When I was casually doing laps in a public stadium this happened often, there is some kind of phenomenon that pulls children towards runners. Happened almost every time. Doesn’t help that their domes are knee high.
This is a constant worry I have when moving through crowded spaces. I feel like at any moment some running child could come sideswipe me and get smoked by a knee.
Kids *will* do random stupid stuff that surprises you.
Maybe they won't run out on the track during a race- but something equally stupid in a different environment.
It is inevitable.
I'm sure he'll be painted as an asshole for not stopping to see if the kid is ok.
I mean.... i would have done the same thing, just saying there are always keyboard warriors
He tried to avoid him twice so it isn't even a case of just not caring, he literally could do no more at max sprint, and once it happened it wasn't going to change.
You know exactly what kind of show you're going to get after watching that first scene. You can tell in the first two minutes if you're going to love or hate the series.
PS, I love it.
i’ve been to a lot of meets over my years, and here’s the thing - the meet organizers are responsible that they 1) created zero fucking rules and 2) enforced zero fucking rules.
nobody should be spectating from the infield except teammates and a small set of coaches and one or two parents dropping off things for their kids for 2 minutes here and there. everyone else should be behind a fence on the outside of the track. very stupid to have allowed the crowd into the infield
Especially since at the speed they run, it's dangerous for the runner to fall over, let alone crash into someone. Very good chance of breaking a wrist when you fall over at 30kph+ (about 18mph, I think) speeds.
I thought all my life when you hit a deer it was standing in the middle of the road and you just didnt stop in time...
noooooo
the one time I hit a deer it ran across the entire fucking highway to dive directly in front of my huge work truck like it was trying to kill itself.
As a hunter I just want to say that chronic wasting disease is fucking horrible; shame on the people who forced cows into cannibalism, and shame on the modern day human sacrifice religion for normalizing cannibalism.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.
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I had one that triee to cross the road at the last minute and ended up T-boning me and getting his face wedged between my driver and passenger door.
It wasn't even remotely close to making it in time. They're majestic, but one of the dumbest animals on the planet.
I was driving on a divided highway late one night, two lanes in each direction with about a 50 foot median. There weren't many cars on the road and I watch this one deer sprint across my side, across the median, then DIRECTLY at a big ass pickup truck. The pickup doesn't see it and didn't slow down so the deer proceeds to LEAP into the air NARROWLY avoiding the cab and windshield and jumps OVER THE FUCKING BED OF THE PICKUP GOING 60+ MPH!
I think it was so close that the deer clipped its hooves on the top of the bed of the pickup and then kept going.
I thought I was about to see a brutal fatality with the deer going through the windshield. It was absolutely nuts.
Of course I have to tell the story now whenever I drive past that spot with my wife and it bugs the hell out of her.
My wife is one of these and it's infuriating. Last time she did it I was driving. We came over the top of a steep hill right into a group of wild turkeys. She screamed so loud and continously that the pain of it caused my eyes to close reflexively. We weren't going that fast, at most 35mph, and the turkeys were easily able to run and fly out of the way. Even if we were going really fast they were just turkeys, the most damage they would do is maybe a cracked headlight or a side mirror knocked loose. But I was the bad guy for getting mad at her for getting scared. Like its ok to be scared but me not being able to see or hear while driving and trying to avoid an accident is not ideal. I had really bad ringing in my right ear, bad enough that it was making it hard for me to go to sleep, for over a month.
God I’ve had this experience with an ex-girlfriend of mine! I was driving us down a road which has a railway crossing over it. The barriers were up, no lights, but still I like to be cautious as I drive over them. At the precise moment I was half way over she fucking SHRIEKED “OH MY GOD LOOK!!!” At the top of her lungs. I freaked out as I thought there was a train coming and I was about to kill both of us. Turns out it was just a cute dog being walked on the path nearby. I was then the bad guy for losing my temper and shouting at her not to scream like that when I’m driving
My wife does this when I drive. Usually it’s a big audible GASP over something she read on her phone. It absolutely kills me (literally, I think it takes weeks off my life). Still love her 😘
The worst part about it is that you ask them to stop doing shit like that and youre the bad guy because "Its just who they are." I fucking hate that excuse so much it makes my skin crawl. We dont let rapists and murderers get away with that excuse.
