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Subscribe to RSSA 10-year-old boy in Brockton, Mass., landed himself in trouble after placing a call to 911, threatening his mother who was instructing him to go to bed. WHDH's Janet Wu reports.
In a case of sleepy-time justice, a Massachusetts boy got more than he bargained for when he called 911 this week to complain that his mother was making him go to bed: a visit from police.
Dan Davis, 10, just wanted to stay up late during school vacation. When he told his mom he was going call the cops on her, she dared him to go ahead, according to NBC affiliate WHDH.
"He's like, 'I'm going to call the cops on you,'" Shamayne Rosario, Davis' mother, told the 911 operator.
Davis dialed 911 shortly after 8 p.m. but, suddenly shy, hung up quickly without actually speaking with the dispatcher. Following protocol, the Brockton, Mass., police department returned the call. Rosario explained the situation, even offering her son a chance to speak.
"Dan, would you like to talk to the police?" Rosario is heard saying on the return call, "because you can't be calling 911 when there is no emergency."
The police department confirms all calls in person, so an officer was sent to the scene. Rosario seized the opportunity to turn the situation into a teachable moment for her son.
"I said, ‘Make this a learning experience for him,’ and [the officer] went and spoke with him and told him about the consequences of that action," she told Boston's WHDH.
For Davis, one of those consequences is spending two weeks grounded, mom told the Enterprise News, a local newspaper. No charges were filed in the bedtime imbroglio.
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omg THIS IS NEWS ???? look msnbc u begening TO GET WORSE LIKE CNN AND FOX that can't EVEN tell what's NEWS AND WHAT'S NOT NEWS ..this is news?? oh GREAT but u put up another article about A SHOOOTING IN VAGES and some rapper i don't know gets killed?? LOOOK I WANT assult rifles to be BAN but ur game is SLIPPING FAST!
meaning u are NO LONGER A REAL legit news network...U are just like fox , cnn and TMZ!
Are you for real?
They got you to click on the story, read it, and comment on it.
If the goal of this story was to generate ad revenue (which it is) then I'd say it was pretty successful.
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"omg THIS IS NEWS ???? look msnbc u begening TO GET WORSE LIKE CNN AND FOX that can't EVEN tell what's NEWS AND WHAT'S NOT NEWS ..this is news?? oh GREAT but u put up another article about A SHOOOTING IN VAGES and some rapper i don't know gets killed?? LOOOK I WANT assult rifles to be BAN but ur game is SLIPPING FAST!meaning u are NO LONGER A REAL legit news network...U are just like fox , cnn and TMZ!"
Folks, am I in the right place (MSNBC)? Did MSNBC move to Mexico or something...?
VAGES? where on earth is this place? I doubt it's in Mexico either....
Doc, everyone knows Vages in in the state of Venada.
Can you learn to spell??? You sounld like an idiot, no offense.
Doc - there are some young people who think it's OK to write everyday everywhere as if they are texting friends on an IPhone. Some of them even talk like they text.
Can't wait till she gets a job where she has to actually write something normal.
Glad when I am competing with younger people in the workplace that these are the ones I am usually up against.
From looking at other comments/posts she has made, I highly doubt she knows how to correctly form, spell and write a coherent thought process. Not trying to be rude but it's really hard to read her comments when they don't make sense because of the spelling and grammatical errors.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
Another illiterate Sheeple heard from, go back to school and get your GED.
Zeivah: You may want to look at her profile. She looks to be at least 30, if not older.
I was not going to comment here, but after seeing your comments I felt compelled to respond. This is a wonderful story! Child did not want to obey his parent(s) and threatened to call the police (this happens too often) and the parent invited him to make the call. The child made the call and received a visit by the police. There was no crime here but there have been other instances of no crimes and the police overreacted. However, here was a moment of teaching for the officer and the punishment for the infraction was left to the parent. I foresee a young man that learned lessons from this incident. He will most likely grow up with respect for the police due to how this was handled, and he now knows that when mom says go to bed, he put on his night clothes and tuck himself in. What in the world could you find to complain about in this story? Please, NBC, give us more of these stories and leave the killing field drama for the big screen!!!!
Charles,
THANK YOU! someone understands! i swear tracy just a troll that wants to piss everyone off i think Sally should ban her from here
R u fr reel? I cnt beeleeve tht ur fr reel, caws nobdy kin sll so badd an b fr reeael.
Here's a hint for you: Stop with the "txtspk" and learn to use proper spelling and grammar. THEN you will have a leg to stand on when you tell everyone else that they are not "legit".
Charles & Rose,
That was the most important take-away from this story IMHO.
