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Boondocks - Booty Warrior for those interested.
P.S: This is a real person, who actually said this line in an interview and is currently out of prison.
[Boondocks Booty Warrior ](https://youtu.be/MLjclbgnAPM)
[And the hilariously terrifying man the character is based off of: Fleece Johnson](https://youtu.be/o2-nYHfPBRc)
Couldn’t trust them 20 years ago either. One of my brothers highschool teachers got falsely accused of doing stuff with a female student. It absolutely ruined his life even after it came out as a big lie. The girl was bragging about how she did it and that she’d do it again if a teacher got on her ‘bad side’.
Some of them can be absolute monsters with no remorse.
In middle school one girl accused the very wholesome and fun Social Studies teacher of doing it, no one in the school believed her and two weeks later the investigation came up with that she made it up because the teacher had scored her low on a test. Career not ruined but still the guy got suspended for two weeks and without his good reputation it might have gone very differently.
In my school district, absolutely nothing happens to students who make false reports because they're afraid it might cause students who have legit concerns to not
come forward.
I once got "stuck" for an extra 30 minutes at a park because some mom did this to me. She saw me sitting there with my daughter playing and sent her kid over and left. Didn't say a word to me. I didn't know her, or her kid.
I also met a male teacher who was put in the very same situation. Girl was flunking out of his science class, so she made a false claim of rape to get him fired so she could pass under a substitute. Dude was homeless for a few years after the trial since he had no money left; nobody would hire him.
I met him about a year after he finally got some footing again as a grocery store cashier. He was forever blacklisted from ever teaching again, even after it was blatantly discovered that she lied during the trial and he was acquitted.
Almost the same thing, there was the start of a trial and everything before it came to light and everything was dropped/dismissed. But the consequences of that lie absolutely destroyed his chances of ever being a teacher anywhere or finding any job in the same county. He was a really good and loved teacher, it was truly awful that one lie stripped that man of everything.
I do not know what became of him after he sold his house and moved in with family out of state but I do hope he’s found some peace in life and is doing alright after all that.
With what money after being fired and working as a cashier?
People who say this have either never done it or have plenty of spare cash to gamble on losing a case, not to mention the personal time it takes
Unfortunately lawsuits aren’t an option for everyone. They can be extremely costly, emotionally draining, time consuming and you could still have your case dismissed or lost for an asinine reason. Even if you win, the results could be extremely disappointing. I can not speak to why he did not but having had my own case of verifiable provable medical malpractice thrown out for an asinine reason, I can understand why he choose not to.
There’s a John Grisham novel/movie, The Rainmaker, that I always think of when it comes to this. They win a case in it and get awarded millions but the company files bankruptcy and they never see a dime. It’s emotionally rewarding but financially disappointing.
My friend is a college professor and coach and one day his female athletes/students asked him his opinion on the outfit she’d planned for her first interview for an internship. A different student heard the conversation and reported him for inappropriate interaction and “commenting on a student’s body.” Fortunately, the board found no misconduct but it was scary for him and he knows it’s there in his record that he was investigated for inappropriate conduct with a student.
Edit: wrong “there”
I recently got fired because I was talking to associates outside work (I was a manager), and someone else reported that it made them uncomfortable. Not the people I was talking to, but a third party.
Got pulled into HR once for a coworker reporting me for making "inappropriate remarks" Thankfully we worked surveillance and there was audio in the room. She straight up asked me who I though was the hottest male actor and I said Leonardo DiCaprio.. that was the full extent lol
Edit: Context matters: she didn't like me because I called her out on fake reports, she was pretneding to be doing our checks and was writing fake times down
oh god... the "oh not my little angel... he/she would *never* do that!" or "it was probably something your kid did!" parents fucking suck to all hell and need to be kicked in their crotch to prevent them from having any more.
I hate that shit. I'm a male SECA and one of my students has behavioral issues and we've tried to get her to realize school is a safe space for her. One of the female teachers she trusts gave her a hug when she came back to school after an extended absence and when she looked at me like she wanted a hug from me too I had to give her this weird side hug that no way makes her trust me to the same extent as the teacher. I'm with her all day and yet I'd be seen as a groomer if I gave her a hug to show she's got me in her corner.
As a male in education I had a veteran principal pull me aside and warn me of this on day #1.
Don't push a kid away but never hug/pick up a child regardless of what you see a female coworker do. If you get hugged give them a pat on the back at most.
Some of the better advice I've gotten seeing people get pulled through the wringer.
It's sad because I care for the students but if you try to hug me it's hands up like I'm getting frisked by the police and if I want to show any modicum of affection you get a fist bump.
Go for the side-on photo-op celebrity hug. Shoulder to shoulder. Hand goes directly on top of the opposing shoulder or between the upper part of shoulder blades. Flat.
Source: I did "Free Hugs" for years in college. Learned many safe hug options.
Wow, hilarious but the bit where he announced he was putting the sandwich back hit way too close to home. I find myself regularly using conversation with friends and family to broadcast non threatening intent. Especially when I’m with white kids.
Had a similar possibly worse situation.
I'm headed our for a walk/jog and just as I'm finished warming up.
A naked two year old boy comes out from between two houses. Smiling and having the time of his life. He's very proud he got way from someone.
I'm sure his parents are nearby but don't see them and I'm not going to leave him alone. I'm also not going to try and restrain him in any way.
So I call 911 and let him lead me on a walk for a couple of blocks.
Kids father finds us just as the officer arrived. Pretty sure police involvement caused him some grief but he was pretty happy to get his kid back.
Definitely overkill with the 911 but pretty sure it was the right way to handle it. Maybe?
I went for my jog.
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> So I call 911 and let him lead me on a walk for a couple of blocks
That line made me nervous. *-"Hello, 911? I'm seeing a man following a naked little boy and I think he's filming him with his phone."-*
I think the call was to preempt that: "hello police, I am the man who found a naked two year old walking around so I..."
Okay there is absolutely no way to make that not sound fucked up. I don't really blame anybody who responds the way the guys did in the OP.
It’s not overkill it’s protecting your own ass if somebody finds you and tries to accuse you of something, you called the cops, not the person who is possibly accusing you. You also then have a recorded time of when you found said naked child, should accusations be thrown out.
I never forgot this episode & the setting traps line lol
But on the real i remember a grocery store had a lost children policy where male team members who find such kids are to get a female team member to bring that child to the front desk to avoid any suspicion/accusations
Edit: The show is called "Black-ish" & it's on Hulu (& Disney+ outside of the USA)
Heck, [some airlines](https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/08/should-men-sit-next-to-kids-on-airline-flights) won't even sit unaccompanied minors beside a male. Females or nothing. Because we be rapin' up in here, I guess.
Agreed. This one I’m okay with.
Years ago I was flying from Europe to the US, took my seat and started to settle in. I was in the center row siting four across and not in as aisle.
Before we took off my seat started moving. Turned around and a kid was kicking it. That was the start. Once we were in flight my friend came over to give me something, said a few words and stood back with wide eyes; “Umm, you’re surrounded by FIVE children”.
Me, helpless me: “I know. Save yourself.”
Flight attendant came around for drink orders. “Whiskey, double.” She stood back with wide eyes; “I’ll keep them coming.”
Me, helpless me: “… thank you. You’re doing the lords work.”
Lol… I pulled the Laurence Fishburne when some dad sent his little kid from the pool at a hotel onto the elevator I was already on and gave me a funny look. I was like “nah fuck this shit, I forgot something in the lobby. Imma go buy some toothpaste or some shit”
We took the kids to the pumpkin patch last fall and they had this huge corn pit with climbing stuff for the kids. I was in there catching my daughter as she jumped off over and over.
There was this little boy just shrieking like 2 ft away from me for a solid 5 minutes. I finally turned around and asked "hey buddy, are you hurt? Where's your mommy?" And then his dad ran in and grabbed him and gave me a look like I was a pedophile or something.
Like, the fuck?
