Aug 1 2009You're Doing It Wrong!: Woman Dragging Leashed Child Through A Verizon Store

Dont see whats wrong with that... thats how i was raised and theres nothing wrong with me *twitch*

they'll try and pass anything off as child abuse these days.

I hope that bitch stopped before she got to the parking lot. Being drug across asphalt burns, I can show u scars.

BUTTSCRATCHER!?

What, no air? What fun is that? Everytime I put a hamster in a bucket and swing it around, the thing is ALWAYS shaking with excitement at the end. No wonder the kid looks bored...

wtf? THAT isn’t child abuse. Using the leash to first strangle the child to unconsciousness and THEN dragging it through a store could be, but this… this is just a child refusing to get up (as a likely form of a tantrum) and the mother just carrying on. That woman doesn’t subscribe to empty threats, that’s for sure.
“If u don’t get up right now, I will drag up right out of this store”
–child does not comply-
“alright”
–mother proceeds to drag said brat-
Makes sense to me.

I'll take a buttscratcher over here!!!
Funny video, but if that kid was about 3, i could understand.
My kids drive me CRAZY!!!

The little bastard probably deserved it. #6 is right the little bastard was probably throwing a hissy fit so she dragged him.

So, how is this child abuse? I remember being dragged on the ground all the time when I was little. Doing what? Who knows, but it was usually something deemed as "fun".

Hell, if anything, those damned leashes should be considered child abuse.

what the shit, child abuse? I used to get gang raped as a child. all children should get gang raped, to do otherwise would mean something's wrong with how I got raised.

people tell parents all the time, to not give into their children's tantrums. now, if she was dragging him across the sidewalk, or though snow, I could understand, but this kid was probably just being a spoiled brat.

this doesnt even come CLOSE to child abuse
white people need to beat their children
not drag them around

the beatings iv gotten from big mama after mouthing off ...OH BOYYYYYYYYYY
one time i said her baklava tasted like fermented horse urine and that she was an loser ... and i ended up w/ wooden clogs, a spoon, and those mini cucumbers thrown at my head
oh and the belt too ...

*shudders*

The best way to prevent child dragging is to SPANK THEM.

@13-hahaha "big mama"

ill bet it wouldnt be considered child abuse if the mother had been dragging her kid around pulling it(unisexchild) by the arm. but because its a LEASH! woah now, that screams abuse

My Mom would have triple-knot tied me to a pole outside the store if I was on a leash throwing a tantrum. That little snot-monster should be happy.

FREE RIDE.

Before everyone starts shitting it's obvious this was taken out of context. 6 and 8 are right; the kid obviously threw a huge tantrum and refused to move anywhere. What else can you do?

if you saw that in Wal-Mart, no body would have said a thing because everone who shops at Wal-Mart drags their children through the store on a leash.

She should have been arrested for domestic abuse for forcing her family to use Verizon.

Erica: you can leave the child there to flip out.

if something is abuse to do to a dog, it's abuse to do to a child.

stupid. i'd drag my son too if he pitched a tantrum in the store. i find people usually take it easier than seeing you spank (God forbid you instill obedience in your child). people whine and whine about abuse, but has anyone else noticed the growth in crime rate around the time people decided spanking was abuse and they weren't going to do it?

Just more proof that Verizon is the worst cell carrier out there.

That kid was having fun, just look, he's role playing one of those cars that you pull or those ducks.

Leave people do their stuff with their children, when the kid grows up he'll then have his revenge.

MUAHAHAHA

I mean, i didn't do that, I mean, leave me alone

I was a little brat so i can tell you he was probably doing something to get his mom wound up like that. Probably went like this...
"Jimmy, zip it you cannot have that"
"BUT I WAAAAAANT IT"
"Jimmy do not throw things I am war-- ooh did you just throw that at me? CAR NOW, so help me god"
Here the kid has the option of dead weight (to seal his fate) or shut the hell up and follow Mom to the car ... he made the wrong choice. Probably a bit trashy to drag him instead of lift him up and carry him to the car but anyone who has kids can tell you they know ever single button to push and when to push them... Demons.

That was not cool. Stop being uncool mother. If i had been there I would have put a leash on the mother and dragged her around.

No, just kidding, I would just sterilize her. Some ppl should not be allowed to reprociate. I dont know how to spell that. Its because im swedish and we dont know.

