Today, at the bank, my 8-year-old son decided to pull out realistic looking toy gun, and scream "FREEZE! Give me all your money!" The dim-witted bank teller pressed the silent alarm, and I was nearly arrested. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my 17-year-old son attempted to rob the bank I work at while I was off shift. FML
Today, as I walked into the bank, I tripped and bumped into a security guard. He thought I was assaulting him, so he pinned me to the floor and called for backup as he held me at gunpoint. FML
Today, I took my 4 year-old son to the bank with me. He asked why we were going, and I explained that I had a couple of checks that they would turn into money. When we got in line, he loudly exclaimed, "Mommy has checks for money!" Except "checks" sounded almost exactly like "sex." FML
Today, I went to my local bank after getting an email from them concerning unknown purchases. Four hours later, I was still in police custody. Someone had been using my account to purchase guns and drugs. FML
Today, my 6-year-old son was so angry at me for not buying him overpriced candy at the airport that he told a security guard I had a machine gun in my suitcase. The interrogation was not pleasant. FML
Today, I got to see my son's dream of being on television come true. Unfortunately, it was because he'd been arrested for trying to rob a bank. FML
Today, while shopping, my six-year-old son threw a tantrum because I wouldn't buy him a video game. I ended up having to grab his arm and leave the store. He screamed that I was kidnapping him, at which point I was socked in the face and pinned to the floor by three bystanders. FML
Today, I went to withdraw 200 dollars. At the ATM, I noticed a suspicious man standing really close to me. I was nervous about entering my pin number, and worried he was looking at my account information. In my panic, I got all the way home before realizing that I'd left the cash in the machine. FML
Today, my son is so pathetic that when a tiny, unarmed 5-foot tall female thief robbed our store, he didn’t grab the baseball bat, he didn’t slam the anti-theft door on the counter closed, he didn’t even press the big alarm button, he just started crying, put his hands up, and let her empty the till. FML
Today, at the bank, I went to get some coffee from their machine. I gave it my money and pressed the buttons but nothing was happening. After banging on the machine for ten minutes and calling a teller over, a little boy reached up on his tippy toes to press the giant green START button for me. FML
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SkoomaKi 28
I can see a very good life coming from this kid. Maybe not a legal one, but a rich one none the less.
Mariebaz 11
Why did you allow your son to bring a gun- even a fake- into a bank in the first place?
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Comments (147)
fj19 9
What an idiot!! I'd never trust her with my money!!
kitsune3 20
Oh of course everyone is so quick to blame the mother. Newsflash, guys, even if a parent teaches their child something, for one thing, little kids do things without thinking. It's part of being that age. They have no sense of tact or discretion. A parent can teach a child all they like about what's wrong or right, but in the end, they can't make those choices for the child. It's the child who ends up deciding whether or not to use those lessons. And to those saying "well why did you let him bring the gun?", ever stop to think maybe she didn't know he had it? It's very easy for a child to sneak things into their pockets. Honestly, no one here is using a damn bit of common sense.
Bludmagnus 13
Actually, I was not blaming the mother. I am blaming a society that denies a parent the right to: 1. Search one's child for inappropriate things. 2. Give proper level punishment for such outrageous behavior. 3. Make it where the parent gets the legal retaliation of the law. 4. Makes it where other adults cannot direct their dismay/indignation/anger directly at the child. If these were not in play, what would have happened was this. The kid would have done that, the teller would have been allowed to call the little punk that and more, the parent would have ripped the toy out of the child's hands, spanked the kid's ass, then allowed the teller to have his/her turn. No one would have called the cops, no one would have been nearly arrested, and the kid would have gotten the punishment he/she deserved. "But that would have been humiliating to the child!", some say. EXACTLY!!! Children should be humiliated when they do things like that, period. The child was well aware that his behavior was over the top, so his punishment should fit the crime.
redhedsaysrawr 18
oh yes, because the mother didnt know Santa Claus gave the kid the gun.. come on seriously? I would NEVER give my child anything that even remotely looked like a real gun... a nerf gun, sure, but you can obviously tell that is a fake... This is how you get psychos running around shooting people...
kitsune3 20
I wasn't targeting you, 266. You obviously have plenty of sense, and understand the real issue here. It's just the ignorant people saying things like, "it's all your fault!" "you shouldn't have given him the toy then!" and "why didn't you take it from him?" that I'm directing that at.
kitsune3 20
@ 275: Did I say she didn't know someone gave it to him? No. Do you know for sure that she was the one who got it for him? No. So don't even go there. I said that maybe she didn't know he had it with him at the time of this event.
loohoozuuhuur 13
Silent alarm = over reacting 8 year old with REALISTIC toy gun in bank = unthoughtful Hope you learned from this exciting experience... lmao!
Nemle22 4
Why would you give your kid a REALISTIC looking gun? That's just teaching him it's ok to play with guys They aren't toys and you've clearly given him the idea they area. YDI
Nemle22 4
I meant play with guns. LOL Bad typo!
manrock1896 0
That's a 21st story
valwojazz 11
Do you know how to control your kid?
mritty 2
The bank teller did the right thing. She was not dimwitted. If you want someone to blame, blame the dimwitted parent who thinks "toy gun" is an appropriate gift for a child, and who allows that child to bring it into a bank.
svenskdod 2
Firstly, why does an eight year old have a real looking gun? Secondly, you allow it outside of home, and thirdly, the behaviour of children is often reflected in their parents skills at upbringing... Go back to Te Kiwiti...
wessron 1
*Te Kuiti If you're going insult a place at least try and spell it correctly.
daytoday21 10
Why you dont let your kids have realistic toy guns. (also why they don't really make them, you must have worked really hard to get one. Odd. ) don't blame it on the cashier.
thecookielovrxx 8
Because it is so obvious an 8 yr old can rob banks