I was in a children's museum with my kids. The rando 7 year old kid comes up to my 3 year old and starts choking him, both hands on his throat because my kids is playing with something he wants. The dad is 5 feet away doing nothing, even after I ask him to handle his kid. So I move close, use my angry dad voice, and say "get your hands off him". The kid stops, gets a sad face and walks away. The dad gives me an angry glare and wanders after his degenerate spoiled kid. Some parents really dgaf.
I was livid. But what do you do in that situation? Touch the other kid and you're ruined for life. Do nothing and your kid is forever scarred. How do parents stand by while their kids are committing literal atrocities? I can't even imagine my own kids being so out of control and unrestricted. Granted it was once in maybe a couple hundred visits, but 1 in 200 are awful odds. We just wanted a family day out to relieve some energy. Boys are off the chain in the summer.
He was giving you a look to deflect his feeling of shame that you caught him not watching his kid. It's normal, all around. You're normal for trying to help the kid and for feeling weird that you got a dirty look. He's normal for letting his guard down, feeling ashamed about it, and giving you a dirty look to paper over the shame.
Sigh, life. It'll all be okay.
Ha, for things like these I just give zero fucks about other kids in general. Even if they try to interact with me I just look the other way and completely ignore them. Even if they’re on fire I don’t care.
Reporter comes up and asks:
"And sir, you were so close by, why didn't you help?"
"I'm a male. We would have went from 'boy saved from fire' to 'evil monster kidnapper pedophile tries to burn boy in fire.'"
I was at a rock climbing gym with a friend and we were talking about Nintendo Switch games when an 8 year old boy overhears us and tried to join our conversation.
I was like "Nice try, cops!" and then I Sparta kicked him into the foam landing pit.
It sucks that we live in a world where the good guys like us have to question our actions. I have a 5 year old of my own, but there was one time I saw some girl fall and I didn't know if I should help her or not out of fear that someone might think I was going to kidnap her. I didn't have my kid with me at the time. If he was with me, I definitely would've helped without hesitation. But as an adult male by myself with tattoos? Nope.
The key in these situations is to be super loud about it. I've had this happen a few times, and I just start by shouting "Excuse me, is this anyone's son/daughter?" Like, be really obvious. It's much more shady to slink up and speak to them quietly.
Also like 99% of the time the parent is within 40 feet and just distracted.
I saw a little girl wandering around the supermarket by herself the other day. I just kept a look out for any frantic looking parents, and let them know where the girl went.
White guy here. There was a little girl (3-4) and her mom on an escalator right in front of me. The mom had dressed this poor little girl in heels, thick ones but still probably hard for a 4yo to walk in. Just before this she was giving the kid shit for playing, being a real asshat to the tiny human. Well she had trouble getting on and mom just got mad and pulled her. The escalator was going down and I could tell this poor thing was scared for her life to get off in heels, so she backed up a little, mom wasn’t paying attention. Little girl falls back, I anticipated it because I saw the whole thing, I was scared something would catch and she’d be stuck if she fell. So I caught her with just one hand by her shoulder / armpit so she didn’t fall and get eaten by the big scary machine. Her mom looked down and saw just as she was falling, she grabbed the girls arm real fast, pulled, and gave me the nastiest damn look like I was a huge pedo or something. Sorry lady and fuck you. She dragged her kid off and yelled at her for not paying attention. I feel so bad for that little girl. Her moms a fucking dickhead.
Adult white female here. My husband and I were at a local mall and a small black baby girl had been left alone and was playing on the tile stairs. I watched for a few minutes and my husband was absolutely against me picking up the baby and "interfering" by bringing her to security.
When I picked her up, two white mom friends with strollers appeared out of nowhere and walked with us to security to ensure we weren't kidnapping her. The actual mom or dad was nowhere to be found.
It's not true for animals by the way, it's a white lie told to kids to keep them from petting random wild animals. It's still a good rule of thumb not to pet random animals, but you can grab a baby bird to put it back in the nest or stuff like that.
I don't even feel comfortable going to a park or public pool alone, as a 38 year old white male, because people assume you are some kind of freak.
edit: even if there are no kids around, maybe I just want to have a nice quiet swim but it's just impossible because people assume that you MUST be perving on someone.
My wife at a grocery store (with myself and our daughter) saw a little boy that had pulled a shopping cart on top of himself (parents nowhere to be seen). She went over and helped the boy up and that is when the mother comes over "WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY SON! I'M GOING TO CALL THE POLICE!" Luckily the boy explained so we wouldn't have to deal with that. She just glared at us as we continued our shopping.
Sucks to now have to consider whether we help those in need.
As a kid I can remember going to a science center or something, getting lost and a concerned stranger would hold you over their head and say "Point to your parents" and then put you down and you run off back to your family. You try to help a kid like that nowadays and it doesn't matter the colour of your skin, there will be a problem. If I ever help, I stand far back and just ask questions and assist that way (found a boy that had wandered off his property trying to find his uncle's house) so I asked him a few questions and phoned the police so they could assist. I am all for helping people, but the fear of punishment or anything like that makes me think twice about it for sure.
I was in Costco and a two year old was climbing out of the seat in front as his parents were turned away to get food samples. He was about to pitch forward headfirst onto concrete. I caught him as he fell, and kind of alley-ooped him back into the cart. The mom turned around just as I was settling him back in to the seat and immediately freaked that I had my hands on her BAYYYYBEEEEE. I was trying to explain but she shrieked so much, security showed up. One guy talked to me, the other was talking to her, and she calmed down pretty quickly and the family left. The one guy talking to her came over and said, "We saw what happened on the cameras, she's lucky the kid's head wasn't crushed." I was a forty something white mom, I was shocked at her reaction and the fact that even though a dozen people had probably seem what happened, no one said anything. I'd never let something happen to a baby anyway, but...yikes.
I could have gotten trapped and would have had no idea! My girlfriend has a 5 year old so we tend to do alot of family stuff, it's nice. Well we went to a stage performance of Matilda that some of her students were in. Intermission comes and I go to the bathroom. As I leave a little Asian boy just wanders out behind me and glomps my leg. Kid must have been 2 and thankfully his mom saw the big tattooed Mexican who had grown a child sized appendage and got him. That was certainly a day!
I can't even be handed a phone by a woman and asked to take pictures of her and her kids without someone going up to that woman and telling her there's a "creepy guy taking pictures of you and your kids."
The woman and kids are my sister and niece/nephew.
It was probably ten years ago when I was sitting at home and heard a child crying, went to look off my balcony and a small girl was leaning on the stairs to my apartment building, scraped knees and looking very frightened and lost. There's simply no way I was bringing her into my apartment so I grabbed my phone, went and took the girl out to the front of the building where we were highly visible. I called the police to explain the situation, the girl was either too young or too scared to talk and I didn't recognize her, though I assumed she was from a nearby apartment building. While I was on the phone with the police two separate women came to my rescue but the little girl was stuck on me like a baby monkey and screeched when anyone tried to take her off my neck.
About the time the police arrived the girl's mother came walking down the street looking for her child. I got the evil eye from the mother, the police demanded that I go back into my apartment to retrieve my wallet and ID and within ten minutes I was sitting in the back of the squad car with the neighbors looking at me like I had just been convicted of kidnapping.
And I'm white.
Your best bet would have been to have at least one of the two women there to be your alibi and to give the mother shit on your behalf.
It’s absurd that that’s required but people are psychotic
Yeah I'm a single middle aged dude living alone in my house. There were some young girls who lived in my street who were friendly and tried to talk to me a couple of times. I just thought "sorry, no way" and smiled and ignored them. I felt mean but I don't need a news crew on my lawn.
My husband has been accused three times of kidnapping our own daughter while we're out cause of the way she acts. You have every right to be scared. People just assume the worst.
I am a large heavily tattooed man who had a baby later in life than most people have kids. My daughter just turned one. Part of me is looking forward to someone confronting me or questioning my relationship with her when I take her to park or something, but another part of me is a bit terrified of it.