@21 Wrong. Crime has dropped steadily.

One douchebag less a lot to come u__u

gaylesbianville says it all

@25 Were you looking for the word "procreate"? Maybe.

@15 agreed. I got dragged around by the arm all the time as a kid, no lie. Nothing like a dislocated shoulder to reciprocate on a tantrum. I never got a dislocated shoulder, but this seems nicer compared to arm dragging. Kids do this shit all the time. And you can bet your ass he would have been kicking and screaming if she had picked him. Then she would have a concussion. No fair.

Look, I'm not saying this is right. And it does look worse on one of those leashes. I hate those leashes. But, I do agree that an ass whooping was probably in order. That will get 'em walking, with a pout and their arms across their chest. But they'll be walking.

Brat was probably throwing a tantrum... Lady didn't do anything wrong from what I saw...

Yes, children SHOULD be leashed. Stores should have signs posted out front, "Please curb your child."

i think the kid just wanted to reenact the scene in the movie UP.

Nothing done wrong here, little bastard earned every minute of it im sure.

I didn't see anything wrong in that video. It's not as if he wanted to get up, and she had places to be. He didn't even mind. What if she would have thrown him over her shoulder with him wailing and screaming? Would that be considered child abuse too?

Heh seems like some of the old raising in my home state hasnt been forgotten. only difference with this kid is he had a leash, my mom used my arm

Ok yeah that's pretty trashy looking/bad parenting.. but I was in a Wal-Mart a few weeks ago, and a child about this kids age threw the biggest fit you could hear it through the entire store, because his mom wouldn' t buy him a Coke from the drink fridge thing near the checkout. The checkout line was impossibly long, and for about 5-10 minutesn all you could hear no matter where you were in the store, was "MOM I WANT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT, BUT MOM I WANT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT MOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM, MOM I WANT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT, MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MOOOOOOOOOOM MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM MOM I WAAAAAAAAANT IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT" at about twelve billion decibels.

I see this woman dragging her kid who is refusing to get up off the floor, and I kinda have to applaud her. It would be different if this was her way of simply taking her kid about, but methinks the child was probably having a tantrum and she wasn't having any of it.

And who cares if it's on a harness, at least it's not running wild through the store.

@ 34 that would have been more appropriate than dragging him across the floor.

Child abuse might have gone too far with this one... but I don't think this was necessary. Walking fast enough to make the kid have a hard time keeping up would have effectively conveyed the message 'your in trouble' or 'i'm pissed'.

am i the only one who actually thinks this is terrible and that the woman deserves to be locked up for many long years? or can i just not tell extreme sarcasm from reading text XD

Doesn't Taser have a model for Moms with bratty kids?

Jesus what has that child done to that poor woman?!

I guess you are damned if you do & damned if you don't. If she drags the child, some people will think it's child abuse. If she were to spank the child, people would think she's abusing the kid. If she lets the kid scream, people accuse her of being too selfish to take the kid out of the store. If she picks the kid up & hauls him out, people say that she's being too easy on the kid.

Personally, my father had no problem with spanking my sisters or I, although he really didn't want to do it in public. Then again, we preferred the public spankings more- one big swat was much better than him using his leather belt when we got home. He didn't spank us that much, but when he did he made sure we remembered it!

@18
most of the people who shop at Wal-Mart look like THEY (and/or their spouse/baby daddy/mommy) belong on a leash!!!

So they're going to take the kid out of his home and put him foster care? Oh, excellent. That will protect the kid's emotional stability and physical well-being. This isn't child abuse. I've SEEN child abuse, and this ain't it. Though taking the kid away might actually teach him not to throw a tantrum next time, once the parents inevitably get their child back.

The comments on the original story from 3 months ago suggest that it was a game that the child liked playing.

http://romenews-tribune.com/pages/full_story?page_label=full_story&id=2382383

@20 - it's not the same thing as dragging a dog on a leash. With a dog, the leash is connected to their collar, which causes the dog to choke and not be able to breathe. Kid leashes are chest harnesses or little velcro straps around the wrist. Not even close to being the same thing. If she'd gone and walked away from the kid, they would have accused her of abandonment and neglect.