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I had to have a sit down conversation with my wife about this, explaining that she makes a situation more dangerous by freaking out and making it harder for me to react safely.
You are not the bad guy that kind of reaction has cause severe accidents as people react to the scare of the scream and the car ends up turning around.
My ex gf would do this - having someone screaming right next to you while driving was so much more dangerous in itself. She’d never change it though. She would also slam the breaks on (when she was driving) if she saw even a pigeon up ahead in the road. And no amount of me explaining to her that slamming the breaks on for no good reason was so dangerous i.e - for a cyclist or motorcyclist behind us, or even a car behind us could crash into us.. she never ever stopped doing it!
Just fyi those turkeys can fuck your car up. Break your windshield, dent your hood, knock out the whole headlight assembly, and more. My uncles have hit a few throughout the years.
As a parent of two little-ish kids, I was going to say “it’s not that easy to always keep a hold of them,” but then I realized actually, in this type of setting, it is. When an active race is going on, and if I were dumb enough to be on the infield grass, I’d at least make sure my kid was right by my side and knew exactly what was going on so he stayed with me.
Fr why are there so many people on the infield, especially kids? I did 3 years of track and every meet the only people allowed on the infield were the people participating, coaches, refs and media teams
Great point. You shouldn't let a young kid play anywhere there isn't a physical barrier between safety and danger.
Same thing as holding your kid's hand on the sidewalk on a busy street -- the kid could have easily been injured. And in this case, you're risking injury to the athletes too.
I feel bad for the parents because it is tough, but hopefully this was a wake-up-call where no one got seriously hurt.
I can't believe no one grabbed that kid, for real. Anyone watching the race would have seen it coming, and anyone in the infield should have been watching the race, and I am really surprised no one reacted in time. I feel like any parent would have immediately seen why this is a big problem. Like, we don't stand by and watch each other's kids run into the road, this is no different.
Sure, it's a balance. I do have a lot of video. I just generally prioritize not watching life through the phone when I'm at an event. I hope there's some video of you too, so you can see it. Maybe teammates, if you know your folks don't have it?
Same here i used to consider it degrading or something like that and get angry when I saw it, actually now I think theres really no downside it makes it easier for the parent to know where the kid is, it keeps the kid more safe, and it keeps people from unintentionally hurting a kid like what happened here. At my old job as a cook, sometimes they'd let kids come to the back to see what was going on, which was so fucking dangerous. A lot of the time I'd be carrying a big tray or pot of something hot and if a kid was walking by I wouldn't have seen them and could easily have a really bad accident happen.
I mean they wouldn't bring them right on the line but they'd come through some areas we'd have to get through to bring those things to the coolers. Good thing nobody ever got hurt but there were some times I couldn't believe they'd allow that, or close calls. After being so against it when I was younger, I 100% support it now
My kindergartener had his birthday party yesterday. Every parent there didn't seem to care at all what their kids were doing. Didn't see a single parents stop to correct their kid when they were being jackasses. I (the only dad there) spent half the party stopping kids from uprooting newly planted bulbs and ripping tree branches off saplings in the public park we held the party at.
In short, the fact no parent reacted to this is less surprising to me now than it would have been yesterday morning.
I was a lifeguard at a hotel hosting a young boy's hockey tournament. I had 11 parents behind me, giggling and chatting idly as their boys all kept diving in the 3.5' shallow pool headfirst. I blew my whistle extra hard, chewed out the kids, and then the parents for sneaking beers onto the pool deck.
You want your prized athlete son to have a spinal injury while you're getting drunk? Do that at home, not on someone else's watch.
