On the playground, the other kids used to tear down the show-boaters. There were no parents around and lessons would be learned and the game went on. Parents/adults really screw everything up with their constant interference.
This all sounds like it should lead to a protest happening there.
I choose to read it as “they asked for 3yo’s help because he was good at soccer.”
Valid :P
Ok so, sure, other parents seem to have escalated things in a dumb way, but… for the rest of his life, this kid can say “I was so good at soccer they called the police on me… when I was 3.”
Edit: Body cam footage was released:
Upon arrival, police met with someone from the soccer league who made the call to police requesting that the family be asked to leave the area in which the soccer games were being played.
[H]e said the 3-year-old was allegedly pushing other players, so he told the child and the parents that no pushing was allowed.
The man said the child’s parents became irritated and caused a “big scene, arguing with the other parents,” according to the body-camera video.
“I just want them out, immediately,” he said.
Police said that because the games were being played in a public park, they could not be forced to leave, but that they would meet with the family to figure out what was going on.
The league official said that the mother was live-streaming their interactions, and that’s why he walked away from the family. The officers made their way to the other side of the field where the family was.
When officers made contact with the family, the mother said they were just confused and didn’t understand why her child was being removed from the soccer games and why they were being asked to leave the park.
https://www.wesh.com/article/winter-park-police-soccer-game-dispute-players-parents/74248881
It would be hilarious if he grows up and completely stops playing or just is shit at it.
Why would that be hilarious?
As irony!
My neighbor called the police when my dog chased their cat…in my backyard. I got off with a warning.
Were they at least told to keep their cat inside? Or on their own property?!?
Laws vary from county to county, city to city, but in most places cats are free to roam, legally, and deliberately harming a cat for nothing more than trespass exposes you to animal cruelty charges punishable with fines and/or mandatory anger management and other counselling.
Obviously I don’t know the specifics of this situation, but if a cat jumps into a fenced yard with a dog and gets chased, that seems pretty unfair since the dog owner is being responsible. But maybe that wasn’t the case here.
I am a responsible dog owner. The guy was just a jerk, and he still is.
Every case needs a proper, unbiased, investigation - and we won’t be getting that here tonight.
My snowflake neighbor came crying to me about his chickens being murdered and how he saw my cat on his camera and if he ever saw my cat again he was going to shoot it - nevermind that cats don’t murder full grown laying hens in their pen and the fact that we have raccoons, hawks, owls, and coyotes which DO murder full grown laying hens at any opportunity. I had to jump a hoop (get an ear clipped) to get my cat protected as “free to roam” in our county, which is a little weird, but now that he’s protected legally as a “community cat” anyone who brags about shooting him is eligible for an open and shut animal cruelty case, $500 fine and court ordered anger management counselling. We passed this information to the snowflake through his landlord, and have not heard peep out of him since - 2 and a half years now.
If you ever get another cat, name it Snowflake and make sure to tell your neighbor you named it after them 😁👍
Not about your specific situation, but Cats can definitely kill hens. I used to live on a small farm and we had issues with some wild cats.
Lots of other issues with other predators, but it’s entirely possible, especially at night.
Yeah, we’ve got a vicious killer on our hands here, he’s a big orange/white floof and about 6 times in the 7 years we have had him, he’ll bring a baby squirrel, or little fledgling bird to us. Nothing approaching the size of an adult squirrel, much less a hen. I suppose if he were hungry enough he might try, but… with all the other wildlife around it’s irresponsible to not protect your henhouse with hardware cloth to prevent predators from digging under the wire in the night (which, somehow the camera surveillance managed to miss - although why snowflake didn’t just make his coop more secure like the neighbors do is just… a him thing.) His next door neighbor watched a hawk grab the wire on the top of their run, in the middle of he day, and try to fly up with it / lift it off. We have had a young hawk grab a hen from the new neighbors’ open run that was a little too big for him to carry far, made it 100 meters to our driveway and set down there, as I rounded the corner I spooked him away and he left his prize, 15 minutes later he had returned to take it away.
So, yeah, bruiser the cat is capable, but about as likely to bother with his hens as he is to attack the FedEx delivery guy.
Maybe you like, don’t let the cat wander free?
