Ok so, sure, other parents seem to have escalated things in a dumb way, but… for the rest of his life, this kid can say “I was so good at soccer they called the police on me… when I was 3.”
It would be hilarious if he grows up and completely stops playing or just is shit at it.
My neighbor called the police when my dog chased their cat…in my backyard. I got off with a warning.
Were they at least told to keep their cat inside? Or on their own property?!?
Laws vary from county to county, city to city, but in most places cats are free to roam, legally, and deliberately harming a cat for nothing more than trespass exposes you to animal cruelty charges punishable with fines and/or mandatory anger management and other counselling.
Obviously I don’t know the specifics of this situation, but if a cat jumps into a fenced yard with a dog and gets chased, that seems pretty unfair since the dog owner is being responsible. But maybe that wasn’t the case here.
I am a responsible dog owner. The guy was just a jerk, and he still is.
Every case needs a proper, unbiased, investigation - and we won’t be getting that here tonight.
My snowflake neighbor came crying to me about his chickens being murdered and how he saw my cat on his camera and if he ever saw my cat again he was going to shoot it - nevermind that cats don’t murder full grown laying hens in their pen and the fact that we have raccoons, hawks, owls, and coyotes which DO murder full grown laying hens at any opportunity. I had to jump a hoop (get an ear clipped) to get my cat protected as “free to roam” in our county, which is a little weird, but now that he’s protected legally as a “community cat” anyone who brags about shooting him is eligible for an open and shut animal cruelty case, $500 fine and court ordered anger management counselling. We passed this information to the snowflake through his landlord, and have not heard peep out of him since - 2 and a half years now.
Not about your specific situation, but Cats can definitely kill hens. I used to live on a small farm and we had issues with some wild cats.
Lots of other issues with other predators, but it’s entirely possible, especially at night.
Yeah, we’ve got a vicious killer on our hands here, he’s a big orange/white floof and about 6 times in the 7 years we have had him, he’ll bring a baby squirrel, or little fledgling bird to us. Nothing approaching the size of an adult squirrel, much less a hen. I suppose if he were hungry enough he might try, but… with all the other wildlife around it’s irresponsible to not protect your henhouse with hardware cloth to prevent predators from digging under the wire in the night (which, somehow the camera surveillance managed to miss - although why snowflake didn’t just make his coop more secure like the neighbors do is just… a him thing.) His next door neighbor watched a hawk grab the wire on the top of their run, in the middle of he day, and try to fly up with it / lift it off. We have had a young hawk grab a hen from the new neighbors’ open run that was a little too big for him to carry far, made it 100 meters to our driveway and set down there, as I rounded the corner I spooked him away and he left his prize, 15 minutes later he had returned to take it away.
So, yeah, bruiser the cat is capable, but about as likely to bother with his hens as he is to attack the FedEx delivery guy.
Maybe you like, don’t let the cat wander free?
I would probably buy a gun and shoot someone if they shot my cat. Humans aren’t more special than animals. That’s like the one thing that would get me riled up enough to commit a crime of passion is hurting my cats.
When I was 9 years old, our neighbor boys used our cat for target practice with their air rifles, back in those days apparently the air rifles were powerful enough to put a pellet through a pelt, our cat crawled up inside the engine bay of our car to hide, got caught in the belts when we started it, but it wasn’t the belt that killed the cat, it was the pellet hole in its torso. I never acknowledged their existence again except to be rude at any opportunity, I doubt it changed their cruel dispositions.
Cats are free to roam here. He wasn’t a nice guy to begin with. He was renting and I own so…problem solved.
I’m the one who called the cops. You guys don’t understand just how good this toddler is, someone had to do something
Don’t you know about cops killing black people though. They could have showed up and thought that little 3 year old boy was going to kick a soccer ball at them.
Or an acorn could have fallen on a car, causing them to shoot the place up.
Home boys gonna fucking roll more than he has since he played sonic in the 90s.
If those cops ever live that down…
I thought it was obvious, but /s for the aforementioned comment you’re replying to.
Edit, I read half your reply when I replied. It seems I’m the one with egg on my face
If you want this kid in black and white stripes, call Juventes.
Are people really that stupid in the usa?
A lot of white people are.
The Karens will always do Karen shit.
The police could have used common sense but elected not to.
You expect police to not needlessly use their power? This is a country were SWATing is so easy there is a term for it and so common that it doesn’t get investigated.
The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid’s parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.
White people intuitively understanding how cops are there to protect white supremacy even though when asked directly they’ll deny it and call themselves allies of black people
Wow, those other parents are total pieces of shit.
They are, but it’s not just them
The whole system complied. On a kid younger than them
I can’t say I’m surprised either
Hah, that’s the weird part, when the parent called, the cops didn’t just hang up.
