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Remember when you could fight with a sibling and not face arrest?
A 10-year-old Texas girl has been arrested and charged with assault after she and her 13-year-old sister got into a fight. (AP via Dallas Morning News || Photo and TV report)June 9, 2009 | Permalink
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OMG and WTF!!! We have become a country full of pussies!! Now we have meddling cops arresting siblings for getting into a fight. Why don't we just have a sweep of every neighborhood and every house in the country and arrest every child in a family that has two children or more in it.
A 10 year old and a 13 year old fighting IS NOT family violence. At that age they don't know how to manage their anger.
I defy ANYONE to tell me why this was a good idea.
Posted by: joel | Jun 9, 2009 6:58:46 AM
I broke two of my own toes kicking my sister when I was seven. True story. I could probably get that turned around on her today and have her sent to the big house.
Posted by: Drake Timbershaft | Jun 9, 2009 7:02:25 AM
I live in Flower Mound, it's nothing new that the cops have nothing better to do, they like to get them young around here
Posted by: K | Jun 9, 2009 7:07:00 AM
My sons were brought up to believe that your brother is your best friend, and always will be. Their families now share a home, and they still feel that way.
I'll never understand why the parent is never held responsible in stories like this. Arresting the child opens another can of worms, when there is a culpable adult at hand. Cops are charged with preserving the peace. Parents are charged with raising publicly civil children.
Posted by: thomas | Jun 9, 2009 7:07:05 AM
AMEN Joel!
Posted by: MidtownCoog | Jun 9, 2009 7:08:05 AM
Hopefully my 3 year old won't be taken to the pokey for hitting his 10 month old brother. It made the 10 month old cry then I made the 3 year old cry.
Posted by: Elroy | Jun 9, 2009 7:08:59 AM
From the Article's Reader Responses - "I blame the mother for not teaching her children that they are suppose to love each other. My sons did that one time and when I finished with them never again did that happen."
Or to paraphrase - "My son's didn't love each other, so I beat the crap out of them until they did."
Yes, I know it's not relevant to anything; it just amused me.
Posted by: Tank | Jun 9, 2009 7:10:07 AM
LMAO!!!
By these standards, my brother and I should be doing 25 to life for the fights we used to get in to!
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Jun 9, 2009 7:13:57 AM
I thank my lucky stars that I grew up back in the 1970s. My sibs and I would have been so arrested if we were kids today. I once pushed my sister through a glass door (fortunately, she was wearing a heavy coat and didn't get hurt); she got me back for that later on. My brothers and I regularly got into fistfights; one of them once clocked me on the head with a block of wood and I still have the scar. None of us are the worse for it, though, and we all get along pretty well as adults. (My own kids have been known to throw a punch at each other when their parents aren't watching, but they're a lot less violent towards one another than we were.)
Yes, I know that there are families with serious abuse problems, but that doesn't sound like it's the case with these sisters. Moral of the story: wait till you're in private to punch your sister in the nose.
Posted by: Phranqlin | Jun 9, 2009 7:14:25 AM
Wow. Lock up the felons. And while you're at it, throw in some witches. At this rate, how long do we have before we are hanging urchins for stealing crusts of bread?
Posted by: sometimesilie | Jun 9, 2009 7:19:27 AM
holy cow...my brother used to sling me and little sis around and shake us upside down. little sis threw a knife at me cleaning the kitchen. i bloodied her nose once and i still have scars from fights.....
but no one ever messed with any of us without having to deal with the other 2 just waiting to kick a butt--
that is sibling love and rivalry.
Posted by: lynn | Jun 9, 2009 7:34:14 AM
*sigh
I guess I should just go ahead and turn myself in...
Posted by: LimeGreenLizard | Jun 9, 2009 8:00:55 AM
ISN`T THIS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PILES OF CRAP YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? WHY DO THE POLICE CONCERN THEMSELVES WITH SUCH TRIVIAL CRAP? MAYBE IT PAYS MORE THAN GOING AFTER REAL CRIMINALS.
Posted by: MONKEY JERKm | Jun 9, 2009 8:03:35 AM
Arrested????? Come on!!!! I don't know how that jurisdiction is, but over here they give us SOME leeway! Something like that would only rate a minor talking too....ARRESTED?????? I'm crawling back over to the beach bar......
Posted by: USMerc | Jun 9, 2009 8:03:54 AM
The ten-year-old must have been winning the fight. You'd think a thirteen-year-old would be bigger and stronger.
Posted by: Sheila | Jun 9, 2009 8:08:25 AM
I feel safer knowing this 10 year old monster is locked up.
Posted by: kevy | Jun 9, 2009 8:15:31 AM
@Thomas I don't know if you have childrern but your post indicates to me that you don't. My children, 7 and 4, are CONSTANTLY told to leave each other alone, stop fighting, stop arguing, get away from each other. Kids who fight don't automatically mean that the parents are not teaching them right.
These two kids' parents are not culpable in any way for anything. They are two kids fighting, something that has been happening since the beginning of time. Look at the rest of the posts here. Almost everyone has a story about either kicking the crap out of a sibling or getting the crap kicked out of them by a sibling. It doesn't make them anti social, or not civil, or whatever drool you are spewing. It makes them, and all of us who have these stories, just people who are kids or were kids once.
Holy s**t. Can this country get any more retarded?
Posted by: joel | Jun 9, 2009 8:15:40 AM
Every day is a step closer to art becoming reality. If you haven't read 1984, or it's been a long time for you, give it a spin.
I for one am a little tired of our new police officer overlords.
Posted by: Soo | Jun 9, 2009 8:16:18 AM
The bar is open Merc. It's a bit crowded, though. We all just found out an hour ago that about half of us are losing our jobs this week. And the other half probably will in a few weeks. I wish my brother was here so I could beat the shit out of him. RMM, a dirty martini please?
Posted by: LimeGreenLizard | Jun 9, 2009 8:20:08 AM
LOL @ kevy
I know, right?
Lock the kid up and throw the key away.
We need NEW legislation to deal with this! We will call it the "I'm Telling Mom You Said I Was A Booger" law.
If it saves just one life, won't it be worth it?
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Jun 9, 2009 8:28:04 AM
Coming right up Lizard.
Sorry to hear about your job.
:(
Posted by: RockyMtnMac | Jun 9, 2009 8:29:24 AM
Great idea, RMM. But why stop there?
I propose the "Mom, he's looking at me funny" law to strike at the root of sibling conflict!
Posted by: Phranqlin | Jun 9, 2009 8:43:39 AM
that suxors LGL.
Posted by: Sigh | Jun 9, 2009 8:45:32 AM
joel;
I'm guessing my sons are about your age. They admit to a couple tussles away from home, but never anywhere near me. They found it much more redeeming to take on big odds in defense of the other, and always won.
It might please you to know that in many ways I failed them and former wife badly, but not in how to get along well with each other. Not easy being a constant good example is it??
Let he who dosen't drool spew the first chunk.
Best of luck with your heathens!
Posted by: thomas | Jun 9, 2009 8:46:49 AM
LOL @ RMM! To this very day, my adult daughters will bow up on each other, with my oldest calling her sister Boogers!
That said, (Thomas), they are fiercly loyal to each other.
Posted by: LimeGreenLizard | Jun 9, 2009 8:47:26 AM