I would probably buy a gun and shoot someone if they shot my cat. Humans aren’t more special than animals. That’s like the one thing that would get me riled up enough to commit a crime of passion is hurting my cats.
When I was 9 years old, our neighbor boys used our cat for target practice with their air rifles, back in those days apparently the air rifles were powerful enough to put a pellet through a pelt, our cat crawled up inside the engine bay of our car to hide, got caught in the belts when we started it, but it wasn’t the belt that killed the cat, it was the pellet hole in its torso. I never acknowledged their existence again except to be rude at any opportunity, I doubt it changed their cruel dispositions.
Sure, but there’s a difference between deliberately harming a cat and your dog chasing a cat.
Agreed, idiots abound.
…and even country to country.
Cats are free to roam here. He wasn’t a nice guy to begin with. He was renting and I own so…problem solved.
He was renting and I own
what does this have to do with anything?
tenants have just as much rights in their homes as anyone else
He moved, I didn’t.
He was temporary, I was permanent.
The “problem” solved itself.
We have several of those temporary neighbors here, too. I wish the one next to me was a renter. Or, maybe I don’t. I suppose having a new neighbor every year or so has it’s downsides, too. You never know what you’re going to get. Although, rent is so high now, renters pay more than most owners pay on their mortgages here. In my case, renting a house here is double what I pay in mortgage.
All the houses in my neighbourhood have sold to some kind of commercial endeavor. Rental or airbnb.
A lot of people live here but no one “LIVES” here.
You’re right, what does your comment have to do with anything? Tenants can be just as big of idiots as homeowners.
He moved, I didn’t.
He was temporary, I was permanent.
The “problem” solved itself.
they really shouldnt, cats on the outside are likely to live shorter lives than indoor cats.
This is a VERY rural area. Population 3.000.
When my “outside” cat passed (cancer), the vet had 17 years of medical history on him.
I live next to a highway. That cat would cross the highway to get mice in the field.
“Ball so hard motherfuckers wanna fine me”
Bro was out there breaking ankles!
I’m the one who called the cops. You guys don’t understand just how good this toddler is, someone had to do something
Don’t you know about cops killing black people though. They could have showed up and thought that little 3 year old boy was going to kick a soccer ball at them.
Or an acorn could have fallen on a car, causing them to shoot the place up.
Home boys gonna fucking roll more than he has since he played sonic in the 90s.
If those cops ever live that down…
I thought it was obvious, but /s for the aforementioned comment you’re replying to.
Edit, I read half your reply when I replied. It seems I’m the one with egg on my face
Someone call the cops! This comment is too good.
If you want this kid in black and white stripes, call Juventes.
The episode has prompted online discussion about age-group rules, competitive balance in recreational youth leagues
Looks like some people are trying to defend this by arguing that kids are there to just have fun, not being outplayed. Which still completely ignores the fact, the the 3yo also was just having fun.
I’ve been going to my sister’s kids’ games since they started and there’s ALWAYS a huge skill disparity in the younger games. And honestly it’s just one thing that seems to click and instantly make twice as good: predicting where the ball will go.
Kids that age ball chase because they have no idea what’s going to happen next. They will literally stop and wait for an opposing player to make their move before deciding what to do.
It’s exceedingly frustrating to watch but also really funny to see a whole field pause to watch a player do some tippy taps before kicking the ball straight into the feet of another.
Under 5 years old, an age difference of 2+ months can already be a major advantage in any sport that requires coordination, dexterity, anticipation, and agility without even considering raw talent. There’s a documented phenomenon where leagues that start splitting kids into skill levels at a young age are split predominantly based on the proximity of the month the kids were born to the age cutoff. Being older is already a massive advantage around then because their brains and bodies are developing rapidly and a few extra months of development has a lot of effect on their cognitive and physical abilities, and their height and weight.
This kid may be an outlier in raw skill. But honestly that also may even out considerably as other kids’ motor skills develop. This shit is temporary and part of playing sports in this age range. All of the people involved need to just chill out and watch the kids play whether they are killing it or chasing the ball.
That’s true about age differences being much more significant when they’re young. And I remember reading about the disproportionate amount of January and February birthdays in hockey leagues of the 90s/2000s so that other part tracks, too.