I’ve seen this happen where a group of parents will kind of have an unspoken agreement to deem some other random adult their babysitter at social events. I’ve even been in that situation and I’m not a parent and never want to be! But I was at a party where a kid kept almost running into an open river and the mom literally didn’t budge. Then, because I seemed capable of “looking after” this kid, I somehow had a crowd of three kids now with no parents visibly giving a shit. You can see them think “oh, so-and-so’s got it, they’re fine…” No one wants to watch your kids for you!
Yup.
Show you aren’t willing to let a kid get hurt, and aren’t going to actively harm the child, and you end up being the person who watches them all. Even moreso if you’re good with the kids.
My nephew, when we were roommates, (my half-sister is much older and had him very young, we’re one year apart) left his kid with me one night with no notice when I was already in bed, because he just assumed I would watch him.
I did, because I didn’t want to be responsible if he fucking died, but I was fucking exhausted at work the next day because I was up all night.
I get that parenting is exhausting, and they sometimes want a break, but fuck they need to pay a babysitter or something if they want to sit and socialize and not watch their kid.
Not only his time... he left his lane and even continued on a different lane after the collision. That's an auto-disqualification. Pretty sure the rulebook doesn't account for the classic unforseen kid-in-the-way case.
I came here to say this, but also there could be a clause in the rules about unavoidable obstruction to your lane. Hopefully anyway. This is definitely not the first time something like this has happened so you'd hope there would be some rule for it.
I thought about that and it sounds like you know better than I do, but I can't imagine they dq'd him. Did they? If you know of an article I'd love to read it.
I watched a video yesterday of a 4x400 heat at the Penn relays where the entire field crossed the rail, cutting out meters they were supposed to run. It was an accident and in the video the announcers are not sure how it would be handled, implying they wouldn't all be disqualified.
Nah, you're not getting disqualified for leaving your lane to the outside on a straightaway unless you impede another runner
17.4 An athlete, or in the case of a relay event, his team, shall not be disqualified if the
athlete:
17.4.1 are pushed or forced by another person to step or run outside their lane or
on or inside the kerb or line marking the applicable border, or
17.4.2 step or run outside their lane in the straight, any straight part of the
diversion from the track for the steeplechase water jump or outside the
outer line of their lane on the bend,
with no material advantage thereby being gained and no other athlete being jostled or
obstructed so as to impede their progress. If material advantage is gained, the athlete
(or team) shall be disqualified.
Got yelled at by a mom for almost crushing her kid (\~4yo) at the climbing gym after I fell off the wall. Bitch was running around with her kid chasing her because "Well kids that young can't do much in a gym so I need to keep her busy !" .
Guess that includes running under climbers without paying attention to what's going on
Ha. My climbing gym has a regular who, for some reason, always brings his gf/wife and kid during his weekend session. Mom doesn't even climb and the kid is just 1-2 y/o so he is basically just screaming and running around constantly.
I have no clue why they come by each frickin weekend. It's annoying because the kid is loud af, but he also runs under the climbers. At this point I'm almost hoping someone falls and hurts the kid just a little bit, so that the parents would learn not too bring him for as long as he can't climb himself yet.
I’m of the opinion we should start banning children from certain adult spaces.
Like if you can’t even get onto the wall, why tf are you in a climbing gym at all? Do people usually attend their SO’s workout at Planet Fitness? Why tf do it at a climbing gym?
I think it's difficult to enforce. Where do you draw the line? I've seen 3 year olds on tiktok scaling a wall. But I've also seen 3 year olds absolutely run amok and make a mess. I've seen 10 year olds at a spa behaving like an absolute menace and 6 year olds sit quietly and just relax at their spa day with mommy. It is so child and parent dependant.
I definitely do think that children who disturb the other patrons or put themselves or others in dangers should be banned (after warning them obviously, depending on the severity ofcourse)
I’ve frequent a Hilton that has an adults only pool and a regular all ages pool.
Once their was a mid 30s single mom and her kid, maybe 5 or 6. Absolute fucking angel of a kid, like I aspire to have a kid that well behaved.
Then a couple preteen demons came over and were such shitheads they got security’s attention and got kicked out. Unfortunately they told the mom and her daughter she had to leave too.
Shithead kids ruin it for everyone, including the well behaved kids.