FNC is awesome!!!! For real news.
how so? all i see is tracy complaining about the article that she says its not news but yet she still read it and posted an ignorant comment. I found the article kinda cute
@Tracy Feifer: First, learn to spell. Your message is lost when the reader has to decode your entire message. Second, this may not be news but it was a story worth reading and you obviously thought so too because you clicked on the link. This young boy learned a valuable lesson. Not all news is doom and gloom. Sometimes we just need to hear the lighter side.
Probably does have a GED. I can't believe the crap I've seen from people who finished at least high school equivalency. I am a spelling/grammar Nazi, especially in a formal setting and I get the most hilarious (but sad) resumes and applications from people who don't know how to spell the basics.. and don't bother with spell check.
But, about the story- and that is what it is- a story, news article, what have you- I thought it was great and with a happy ending.
For the rest of you, go rent Faces of Death or kitties getting curb stomped or something. Obviously "news" is only when someone is dead to some of you. There is enough room on this site for Weather, Money, Celebs and so on. It's not MSN's fault that you are single minded and possibly unhinged if you wait with baited breath for the next mass shooting or child murder.
At least she spelled CNN correctly.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...........hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.............Look I can spell hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Tracy needs a lot of help. I hope she isn't a mother.
As a self-described spelling Nazi, the word you want here is 'bated' and not 'baited'. I assume you are not talking about luring fish. One demerit for you.
So the mom dared him to call 911, then grounded him for doing it?? Perhaps she should have had a talking to also. A good parent would not have handled it that way, knowing how important it is to keep 911 lines open for real problems.
I said in formal settings. Last I checked, there is a difference between a typo and not being able to spell C-A-T.
Davis dialed 911 shortly after 8 p.m. but, suddenly shy, hung up quickly without actually speaking with the dispatcher. Following protocol, the Brockton, Mass., police department returned the call. Rosario explained the situation, even offering her son a chance to speak.
dang davis U THINK U GOT GAME and yet u were TOO CHICKEN @!$%# ..LOOK BOY if i was yo mommy oh hell TO THE FLUCK ME BABY U BE GROUNED FOR LIFE
This is what happens when you get on bad drugs kiddies.
This is what happen when you give trophy's for losing
Tracy are you just stupid???
Tracy, I hope you are nobody's mother. You sound ignorant as hell; it's obvious that you didn't give a f*** in school.
Tracy, you best be learnign sum proper language n spellin if you's be posting on these here walls! Gosh it's so difficult to even speak as illiterate as yourself. Shame on you.
Tracy shut your face you are completely ignorant to say sh_— like that and word from the wise LEARN HOW TO SPELL
This is not related to the story. It is simply a comment regarding "Tracy's" reading and writing abilities.
She is a prime example of what happens in schools these days. It's always "teach to test," and those tests are primarily math- and science-related.
Tracy, I am going to show your posts to my Business English teacher at college. Mr. B. is so frustrated by the inability of adults to write and spell correctly and succinctly. He is going to have a field day with your posts!
This is not related to the story. It is simply a comment regarding "Tracy's" reading and writing abilities.
She is a prime example of what happens in schools these days. It's always "teach to test," and those tests are primarily math- and science-related.
Tracy, I am going to show your posts to my Business English teacher at college. Mr. B. is so frustrated by the inability of adults to write and spell correctly and succinctly. He is going to have a field day with your posts!
Tracy, take a look a your local community college. Just take a typing course, in 3 months, you'll be an English expert. Until then, you might want to take a LOT more time when you type. Just looks ignorant.
This is what happens to kids that don't finish school and try to stay up past their bedtime!
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I feel sorry for you, Tracy, unless you are just pulling our collective leg with your incoherency. Please try to get some help. Your communication skills are deplorable.
KIDS
Yeah, I remember when my kids called 911 on me becuase they didn't want to listen...oh wait, no chance in hell that would ever happen.
Maybe, Dingle, they are so scared of you they would be afraid of being killed by you?
Those little skamps... :) Funny article. Good to see no one went ballistic on either the kid or the mother. Glad the mother made it a teaching moment. She sounds like a really good mother. Lucky kid.
DingleB - you obviously did your job parenting so that this did not even occur to happen. Good Job.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
Congrats, Brute, for winning the Political Troll of the Day.
Clown.
*sigh*
Sometimes you have to call a childs bluff. I know he actually did dial the number, but I don't think he thought it would come to that. I once had my daughter threaten to run away. She packed up some stuff and sat on the front porch for about 15 minutes before coming back in and going to her room. I kep tan eye on her through a window. I knew she did not know where to go and she has not threatened to run away again.
You go Dan! High five!
My kid (7) did something similar. Mom was out of bacon for breakfast so he slipped upstairs and called 911 to come get mom. They called back to check and sent the cops out. It was a learning moment alright!
A cop friend thought it was interesting that when he ran out of bacon he called the pigs!!
I'm ticked though, we didn't get a newspaper article out of it.