To the few people who are saying "Oh, this wasn't the appropriate way to handle the situation" you don't have kids, do you? There are few ways to battle the noodle-leg crap they try to pull when they don't get their way.

I'd love to slap the friggin authorities in the face for this. All over America, innocent children are getting the everloving shit beaten out of them on a daily basis for no reason other than the fact that their parent wants something to hit, and they choose to focus on a mother that's not doing a damned thing wrong? How truly screwed up.

As others have pointed out, the kid was probably throwing a hissy fit and was refusing to get up. So what are you going to do? Stand there? Pick them up and ignore them kicking/punching your head? Or, drag them through the store?
I choose the latter.

Thankfully my son learned REAL quick not to throw a tantrum around me, so I no longer have to deal with this shenanigans. And I also agree with some of the sentiments regarding spankings. People don't spank their kids enough anymore; now we have to have "time outs" or "sit time". BAH! I was a kid, you know what I was doing during "time out" time in school? Thinking about how the teacher was an idiot and plotting my revenge.
Children are punks; they're not sunshine and rainbows. Sure they can be cute from time to time, but if you don't raise them with a firm hand and keep them in line...well, you end up dragging them through a store.

This reminds me of when WoW bugs out after killing someone and their lying on the floor corpse slides around for a bit. Abuse? Looks like he's enjoying it, I sure would. WEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Faster mommy!

arent those leashes for keeping kids close by in large crowds of people like amusement parks? wtf that's the opposite of an amusement park, it's a verizon store

@46__does smokingdude always provide options in the form of questions in posts? Its laughable that you expect parents to turn to mindless violence as punishment rather than something more effective. For instance, have your child understand that people watch when a scene is made, which if done right will embarrass the kid. that will leave a much larger mental scar. the pen is mightier than the sword, my dear sexually confused friend.

That is just awesomeness on a leash.

This is absolutely child abuse. What a disgusting excuse for parenting. How dare she demean this child like that. Someone needs to drag her around a department store that she would prefer to not be visiting.

The worst thing you can do to a child who throws a tantrum in public is to indulge him. Good parents know this. Bad parents (or those who don't have children) are the ones who tsk, tsk at the mother.

I don't get it.

The kid is growing up in Alabama. That's the worst form of child abuse right there.

To everyone who says that spanking is usually the best method, not necessarily. I recall having my butt torn up on a regular basis growing up and all I did was retaliate after the fact.
I found through having a sister 10 years younger that making the verbal threat to walk off and taking one or two steps will convince them to get up and move.
My method was taking a few steps and when she decided to move I would stop and wait for her to catch up, worked like a charm every time.

(required): is this not slightly cheeky?

maybe it's me, but I think we should just live with it. I mean it felt really good all those years ago taking every bad feeling those bullies(vicars/priests/shamans/witch-doctors/and those other people- JUST PLLLEEEAAAAASSSSSEEEE STOP STICKING SHARP THINGS INTO MY FCKN SKIN!!!) and changing trying to change me into something robotic, like a my little ponies remake(exclamation mark), honestly priests are quite gentle once they aren't all standing behind the GeeeeDoubleU!!! <--i hate that marky thingy

What the hell? I can't imagine how psychotic she must be.

quoting from someone else
" that kid is so dumb, he should have brought a roller skates along"

am i a horrible person for cracking up at that video? i seriously can't stop laughing.

first.

that's hilarious. great vid.

I'de rather be dragged through a store on a leash than beat with a belt...all I'm saying..

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshopjob You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie never back down where Max got ropde by biff and dragged around town.

#49; you're the only one confused about my gender or at least, you pretend to be the only one confused about my gender.
And spanking is now mindless violence, eh? That's fascinating.
Psychological warfare only works once a child has the ability to understand embarassment, which usually entails "older" school-age children. And it's only truely effective if the embarassment occures around their friends; a large group of strangers holds no real appeal.

A parent understands what is needed at what times. Sometimes you need to give a spanking, other times you provide a lecture, and others still require something more. Psychological warfare, reverse psychology, even showing their absurdity by being absurd works; but it depends on the situation at hand and the child's age and level of understanding of consequence and reward.
Oh, and by the way, if the child "understands" the game (as you so eloquently put it) then it loses it's effectiveness. Parenting, in essence, is a type of war game; if you hold out your cards, then the enemy will find you weak. And once a child finds their parents to be weak; i.e. on threats; that's when you have real trouble.