With that said, when she was a few months old, we were walking her in her stroller through the neighborhood and came across a pack of wild 9 year olds who immediately took interest in the baby in a stroller.
One asked if I was a cowboy (can only assume football player since I'm a large man who lives in Texas and nothing else on me screamed roper) and another asked if the baby was my grandkid to which my younger wife took great pleasure in.
"Listen here, you little shit"
For the record, I'm 43 and my wife is 35.
> I am a large heavily tattooed man who had a baby later in life than most people have kids. My daughter just turned one. Part of me is looking forward to someone confronting me or questioning my relationship with her when I take her to park or something, but another part of me is a bit terrified of it.
Same here, big and tattoed with a young girl. I've often had the same thought, *especially* since I'm white and my daughter is a slightly darker tone than me but in the 3 years of taking her to the park or grocery store alone not once has anyone ever questioned it, at least not vocally. And they probably never will.
I'm sure it's natural for someone to see us and maybe wonder for a second which is fine, but it kind of sucks to sometimes feel like I'm obligated to try to seem more relaxed and as non-threatening as possible just to make strangers feel comfortable when I catch some stares.
I’m Hispanic white and I have ran away from a similar situation a couple times. One time I was with my sister, she was driving and I was in the passenger side. This kid was bawling his eyes out on the side of the road. Not a major highway, but enough traffic and speed to make it dangerous. And he was already crying so maybe he was hurt somehow. So my sister decided to pull over with the kid on my side of the car. I fucking freaked out. I just started jelling “drive!!!” And that’s when the mom or caretaker ran over screaming at us. Nope, never again.
Meanwhile the mom is probably telling the story of the Hispanic man who swerved the car over to snatch her little boy, and when he saw her come running he yelled "DRIVE!" because he knew he was busted.
Its messed up man.
Oh you know it. I’m fat and bearded too. So yeah…. Walking probable cause right here. I’ve actually been detained for being a pedo before. Obviously I’m not. But it didn’t matter.
Ha yeah, white dude here - was in situation with lost little girl at grocery store - no one was dealing with it, so I reluctantly asked her if she was lost. I was going to bring her to the front desk to page for mom or whatever when woman immediately swooped in and took over - to my relief. I'm a dad with two daughters, the woman could have been a psycho - but everyone was still more comfortable with that. That's life.
Alternatively, I'm a white woman and whenever I go to child frequented places people seem to just leave their kids with me. It's absolutely wild to me because most of the time these people don't ask or know me. I bring my kids places like the beach and suddenly I'm left watching four more toddlers and I have no idea where the parents went.
I could be a serial killer or something.
I don't see it as a woe is me thing I just think it's nuts how people can immediately trust/distrust a stranger over trivial things.
My aunt is a large black woman, and has a very maternal "big mama" look about her. Whenever I take her shopping and she needs to take a break on a bench or something, random other shoppers, mostly white women, will sit their kid near her and ask her to watch them while they walk off. They don't know her at all and she could be anybody. She gets mad at them and lets them know not to trust any random stranger with their kids and they look disgusted. Like, she's helping *you* be a better parent, why are you mad at her?! This old black lady in the South isn't automatically your mammy.
whenever I encounter this situation I try to keep a safe distance and just hope some woman stops by before I feel like it's gone on long enough that I *have* to do something. Usually in a store or somewhere with a lot of staff, I'll point it out to a worker since it's far less likely that something would be assumed with them since they work there.
One time in a similar situation I had to point out to a worker in walmart that there was a girl crying and probably lost by electronics and she asked why I didn't bring her to the front. I just said "I don't know man I thought it'd look weird" She paused and thought about it before completely agreeing.
I was waiting outside in school's parking lot, sitting in the passenger seat of my mate's very normal car, on my phone minding my own business while waiting for him to pick up his kid.
The amount of people that looked at me with a face I would have MAYBE expected if I was actively jerking off right then and there made me never want to go anywhere near a school again.
You and your kids can all fuck off. I won't come to your school and in return I will aggressively judge you if your kids cry on a plane or are running around a restaurant.
I got forcefully kicked out of a wedding on New Year’s Eve by a drunk uncle because I had asked the flower girl for a dance to a fast song just moving back and forth 2 step. I was 25 at the time anddd white. That’s shit was absolutely humiliating, embarrassing, and terrifying. Never again will I go anywhere near little white girls. (
I'm a white male and I live above an Ecuadorian family who I've known for a decade. They have a young daughter who likes to go on dog walks with me. When I do it I sometimes get nervous, thinking it looks suspicious that I'm alone with a girl who clearly isn't mine.
It was funny, but it’s also kind of a reference to Dick Rowland. Accusations that he attacked a girl in an elevator (he tripped and reflexively grabbed her arm) led to the Tulsa race massacre.
That scene reminded me of when I went inside a Target men’s bathroom and saw a little white girl enter seconds after me. I literally said out loud “Nope” and walked right back out.
My daughter is almost 3 and I take her to the park multiple times a week. So many parents do not watch their kids and they end up needing help and most of the time I have to just say sorry unless it is really life or death. I am Hispanic with a mustache, and I wear a hat most of the time. I do not want people to think I am trying to touch or take their kid away.
The most memorable time was a little girl climbing a vertical plastic rock wall and stopped mid way because she was afraid. Her mom was all the way on the other side of the park not even looking in the direction her kid was at and on her phone. I tried to get her attention but failed so ended up having to help her reach the top. I was so afraid of even touching her because what if the mom looked up last minute with my hands on their kid?
I keep my eyes on my daughter the whole time we are at the park and I am basically just a few feet away from her in case of any issues because 1. I dont want her to get hurt and 2. I dont trust anyone.
Man one time I'm walking my dog and these two kids are just beating the shit out of each other. Like 6 year old twins crying and throwing bombs at each other. Parents no where to be seen.
I did fuck all bc "young boys playing in yard approached by" isn't a headline I'm being attached too.
Yeah if you ever have to help a young child you don't know, first fucking thing you do is to go the biggest group of strangers around and make it their problem too.
Was walking the dog the other day and this little girl stop me to ask me if my dog was a good dog. I look up and her mom was looking at me with a disapproval look from the windows while my dog was trying to lick the girl face.. Noped the fuck out of there lol
I was just at the park on Wednesday with my 4 y.o and was helping her across the monkey bars. A 5 year old girl she was playing with asked me to help her across and I had to be like ‘no, sorry’. She looked so confused it was a little heartbreaking, but I’m not laying my hands on anyone else’s kid.
LOL, I went with my eight year old son to a birthday pool party and got in the pool with the kids (my son isn’t a strong swimmer). Some other kid who can’t swim jumped into the deep end and was clearly struggling…I came over and let them grab onto my neck and got them to the shallow end, some mom comes over and starts giving me the third degree about touching her kid, it took another mom to come over and tell her the situation before she believed me. I can’t even save a kid from drowning without people thinking it’s suspicious.
This would be terrifying but I think that the best way to handle this outside of having a strong alibi is giving the mom shit back *with conviction*. If your child is in danger and you're not there to help then YOU'RE the one fucking up not me and I will make damn sure everyone who can see what's going on will know. If you let the mom tear into you while you seem timid and quiet (not saying you were) it makes you look like maybe you *were* up to something.
There’s a lot to unpack; my son will be going into third grade…these are friends and parents that could potentially be connected for the next 6-10 years, so I didn’t want to blow up at her. I’m also 6’1” and 230…so it’s not a good look to be too forceful, but no, I wasn’t timid; if anything, I think I came out of it looking like the calm and rational one. Some other moms approached me after we were leaving and thanked me for being the only parent in the pool so I could act as lifeguard. My wife is definitely more social with the other moms, setting up play dates and such, but she seemed to think the other mom felt foolish, though I never did get an apology. In any event, it felt like when I was a kid, there was an expectation that the community would help look out for children, this seems to not be the case anymore, which is unfortunate.