Bruteforce, you must be smoking something illegal...plz troll else where.
Way to go Mom!!!! Glad he at least learned his lesson, and that she stood her ground. Kudos to the policeman who had a talk with the boy.
I'm just smokin' off that mountain rocky high those democrats approved in Colorado
"When he told his mom he was going call the cops on her, she dared him to go ahead."
Sounds like as much blame can be placed on the mother as well as the child. Isn't it her responsibility to teach her son why it is wrong to call the police if there is no emergency? I knew such things growing up from the age of 5 or so. The story makes it seem like she let this happen so someone else could come in and give her child a learning experience.
Parents are fully responsible for the actions of their kids. She should be charged with the costs of dispatching an officer to her home.
Crystal - I did that once when I was a pre-teen. I got some stuff, and opened the garage door before standing there in the opening for a few minutes wondering what to do next.
I'm pretty sure I got spanked for it....
It's folks such as Bruteforce who deliberately ignore the illegal things done by their own favorite political criminals.......
Khan,
The problem is that with this system, control over disciplining children has been stripped away from parents and shifted and regulated by school/government. Kids are taught to do what this kid just did at school. Something you never saw again. The government and education system needs to take a few steps back and allow parents to be the ones that discipline kids. We are not talking abusing kids in any way but disciplining them. I was spanked as a kid and I have no physical effect due to that or any deserved punishment i received. Just my 2 cents on the topic that to me reveals the state we live in.
Given how many ADULTS call the cops for ridiculous things like not getting service at a fast food restaurant or not getting beer or something, I'm not certain it was such a bad thing for this mother to call her kid's bluff and let her son go ahead and call the police. I realize that it is illegal to call 911 without it being an emergency, but sometimes just telling a kid something like that does not stop them from having to try it-sometimes they have to just do it themselves and face the consequences, and sometimes it's worth it for the lesson they learn and take with them into adulthood. (Obviously the adults who are calling the cops for ridiculous things never learned that lesson.) It's not like the mother herself made the call, after all. Better for the kid to learn that certain actions have consequences this way at this age than to have to learn as a teen when he does something illegal with much worse consequences like wrecking his car and killing his best friend.
@ Cryastal -
LOL my nephew would "run away" from home when he was young by walking around the corner and sitting on the sidewalk. He knew he wasn't allowed to leave the neighborhood without someone with him and so he wouldn't run any father away....
When I was 10 years old, I had to get permission to use the telephone... unless it was for 911. But then, I was raised right too, and knew what the word "emergency" meant.
Hey nanais777,
It may be that you have a different method of discipline. But I see discipline here. The death penalty is not required in every situation, plus, The death penalty shortens you learning capacity????
Dang, we Obomabots can't slip anything past you gun-slingin', bible-totin', tea-baggin' consarns. But you won't stop up. We'll keep having the news which we control post stories like this so us Obomabots will eventually outlaw all religion, take all money away from everyone and give it to everyone, and force you all to use contraceptives and marry gays. You can't stop us, no you can't. We're coming...coming...coming for you. Mmmwwwaaahhhaaahhhaaa!
If I did something like that to my parents, I wouldn't be able to sit for a week. Why do you people think this is funny? It's not funny or cute. Kids being kids, my @ss! That was a REAL dispatcher held up on a REAL emergency line!
This is what happens to a generation with no sense of discipline. Really, phoning 911 over not wanting to go to bed. I'm sure his parents had a long talk with him afterward.
Teachable moment? You know what a teachable moment is? Adding up the costs of the response, and making the kid do some sort of community service.
People might think I am going overboard, but it is already trendy to call the cops to famous people's houses for a fullout response. Just let this get out of hand and wait til it conflicts with a real call.
Agreed Gneisenau,
The mother seems like a good mother to have turned this into a teaching lesson for her son.
Glad that no one went crazy over the kid's stunt.
Charles-182063
Not sure where you are heading with that but what does death penalty have to do w anything? I see the problem that no one can use common sense nowadays, its always extremes that we reach for. Death penalty or the kid cant be talked to with authority. I still cant make sense of your comment since discipline is meant to correct not injure or damage. Dont go into the realm of abuse either since anyone level-minded can tell the extent correct discipline is enforced.
Human, the likely difference is that back then, you could paddle a kid. Now- you can't. Kid can go to their teacher and say they're abused, CPS comes in ablazing, you're having to miss work to go to court, possibly to counseling sessions... Times were so much better when you could beat them.
I've heard of people's kids threatening to call CPS and get a new family. Same thing- go ahead.
But then, you gots peeps like Yeahright who by the age of 10, was not to be trusted with a phone.. but professes to have an intellect of an adult or something. Kids can be different. But hey, if it helps your self esteem bashing on a 10 year old and how much better you were as a 10 year- go for it. I won't judge.. well, maybe a little.
