This will get your blood pressure up

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Originally Posted by jcampbell

To argue the point of being a diabetic... Who cares if he was diabetic or not.

The point wasn't whether or not anyone cares that he's a diabetic or not, it was that his condition could have affected his response. That was the point I was trying to make. You don't seem to understand that only he is in charge of his sugars, not his mom or dad or the kids around him, and he might have accidentally let them get too low (it happens). Occasionally things can 'get away' from you, and you end up doing something stupid or indelicate, as I have mentioned previously. Hopefully these occurrences are infrequent. These things -- dropping sugars -- can happen very quickly, and sometimes without warning. That was the point.

So, let's just say that the kid did do something stupid (no matter if he's diabetic or not, of course). Fine. He was skateboarding where he should not have been. It was against the law to skateboard there. And it was signed as such. All good. None of this 'fact' I am allowing gives anyone -- not a civilian bystander nor a cop -- tacit permission to mete out any punishment whatsoever for this transgression. A citation, yes. Punishment? None.

I saw the man take down a 14-yr-old 1/3 his size (or even smaller from the looks of that belly). That was physical punishment. That's wrong.

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