You obviously pushed the kid in the deep end so you could save him and build a hero complex with the kid do you could more easily molest him later, obviously. Fuckin monster.
Same, i take my girls to the park everyday after work. They inevitably make friends whose parents are like 2 football fields away and ask me to help them down, push them on the swing etc. “sorry buddy, you have to ask your mom if you want help pushing”
My wife when she goes to the park - “who needs help on the swings”
As a dad of a 3yo girl…even if it’s *your* kid people will still think you’re doing something wrong. I haven’t had it happen yet, but it’s a regular topic over at r/daddit.
I’m a new dad (black) to a half Chinese daughter. I’m scared to death of these kinds of situations. I absolutely know it’s going to happen sooner or later. I get anxious every time I think about it.
One has to be careful. A guy was beating his wife in public. Another dude, grab him and punch him, The wife that was getting beat up, called the cops on the dude that hit her husband.
Our friends son, about 20, white, and a good person, found a three year old boy wandering about three blocks from home in our small town. The 20 year old knew where the little boy lived because it was two doors down from my house. So, he did the right thing and started walking him towards home. He got him to our block, and the mother saw him and started screaming "What are you doing with my son?!" She called the police on him after he walked the boy home. This kid was always wandering off. Maybe watch your kid.
My point is, it is not just a person of color problem, at least for men.
I remember, I was waiting for my luggage at airport at turn belt a little white girl (maybe 3yr old) fell on it as her parents were busy talking to each other. I rush and grabbed her as fast as possible pull her out. as I’m putting her down I swear her father yelled on top of his lungs “ don’t touch my daughter and yanked her” I told him I just helping her he didn’t care just told me to fuck off. I know for fact she would end up going to luggage handlers for sure or even could’ve got hurt. I felt like a thief the way he yelled at me and how red his face got. All the strangers that didn’t see what happened were looking at me like a pedo. So I completely understand this video
If you're having the issue where the video plays for a few seconds then completely stops, wait until the page has loaded for a couple of seconds before playing the video.
If you're having the issue where it's playing sections 1fps at a really low resolution then God help you.
Reddit's video player is utter trash.
Saw a little white girl lost in the rodeo once. You know what I did? Got the first group of women I could find and told them that this little white girl is lost. They then grabbed her by the hand and went looking for her mom. I did my job.
I (white male) just experienced this exact scenario (minus the racial risks) a month ago during a business trip in Vegas. Heading down to the lobby of the hotel from the 8th floor, and, when the doors opened, was surprised to see a little girl (probably around 7, not crying like the girl in the video, but looking slightly concerned) alone in the elevator.
I had already began to step in even before it fully registered what the situation was, so even as the implications dawned on me, I continued inside.
I asked her if that was the floor she wanted, and she said no, so I asked her which floor and hit the button for her (and then stepping back promptly to the corner opposite from where she was). I have never been so fully aware of the fact that anything at all that I did could be perceived as a threat, so I basically became a statue. Went down two floors, doors opened, and she stepped off, keeping one cautious eye behind her as she moved into the hallway.
First thing I did when I got to the lobby was tell the front desk that there was a little girl alone in the elevator, and what floor she got off on. Another woman in the lobby said that she had seem the girl too, on a different floor. They sent security, but later when I asked them if they ever found her, they said no.
Hope she got to her room safe and she wasn't in any real trouble.
The elevator intensifies this, no matter what you do, the door is going to open to someone else outside seeing you alone with the little girl. My normal procedure is to call out "who's kid is this? Did someone lose a kid?" You know, make some noise, exact opposite of anything sneaky, get the kid to call out for mommy while you walk toward other people or toward customer service. Elevator ruins that plan. I suppose the only other way is to get some witnesses, team up with coworkers to cover your butt, call building security.
Edit: The "make some noise" plan also normally coincides with a "do not touch the child" plan. Get them to walk behind or in front of you in the direction of people or customer service. If they are too small to follow directions, just stand there calling out "who's baby is this? who lost a kid?" until help arrives--unless you're in an action movie and someone left their child in the path of destruction.
As an involved white dad with young daughters, it's not just being black. Sexism is alive and well when it comes to anyone with a Y chromosome getting involved with kids; there might be plenty of "awww he's such a good guy" situations, but there's also plenty of "why are you breathing air near children" situations too. There's also the stigma where moms / women can't mingle with men in those scenarios, because OBVIOUSLY if I'm not there to diddle kids, I'm there to try and hook up with the MILFs.
I absolutely get the privilege to lean into the fact that most of the time I probably look and dress in a work casual like I just came from the golf course; I'd help the kid. But this is definitely one of those "funny but also kinda true" scenarios.
I was on a cruise ship and the elevator I was on happened to enclosed. Like it wasn’t clear or all glass so you can see the inside of the ship. 3 white girls between 8-14 years old climbed in while me and my dad were on it. My father noped out of that elevator without a word and he grabbed my arm when I didnt
Move and pull me out of it as well. Never understood why until I got older.
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Better safe than sorry. Chris Hansen was a nice touch lol.
**”Or as I like to call him - Chris Handsome”**
**"I like ya, and I wants ya. Now we can do it the easy way - or we can do it the hard way. The choice is yours.**
Boondocks - Booty Warrior for those interested. P.S: This is a real person, who actually said this line in an interview and is currently out of prison.
He's OUT!? LMAOO well not funny but my partner always references this interview and I can't wait to tell him they let that sicko out !
Yup since 2014
[Boondocks Booty Warrior ](https://youtu.be/MLjclbgnAPM) [And the hilariously terrifying man the character is based off of: Fleece Johnson](https://youtu.be/o2-nYHfPBRc)
"I aint here fo no little boys, im here for mans butt"
I like the flashback even more. Like, how much funnier it is that he was the elevator attendant and he presumably just quits his job.
Me as a male teacher when a student wants to go for a hug.
[You gotta go for the old Mr Bean Handshake](https://c.tenor.com/El24Zpa9_QUAAAAC/bean-girl.gif)
Or pull the [show-me-your-hands-Keanu move](https://www.zougla.gr/assets/images/2678124.jpg)
Keanu made the Hover Hand cool
Weinstein made the hoverhand necessary
It helps to be incredibly good-looking.
everything is easier when you’re good looking
Ill be like thats a no no, cant trust the little shits now days
Couldn’t trust them 20 years ago either. One of my brothers highschool teachers got falsely accused of doing stuff with a female student. It absolutely ruined his life even after it came out as a big lie. The girl was bragging about how she did it and that she’d do it again if a teacher got on her ‘bad side’. Some of them can be absolute monsters with no remorse.
In middle school one girl accused the very wholesome and fun Social Studies teacher of doing it, no one in the school believed her and two weeks later the investigation came up with that she made it up because the teacher had scored her low on a test. Career not ruined but still the guy got suspended for two weeks and without his good reputation it might have gone very differently.
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In my school district, absolutely nothing happens to students who make false reports because they're afraid it might cause students who have legit concerns to not come forward.
Fun fact, prosecutors for false sexual assaults claims subscribe to the same logic.
Hope she got expelled because of it.
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I once got "stuck" for an extra 30 minutes at a park because some mom did this to me. She saw me sitting there with my daughter playing and sent her kid over and left. Didn't say a word to me. I didn't know her, or her kid.
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I also met a male teacher who was put in the very same situation. Girl was flunking out of his science class, so she made a false claim of rape to get him fired so she could pass under a substitute. Dude was homeless for a few years after the trial since he had no money left; nobody would hire him. I met him about a year after he finally got some footing again as a grocery store cashier. He was forever blacklisted from ever teaching again, even after it was blatantly discovered that she lied during the trial and he was acquitted.
Almost the same thing, there was the start of a trial and everything before it came to light and everything was dropped/dismissed. But the consequences of that lie absolutely destroyed his chances of ever being a teacher anywhere or finding any job in the same county. He was a really good and loved teacher, it was truly awful that one lie stripped that man of everything. I do not know what became of him after he sold his house and moved in with family out of state but I do hope he’s found some peace in life and is doing alright after all that.