Some people have to always find something to bitch about. If it keeps you inside on the 'puter and the general population away from the negativity, so be it.
nanais777,
I would LOVE for parents to take responsibility and discipline their children. It would free up so much of my time to do what I am supposed to be doing... teaching. Blame govt if you want, but you'll be hard pressed to find a teacher that would not appreciate a parent doing their job at home. I knew growing up that if I got in trouble at school I'd be in trouble at home too. My parents never had to go to school because of my behavior. But I guess it is too much of a hassle and inconvenience for some parents these days. That is the real issue, not their rights being stripped away. And there's more to discipline than spanking so parents can't say it is because they don't believe in that or will get in trouble for that. They need to teach their children (as my mom and grandma would say) to act like "they weren't raised in a barn." I get so tired of seeing articles unrelated to education with comments blaming schools/teachers. The schools are full of what society (parents and families) send them. Schools don't take them to raise them, nor have they had them the years before they start school. We can't control our clientele. Schools teach kids to call 911 for help... fire, unresponsive parent, etc. This kid was old enough to know better. But people in general pass the buck and don't want to take responsibility for anything, so why should that not apply to their children too.
Quite a few posters praising the mom. I disagree, if the mom actually taught the kid any manners and respect, instead of pampering him, this would never happen. Sorry but I failed to see where this is a good mom. Sounds like one of those moms, that swear to god her kid can never be or do wrong. Then when this stuff happens don't know why.
comments71,
Not necessarily blaming schools and certainly not teachers. My wife is a teacher, as a matter fact. Just the fact that as a teacher, you are a mandated reporter, if you hear a kid say 'im being spanked' or 'im being mistreated' even if its 'normal' discipline, you are--by law--mandated to report that and involve CPS and schools are mandated to also let the kids know of which ways to let someone know. It may have a function but it has gotten to the point of being extremist about it. Most cases, kids arent being abused in some they are. ALso, the fact that people nowadays arent responsible of their actions but thats another story.
Oh get the @!$%# off it Punisher. Kids backtalk. Kids act out. Kids.. sometimes don't have manners. Holy @!$%#, I know!
My parents were great. Did I still get in trouble? Hell yeah. Even though I was taught right from wrong (and boy oh boy, some of the parents that post on NV are gonna have some screwed up kids if they parent like they post) sometimes, I just didn't do the right thing and it was an opportunity to teach and embarrass me with my bad behavior. That's what being a parent is about.
Your post is also idiotic in calling this mom one of the moms that doesn't think her kid does anything wrong. OBVIOUSLY she did and while she talked with the dispatcher, they had to send out a patrolman per policy and guess what? That kid got a public lesson that pretty much all kids get at some point or time in life. You might not know this, but this isn't the first time a kid has pulled that stunt, just the first time that it was published as a story.
Think about it- the woman enforcing the bedtime rule of 8pm, even though it's vacation. Not a mom out selling her ass for drugs while the kid's locked in the house, dying from a house fire started when he had to cook for himself.
Yeah, praise her.
wow, that was so tolerant!! Good thing you aren't part of us racist gun-slingin', bible-totin', tea-baggin' consarns or you'd be called all sorts of thing...oh.. wait. Like we were just called.
To all the people who recommend corporal punishment - I hope you realize that there are only two lessons that child learns. 1. Might = Right and 2. Be better at hiding misdeeds.
Sure- swatting the brat might be therapeutic for YOU, but let's not teach children that violence is a solution. This mother took all the right steps for a kid who is a that stage where they begin to express themselves and question the world around them. (The very same stage that all adults have gone through except for the lemmings who follow what their ma and pa did because shoot, that's the way it's always been done and it's too hard to actually think for themself.)
I actually was wrong in calling righties gun-slingin', bible-totin', tea-baggin' consarns. I accidentally left our cousin-marryin'.
And thank you for reiterating the racist part. I also forgot that one.
I was fully expecting the read that the police had gone gestapo on the mother for this. I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't.
Exactly. I was waiting for the part of the story where a SWAT team raided the house and their pet dog was shot and killed and now the kid is in protective custody because the mother was incarcerated for non-cooperation. Very pleasantly surprised.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
yep this is the retard bruteforce repeating his posts with copy paste. Too bad the idiot doesn't know the Bill of Rights begins the Constitution, but then, this joke seems to like redundancy.
Hey Lore&Wisdom, the word retard is not allowed in the liberal dictionary. Second, I'm sure you have not used the paper the bill of rights was written on as more than toilet paper
Bruteforce, the freedom of speech has two options. One is the freedom of speech and the other option is the freedom NOT to speak. Stop it silly troll.
Can it buttforce.
