Man arrested after baby girl is punched in a supermarket.

[Murph7355]

Digby said:

As I said..

You will just have to accept that like myself, there are people who had that been their baby, would have just accepted the sincere and traumatised apology, because they would have realised the mistake.

No need to overanalyse etc.

Are you being serious? If you are, I can't believe you have kids.

My Mrs is one of the calmest, loveliest people out there. But if you casually walked up to my kids and touched them, forcefully or not, you'd be in hospital needing surgery on your elbow. In fact if you did it forcefully you'd be in serious bother.

[anonymous-user]

Digby said:

Disastrous said:

That's quite funny actually. I'll make sure to recreate it for real tomorrow!

Digby, I'm not sorry he didn't go to prison and suspect the sentance is probably about right but I find your dogged defence of him very strange indeed. Out of all the baby-punching examples posted, would you think any of them would ever be appropriate to carry out for real?

Even with a loose fist?

As I said..

You will just have to accept that like myself, there are people who had that been their baby, would have just accepted the sincere and traumatised apology, because they would have realised the mistake.

No need to overanalyse etc.

You're right that there's no need to over analyse it. The guy's clearly out of his tree and needs careful control in one way or another.

He's clearly not the only one.

[Digby]

Murph7355 said:

Are you being serious? If you are, I can't believe you have kids.

My Mrs is one of the calmest, loveliest people out there. But if you casually walked up to my kids and touched them, forcefully or not, you'd be in hospital needing surgery on your elbow. In fact if you did it forcefully you'd be in serious bother.

So having my hair ruffled as a child by anyone who knew my parents or knew people who were with my parents should have resulted in my parents attcking someone?

As I said, it's quite clearly not the failed sense of humour guy in our story who has the issues.


I'll ask you a similar question to the one I asked before...

Your Father / best friend walks in to a pub, sits beside you and says "Oh my gosh, I can't believe what just happened to me....." and they go on to explain the story and their utter embarrassment, but how the parents of the baby laughed it off and said "No harm done", you would call the police and report them for being a risk towards babies?

[Digby]

Welshbeef said:

He was no friend relative of even knew who the victims family were.



I wonder what the parents were thinking a strange man coming up to their young girl talking to her and then going for the baby.

It was something to do with a spotted work colleague of a neighbour. He was introduced iirc, so not quite 'strangers all round'. Far from it.

[Disastrous]

Digby said:

Your Father / best friend walks in to a pub, sits beside you and says "Oh my gosh, I can't believe what just happened to me....." and they go on to explain the story and their utter embarrassment, but how the parents of the baby laughed it off and said "No harm done", you would call the police and report them for being a risk towards babies?

None of my friends/family would ever do that, which I think probably explains everything.

[Welshbeef]

Murph7355 said:

Are you being serious? If you are, I can't believe you have kids.

My Mrs is one of the calmest, loveliest people out there. But if you casually walked up to my kids and touched them, forcefully or not, you'd be in hospital needing surgery on your elbow. In fact if you did it forcefully you'd be in serious bother.

We are in exactly the same camp

Some on this thread seem to be reacting in a very odd way to the point that if there was a child molestation incident provided he child is not hurt no harm done...

[Digby]

Disastrous said:

None of my friends/family would ever do that, which I think probably explains everything.

Well avoided.

We'll stick you in the Murph7355 camp then where ruffled hair would lead to violence / police intervention.

Utterly bizarre, but it takes all sorts I guess.

Some of us are obvioulsy a lot more easy going and far less boring and don't seek out the worst in everyone and everything.

[Digby]

Nanook said:

Are you an idiot?

You kinda sound like one.

Are you? Read what Murph wrote. The slightest touch and his wife is going Ninja on you..

Are you another angry type who can't understand why someone wouldn't be angry?

As I say, go talk to the above poster. I was just giving an example of what in his world could apparently lead to an ambulance ride.

Welshbeef said:

Some on this thread seem to be reacting in a very odd way to the point that if there was a child molestation incident provided he child is not hurt no harm done...

Yes! Exactly! Feeling sorry for this guy or saying "no harm done" when the mistake was realised means you like child molesting.

Jesus H Christ

Edited by Digby on Saturday 26th November 09:32

[Digby]

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I am. He sounds like the kind of person who is trying to put this guy behind bars.

I'm not and never would be in this situation.