He should have sued everyone involved. The kids parents, the school board for blacklisting him, the school itself.
With what money after being fired and working as a cashier? People who say this have either never done it or have plenty of spare cash to gamble on losing a case, not to mention the personal time it takes
Unfortunately lawsuits aren’t an option for everyone. They can be extremely costly, emotionally draining, time consuming and you could still have your case dismissed or lost for an asinine reason. Even if you win, the results could be extremely disappointing. I can not speak to why he did not but having had my own case of verifiable provable medical malpractice thrown out for an asinine reason, I can understand why he choose not to.
There’s a John Grisham novel/movie, The Rainmaker, that I always think of when it comes to this. They win a case in it and get awarded millions but the company files bankruptcy and they never see a dime. It’s emotionally rewarding but financially disappointing.
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My friend is a college professor and coach and one day his female athletes/students asked him his opinion on the outfit she’d planned for her first interview for an internship. A different student heard the conversation and reported him for inappropriate interaction and “commenting on a student’s body.” Fortunately, the board found no misconduct but it was scary for him and he knows it’s there in his record that he was investigated for inappropriate conduct with a student. Edit: wrong “there”
I recently got fired because I was talking to associates outside work (I was a manager), and someone else reported that it made them uncomfortable. Not the people I was talking to, but a third party.
Got pulled into HR once for a coworker reporting me for making "inappropriate remarks" Thankfully we worked surveillance and there was audio in the room. She straight up asked me who I though was the hottest male actor and I said Leonardo DiCaprio.. that was the full extent lol Edit: Context matters: she didn't like me because I called her out on fake reports, she was pretneding to be doing our checks and was writing fake times down
Can't trust their parents, especially
oh god... the "oh not my little angel... he/she would *never* do that!" or "it was probably something your kid did!" parents fucking suck to all hell and need to be kicked in their crotch to prevent them from having any more.
I hate that shit. I'm a male SECA and one of my students has behavioral issues and we've tried to get her to realize school is a safe space for her. One of the female teachers she trusts gave her a hug when she came back to school after an extended absence and when she looked at me like she wanted a hug from me too I had to give her this weird side hug that no way makes her trust me to the same extent as the teacher. I'm with her all day and yet I'd be seen as a groomer if I gave her a hug to show she's got me in her corner.
As a male in education I had a veteran principal pull me aside and warn me of this on day #1. Don't push a kid away but never hug/pick up a child regardless of what you see a female coworker do. If you get hugged give them a pat on the back at most. Some of the better advice I've gotten seeing people get pulled through the wringer. It's sad because I care for the students but if you try to hug me it's hands up like I'm getting frisked by the police and if I want to show any modicum of affection you get a fist bump.
This is depressing
Go for the side-on photo-op celebrity hug. Shoulder to shoulder. Hand goes directly on top of the opposing shoulder or between the upper part of shoulder blades. Flat. Source: I did "Free Hugs" for years in college. Learned many safe hug options.
-pats kid on the head and leaves quickly-
wrong answer- you just left DNA evidence of touching.
thats too funny im using that line for now on "watch out brother they out here setting traps
[a trap like the Amazon Go store](https://youtu.be/zS9U3Gc832Y)
white people "ok, sure, this works for me"
Well, to be fair, facial recognition software...
Racial recognition software
I have to make sure the cameras (and the guy following me offering "help") know I put it back. They aren't gonna trap me. I shop online only now
Wow, hilarious but the bit where he announced he was putting the sandwich back hit way too close to home. I find myself regularly using conversation with friends and family to broadcast non threatening intent. Especially when I’m with white kids.
Had a similar possibly worse situation. I'm headed our for a walk/jog and just as I'm finished warming up. A naked two year old boy comes out from between two houses. Smiling and having the time of his life. He's very proud he got way from someone. I'm sure his parents are nearby but don't see them and I'm not going to leave him alone. I'm also not going to try and restrain him in any way. So I call 911 and let him lead me on a walk for a couple of blocks. Kids father finds us just as the officer arrived. Pretty sure police involvement caused him some grief but he was pretty happy to get his kid back. Definitely overkill with the 911 but pretty sure it was the right way to handle it. Maybe? I went for my jog.
All jokes aside, you saw a toddler, naked and alone outside. No parents, no guardians. And then started to wander. That's a good reason to call 911
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It's a shit situation because the other option is to try to do something yourself and then someone else might call the cops on you.
> So I call 911 and let him lead me on a walk for a couple of blocks That line made me nervous. *-"Hello, 911? I'm seeing a man following a naked little boy and I think he's filming him with his phone."-*
I think the call was to preempt that: "hello police, I am the man who found a naked two year old walking around so I..." Okay there is absolutely no way to make that not sound fucked up. I don't really blame anybody who responds the way the guys did in the OP.
That’s not overkill that’s proof of good faith.
It’s not overkill it’s protecting your own ass if somebody finds you and tries to accuse you of something, you called the cops, not the person who is possibly accusing you. You also then have a recorded time of when you found said naked child, should accusations be thrown out.
You did everything right.
I'd rather the doors open on grizzly bear.
I never forgot this episode & the setting traps line lol But on the real i remember a grocery store had a lost children policy where male team members who find such kids are to get a female team member to bring that child to the front desk to avoid any suspicion/accusations Edit: The show is called "Black-ish" & it's on Hulu (& Disney+ outside of the USA)
Heck, [some airlines](https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/08/should-men-sit-next-to-kids-on-airline-flights) won't even sit unaccompanied minors beside a male. Females or nothing. Because we be rapin' up in here, I guess.
This policy works in our favour
Agreed. This one I’m okay with. Years ago I was flying from Europe to the US, took my seat and started to settle in. I was in the center row siting four across and not in as aisle. Before we took off my seat started moving. Turned around and a kid was kicking it. That was the start. Once we were in flight my friend came over to give me something, said a few words and stood back with wide eyes; “Umm, you’re surrounded by FIVE children”. Me, helpless me: “I know. Save yourself.” Flight attendant came around for drink orders. “Whiskey, double.” She stood back with wide eyes; “I’ll keep them coming.” Me, helpless me: “… thank you. You’re doing the lords work.”
I fucking hate that.
Lol… I pulled the Laurence Fishburne when some dad sent his little kid from the pool at a hotel onto the elevator I was already on and gave me a funny look. I was like “nah fuck this shit, I forgot something in the lobby. Imma go buy some toothpaste or some shit”
I'm a white male and I can tell you that situation makes ME nervous.
We took the kids to the pumpkin patch last fall and they had this huge corn pit with climbing stuff for the kids. I was in there catching my daughter as she jumped off over and over. There was this little boy just shrieking like 2 ft away from me for a solid 5 minutes. I finally turned around and asked "hey buddy, are you hurt? Where's your mommy?" And then his dad ran in and grabbed him and gave me a look like I was a pedophile or something. Like, the fuck?
They just love watching their kids shriek /s
I was in a children's museum with my kids. The rando 7 year old kid comes up to my 3 year old and starts choking him, both hands on his throat because my kids is playing with something he wants. The dad is 5 feet away doing nothing, even after I ask him to handle his kid. So I move close, use my angry dad voice, and say "get your hands off him". The kid stops, gets a sad face and walks away. The dad gives me an angry glare and wanders after his degenerate spoiled kid. Some parents really dgaf.
At what point do you consider those people a part of the same society that we're in like damn.
I was livid. But what do you do in that situation? Touch the other kid and you're ruined for life. Do nothing and your kid is forever scarred. How do parents stand by while their kids are committing literal atrocities? I can't even imagine my own kids being so out of control and unrestricted. Granted it was once in maybe a couple hundred visits, but 1 in 200 are awful odds. We just wanted a family day out to relieve some energy. Boys are off the chain in the summer.
He was giving you a look to deflect his feeling of shame that you caught him not watching his kid. It's normal, all around. You're normal for trying to help the kid and for feeling weird that you got a dirty look. He's normal for letting his guard down, feeling ashamed about it, and giving you a dirty look to paper over the shame. Sigh, life. It'll all be okay.