Funny how when bruteforce states his opinion, the libs seem to want to tear him apart! double standard?
is 60's veteran a troll? see comment #6
probably a throwback hippy! I thought the hippy generation wanted govt. out of their lives, you seem to welcome it 60!
BTW....can it famousanus..ha ha ha!
that little punk needs his butt to be warmed
In a landslide victory, Bruteforce gets today's TROLL award!
Why do you feel the need to keep re-posting your idiotic comment? Oh, wait, nevermind. I almost forgot.....Your a troll!
Guys actually the freedom of speach has three legs - the freedom to express what is on your mind, the freedom to keep your pie hole shut, and the thrd one is the freedom to ignore those people who you consider trolls/dufuses/politicians/etc. So lets all excercise that third option and ignore Bruteforce.
Bruteforce-2815572 is obviously a troll, and not a good one. Can't even come up with new material.
wasting tax payers for ur bull@!$%# wow davis u got mad skill now.....not lmao
Ah. I see your education was another waste of taxpayer monies.
are you drunk or something?
No, simply a product of liberal American schools.
Tracy SHUT UP already
Yep, that's right, every ignorant being on the planet simply MUST be liberal. Because we all know they ain't NO kindsa stoopid people in da south and the majority red states, or in every state for that matter. So Rex, just where exactly is this "liberal American School" you speak of?
*gimmeabreak!
I think that more taxpayers should be wasted. It takes the edge off.
When have tax money never been wasted? yo, yo, yo, deuces...............
FamousAnus,
You can make that assumption, and chances are you'd be pretty close to right. However, it's quite possible that the comments about Tracy are based on reading her other posts? Feel free to click on her name and view all her posts.
-KJI
This kid is a Republican work in progress.
By teaching him to responsible for his choices, and that there are consequences for his actions? Then, yeah, I suppose so. He will be Republican.
That's right... The mother was there with him and handled it quite well..
If the Mother was laid out in a crack induced coma, you would of likely concluded he was the Product of a Democrat.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
Buttforce......YAWN. Please hit copy paste copy paste copy paste a few more times on your same lame post.
60s Veteran...another troll. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS, PEOPLE!
You do realize Massachusetts is a Blue state, and that a persons political beliefs does not determine if they'll be a good person or not, there are many republicans i would consider good but also many more i would consider the biggest pieces of @!$%# i've ever seen, same with democrats
For Davis, one of those consequences is spending two weeks grounded, mom told the Enterprise News, a local newspaper. No charges were filed in the bedtime imbroglio.
that's B S the mom should have been TOLD TOO that she could get in trouble too FOR LETING her damn son waste time on some B S ...damn u know what i have a feeling that maybe THE MOM STAGED this crap so she can get at least 16 min of fame WHAT a shame
16 minutes of fame? What, you gave her a bonus minute? Like a fame baker's dozen, or something?
The kid is 10 years old, give him a break it has nothing to do with him having "mad skill." The kid made a mistake. He told his mom he was going to do it and she dared him thinking that he wouldn't and the kid messed up and did it and while doing it realized it was a mistake, hence why he got scared and hung up. It's a teachable moment for the kid and the mom realized that opportunity and seized it. If anything it makes her a better parent for taking a chance to teach her child a lesson instead of just berating him for making a mistake and not teaching him anything. I highly doubt it was orchestrated by her just so she could get "16 minutes of fame." I also doubt that she watched him dial the phone and then hang up. She probably dared him, he walked away and she thought nothing of it and actually probably just thought that he had given up and was going to go to bed. Things like this happen, little kids accidentally dial 911 quite often: i.e. my little sister did it when she was 5 years old and was just messing around with the phone. No need to get on the child's or the mother's case in this situation.
Wow, I thought it was a cute story, nice to read something and giggle. I think he learned a lesson and that's what parenting is all about. OH, speaking of parenting...I think Tracy and Brute missed out.
Tracy SHUT UP your comments are collasped for a dang reason retard
"fame baker's dozen" just made my day. I needed that.
This is hilarious! This whole...Tracy train wreck thing happening right before our eyes. Lemme grab another cup of coffee....
My son did this many years ago when he was 3....was fighting with his older brother and while I was in my bedroom he called 911...I only found out because the phone rang and they identified themselves as 911 and asked if there was anything going on as they had received a call and then a prompt hang up....FORTUNATELY, I worked for the Sheriff's Department of that county and the 911 dispatcher recognized my name...UGH....wanted to ring that little bugger's neck though.
Public education has succeeded in educating him to call 911 for anything that seems too much. I teach my kids only to call 911 in case of a fire and to collect the body of an intruder. People (kids) relying on government too much.
Ooooo you are such an Internet Tough Guy. Is that gun in your pants icon indicating a need to overcompensate for the lack of other "weapons" in your arsenal?
so if you accidently shoot your foot off, your kids are not to call 911?
