My next-door neighbors' son is full of fail

Have you at least gone and had a chat with lil' Shit-For-Brains' parents?

 

You're correct, lock the kid up. The kid has no future.
A little dramtic, don't you think?

 

No, but you just don't say it's kids being kids.

The cop would hopefully just scare the shit out of the kid so they would stop hurting other kids.

 

go talk to the parents, at their trailer.

while you're talking, excuse yourself to use the bathroom.

And upper deck them.

 

They were being watched. The retaining wall separates our side yard from our neighbors' (on the other side, not the ones' whose kid pushed my son) side yard. The wall is about four feet tall at that point, and they had been jumping off it and landing and rolling in the pine straw, when my wife walked over and told them to stop. Both boys were already standing on the wall (getting ready to jump again) when my wife told them to stop, then she turned to walk back into the front yard to watch our other son playing baseball, and the punk-ass kid pushed our son off right when she turned around. The wall wasn't high enough that anyone would break a bone if they jumped off on their own, but since my son got shoved, he was falling awkwardly and broke his fall with his left wrist, which incurred all of his body weight as he tumbled to the ground.

The kid next door has been a pistol from birth. He constantly gets in trouble at preschool and has even been biting his 7-month-old sister of later. He's just a real attention hog, and he'll doing anything, including hurting other people, to get attention, even if that involves punishment and getting yelled at. It's really sad.

 

I was waiting for that, Star. Thanks for putting a smile on my face!

 

The excessive cheerfulness is lost in translation. Not my fault.

I'll be your way this week. I know a good redneck oyster bar, we could pop a few tops. But no time for drinking this week, regrettably.

 

We're very good friends with the kids' parents and have been for almost 10 years. They are pretty good parents, actually, though I disagree with the light level of discipline that they give to him when he does shit like this. Having said that, he's adopted and his biological father is in prison for attempted murder, so I'm guess genetics is at work, and in this case is winning out over any amount of parenting that they do.

 

Good use of police resources.

 

They don't fall far from the tree.

 

The kid is scared to death of me and me alone. Because I'll holler at him if he's doing something that he shouldn't -- especially if it involves messing with my kids, which it often does. His dad travels a lot, and his mom's idea of disciplining him is to say "Shit-for-brains, that's not nice!" and pretty much leave it at that. They are setting themselves up for a rough time as he continues to test boundaries like that, knowing that he can play his mom for a fool and get away with minimal punishment.