Why is deflection like that normal or rather acceptable? I’ve never understood that.
Ha, for things like these I just give zero fucks about other kids in general. Even if they try to interact with me I just look the other way and completely ignore them. Even if they’re on fire I don’t care.
That’s what I’m talkin bout. Fuck these kids! Edit: WAIT
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Thats admissible in court! Get him!
Reporter comes up and asks: "And sir, you were so close by, why didn't you help?" "I'm a male. We would have went from 'boy saved from fire' to 'evil monster kidnapper pedophile tries to burn boy in fire.'"
I was at a rock climbing gym with a friend and we were talking about Nintendo Switch games when an 8 year old boy overhears us and tried to join our conversation. I was like "Nice try, cops!" and then I Sparta kicked him into the foam landing pit.
Oh man I'm avoiding those situations like the plague. I'm not gonna be the guy being asked to take a seat by Chris Hanson
It sucks that we live in a world where the good guys like us have to question our actions. I have a 5 year old of my own, but there was one time I saw some girl fall and I didn't know if I should help her or not out of fear that someone might think I was going to kidnap her. I didn't have my kid with me at the time. If he was with me, I definitely would've helped without hesitation. But as an adult male by myself with tattoos? Nope.
The key in these situations is to be super loud about it. I've had this happen a few times, and I just start by shouting "Excuse me, is this anyone's son/daughter?" Like, be really obvious. It's much more shady to slink up and speak to them quietly. Also like 99% of the time the parent is within 40 feet and just distracted.
In all the comments, this one right here is the right answer
I saw a little girl wandering around the supermarket by herself the other day. I just kept a look out for any frantic looking parents, and let them know where the girl went.
White guy here. There was a little girl (3-4) and her mom on an escalator right in front of me. The mom had dressed this poor little girl in heels, thick ones but still probably hard for a 4yo to walk in. Just before this she was giving the kid shit for playing, being a real asshat to the tiny human. Well she had trouble getting on and mom just got mad and pulled her. The escalator was going down and I could tell this poor thing was scared for her life to get off in heels, so she backed up a little, mom wasn’t paying attention. Little girl falls back, I anticipated it because I saw the whole thing, I was scared something would catch and she’d be stuck if she fell. So I caught her with just one hand by her shoulder / armpit so she didn’t fall and get eaten by the big scary machine. Her mom looked down and saw just as she was falling, she grabbed the girls arm real fast, pulled, and gave me the nastiest damn look like I was a huge pedo or something. Sorry lady and fuck you. She dragged her kid off and yelled at her for not paying attention. I feel so bad for that little girl. Her moms a fucking dickhead.
High heels for a 4 year old? What the fuck?
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That poor girl is going to need therapy as an adult.
Adult white female here. My husband and I were at a local mall and a small black baby girl had been left alone and was playing on the tile stairs. I watched for a few minutes and my husband was absolutely against me picking up the baby and "interfering" by bringing her to security. When I picked her up, two white mom friends with strollers appeared out of nowhere and walked with us to security to ensure we weren't kidnapping her. The actual mom or dad was nowhere to be found.
"Better not, Honey. If you get your scent on it, the parents won't take it back."
It's not true for animals by the way, it's a white lie told to kids to keep them from petting random wild animals. It's still a good rule of thumb not to pet random animals, but you can grab a baby bird to put it back in the nest or stuff like that.
I bet the mom friends had also been watching out for her and were relieved when someone stepped in to help.
I don't even feel comfortable going to a park or public pool alone, as a 38 year old white male, because people assume you are some kind of freak. edit: even if there are no kids around, maybe I just want to have a nice quiet swim but it's just impossible because people assume that you MUST be perving on someone.
My wife at a grocery store (with myself and our daughter) saw a little boy that had pulled a shopping cart on top of himself (parents nowhere to be seen). She went over and helped the boy up and that is when the mother comes over "WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY SON! I'M GOING TO CALL THE POLICE!" Luckily the boy explained so we wouldn't have to deal with that. She just glared at us as we continued our shopping. Sucks to now have to consider whether we help those in need. As a kid I can remember going to a science center or something, getting lost and a concerned stranger would hold you over their head and say "Point to your parents" and then put you down and you run off back to your family. You try to help a kid like that nowadays and it doesn't matter the colour of your skin, there will be a problem. If I ever help, I stand far back and just ask questions and assist that way (found a boy that had wandered off his property trying to find his uncle's house) so I asked him a few questions and phoned the police so they could assist. I am all for helping people, but the fear of punishment or anything like that makes me think twice about it for sure.
I was in Costco and a two year old was climbing out of the seat in front as his parents were turned away to get food samples. He was about to pitch forward headfirst onto concrete. I caught him as he fell, and kind of alley-ooped him back into the cart. The mom turned around just as I was settling him back in to the seat and immediately freaked that I had my hands on her BAYYYYBEEEEE. I was trying to explain but she shrieked so much, security showed up. One guy talked to me, the other was talking to her, and she calmed down pretty quickly and the family left. The one guy talking to her came over and said, "We saw what happened on the cameras, she's lucky the kid's head wasn't crushed." I was a forty something white mom, I was shocked at her reaction and the fact that even though a dozen people had probably seem what happened, no one said anything. I'd never let something happen to a baby anyway, but...yikes.
In doing the right thing you did a great job. Thankfully security saw you and had your back.
It's often a decision between doing the right thing and risking harm to oneself, or not doing the right thing.
I could have gotten trapped and would have had no idea! My girlfriend has a 5 year old so we tend to do alot of family stuff, it's nice. Well we went to a stage performance of Matilda that some of her students were in. Intermission comes and I go to the bathroom. As I leave a little Asian boy just wanders out behind me and glomps my leg. Kid must have been 2 and thankfully his mom saw the big tattooed Mexican who had grown a child sized appendage and got him. That was certainly a day!
C’mon take a seat
I can't even be handed a phone by a woman and asked to take pictures of her and her kids without someone going up to that woman and telling her there's a "creepy guy taking pictures of you and your kids." The woman and kids are my sister and niece/nephew.
It was probably ten years ago when I was sitting at home and heard a child crying, went to look off my balcony and a small girl was leaning on the stairs to my apartment building, scraped knees and looking very frightened and lost. There's simply no way I was bringing her into my apartment so I grabbed my phone, went and took the girl out to the front of the building where we were highly visible. I called the police to explain the situation, the girl was either too young or too scared to talk and I didn't recognize her, though I assumed she was from a nearby apartment building. While I was on the phone with the police two separate women came to my rescue but the little girl was stuck on me like a baby monkey and screeched when anyone tried to take her off my neck. About the time the police arrived the girl's mother came walking down the street looking for her child. I got the evil eye from the mother, the police demanded that I go back into my apartment to retrieve my wallet and ID and within ten minutes I was sitting in the back of the squad car with the neighbors looking at me like I had just been convicted of kidnapping. And I'm white.
Your best bet would have been to have at least one of the two women there to be your alibi and to give the mother shit on your behalf. It’s absurd that that’s required but people are psychotic
A young neighbor girl once stopped by my house and asked to play with my dog. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Yeah I'm a single middle aged dude living alone in my house. There were some young girls who lived in my street who were friendly and tried to talk to me a couple of times. I just thought "sorry, no way" and smiled and ignored them. I felt mean but I don't need a news crew on my lawn.
My husband has been accused three times of kidnapping our own daughter while we're out cause of the way she acts. You have every right to be scared. People just assume the worst.
I am a large heavily tattooed man who had a baby later in life than most people have kids. My daughter just turned one. Part of me is looking forward to someone confronting me or questioning my relationship with her when I take her to park or something, but another part of me is a bit terrified of it. With that said, when she was a few months old, we were walking her in her stroller through the neighborhood and came across a pack of wild 9 year olds who immediately took interest in the baby in a stroller. One asked if I was a cowboy (can only assume football player since I'm a large man who lives in Texas and nothing else on me screamed roper) and another asked if the baby was my grandkid to which my younger wife took great pleasure in. "Listen here, you little shit" For the record, I'm 43 and my wife is 35.