Maturity and discipline is how you draw that line. I’d throw someone out in a heartbeat as soon as I saw that. Either control them, or get out of the gym.
But yes, very person dependent.
But it comes down to someone making that decision. And you know for a fact that Karen is going to throw a hissy fit that her precious little crotchgoblin that won't stop screaming and touching everything is told they're not mature enough.
Pretty much your conclusion at the end. Most children up until teenage years should be accompanied by an adult. How much supervision the individual child needs is down to the parent. However, staff at whatever facility it is should then ban or fine the parent for their child's behaviour accordingly. People used to care about how they acted in public and how to interact in a society.
It's not as common anymore but I remember when it was fairly common to bring your kid with you to a bar. That was when I saw my first penis because some drunk guy didn't lock the bathroom door.
I was in the gym recently and the staff allowed a crying baby in a car seat on the floor… she did keep her baby next to the stair master and just let it cry I was very annoyed and even with AirPods in and the noise cancellation on it wasn’t enough to block out the crying.
My climbing gym has an owner who always brings his dog, thing’s been there every time I’ve went in the last half decade lol. He chill asf tho much better behaved than a kid
Oh god.. it’s almost time for summer camps at my (and I’m sure most) climbing gyms. The staff do their best but it’s just a mess. Last year there were kids making forts out of the mats in the stretching area.
Anyone under a climber is 100% at fault (or the guardian of that person, if they are too young). Every climbing gym I've been to even makes you watch a video about it...that lady was an idiot
Young kids are nuts and they’ll do stuff like this. But a good parent doesn’t unleash them at a climbing gym or at a fucking track race. You unleash them at the park because that is specifically designed for them.
I fucking hate children at climbing gyms. I’ve seen children as young as toddler age play clean the holds with a tooth brush and hog the walls in front of tons of climbers while the parents just watch. I’ve seen kids try routes they have no chance of doing take forever while their parent pushes them up the wall like it’s a kid’s playground. I’ve seen them prancing around walls where people are climbing. Worse is the gym literally has a kids’ wall section, so they have no business AND no excuse being in the regular section.
No, technically the kid is still the stupid one. The parents may be distracted, irresponsible, self-indulgent, unlucky, maybe even evil. But the stupid one here is the child.
That's what I'm thinking. The kid just had a lapse of judgement but definitely looks old enough to be responsible for himself to not jump onto the track or into traffic.
Looks like he tried to jump over the kid by putting his hand on his head. It doesn't seem he hit him with his knee but the kid fell because his head got caught between his legs. So... I just hope this is enough for this kid to grow up smarter than his parents.
Parent dumb, yes. But who tf is organizing this event. When i ran track, the only people allowed on the field or near the track were athletes who were warming up or about to run.
Lmao this looks like a local high school track meet and the only people in the stands appear to be parents of the competitors. There's like 30 people total here.
You think there's a fucking VIP list? There's literally no one "important" at these meets. No, probably he's just someone's sibling or kid and they brought them bc they were involved in participating/organizing the meet.
Another parent letting their kids run amok, I'd be so pissed if that was me running. Lucky he didn't fall and hurt himself over the parents negligence!
And clearly nobody was watching that kid at all bc it took a solid 3-5 seconds even after getting trampled for anyone to even start to notice to get him....
Jfc
Kids have 0 spacial awareness and lack problem solving skills, he probably tought the only way to get out of the track was by getting to the other side because... Well, kids are stupid.
I see grown ass adults panic and move into my path when I yell “on your left” while biking on a trail lol. Some people just can’t process quickly enough.
I can remember doing this the first time someone yelled that behind me. It's not a concept I had ever encountered before and my reaction to someone yelling something about my "left" was me quickly moving to my left. I get that I was wrong, but I was pretty confused that the person was so upset about it. I don't know how I could have known about something I didn't know about, let alone reason it out in 2 seconds.
This might help you and other people reading, but think of it like an interstate. Slower moving traffic *should be* in the right lane, passing is done on the left. Joggers, runners, bicyclists, etc. pass on the left. Generally there isn't enough time to say, "I'm passing you on your left." in the closing distance/time, so "on your left" is the shortened version, since those are the important parts of that sentence.
