And about time, too. Apparently, some old guy took offense at a younger man’s refusal to stand up during the national anthem at Wrigley Field, and when the little asshole refused to get to his feet, Our Hero gave him a quick clip to the back of the head.
Yeah, yeah, First Amendment rights were violated etc. etc. I don’t care, and nor should anyone else.
Lesson for the punk kid. If you didn’t want to stand during the anthem’s singing — and I’ll leave it to y’all to judge the quality of the performance thereof, a topic for another time — all you had to do was stay out of the stadium (e.g. while buying a beer and/or hot dog) and not be a dick.
As for Our Hero: good on you, Gramps. We need a lot more of this activity, because FFS somebody’s got to do it.
Note: the smack on the head got the little shit to stand up, and nobody in the immediate area came to his defense either. Which is also as it should be.
If memory serves correctly, the First Amendment protects individuals from the state, not from other individuals. If one chooses to behave like a boor, one should not be surprised to receive a lesson in manners. I hope the lesson-giver gets a season ticket from the stadium as a thank-you.
I’d have knocked the old dood out, right on the spot. Being in a specific place does not give permission to assault.
But then, I have never attended a sporting event nor ever watched any, though I played all of them in my youth.
You would have stood for the anthem? If so you would get respect. No show respect, no get respect.
I probably would have knocked the little twerp out my self.
Here’s a link that contains a video of the older man applying some percussive maintenance to the disrespectful punk
https://www.nbcchicago.com/mlb/chicago-cubs/viral-video-shows-cubs-fan-being-slapped-for-not-standing-during-national-anthem/3964302/
I hope the smack left a mark and permanent impression on the ignorant young man.
In the case of the punk, that wasn’t per se Percussive Maintenance, but a Percussive lesson on public behavior and respect for others. That the old man had to whack him one is, to many Leftists, terrible, and to many normal people, unfortunate, but one has to speak in the language the recipient understands.
We used to apply these lessons on how to behave in public at a much younger age. but “Muh Feewings!” appear to bear more importance than manners.
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Back around late 1987 or early ‘88, Dad took me to old Met Center (now the IKEA across from Mall of America) to watch Team USA play Team USSR before the Olympics. When anthem time came, the Soviets’ was to be played first and everyone stood. With all the hubris and wisdom of a high school junior, I declared that I wasn’t about to stand for any Commie anthem. Dad leaned down and said “It’s THEIR anthem and you WILL stand and show them their due respect!” I’d been taller than him for a while and he hadn’t laid a hand on me for at least ten years but I knew that he was about two seconds away from “helping” me to my feet by the ear.
I stood.
The “teacher” looks to be about my age, and while I have no way of knowing, that might place him in the Viet Nam-era. Some of us that age can be kinda opinionated and cranky. I don’t condone going “hands-on” in most instances, but maybe Old Dude was an uncle, or in-law, and maybe this was a familial “teaching moment”.
Young Dude probably won’t ever hear the National Anthem again without remembering that particular moment.
Appears to be an older relative…hard to know. For certain if I had done that (not that I would) dad would have ‘straightened me out’ in short order…by the ear as was done back in the day. No fanfare or yelling, just quiet instructive discipline when respect is due yet ignored by a young mind ‘not paying attention’ (albeit this kid was being defiant likely due to public school indoctrination).
Well done Pops. That’s not assault, that’s just education.
I would suggest that if you ever come to the Bluegrass state and My Old Kentucky Home is being played, you stand and sing along. People here take that song very seriously.