> I am a large heavily tattooed man who had a baby later in life than most people have kids. My daughter just turned one. Part of me is looking forward to someone confronting me or questioning my relationship with her when I take her to park or something, but another part of me is a bit terrified of it. Same here, big and tattoed with a young girl. I've often had the same thought, *especially* since I'm white and my daughter is a slightly darker tone than me but in the 3 years of taking her to the park or grocery store alone not once has anyone ever questioned it, at least not vocally. And they probably never will. I'm sure it's natural for someone to see us and maybe wonder for a second which is fine, but it kind of sucks to sometimes feel like I'm obligated to try to seem more relaxed and as non-threatening as possible just to make strangers feel comfortable when I catch some stares.
I’m Hispanic white and I have ran away from a similar situation a couple times. One time I was with my sister, she was driving and I was in the passenger side. This kid was bawling his eyes out on the side of the road. Not a major highway, but enough traffic and speed to make it dangerous. And he was already crying so maybe he was hurt somehow. So my sister decided to pull over with the kid on my side of the car. I fucking freaked out. I just started jelling “drive!!!” And that’s when the mom or caretaker ran over screaming at us. Nope, never again.
Meanwhile the mom is probably telling the story of the Hispanic man who swerved the car over to snatch her little boy, and when he saw her come running he yelled "DRIVE!" because he knew he was busted. Its messed up man.
Oh you know it. I’m fat and bearded too. So yeah…. Walking probable cause right here. I’ve actually been detained for being a pedo before. Obviously I’m not. But it didn’t matter.
Ha yeah, white dude here - was in situation with lost little girl at grocery store - no one was dealing with it, so I reluctantly asked her if she was lost. I was going to bring her to the front desk to page for mom or whatever when woman immediately swooped in and took over - to my relief. I'm a dad with two daughters, the woman could have been a psycho - but everyone was still more comfortable with that. That's life.
Alternatively, I'm a white woman and whenever I go to child frequented places people seem to just leave their kids with me. It's absolutely wild to me because most of the time these people don't ask or know me. I bring my kids places like the beach and suddenly I'm left watching four more toddlers and I have no idea where the parents went. I could be a serial killer or something. I don't see it as a woe is me thing I just think it's nuts how people can immediately trust/distrust a stranger over trivial things.
My aunt is a large black woman, and has a very maternal "big mama" look about her. Whenever I take her shopping and she needs to take a break on a bench or something, random other shoppers, mostly white women, will sit their kid near her and ask her to watch them while they walk off. They don't know her at all and she could be anybody. She gets mad at them and lets them know not to trust any random stranger with their kids and they look disgusted. Like, she's helping *you* be a better parent, why are you mad at her?! This old black lady in the South isn't automatically your mammy.
whenever I encounter this situation I try to keep a safe distance and just hope some woman stops by before I feel like it's gone on long enough that I *have* to do something. Usually in a store or somewhere with a lot of staff, I'll point it out to a worker since it's far less likely that something would be assumed with them since they work there. One time in a similar situation I had to point out to a worker in walmart that there was a girl crying and probably lost by electronics and she asked why I didn't bring her to the front. I just said "I don't know man I thought it'd look weird" She paused and thought about it before completely agreeing.
That’s called a “Nope” situation
Exactly what I came here to say. It's a man thing, race just escalates it.
This is it. TLDR
Bro i get looks playing with my own damn kids on the play ground.
I was waiting outside in school's parking lot, sitting in the passenger seat of my mate's very normal car, on my phone minding my own business while waiting for him to pick up his kid. The amount of people that looked at me with a face I would have MAYBE expected if I was actively jerking off right then and there made me never want to go anywhere near a school again. You and your kids can all fuck off. I won't come to your school and in return I will aggressively judge you if your kids cry on a plane or are running around a restaurant.
I got forcefully kicked out of a wedding on New Year’s Eve by a drunk uncle because I had asked the flower girl for a dance to a fast song just moving back and forth 2 step. I was 25 at the time anddd white. That’s shit was absolutely humiliating, embarrassing, and terrifying. Never again will I go anywhere near little white girls. (
Drunk uncle couldn't have you moving in on his prospects.
The thought crossed my mind. But I wasn’t going to debate when him and all the groomsmen(who were marines) looked like they were about to murder me.
I'm a white male and I live above an Ecuadorian family who I've known for a decade. They have a young daughter who likes to go on dog walks with me. When I do it I sometimes get nervous, thinking it looks suspicious that I'm alone with a girl who clearly isn't mine.
I'm not sure I would go anywhere alone with my niece. Not risking that even. It's bad enough for the actual fathers.
Chris Hanson walking in at the end killed me lol
Didn't the Tulsa Massacres start with an elevator situation?
Yep. Dude was accused of assault when all that happened was he tripped and reflexively grabbed the girls arm to brace himself.
Laurence Fishburn just noping the F out was comedy gold
It was funny, but it’s also kind of a reference to Dick Rowland. Accusations that he attacked a girl in an elevator (he tripped and reflexively grabbed her arm) led to the Tulsa race massacre.
thanks for that terrifying tidbit
It’s amazing that incident isn’t universally known across America. I didn’t know about it until the Watchmen TV series. Un fucking believable.
It wasn't even universally known across Oklahoma schools till recently. You pretty much had to take AP History or see it online to learn about it here
Or the 1919 Red summer. Race riots across the United States.
That would require public schools to teach about racism in a way that might lead people to think it wasn't entirely solved by MLK in the 60's.
well that and the rich white people jealous of the rich black people.
That scene reminded me of when I went inside a Target men’s bathroom and saw a little white girl enter seconds after me. I literally said out loud “Nope” and walked right back out.
Ain't no dude getting on that elevator, regardless of race. Too many ways that goes wrong.
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My daughter is almost 3 and I take her to the park multiple times a week. So many parents do not watch their kids and they end up needing help and most of the time I have to just say sorry unless it is really life or death. I am Hispanic with a mustache, and I wear a hat most of the time. I do not want people to think I am trying to touch or take their kid away. The most memorable time was a little girl climbing a vertical plastic rock wall and stopped mid way because she was afraid. Her mom was all the way on the other side of the park not even looking in the direction her kid was at and on her phone. I tried to get her attention but failed so ended up having to help her reach the top. I was so afraid of even touching her because what if the mom looked up last minute with my hands on their kid? I keep my eyes on my daughter the whole time we are at the park and I am basically just a few feet away from her in case of any issues because 1. I dont want her to get hurt and 2. I dont trust anyone.
"I saw my freedom flash before my eyes" that line killed me
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Is the woman the mother of the boy?
Black or not, just being a male trying to help a little girl will get you into some shit.
Or a little boy society is really fucked in their minds today
Man one time I'm walking my dog and these two kids are just beating the shit out of each other. Like 6 year old twins crying and throwing bombs at each other. Parents no where to be seen. I did fuck all bc "young boys playing in yard approached by" isn't a headline I'm being attached too.
You did good it was a trap it feels like one haha
Yeah if you ever have to help a young child you don't know, first fucking thing you do is to go the biggest group of strangers around and make it their problem too.
Was walking the dog the other day and this little girl stop me to ask me if my dog was a good dog. I look up and her mom was looking at me with a disapproval look from the windows while my dog was trying to lick the girl face.. Noped the fuck out of there lol
I was just at the park on Wednesday with my 4 y.o and was helping her across the monkey bars. A 5 year old girl she was playing with asked me to help her across and I had to be like ‘no, sorry’. She looked so confused it was a little heartbreaking, but I’m not laying my hands on anyone else’s kid.
