You just knocked the bully out...

MAY 26--An argument over a toy airplane led Monday to an eight-year-old Ohio boy being cited for assaulting a six-year-old neighbor, according to cops. Witnesses described the child as a bully who frequently picked on younger kids, according to the below Lorain Police Department report. When cops spoke with the older boy's father, Bryan Ball, he downplayed the incident, saying that kids were "always playing and fighting." He added that it was "gay" that police had gotten involved in a dispute among juveniles. For his part, the boy denied putting the younger child in a chokehold, claiming that he only punched the boy after he was hit first. The boy was cited for assault, and the matter was referred to Juvenile Court.

Wow, is the state of Ohio serious? Not saying I agree with Mr. Ball's terminology, but I have to support his sentiment. The fact that the cops are arresting 8-year olds for assault is a tad bit ludicrous. The police report (see here) even states that the "victim" and I use that term more loosely than a Vegas call girl, showed no signs of injury. Don't the cops and the parents have anything better to do, oh wait I forgot.. it's Ohio.

This younger kid sounds like he fakes more injuries than Vince Carter, but I can't lay the blame at his feet. He has obviously been taught by his parents that crying about what happened to you is more effective than doing something to stop it in the first place.

So there is a bully who wants to play with your kid's airplane, instead of calling the cops every time their kid gets thrown in a sleeper hold, these parents might want to show a little faith in your kid's ability to ake care of himself. You think if KG's parents had called the cops everytime some kid stole his lunch money he would have ended up being the star he is today? No chance.

KG, said it perfectly after taking home the 2008 NBA championship,

"It's like that bully that you go to school everyday, and you know when you get out your mom's or dad's car-- you know you gotta see him soon as you walk through the front doors. You know he's sittin there with his feet up, waiting on you to pat your pockets, mess with you. And then it's like one day you say to yourself, 'You know what? This gon' stop today,' and you walk through and soon as he pats your pocket you lay his ass out, and you saw that expression on his face, and you're sorta kinda shook cause, you know what, you just knocked the bully out. And you don't know how he gon' come back. So the next morning when you come in and he not there, it's like...a sigh of relief....I knocked his ass clean out. That's what it feels like." - Kevin Garnett on winning the 2008 NBA Finals

Maybe it's just me, but I will take that kind of fire over a kid destined to get stuffed in lockers his whole life every day and twice on Sundy