We’re on the same page about the rest. And (aside from foot coordination) it’s not a steady skill increase, it happens in big steps as ideas click for them. The worst player in the team can become the best overnight at that age lol
My 9 year-old’s team played soccer against a team of giants. They had 3 kids at least a foot taller who manhandled them and could kick the length of the field and score. It wasn’t fun and we were annoyed, but we didn’t call the police.
Sounds like you wasted a valuable opportunity to teach your kid they can get what they want by calling the cops on anyone who hurts their feelings.
Time for lil’ Billy to learn how to slide tackle if he wants the ball!
And the other ~15 4 yearolds were not
Are people really that stupid in the usa?
They voted for trump didn’t they ? Twice. There’s your answer.
Three times
True. Only successful twice, but stupid three times.
At this point one might conclude they’re stupid all the time.
also very racist in varying degrees.
A lot of white people are.
The Karens will always do Karen shit.
The police could have used common sense but elected not to.
You expect police to not needlessly use their power? This is a country were SWATing is so easy there is a term for it and so common that it doesn’t get investigated.
At best, they’re half as stupid and twice as hateful
The article makes it (slightly) less bad. 3 year old was kicked out of a 5 year old league for being too good and ruining competitive balance. The kid’s parents took it badly and would not leave until police intervened.
Most team sports don’t ban star players
Although i have seen a show called Ted Lasso where the coach put him on the bench for hogging the ball.
The article says multiple substitutions. Wonder what the coach’s role was in the whole thing.
Most youth leagues dont do substitutions like pros do, they swap out every quarter or so. The goal is to have the kids play about equally, or else parents lose their shit that their kid sat on the bench the whole game.
It’s a toddler fun league. The league has specific rules about it not being competitive and sharing play time.
The kids parents are wannabe influencers filming everything for TikTok.
Nobody called the cops on a kid for being too good. They called the cops on the parents because they were asked to leave over their stupid social media stunts, and then they refused.
12-15 years from now we may start to hear of an up and comer in the soccer leagues, and someone will rediscover his early roots.
just kidding. we’ll have destroyed ourselves long before this delightful and skillful little boys dreams come true.
White people intuitively understanding how cops are there to protect white supremacy even though when asked directly they’ll deny it and call themselves allies of black people
Messi was like that when he was an adolescent. Theres video of him just tearing it up as the smallest kid in the game
The future looks bright for little Nevada
Or it would be if he was allowed on the pitch.
Wow, those other parents are total pieces of shit.
They are, but it’s not just them
The whole system complied. On a kid younger than them
I can’t say I’m surprised either
Hah, that’s the weird part, when the parent called, the cops didn’t just hang up.
Considering how easy it is to call a SWAT on a stranger with no evidence, I’m not surprised they went ahead with any excuse to exert their power.
If my kid was playing with baby Messi? I would still want them to have a chance to play. This is fucking kids soccer - there’s no money on it. Good for the kid at being a god, but my kid can’t get good if she doesn’t have a chance to play.
Edit: calling the cops was wrong. I cannot believe anybody thought that was a good idea.
lol
Take your kid to a different league, what are the cops even doing here?
So you’re fine with this? Just to clarify?
No. Full stop. That was potentially deadly and scary and stupid and an unbelievable overreaction. I am fully against what they did. I can’t believe these dipshit parents couldn’t talk to the coach or that kid’s parents fucking mystifies me.
I’d want my kid playing with or against
The quickest way to get gud is be outclassed
Thanks for calling me out on that. That was beyond wrong of the parents, on multiple levels.
One thing I like about this place is so much of the community are willing to own their mistake. No dramas.
we all know that playing against people of the same level makes you better… You are just teaching your kid to find the shallowest pool to play in. How dare they be exposed to the idea that someone is better and maybe this is just all for learning.
Kid was playing against other kids 2 years older. I dare say they learned. And again, bringing cops into was beyond anything imaginable and wrong. But this should’ve been a learning opportunity, not “hey, let’s endanger a kid for playing soccer while black.”
Something that can be remedied without involving armed law enforcement. Maybe the coach could do their job and make sure all the kids get at least some chance to play?
Yes, this. Fucking idiots bringing cops into it boggles the mind.
Hello 911 what’s your emergency?
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Yeah we’re not going to attend that.