Oh and there are several people here who can see this for what it is, just read the comments. There are thousands more if you look on other forums / web pages.

I'm very far from being alone in feeling this way.

Even the law itself seems to have been a tad merciful.

Edited by Digby on Saturday 26th November 09:37

[Disastrous]

Digby said:

Disastrous said:

None of my friends/family would ever do that, which I think probably explains everything.

Well avoided.

We'll stick you in the Murph7355 camp then where ruffled hair would lead to violence / police intervention.

Utterly bizarre, but it takes all sorts I guess.

Some of us are obvioulsy a lot more easy going and far less boring and don't seek out the worst in everyone and everything.

Not avoided at all. I can simply near guarantee that nobody I associate with would mess with a baby for 'a laugh'.

I love how you're trying to say I'm boring for not being ok with that.

"Darling, a man punched our baby today but I jut said it was ok as I didn't want to look boring and he was very sorry..."

Ok.


What's bizarre is how desperate you are to defend when it's pretty clear that the majority consider this weird behaviour.

[Digby]

Nanook said:

And if you have a wife, I'm pretty certain she wouldn't respond in the same manner.

I told her the story when it broke and she simply said "He must be mortified".

At no point did she think it warranted punishment in this situation.

There are people in the world like us. Nothing can change that, sorry.

Disastrous said:

What's bizarre is how desperate you are to defend when it's pretty clear that the majority consider this weird behaviour.

A weird sense of humour, granted, but not one we haven't seen before. It backfired.

[Randy Winkman]

Digby said:

Nanook said:

And if you have a wife, I'm pretty certain she wouldn't respond in the same manner.

I told her the story when it broke and she simply said "He must be mortified".

At no point did she think it warranted punishment in this situation.

There are people in the world like us. Nothing can change that, sorry.

Disastrous said:

What's bizarre is how desperate you are to defend when it's pretty clear that the majority consider this weird behaviour.

A weird sense of humour, granted, but not one we haven't seen before. It backfired.

You must make a lovely couple.

[Disastrous]

Digby said:

There are people in the world like us. Nothing can change that, sorry.

Yes there are. Not many though...

Digby said:

A weird sense of humour, granted, but not one we haven't seen before. It backfired.

Backfired implies that there's a chance it could have worked out ok.

[Sylvaforever]

Gareth79 said:

£900+costs isn't much of a punishment to most people, and he must be comfortably off for that much to have been imposed.

Edited by Gareth79 on Wednesday 23 November 17:15

Uhuh.

[colonel c]

Well, at least mum Amy Duckers got her pictures all over the papers.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Amy+Duckers&...

Edited by colonel c on Saturday 26th November 13:02

[anonymous-user]

Digby said:

Nanook said:

And if you have a wife, I'm pretty certain she wouldn't respond in the same manner.

I told her the story when it broke and she simply said "He must be mortified".

At no point did she think it warranted punishment in this situation.

There are people in the world like us. Nothing can change that, sorry.

Well done for finding her. You deserve each other.

Perhaps you two could spend the afternoon at the playground kicking the st out of 6 year olds for a laugh. They're pretty robust by that age, so your japes can be full on. No one will mind.

[stitched]

Shakermaker said:

WestyCarl said:

Have I missed something; WTF would you go up to a stranger in a Supermarket and hit their doll though (if he is to be believed)?

This remains the unanswered question

I'm unsure whether it is relevant but during my stepdaughters GCSE year each girl was tasked with looking after a pretend baby. Seriously creepy thing it was with a 'memory' which was uploaded each time the thing was passed on. Any shocks or jars, periods during which it was neglected etc would be noted and marks apportioned appropriately.
In what I would have thought was an entirely predictable way the boys of that year thought it was hilarious to outdo each other in how badly damaged the doll was when returned.
I think it actually 'died' several times per year.
Strange way to school children IMHO.

[e21Mark]

It's just bizarre that anyone would think of punching a child (let alone a 5 day old baby) for any reason, let alone as a ''joke''. I would have real concerns for anyone who found that even remotely funny.

[Randy Winkman]

colonel c said:

Well, at least mum Amy Duckers got her pictures all over the papers.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Amy+Duckers&...

Edited by colonel c on Saturday 26th November 13:02

Lots of people do stuff like that now. What's your point?

[tight fart]

It also came out at the trial that he was in Tesco by mistake, he was supposed to go to Specsavers.