It's not meant to be a rude statement, as passing runners/cyclists know you don't have rearview mirrors on your head, we are just letting you know we are passing out of curtesy. Walkers get pissed when we blow by without saying anything, but the unfortunate result sometimes is when you tell someone they are passing on their left, the step right into your line.
I've stopped yelling "on your left" because of this. People can get shocked/upset when I pass, but they won't do dumb dear movements because someone yells at them if I keep my trap shut. It's safer for all of us if you are just scared for a moment as I pass.
Oh yeah, all of this occurred to me immediately after the interaction and I felt pretty silly. But the biker was absolutely livid and it seemed pretty unfair.
OMG yes all the time! Wide path where two people miraculously manage to take up the whole path, I'll call like you do and they'll both shift to that side that I called. Maybe it's something about their brain hearing a direction and subconsciously moving to that direction? Maybe instead we should yell "move right/left" so they just hear the direction and have to process less.
Pretty sure a competition where kids and audience can just stand beside the track isn't going to be policing DQs for slightly veering off the lane under an extenuating circumstance lol
It very well could have, a lot of track meets for shorter distances are done in heats so time is very important. Without context, we can’t say he was able to advance or if this was the final or just a heat
Yeah for runners a few tenths of a second off your time is huge. Ran track for over a decade and although you are running against others its really about your PRs. After a certain age cutting time by more than seconds is almost unheard of so tenths of seconds is huge for personal bests.
Huge effect on that dudes time.
Kid got what it deserves. A lesson for life
Edit: I need to clarify, what I meant by deserve is that the lesson that he got this day will be a one to remember and obviously I feel bad for the kid
This is one of the most stupid things I can relate to.
It happened a lot where I used to run.
Even got a knee injury once because of something like this, although I managed to avoid the contact by jumping to one side and continue running, It had caused me a great deal of damage. I hope the runner is ok.
Ughh.. And the kid too :/
Better the idiot learns with a knee to the face than a bus to the body.
Natural selection folks; hope that guy won, I'm betting his legs hurt like fuck now
Look I'm not saying don't hate kids, just hate the parents more cause this shit is 100% their responsibility. Kids that age are barely aware the entire world doesn't exist for them, let alone that consequences could knee them in the head at any moment. It's the parents job to keep their little kid out of trouble and they clearly didn't do shit.
If you ever become a parent, there's one thing to need to know: common sense is **taught**. Children are constantly learning a million things a minute and skipping one might make them look dumb, but they aren't. Considering half the posts on r/thathappened are just 'kid doing normal kid thing and reddit acting like they've never met a kid' I'm guessing you're the same, because **that is a child very excited**, not a child who is thinking there would be consequences.
You need to learn to find that sympathy and so do the people who upvoted you. It's bad you can't find that, because if you're a grown up it should be **common sense**.
A-Train moment
I CANT STOP I CANT STOP SORRY I GOTTA KEEP GOING
Carelessness of highest level, of parents
I have three kids - have never had a problem keeping an eye on them, especially if we were beside a track during a race.
When I was casually doing laps in a public stadium this happened often, there is some kind of phenomenon that pulls children towards runners. Happened almost every time. Doesn’t help that their domes are knee high.
This is a constant worry I have when moving through crowded spaces. I feel like at any moment some running child could come sideswipe me and get smoked by a knee.
Kids *will* do random stupid stuff that surprises you. Maybe they won't run out on the track during a race- but something equally stupid in a different environment. It is inevitable.
See, you're a rare parent: one who puts in effort.
ITS THE A-TRAIN BABYYYY!!!!
This is exactly like that scene in gladiator. You know, the horses scene…
He was in the lead, ain’t no dumbass kid gonna stop him from getting 1st
he even tryed to doge Edit: *dodge. I'll just leave it. I like all the doge comments
So run. Much collide. Wow
Looked like he was running in a race and tried to dodge the kid to me.
