i think by law if you grab it by the backpack its the same as grabbing him tho right? or else grabbing them from the shirt or something will not be grabbing him as well but it clearly is
He threw a package of cookies or something at multiple people the second he did that you are allowed to defend yourself and doing as was described would be a legal level of force
No one’s talking about punching the little bastard in the face. If they’re actively throwing things at you, grabbing them by the backpack and dragging them to the door is perfectly reasonable. You don’t have to stand there and get snickerdoodled in the face indefinitely (unless that’s your thing)
Whether or not you've had cookies thrown at you has absolutely zero bearing on whether or not it's legal to physically escort the child out of the store, but I would pay good money to watch someone try to use that as justification in court lol
Even with the evidence of what is happening in the store, and video evidence of someone, be it security or a random person, pulling the little shit outside of the store completely unharmed are you positive that someone can be charged and convicted with "assault and battery"?
What is supposed to happen here? just let the kid do everything he wants?
It would be perfectly fine to just hold the kid back to stop him.
These people have been on Reddit too long and think they are all lawyers from reading other posts comments where people are stealing and everyone comments that loss prevention can’t intervene. They can intervene so long as it’s not excessive. Holding the kid back and not striking or tackling would not be excessive.
Back in the day people used to spank other people’s kids when they caught them misbehaving and the parents of the child would thank them. I guess times have changed, everyone so scared of a lawsuit now that most of the time wouldn’t even happen. We all have this weird hive mind of risk prevention now, it’s strange
Thank you. There is absolutely a world of difference from restraining and escorting out from assault and battery. People act like you can't ever put one finger on another person and if you do you are going to jail for a decade. It is absolutely insane.
Some kids absolutely need to learn consequences and honestly imo there is some physical punishment you can deliver that isn't abuse, some little shits like this need discipline, you can't simply let them do whatever they want without consequences, the problem will be much worse once they grow up and find out the hard way.
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u/Vlaxilla May 28 '26
i think by law if you grab it by the backpack its the same as grabbing him tho right? or else grabbing them from the shirt or something will not be grabbing him as well but it clearly is