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Originally Posted by Ike Bana
Look...you were the one who came out here challenging TJ's depiction of some sick old man who would drag his kid out back and beat his ass so bad he couldn't sit down for a week. And now you're pissing and moaning about getting an argument about it. Tough shit...you dealt this hand, play it...you bought the ticket, take the ride without whining about it for christ's sake.
The amazing thing about all this is that in this thread, for the first time in history, you and I are pretty much on the same side of an argument...save your screwy parenting model. He who paid attention to his old man, or his older neighborhood mentor guy and don't act like a fucking idiot with the police will have a significantly better chance of survival, regardless of his color. If the kid had been tazed and beaten within an inch of his life for jumping a cop, we'd still have every neighborhood political group in Ferguson screaming bloody murder, and half this forum bleating about how we've become a police state.
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Oh I see, you took the "couldn't sit down for a week" literally.
I took that as an exaggeration, given that it was a common threatening parental phrase back in the day. I knew some kids that got beat pretty bad. I'd consider some of it abuse. But I never seen anyone beat so bad they literally couldn't sit down for a week.
Hell, I fell out of a truck once at highway speed and it took all the skin off my ass on one side. I was still able to sit on it after about 4 days, so not sure what kind of a belt or switch you'd have to use to actually achieve the kind of damage you are thinking about.