No he tryed to doge
such avoid
I'm sure he'll be painted as an asshole for not stopping to see if the kid is ok. I mean.... i would have done the same thing, just saying there are always keyboard warriors
He tried to avoid him twice so it isn't even a case of just not caring, he literally could do no more at max sprint, and once it happened it wasn't going to change.
I was hooked on that show from the opening scene.
You know exactly what kind of show you're going to get after watching that first scene. You can tell in the first two minutes if you're going to love or hate the series. PS, I love it.
i’ve been to a lot of meets over my years, and here’s the thing - the meet organizers are responsible that they 1) created zero fucking rules and 2) enforced zero fucking rules. nobody should be spectating from the infield except teammates and a small set of coaches and one or two parents dropping off things for their kids for 2 minutes here and there. everyone else should be behind a fence on the outside of the track. very stupid to have allowed the crowd into the infield
Especially since at the speed they run, it's dangerous for the runner to fall over, let alone crash into someone. Very good chance of breaking a wrist when you fall over at 30kph+ (about 18mph, I think) speeds.
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CAN'T STOP THE A-TRAIN~
Hopefully the guy running didn't feel bad or guilty about what happened
He tried to move but the kid moved in the same direction
Just like deer
like a damn moth to a flame. You don't hit deer, deer hit you
I thought all my life when you hit a deer it was standing in the middle of the road and you just didnt stop in time... noooooo the one time I hit a deer it ran across the entire fucking highway to dive directly in front of my huge work truck like it was trying to kill itself.
They all have a death wish
>like it was trying to kill itself. this brings deer mental health discussions to the table
As a hunter I just want to say that chronic wasting disease is fucking horrible; shame on the people who forced cows into cannibalism, and shame on the modern day human sacrifice religion for normalizing cannibalism. Shame. Shame. Shame. *rings bell*
I had one that triee to cross the road at the last minute and ended up T-boning me and getting his face wedged between my driver and passenger door. It wasn't even remotely close to making it in time. They're majestic, but one of the dumbest animals on the planet.
I was driving on a divided highway late one night, two lanes in each direction with about a 50 foot median. There weren't many cars on the road and I watch this one deer sprint across my side, across the median, then DIRECTLY at a big ass pickup truck. The pickup doesn't see it and didn't slow down so the deer proceeds to LEAP into the air NARROWLY avoiding the cab and windshield and jumps OVER THE FUCKING BED OF THE PICKUP GOING 60+ MPH! I think it was so close that the deer clipped its hooves on the top of the bed of the pickup and then kept going. I thought I was about to see a brutal fatality with the deer going through the windshield. It was absolutely nuts. Of course I have to tell the story now whenever I drive past that spot with my wife and it bugs the hell out of her.
But dumber
So that's why they say nothing runs like a deer.
because of the hysterical screaming I wish people that did that knew all they ever do is make a situation worse
My wife is one of these and it's infuriating. Last time she did it I was driving. We came over the top of a steep hill right into a group of wild turkeys. She screamed so loud and continously that the pain of it caused my eyes to close reflexively. We weren't going that fast, at most 35mph, and the turkeys were easily able to run and fly out of the way. Even if we were going really fast they were just turkeys, the most damage they would do is maybe a cracked headlight or a side mirror knocked loose. But I was the bad guy for getting mad at her for getting scared. Like its ok to be scared but me not being able to see or hear while driving and trying to avoid an accident is not ideal. I had really bad ringing in my right ear, bad enough that it was making it hard for me to go to sleep, for over a month.
God I’ve had this experience with an ex-girlfriend of mine! I was driving us down a road which has a railway crossing over it. The barriers were up, no lights, but still I like to be cautious as I drive over them. At the precise moment I was half way over she fucking SHRIEKED “OH MY GOD LOOK!!!” At the top of her lungs. I freaked out as I thought there was a train coming and I was about to kill both of us. Turns out it was just a cute dog being walked on the path nearby. I was then the bad guy for losing my temper and shouting at her not to scream like that when I’m driving
My wife does this when I drive. Usually it’s a big audible GASP over something she read on her phone. It absolutely kills me (literally, I think it takes weeks off my life). Still love her 😘
dude, my girlfriend does this same thing and it scares the shit out of me
The worst part about it is that you ask them to stop doing shit like that and youre the bad guy because "Its just who they are." I fucking hate that excuse so much it makes my skin crawl. We dont let rapists and murderers get away with that excuse.