Considering how easy it is to call a SWAT on a stranger with no evidence, I’m not surprised they went ahead with any excuse to exert their power.
If my kid was playing with baby Messi? I would still want them to have a chance to play. This is fucking kids soccer - there’s no money on it. Good for the kid at being a god, but my kid can’t get good if she doesn’t have a chance to play.
Edit: calling the cops was wrong. I cannot believe anybody thought that was a good idea.
lol
Take your kid to a different league, what are the cops even doing here?
So you’re fine with this? Just to clarify?
No. Full stop. That was potentially deadly and scary and stupid and an unbelievable overreaction. I am fully against what they did. I can’t believe these dipshit parents couldn’t talk to the coach or that kid’s parents fucking mystifies me.
I’d want my kid playing with or against
The quickest way to get gud is be outclassed
Thanks for calling me out on that. That was beyond wrong of the parents, on multiple levels.
One thing I like about this place is so much of the community are willing to own their mistake. No dramas.
Something that can be remedied without involving armed law enforcement. Maybe the coach could do their job and make sure all the kids get at least some chance to play?
Yes, this. Fucking idiots bringing cops into it boggles the mind.
we all know that playing against people of the same level makes you better… You are just teaching your kid to find the shallowest pool to play in. How dare they be exposed to the idea that someone is better and maybe this is just all for learning.
Kid was playing against other kids 2 years older. I dare say they learned. And again, bringing cops into was beyond anything imaginable and wrong. But this should’ve been a learning opportunity, not “hey, let’s endanger a kid for playing soccer while black.”
Cop could have just said “Are you for real? Did you really waste police resources on this?”
They trespassed the kid, so the police had no choice but to escort him out. Which absolutely is a waste of police resources, but is also perfectly legal and follows the process.
In more reasonable countries, nobody can trespass you from a football field, unless you give them a very good reason like repeated physical assault.
Who trespassed the kid? Like I know it says “the league” but the league obviously didn’t have any meeting or come to a consensus in time to make that decision.
No, they trespassed his loud mouth wannabe influencer parents.
And followed up with a ticket. This happened at work when some teen tried to fax and couldnt figure out dialing out over 9 or 1. Somehow faxed 9911Xxxxxx so the fax called the police. They showed up and fined us for the waste of time.
Listening to the parent talking in the video it sounds like there was past history between the kid’s parents and the other parents and that there was at least an altercation between them after someone said something the kid’s parent didn’t like. This seems to be the real reason behind the parents being kicked out and the cops ultimately called. But of course, the parent who released the video edited all those parts out to make it sound they’re kicking the kid out for being too good. Feel bad for the kid though. That wasn’t his fault.
AOL Keyword: Uppity.
Look into it.
You are very articulate.
This reads like copium, a milder variant of the racism that this family was subjected to.
There may have been more to the story but nothing that warranted police involvement. There’s a league administration to deal with any such matters.
The article claims that the game was being live streamed, others could/would have reported any real infractions had there actually been anything to report.
What I can tell for sure is that the article reports the kid’s parents side of the story and their side only. They obviously make the claim that the cops were called because their kid was too good at the sport. The video they edited opens up with the father saying that. But if you read between the lines of what they tell the cop afterwards it is clear that there was a clash between the parents before the cops were called and the article fails to even mention that. If there is recorded footage of the events somewhere whoever wrote that article couldn’t find it, just like they couldn’t find anyone else who was there to tell what they see happened.
This is far from being high-end investigative journalism and I’m pointing that out.
The only thing we can deduce with some decent level of certainty is that it is the league that fucked up first. Kids are usually grouped by skill level to avoid things like that and they failed to correct that situation for quite some time it seems.
Even paw patrol shouldn’t bother for petty bench fights. But since black folks were involved, officers smelled blood.
GUARANfuckingTEED to be the same parents who won’t shut the fuck up about participation trophies, how kids these days are too soft, and how nobody deserves anything they haven’t earned through white-approved work. Always preaching meritocracy, personal responsibility, and how losing builds character. Fucking snowflakes.
Unbelievable.
By which I mean, I literally don’t believe this story as presented. There’s definitely some details missing.
Where was the coach for this game? Why weren’t people talking to him about a solution?
The ‘coach’ is probably a volunteer (or more likely a voluntold) with no training or authority if it is anything like what goes on around me. Where I am, they’d be lucky if the coach has played soccer before.
Fuck, this looks like a variant of swatting.
Got so many pop-ups I just gave up on reading it.
On the playground, the other kids used to tear down the show-boaters. There were no parents around and lessons would be learned and the game went on. Parents/adults really screw everything up with their constant interference.