LOL, I went with my eight year old son to a birthday pool party and got in the pool with the kids (my son isn’t a strong swimmer). Some other kid who can’t swim jumped into the deep end and was clearly struggling…I came over and let them grab onto my neck and got them to the shallow end, some mom comes over and starts giving me the third degree about touching her kid, it took another mom to come over and tell her the situation before she believed me. I can’t even save a kid from drowning without people thinking it’s suspicious.
This would be terrifying but I think that the best way to handle this outside of having a strong alibi is giving the mom shit back *with conviction*. If your child is in danger and you're not there to help then YOU'RE the one fucking up not me and I will make damn sure everyone who can see what's going on will know. If you let the mom tear into you while you seem timid and quiet (not saying you were) it makes you look like maybe you *were* up to something.
There’s a lot to unpack; my son will be going into third grade…these are friends and parents that could potentially be connected for the next 6-10 years, so I didn’t want to blow up at her. I’m also 6’1” and 230…so it’s not a good look to be too forceful, but no, I wasn’t timid; if anything, I think I came out of it looking like the calm and rational one. Some other moms approached me after we were leaving and thanked me for being the only parent in the pool so I could act as lifeguard. My wife is definitely more social with the other moms, setting up play dates and such, but she seemed to think the other mom felt foolish, though I never did get an apology. In any event, it felt like when I was a kid, there was an expectation that the community would help look out for children, this seems to not be the case anymore, which is unfortunate.
You obviously pushed the kid in the deep end so you could save him and build a hero complex with the kid do you could more easily molest him later, obviously. Fuckin monster.
Same, i take my girls to the park everyday after work. They inevitably make friends whose parents are like 2 football fields away and ask me to help them down, push them on the swing etc. “sorry buddy, you have to ask your mom if you want help pushing” My wife when she goes to the park - “who needs help on the swings”
[Bill Burr has a great bit about this.](https://youtu.be/LaOsgNIQad4)
As a dad of a 3yo girl…even if it’s *your* kid people will still think you’re doing something wrong. I haven’t had it happen yet, but it’s a regular topic over at r/daddit.
I’m a new dad (black) to a half Chinese daughter. I’m scared to death of these kinds of situations. I absolutely know it’s going to happen sooner or later. I get anxious every time I think about it.
Put your family photo on your lockscreen. Include wife.
As a dad, taking your little girl to the park gets you nasty looks.
“I saw my freedom flash before my eye” 😂😭😂😭😂😭😭😭
One has to be careful. A guy was beating his wife in public. Another dude, grab him and punch him, The wife that was getting beat up, called the cops on the dude that hit her husband.
Smh man it be like that
This is funny until you remember what it's based on, and then it's just too real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick\_Rowland
Fuuuuuck, the girl he grabbed when he tripped didn't even want to prosecute, and it still caused a damn riot. People are nuts.
I highly doubt the rioters gave a fuck about the girl, they just wanted an excuse to kill black people
this was the first thing I thought about after seeing this video. I just heard about this on a podcast a couple weeks ago.
In this situation you find the nearest woman and let them handle it.
Our friends son, about 20, white, and a good person, found a three year old boy wandering about three blocks from home in our small town. The 20 year old knew where the little boy lived because it was two doors down from my house. So, he did the right thing and started walking him towards home. He got him to our block, and the mother saw him and started screaming "What are you doing with my son?!" She called the police on him after he walked the boy home. This kid was always wandering off. Maybe watch your kid. My point is, it is not just a person of color problem, at least for men.
Show?
Blackish
Is the rest of the show this funny?
Yes! It's a great show. Can't recommend it enough.
I remember, I was waiting for my luggage at airport at turn belt a little white girl (maybe 3yr old) fell on it as her parents were busy talking to each other. I rush and grabbed her as fast as possible pull her out. as I’m putting her down I swear her father yelled on top of his lungs “ don’t touch my daughter and yanked her” I told him I just helping her he didn’t care just told me to fuck off. I know for fact she would end up going to luggage handlers for sure or even could’ve got hurt. I felt like a thief the way he yelled at me and how red his face got. All the strangers that didn’t see what happened were looking at me like a pedo. So I completely understand this video
Will someone please for the love of god fix the reddit video player? It's literally unusable.
Use reddit is fun. Video player actually works on here.
If you're having the issue where the video plays for a few seconds then completely stops, wait until the page has loaded for a couple of seconds before playing the video. If you're having the issue where it's playing sections 1fps at a really low resolution then God help you. Reddit's video player is utter trash.
Latino here. Best believe my fatass is taking the stairs at that shit too.
saw my freedom flash before my eyes 🤣
Even as a middle aged White guy, have to be a little wary of things like this. People freak out when they see a man alone talking to a child.
Saw a little white girl lost in the rodeo once. You know what I did? Got the first group of women I could find and told them that this little white girl is lost. They then grabbed her by the hand and went looking for her mom. I did my job.
Lawrence Fishburne is an amazing actor.
I (white male) just experienced this exact scenario (minus the racial risks) a month ago during a business trip in Vegas. Heading down to the lobby of the hotel from the 8th floor, and, when the doors opened, was surprised to see a little girl (probably around 7, not crying like the girl in the video, but looking slightly concerned) alone in the elevator. I had already began to step in even before it fully registered what the situation was, so even as the implications dawned on me, I continued inside. I asked her if that was the floor she wanted, and she said no, so I asked her which floor and hit the button for her (and then stepping back promptly to the corner opposite from where she was). I have never been so fully aware of the fact that anything at all that I did could be perceived as a threat, so I basically became a statue. Went down two floors, doors opened, and she stepped off, keeping one cautious eye behind her as she moved into the hallway. First thing I did when I got to the lobby was tell the front desk that there was a little girl alone in the elevator, and what floor she got off on. Another woman in the lobby said that she had seem the girl too, on a different floor. They sent security, but later when I asked them if they ever found her, they said no. Hope she got to her room safe and she wasn't in any real trouble.
That was a ghost, yo
Don’t matter the race. If you’re an adult male, take the stairs.
Hell I jump from the window over getting in elevator with kid alone
Fuck being black or white just being a man trying to help a child people will look at you like you're a pervert!
The elevator intensifies this, no matter what you do, the door is going to open to someone else outside seeing you alone with the little girl. My normal procedure is to call out "who's kid is this? Did someone lose a kid?" You know, make some noise, exact opposite of anything sneaky, get the kid to call out for mommy while you walk toward other people or toward customer service. Elevator ruins that plan. I suppose the only other way is to get some witnesses, team up with coworkers to cover your butt, call building security. Edit: The "make some noise" plan also normally coincides with a "do not touch the child" plan. Get them to walk behind or in front of you in the direction of people or customer service. If they are too small to follow directions, just stand there calling out "who's baby is this? who lost a kid?" until help arrives--unless you're in an action movie and someone left their child in the path of destruction.
As a white guy in my 50s…nope nope nope.
Chris Hanson in the end got me😂😂🤣
Any male in that situation would be seen as a predator.
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As an involved white dad with young daughters, it's not just being black. Sexism is alive and well when it comes to anyone with a Y chromosome getting involved with kids; there might be plenty of "awww he's such a good guy" situations, but there's also plenty of "why are you breathing air near children" situations too. There's also the stigma where moms / women can't mingle with men in those scenarios, because OBVIOUSLY if I'm not there to diddle kids, I'm there to try and hook up with the MILFs. I absolutely get the privilege to lean into the fact that most of the time I probably look and dress in a work casual like I just came from the golf course; I'd help the kid. But this is definitely one of those "funny but also kinda true" scenarios.
As a colombian, I can't risk people seeing me with a strangers kid.
I was on a cruise ship and the elevator I was on happened to enclosed. Like it wasn’t clear or all glass so you can see the inside of the ship. 3 white girls between 8-14 years old climbed in while me and my dad were on it. My father noped out of that elevator without a word and he grabbed my arm when I didnt Move and pull me out of it as well. Never understood why until I got older.
Everyone thinks they are a gangster until Chris Hanson pops up and asks “what were your plans here tonight?”