreme emotional reaction. I'm sure in that aggressors mind, he thought he was in the right.

[Mnpaul]

10. I think many don't even know the real issues

and our "for profit" news likes it that way

just take a pill and forget about it

[GliderGuider]

13. Absolutely! Here's a metaphor or two.

The USA today resembles super-saturated solution of anger. Any little thing can act as the crystallizing trigger. When this happens in the lab, the whole container of solution changes phase at once. From a "melting pot" to a solid lump of anger in a millisecond.

I fear deeply for your nation. When this has happened in other places and times, the outcome has always been horrific. You seem to be looking down the barrel of a loaded gun, and half a nation of nutballs have their pissed-off fingers on the trigger.

[Person 2713]

19. Agree

[ProfessorGAC]

3. What A Piece of Work!

I've seen daddies bring their little girls into the men's room at stores forever! This has probably been happening since the advent of public bathrooms!

To start a fight over a 5 year old being in the bathroom? That guy needs a straightjacket.

[TipTok]

15. It could escalate even more...

Someone with some actual training could have put this guy in the hospital or worse.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Yeah, Probably So

I've had such training, and i'm probably too old for it to be effective anymore, but 20 years ago, that guy might have been in for a rude awakening.

I'm probably too slow now, although i would probably be tempted to fight dirty against an idiot like this.

[TipTok]

17. In the past, a fist fight has been a fist fight...

... but the addition of the child changes things a bit.

The first hint that my kid could be threatened by this moron would increase my response significantly.

However, I suspect that anyone who would even start this fight will likely not go after the 30 something with the operator cap, military bearing and athletic build. Cowards always like an easy target.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Ain't That The Truth! (eom)

[gollygee]

12. What the heck?

My husband took our daughters into men's rooms with him when they were little. I don't think there was ever any issue at all. Now people are all itching for a fight over bathrooms, and they're just picking at anything they can think of.

[roamer65]

18. I would have "cleaned his clock" right there.

That one was a "freebie".

[DawgHouse]

20. It's a real dilemma for some men.

I was at Seaworld years ago and started toward a ladies room. A man was standing nearby with his little daughter and he asked me if I would mind taking her in with me and keeping an eye on her. She needed help pulling her pants up. I didn't understand why he didn't just take her in the mens room with him but I guess he didn't want to get punched like the poor dad in the article!