Halloween thugs

[BuddyLee]

Yes...

 

[kwillia]

Some day, little Kwilly...some day.

 

[Nickel]

I will have to remember that in case they come not in costume next year.

It was cute, and the kids were good sports about it.

 

[tikipirate]

Mikey,

For some reason, this sort of thing is universal on Halloween. It happens from Maine to SoCal, from Seattle to Key West. Little boy losers beating up on children and pretending that they are in the 'thug life'? Why?

It never happened to me, but it did to my friend Khalid. He was a slight Iraqi Christian (known as Chaldean in Detroit) and got picked on like you read about in 'Picked On' magazine. On Halloween night he was thrown to the ground, beaten, and his candy stolen. The next year, Khalid and I took it upon ourselves to grow up and walk the neighborhood behind the children. We carried military-grade pepper spray and clubs. Some things were attempted, and, uh, some teenaged boys got badly hurt.

I got some red karma for this, stuff saying that I'm no hero. I never claimed to be a hero, I just stated facts from my growing up in Detroit. Please allow me to review. Khalid and I were 13 years old at the time. The child getting beaten was about 9 or 10. The teenagers we pepper sprayed and clubbed half to death had beards and drove away in a brown Monte Carlo.

What would you do red-karma-poster? Watch the child get kicked to death? My friend and I had the resources and balls to take care of the matter at hand.

 

[MikeyBash]

I also got some red karma--my critic said, "if you were a better parent you would have been with your boy not having his brother have to play the role of protector".

First of all, thanks for telling me what I've been thinking ever since it happened. I'm a bad parent for not being there to defend my son.

But even if i'm a bad parent, my oldest son is a hell of a good brother. He chased two boys who were bigger them him, because they hurt his little brother. I'm very proud of him, and if I allowed him to to be on-line here, his karma would be off the scale.

So I'll take the bad parent rap, because it's not about how good I am--It's about how great my kids are.