There is nothing cute or rewarding in this story. Kids have been indoctrinated that anything that they don't like or don't think is fair is child abuse.
It is becoming an epidemic where teachers and parents are being accused of child abuse based solely on the word of a child in many instances.
In this case the parent and police responded in a responsible manner. But, in many cases, parents and teachers have been handcuffed and jailed first and ask questions later.
It is not a Democrat or Republican thing. It is the legal system gone crazy!
Least he didn't call because mom was going to make him eat his broccoli.
At least that would have been child abuse..... :)
No that would have been that famous broccoli hater G.H.W. Bush calling 911 when Barbara decides to serve that vegetable. :)
i'm sorry, but wasting the time of emergency services is NOT how you orchestrate a teachable moment. she should have never let the kid near the phone to make a frivolous 911 call.
yes ostate, would have been better had she beaten the kid or shackled him to keep him from the phone. Then 911 would have bene valid and you'ld be bytching about terrible abusive parents.
No,she was pointing out how all you dumbasses are making a light moment out of something rather serious. why have ya got a little kid like that playing on the phone anyway.Let her practice her parenting skills in another matter,keep the kid off the phone.
Good for mom, she stood her ground and is trying to raise a responsible child to adulthood. I guess he won't be calling 911 again. I sometimes go to sleep with my phone next to my pillow. I accidentally hit the phone where it automatically dialed 911 and had a heck of a time convincing the operator that it was a mistake and I apologized extensively.
I have a great solution to your problem. DON'T SLEEP WITH THE PHONE NEXT TO YOUR PILLOW!
Clearly she has not done her job when he was 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 or this would not have happened. The ten year old seems to think he makes the rules. No respect for his mother. No respect for emergency dispatchers.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
dude, we get the point, you don't need to repost it like 17 times. It's just a dumb news story, shut up and read something better if you don't like it. YOU are the one spending so much time on it. get a dam life.
Yeah Lisa and your kids are perfect. quit throwing stones, you might shatter one of your glass walls.
Aw come-on Lisa???? Grown up do stupid things all the time, so why the beef with this 10 year old. The problem in this world today is with sanctimonious, holier than thou hypocrites that hold themselves up as being perfect. Lighten up a little and live.
@Lisa
The mother would've been a bad mother if she DIDN'T put her foot down, and i believe that brat will respect his mother more from now on considering the consequences of trying to call the police on his mother
The parent should have been fined. Wasting 911 resources could have resulted in someone's death. They were both lucky that did not happen
why shoul the mom be fined? the kid called, no different than when my oldest dugher called the police to report me for telling her to do the dishes. tho officer then told her to get the dishes done. however when my nd daughter called 911 for the same thing a few yrs later and the sherriffs office responded, they queried everyone in the house, and acted like they were going to jail me for domestic violence...
Only if they only have one police officer????
@Dadx. I thought that was funny that they told your daughter to do the dishes. I was hoping they would tell the kid to go to bed. Maybe they did. But it definitely has changed. I remember, I got a new cell phone many years ago and accidentally dialed 911. I didn't realize it. They called back and asked me if everything was okay. I was very apologetic and they said not to worry, to be careful. But I think these days, it would have been much worse. Everything seems to be taken out of proportion these days. Thanks for the laugh.
The mom should have been fined. She dared him to call instead of explaining to her son that 911 is for emergencies. That @dadx is why she should be fined. Your incident was different. You did not throw down the gauntlet for your daughter to call 911.
My daughter once called 911 when we were out on the porch. We had no idea-she had the phone to call a friend and had been just randomly dialing numbers... She was about this kid's age and had been old enough to use the phone to call a friend for a while, or so we thought. We found out when the cop came around the back of our house IN PERSON and asked if there was an emergency, saying that there had been a 911 call and a hang-up from inside the house. We ran inside really quickly to make sure everything was okay-it hadn't been that long since we had checked on our daughter-and then calmly reassured the officer that everything was fine, that we were terribly sorry, etc. He was actually very nice about the whole thing. But we let our daughter have it afterwards!
Those of you who may think we were terrible parents to let this happen, let me ask if you are watching your kids of that age every second? Are you aware every second if they are on the phone, or have you given them permission to call a friend? Do you know if you have told them every single thing they have to know about using the phone? My daughter had been calling a friend, the friend apparently could not talk, she got bored and began randomly dialing numbers-she apparently hit 911 got scared and hung up. We let her have it for randomly dialing numbers-not peoples' phone numbers, just numbers. She also faced another consequence when a friend told her she couldn't talk to her any more because she had called too often-so we had to sit her down and deal directly with phone manners and how often you should call people. All this happened even though we limited her access to the phone and she didn't have her own cell phone. I can't imagine what would have happened if she had had a cell phone. (We didn't think she was nearly old enough at the time, though SHE complained about it.) We would have just had to have taken it away for a while, I guess. Maybe we are dinosaurs, but she didn't get a cell phone until she was much older and went on a school trip and needed one-and she survived and even thrived.