IMO the kid probably likes it and purposely lays down so his mom can drag him around. I assume he would only do it on carpeting though.

Hey SG! Were have you been my darling? I'm going to email you next week as I need to axe you something.

She should have just done what the rest of America does with their children, leave them in car with the windows closed.

This is not child abuse! This is just a kid being stubborn and lazy and it's parent being tired of trying to make it get up and walk. I'm sure it taught the kid a lesson that its mother won't be putting up with that kind of bullshit. I'm sure that the worst that happened was carpet burn. The child is not "scarred for life" by this so called "tragedy".

@smokingdude

I'm not confused about your sexuality anymore, thank you for clearing that up, 100% male. anyway, i suppose the difference between you and I is that you have not fully grasped that children are people and they do think and do have minds. but i suppose you are a prime example of what a) happens when a pregnant mother drinks during pregnancy and b) a child is uneducated and beaten. (GW, and I quote: "fightfightfightfight")

Who cares? No harm done. Little craphead throws a temper tantrum and refuses to walk. Either that or he enjoys it.

Child abuse = punching him in the stomach, making him touch your penis, or locking him in a closet for 24 hours.

If one thinks then one has a mind, so that was completely redundant, a-whole. But I'm sorry, I'm to sit here and bask in your supreme intellect because, apparently, I'm an uneducated and beaten dude who's mother is a drunk. You just understand me so well I'm amazed at your online psychic abilities.
Tell me, what's in my future? Will I be able to die under an apple tree like I've always wished? Will I finally have that threesome between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt? Tell me, oh wise one, about the fulfillment of all my hopes and dreams.

But since you want to get personal, a-whole, and throw asinine proclimations about, here are some for you. I believe you to be a woman, around 30-ish, who, while not a virgin, has yet to fully "enjoy" the presence of a man. You type your gibberish with a cat in your lap while you breathe in the musty aroma of your cat-pissed apartment. You're not tidy, although you do wash a dish from time to time, particularly if there's homemade cake involved. Of course, you eat that cake alone because not since prom has anyone dared touch you due to your constant battle with yeast infections and that nauseating smell of "rotten crotch" that hangs about you like a dead man. You take your anger out on online forums, where you can hide your pitiful self, upon those who are better than you, yet when push comes to shove, you can't take what you throw out, so you end up blathering to your "online" friends about how the world is a cruel place and no one understands you.

Is that about right, a-whole? If it's not, feel free to correct me...although, as you've shown, that doesn't really matter, now does it? Just make sure to have fun as you try to fight out of that wet paper sack of your own making. Toodles.

WTF is a unisex child?

smokingdude, you are right about some of what you said. i love cats, and i love cake even more! im glad that you have finally realized that i have very powerful online psychic abilities. anyway, i am a male who is in college. and i there is a strict no pet-policy where i live so as much as i would want a cat to hang out with me i cannot. from your past posts, ive come to the conclusion that you are indeed near retarded, so im amazed that you were able to read what i wrote, understand it, and regurgitate it. you said it yourself "[You are] an uneducated and beaten dude who's mother is a drunk." for those that would like to confirm this, just click on his name. good day!

The wet paper sack is winning.

the pregnant parental drinking and childhood beating has already won.

I can't stop cracking up. LMAO
Anyway, who says the kid wasn't enjoying it?
Totally not child abuse

Haha! get 'em SmokingGirl!

smokingdude, thats pretty low posting under a different name in support of yourself...pathetic really.

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@ a-whole

If I may ask, how many kids do you have?

Go Smokingirl! As the child doesn't appear distressed, and my child loved being dragged around on the floor when we got laminate put down, I'm guessing it was a game. You see worse on "You've been Framed". It would be different if it was getting dragged across a car park, down stairs or swung into things, or in anyway could be injured, but I don't see that.

That is not child abuse. And honestly the kid probably thought it was fun. That looks like something I would have thought was fun at that age. But maybe that's just me.

How anyone can see this mother drag this child through the store with ease and think that 9-11 was not a controlled explosion has been hypnotized by the media.

I cant believe no one tried to stop this b!tch!
WTF??!!??

This lady needs to burn...

