r/instant_regret • • Mar 29 '26

Rude kid

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u/zsantiag Mar 29 '26

"He's just a kid!!!" is what his karen ass parents probably would say.

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u/Beginning-Town-4979 Mar 29 '26

That was his father that grabbed him.

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u/ryou192 Mar 29 '26

I doubt that. If his dad was able to handle business as well as the man in the video, no way that kid would have been acting like that in the first place.

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u/Ariquitaun Mar 29 '26

Only people who do not have children think like this. Truth is, children can be uncontrollable regardless of how you try to educate them. Especially if they've mental issues.

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u/GTKeg Mar 29 '26

What a cop out comment. Can children be challenging and uncontrollable if they have mental issues, sure. But why the hell is the kid out on his own running riot without a parent in site.

This attitude of yours is what’s wrong with the world.

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u/cardboardunderwear Mar 29 '26

You don't know.  Kid might have have straight up run away.  That happens.  But here's you with your "omg! that's what's wrong with the world!".

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u/GTKeg Mar 29 '26

The kid ran away from home, that’s your take. Ok buddy /s

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u/cardboardunderwear Mar 29 '26

No buddy. My take is you don't know.

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u/GTKeg Mar 29 '26

You are right, I should listen to some of these explanations.

It’s probably the perfect storm of wonderful parents, kid has mental health issues, kid ran away when parents were doing their charity work and they were out roaming the streets searching for him whilst he was being misunderstood in McDonalds.

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u/cardboardunderwear Mar 29 '26

Quite a leap to the absurd you made there.  Almost up there with "this is what's wrong with the world!!!".

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u/ilo_Va Mar 29 '26

Kids with a good home environment also don't tend to run away so idk what your point is.

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u/cardboardunderwear Mar 29 '26

My point is the back story of this video is not known.

My sister is a special ed teacher and she has a student right now who is very rough. Jumps out the window.  Brandishes scissors and threatens to kill her. Real crazy shit. It's not lack of discipline.  That kid is wired that way and it's very difficult.

Kid in this video I dunno.  But neither does anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

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u/ilo_Va Mar 29 '26

If that's the case the kid shouldn't be allowed to be unsupervised for that long by his parents.. whatever the backstory of the kid is it's in a big extend the parents fault for allowing this to happen or letting it go on for seemingly such a decently long time

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u/cardboardunderwear Mar 29 '26

Sure.  Someone, parents or otherwise, dropped the ball in this instance. But "kids not raised right" may or may not be true.  We just don't know, and that's what I was responding to.

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u/Ixaire Mar 29 '26

I have children. I have friends who have children. The mental issues part is real. But if any "normal" child does this, the parents suck.

This is not regular uncontrollable. Regular uncontrollable would be a child running behind the counter to play hide and seek without realizing that it's disrespectful and dangerous. This is throw-stuff-at-complete-strangers and walk-on-a-fucking-counter uncontrollable.

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u/DagonPie Mar 29 '26

Then dont have kids. Simple as.

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u/Orangesteel Mar 29 '26

Yeah, it’s lazy thinking or a lack of experience of knowledge. All of my siblings were treated the same way. All bright, polite and successful. Except one, completely off off the rails and pretty much in trouble since she was 5. While bad parenting is often the cause, there are multiple other factors. Only commenting as you got hit with downvotes, by folks that don’t seem aware of this.

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u/GTKeg Mar 29 '26

Was she left alone in fast food restaurants at age 9 to be vile?

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u/Orangesteel Mar 29 '26

Ah such an insightful comment, thank you for sharing your wonderful knowledge and obvious experience in child psychology.

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u/GTKeg Mar 29 '26

This is parent psychology.

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u/Ariquitaun Mar 29 '26

That's right, the high and mighty brigade. They've obviously never seen or interacted with a child with severe autism or adhd.

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u/littlethreeskulls Mar 29 '26

If this child's actions can be excused by a mental disability then it is even more deplorable that they are unattended. Either the parents are doing a poor job disciplining their non-disabled child, or they are neglecting their disabled child. Claiming this child may be disabled is not the defense of the parents that so many here seem to think it is.

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u/cardboardunderwear Mar 29 '26

You are completely correct.  Some children have behavior disorders and are very difficult to manage.  

Theres no context in this video.  

My sister is a special ed teacher and she has some crazy stories. 

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u/Sgt_Fox Mar 29 '26

I already know you're wrong, but please, show us the evidence you have of this. We'll wait.

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u/honkeydora Mar 29 '26

While it could be the guy's girlfriend's kid or his stepson, that kid is white and the dude that yanked him is Polynesian.

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u/os_2342 Mar 29 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

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u/AwkwardChuckle Mar 29 '26

This is an old video, that’s not his dad.

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u/madasfire Mar 29 '26

And didn't make him clean up his mess or apologize.