This is the stuff that happens when parents don't teach their kids about respect. So when their kids disrespects them, they have to dare the kid? Right, cause that's how you teach kids is by daring them. She should be fined for failing as a parent.
So many people are saying "OH SHES A TERRIBLE MOTHER" in my mind, she is a great mother for standing her ground, sometimes you have to let kids take the consequences for their actions, like the Native americans did, if a native american boy stuck his hand in a fire and it got burned, then the parent would say "well your the dumb twat who stuck their hand in the fire" OF COURSE, if the boy was gonna fall into the firepit the parents would intervene. similar thing in this incidence, the Police Officer probably simply told the boy "if you call us for non-emergency things like this, you're drawing us away from locking away bad people and theives, and that you are supposed to obey your mother"
Yeah this sounds like it wasn't a complete waste of the officer's time. Let the officer play mommy instead of patrolling the Brockton streets. Some people just should not ever have kids!
I don't see how besides the mom telling the son that there are consequences to his actions that it's a waste of the officer's time (when he was already there because it was mandatory that he make a call to the household) to also tell the child the consequences. It probably instilled a little more fear in the child and made him actually understand how big of an issue it can be falsely calling 911. It's no more different than police officers taking time out of their day to visit a school and do a half hour D.A.R.E. class. The officer was already there, so what if he took another five minutes to talk to the boy. Like I said it probably had more of an impact coming from him than it would have coming only from mom anyway.
I lived in Brockton when my son was younger. When he was about 6-7 he stole a pkg of caps from the local
7-11. I found out about it, and sent him back down there with the money and to appologize to the clerk. My husband and I had a stern talk with him about the consequences of stealing and that he was lucky the clerk didn't report him to the police. That even if he wasn't arrested, the cops could be keeping their eye out for him.
A few days later we were at a local grocery store, and there was cop at the customer service desk talking to the clerk. I must have said my sons name and the cop heard me because as we walked past him the officer said "Hello Paul". I thought my son was going to crawl under the linoleum.
He never stole again. He's now a Warrant Officer in the US Army and there is no prouder mother alive than I am.
The police and the mother handled the situation well. That young boy will remember his talk with the police much better than anything his mother will ever preach to him.
The police ARE for emergencies, but they are also there to help. Unknowingly the Brockton Police taught my son a lesson years ago, and they taught this young man a lesson as well.
Once again PMSNBC is JOHNNY-ON-THE-SPOT with compelling important drivel.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
for once i agree with the other posts...enough already brute!
Oh, but I thought you defended the troll above..guess you better go delete your post...
yeah, but i seen enough! i am talking about the repeated posts, not what he stated!
Bruteforce-2815572, stop comment spamming. Once is enough.
At least it is better than the adult drunk woman that called 911 for cigarettes.
Or how about when that man ran out of beer!! LOL
And when the woman called 911 to find a date.
Or the 911 call to find out who got the deer, the man or the dog...
Imbroglio. You don't get a chance to use that word often.
Back when I was his age. If I pulled that little stunt I wouldn't be sitting down for awhile. A good azz warming wouldn't hurt a child. That is the problem with the kids of today. They get by with everything. Grounding them is not cutting. NO i am not saying beating a child. Spanking doesn't hurt them at all. I am not saying spanking them for every little thing either. But a stunt like this a spanking is needed.
Yeah! And many children that get a good ole fashion arse warming grow up, purchase an assault rifle, and massacre a bunch of people in theaters!
Charles - most baby boomers got as you so nicely put it good ole fashion arse warmings, using your logic all baby booers should be out with assault weapons shooting up the place. As far as I have read the Aurora shooter was not physically punished as a kid, I doubt anyone knows other than his parents. Spanking children does not deliver nut case adults. I will agree that over the top physical abuse of children, and children raised in homes where parents are abused have a higher liklihood of growing up to be abusive.
An appropiately applied disciplinary action (one that the kid responds to - and not all kids respond to spankings) is called for in a case like this. And as the child grows up the type of discipline should change, spanking an adolescent or pre-teen is probably less effective than other discipline.
Roger,
I wish I could put 5 check marks next to your comment. It is spot on!!
In reply to Lancer87:
Certainly not on NBC (and it's even spelled correctly).
My adult father once called 911 instead of 411, then hung up. His town sent out the police and when they rang the doorbell he yelled at them to go away and leave him alone. The police were not amused and he ended up getting questioned at length. Also when my kids were 8 they called 911 on my cell phone just for fun and hung up. We were en route somewhere in the car so the cops didn't arrive but they called and gave them hell. It's a common occurance.