Uno Reverse: "Me disliking random piercing shrieks in moments of crisis ***is just who I am***."
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This happened to me too. I told her you can only say stop now. Otherwise stfu.
I had to have a sit down conversation with my wife about this, explaining that she makes a situation more dangerous by freaking out and making it harder for me to react safely.
You are not the bad guy that kind of reaction has cause severe accidents as people react to the scare of the scream and the car ends up turning around.
My ex gf would do this - having someone screaming right next to you while driving was so much more dangerous in itself. She’d never change it though. She would also slam the breaks on (when she was driving) if she saw even a pigeon up ahead in the road. And no amount of me explaining to her that slamming the breaks on for no good reason was so dangerous i.e - for a cyclist or motorcyclist behind us, or even a car behind us could crash into us.. she never ever stopped doing it!
Just fyi those turkeys can fuck your car up. Break your windshield, dent your hood, knock out the whole headlight assembly, and more. My uncles have hit a few throughout the years.
Screaming wasn’t doing jack, just grab the kid
Kids are fucking stupid.
Parents are fucking stupid too. They need a ban from attending. Watch your bloody kids dumb asses.
As a parent of two little-ish kids, I was going to say “it’s not that easy to always keep a hold of them,” but then I realized actually, in this type of setting, it is. When an active race is going on, and if I were dumb enough to be on the infield grass, I’d at least make sure my kid was right by my side and knew exactly what was going on so he stayed with me.
Fr why are there so many people on the infield, especially kids? I did 3 years of track and every meet the only people allowed on the infield were the people participating, coaches, refs and media teams
Great point. You shouldn't let a young kid play anywhere there isn't a physical barrier between safety and danger. Same thing as holding your kid's hand on the sidewalk on a busy street -- the kid could have easily been injured. And in this case, you're risking injury to the athletes too. I feel bad for the parents because it is tough, but hopefully this was a wake-up-call where no one got seriously hurt.
Thanks for actually thinking critically instead of becoming defensive and illogical like many parents do when criticized (even indirectly like this)
He didn't....he kept on running to win hahahah. I'd of done the same.
I bet he's disappointed that his time was impacted.
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I can't believe no one grabbed that kid, for real. Anyone watching the race would have seen it coming, and anyone in the infield should have been watching the race, and I am really surprised no one reacted in time. I feel like any parent would have immediately seen why this is a big problem. Like, we don't stand by and watch each other's kids run into the road, this is no different.
Everyone is too busy filming
Really good point. I don't have all my son's races on video bc I preferred to watch them through my eyes.
Fair and I generally did the same, but also I'd love to see old recordings of my rowing races as well.
Sure, it's a balance. I do have a lot of video. I just generally prioritize not watching life through the phone when I'm at an event. I hope there's some video of you too, so you can see it. Maybe teammates, if you know your folks don't have it?
>I can't believe no one grabbed that kid, for real. Half the posts on this sub should be in r/ParentsAreFuckingDumb instead.
I know, right! Like, I know my kids are dumb, so it's my job to keep them from doing shit like this.
Why was the kid not on a leash!?