Can you spot the parents in this comments section? I can, they're the ones who understand that while children are people, they are also learning social behaviors from their parents.
If you allow your child to throw a fit, you are teaching them to be selfish, sad people. They will eventually be outcast from their social network, and it will be because someone wouldn't drag their little ass through the store.

SmokingGirl - F*ck yes!

PS- My mom wouldn't have dragged my butt through the store. She would've come down to my level and explained to me what would happen if she had to pick me up and leave the store because of my behavior. I only ever pushed that button once. Never again did she have to do more than shoot me a look...

I am shocked at the people applauding this behavior, thats why little kids end up dead because parents are out of control!!! I think it is horrible!! My boys are unpleasant at times but I woud never do that to mine. Sometimes we need to stop and think about what blessings we have ,take a moment and listen more to where the tantrums are coming from. No child deserves that. I couldn't believe the people in the video that stood by and watched.

Do any of you understand the power of a 2 year old??? I see some people say: she should have tried other methods, should have picked him up, blah, blah, blah. No one was there to witness the piercing shrills of the little bad@ss. I have a 3 year old who is otherwise an "Angel" but she will give you a run for your money! have you ever seen a child in a store screaming, kicking, throwing things? I have. And from experience it takes TIME and PATIENCE to teach a kid "NO" but they will test you first and this is what happends when you let them win over and over again. Don't judge I would of gave his little butt one swift slap on the @ss!

I am not condoning child abuse- never have, never will- but I am condoning the right to parent. It's sad that we can no longer discipline our children in public. What if she had a bad back? what if he just finished doing this in another store? how was she suppose to react? huh experts? If she would of hit him, she would of been arrested, If she would have left him-arrested, if she would have broke down and cried-ACS would have been called. There's no winning- I'm not saying this is right, but maybe just maybe she was a at a breaking point- fortunately she didn't break his little neck!

Uh, go to any store in El Paso, Texas... this is a common scene IF the parent actually puts the kid on a leash. Usually they just let them run wild around here. (And don't ever bother trying to ask the parents to watch their kids. They will likely cuss you out in Spanish... and that is just the kids!)

@21 no i havent noticed it. your logic messed. if u stopped spanking kids at time X and noticed increased crime at the same time (X), who are you attributing the crime rate rise to? the unspanked kids? u realise they're still kids at that time right? If the crime rate did rise (and I don't know the figures, not going to pull out some stupid anecdotal bs) then it's due to the kids that already were spanked because then they're adults at time X.

I'm wasting my time arguing this pretty moronic statement

All these people saying that this isn't child abuse seem to be quite deluded.
I don't get why people are putting their children on leashes anyway, what happened to parents PARENTING their children and teaching them to behave like humans, if you have a young child throwing a tantrum then pick it up and walk out the store!

Leashes were designed for dogs, hold your child's hand, how is this even remotely parenting, pulling a small child along by a piece of rope.

I have four kids. Never had to drag them through a store, never even used one of those leashes. Sure, they have tried to pitch a fit once or twice when they were about 3 and they got walked right out of the store. A good talking to works about as well as a spanking, it never happened more than once or twice. The key in saying no is never giving in. Change your mind one time and they think they can annoy you into changing it again.
I wouldn't say this is child abuse, just a parent who doesn't want to actually discipline their child and then expects them to obey...or maybe she didn't expect "it" to obey, hence the leash.

An Loser, as opposed to An Hero ?

Personally, I don't think this is approaching abuse, but enough people are arguing that, so I'm gonna let it be.
To those who are going, "Leashing children is horrible! Why would you do that?!" Let me help put it into perspective. I work as a cashier in the inner city, in a rough neighborhood. Many of my customers leash their children. This was a fairly new concept to me when I first saw it, as I'm not yet a parent, so I asked. The answer makes a lot of sense. "You never know when you're going to run across a child predator. The extra two seconds it takes to unhook this strap is more time than a child snatcher has." Abuse? Hardly. "Toddler leashes" are pro-active parenting.

So the called child welfare on her... My kid loved being dragged around like that when he was younger. I mean the child was obviously relaxed, not gasping for air or anything. Its good to watch for child abuse... but lets look at things from all angles before we call children and youth. Hey, I used to spin my child on the kitchen floor... do you want pictures? Ohhhh even worse my dog and cat too!!! I will be waiting for your knocks!