It's nice to see a parent actually PARENTING.
Kudos to Rosario! Good work, ma'am!
I know in many ways I missed out but glad I never have had kids...that I know about...
Seriously? The boy threatened to call the cops on his mother and then she dared him to do it! I don't see how that's responsible parenting. Her failure to intervene resulted in the kid making a frivolous 911 call, which wasted both the dispatcher's and the responding office's time. The mom should be fined, not lauded.
Yep, this is typical liberal news. Keeping the population busy under an umbrella reading junk news instead of the jihad Obama is making on our constitution and bill of rights
Actually, it's pretty common parenting. When I was younger and was being a brat, my mother would do the same.
"Oh yeah? Well I'm going to call child services!"
"Alright. Go for it."
To be fair, I never followed through with it. In this case, the kid did. But there's nothing irresponsible about calling a child's bluff. Generally, if the kid goes through with it, they learn a lesson on why it was a really bad idea, a little more common sense develops in their mind, and they don't repeat the activity.
I turned out just fine. Ironically, my mom was born and raised in Brockton, MA too.
Tracy, you obviously don't know how to parent. Calling a petulant child's bluff is frequently the best way to make them see that such behavior does not work and will lead them to give up on acting out as a way of getting what they want. Would you actually suggest that the mom overreact and treat her son's threat as something very serious? The only thing that would have achieved is to confirm that this behavior is a good way to get their parents attention and those children tend to grow up into being even bigger brats. So the kid went so far as to actually dial 911, guess what, kids do stupid things, if you knew anything about parenting, you'd know that.
Wow , this is sad. Another abuse of the 911 system at work . Teaching experience in my opinion would have been her paying for sending an officer to the house w/o an emergency ( In ems you'd get a bill ) and a court date . That officer could have been needed at a "real " emergency . It reminds me of the time we get called to a medical emergency yet when we get there it is over a stubbed toe.
The officer's job is to protect and serve. No time wasted; he earned two gold stars during this incident, because he protected and served.
Well, Tracy we might not know the whole conversation she had with him before. He may have said he was going to call the police and she told him not to. She may have even said the police are for emergencies only. He may have kept bugging her like kids do and she finally said, fine,, I dare you. And even if she stopped him, he may have done it behind her back a little later. We don't know. But the police handled it rather well and I think the kid will really learn a much better lesson this way.
ockneysays123, get a clue. You're free to disagree with me, but making unfounded assertions about my lack of parenting skills just makes you sound stupid. Bottom line: as a taxpayer and a person who may someday need 911 services, I don't appreciate abuse of emergency resources. I get that kids do stupid things and I don't begrudge the kid for calling 911 bc he was young and probably didn't consider the consequences of doing so. But the mom absolutely should have known better. Rather than encourage him to make the call, she should have stepped in and explained that 911 is for genuine emergencies, not fights with your parents over bedtime. She might have explained that calling for frivolous reasons would only clog up the phone lines and make emergency personnel unavailable if a true emergency were to arise. From the mom's perspective, everything worked out well. After all, she made her point and the kid got a good talking to from the responding officer. But this lesson could have had drastic consequences if a real emergency had occurred and the operator or officer had been unavailable to respond. In general, I have no problem at all with "calling a petulant child's bluff," as you suggest. But if, as in this case, doing so wastes public resources or may render emergency personnel unavailable to respond to true emergencies, then the parent should step in, put a stop to the nonsense, and deal with the situation herself.
@ TracyG, you sound like loads of fun.
Many years ago my oldest son was learning about "child abuse" from His 4th grade teacher. Few days into it He wished to have ice cream before dinner. Neither myself nor His Mother would allow it. Next day he went to school and reported us to the teacher for, as He put it "buse". Fortunately everything turned out fine. We were both quite angry, and almost spanked His little rear end, but the comedy, and His misplaced understanding of "buse" just wouldn't allow it. Strange though. Out of my 6 children He's the only one who grew up to become a Republican. Otherwise, He's always been right normal.
So your kid is right normal but for being a republican, and you are right normal but for being an idiot.
HILARIOUS! I never did (feared for my life JK) call 911, however I threatned it lots when I was a kid, if you ground me, if I got "spanked, whooped whatever" I think its funny, I could totally see my 8yr old trying something like that if we had a home phone :) he tells me all the time Im the meanest mom, you know for making him go to school, making him do his homework, eat his vegtables LOL oh to be a kid again!
@lore&Wisdom#24.1: Guess you said it all. That is, unless you want to borrow or steal something else?
Lore & Wisdom - do you have no sense of humor?
@Hollykb#24.4: Thank you.
I think it's funny story and hopefully the kid will never do that again. Grounded for two weeks..... Priceless.
Way to go Mom