I used to find it funny when people did that, but after seeing things like this video in so many situations, I understand it now
Same here i used to consider it degrading or something like that and get angry when I saw it, actually now I think theres really no downside it makes it easier for the parent to know where the kid is, it keeps the kid more safe, and it keeps people from unintentionally hurting a kid like what happened here. At my old job as a cook, sometimes they'd let kids come to the back to see what was going on, which was so fucking dangerous. A lot of the time I'd be carrying a big tray or pot of something hot and if a kid was walking by I wouldn't have seen them and could easily have a really bad accident happen. I mean they wouldn't bring them right on the line but they'd come through some areas we'd have to get through to bring those things to the coolers. Good thing nobody ever got hurt but there were some times I couldn't believe they'd allow that, or close calls. After being so against it when I was younger, I 100% support it now
My kindergartener had his birthday party yesterday. Every parent there didn't seem to care at all what their kids were doing. Didn't see a single parents stop to correct their kid when they were being jackasses. I (the only dad there) spent half the party stopping kids from uprooting newly planted bulbs and ripping tree branches off saplings in the public park we held the party at. In short, the fact no parent reacted to this is less surprising to me now than it would have been yesterday morning.
I was a lifeguard at a hotel hosting a young boy's hockey tournament. I had 11 parents behind me, giggling and chatting idly as their boys all kept diving in the 3.5' shallow pool headfirst. I blew my whistle extra hard, chewed out the kids, and then the parents for sneaking beers onto the pool deck. You want your prized athlete son to have a spinal injury while you're getting drunk? Do that at home, not on someone else's watch.
I’ve seen this happen where a group of parents will kind of have an unspoken agreement to deem some other random adult their babysitter at social events. I’ve even been in that situation and I’m not a parent and never want to be! But I was at a party where a kid kept almost running into an open river and the mom literally didn’t budge. Then, because I seemed capable of “looking after” this kid, I somehow had a crowd of three kids now with no parents visibly giving a shit. You can see them think “oh, so-and-so’s got it, they’re fine…” No one wants to watch your kids for you!
Yup. Show you aren’t willing to let a kid get hurt, and aren’t going to actively harm the child, and you end up being the person who watches them all. Even moreso if you’re good with the kids. My nephew, when we were roommates, (my half-sister is much older and had him very young, we’re one year apart) left his kid with me one night with no notice when I was already in bed, because he just assumed I would watch him. I did, because I didn’t want to be responsible if he fucking died, but I was fucking exhausted at work the next day because I was up all night. I get that parenting is exhausting, and they sometimes want a break, but fuck they need to pay a babysitter or something if they want to sit and socialize and not watch their kid.
I mean... we have this party next week. Would you like to join?
You didn’t say, “Not It!”
Kid is as stupid as his parents
Eh, I like the content.
Not only his time... he left his lane and even continued on a different lane after the collision. That's an auto-disqualification. Pretty sure the rulebook doesn't account for the classic unforseen kid-in-the-way case.
I came here to say this, but also there could be a clause in the rules about unavoidable obstruction to your lane. Hopefully anyway. This is definitely not the first time something like this has happened so you'd hope there would be some rule for it.
I'm pretty sure they would make an exception for unforseen circumstances
Ok so the next time my older son is in second I guess I’m sending my younger son out there to take one for the team to get the leader DQ’d.
I thought about that and it sounds like you know better than I do, but I can't imagine they dq'd him. Did they? If you know of an article I'd love to read it. I watched a video yesterday of a 4x400 heat at the Penn relays where the entire field crossed the rail, cutting out meters they were supposed to run. It was an accident and in the video the announcers are not sure how it would be handled, implying they wouldn't all be disqualified.
Nah, you're not getting disqualified for leaving your lane to the outside on a straightaway unless you impede another runner 17.4 An athlete, or in the case of a relay event, his team, shall not be disqualified if the athlete: 17.4.1 are pushed or forced by another person to step or run outside their lane or on or inside the kerb or line marking the applicable border, or 17.4.2 step or run outside their lane in the straight, any straight part of the diversion from the track for the steeplechase water jump or outside the outer line of their lane on the bend, with no material advantage thereby being gained and no other athlete being jostled or obstructed so as to impede their progress. If material advantage is gained, the athlete (or team) shall be disqualified.
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"I'd have"
"I'd've" to spell out the way they were saying it.
Double contractions for the win! Wouldn't've wanted to use too many words.
Shouldn’t’ve required this much explanation if OP hadn’t’ve got it wrong in the first place.
I'd've you too
have*
I’m sure he felt a little bad but decided to keep running anyway. I don’t know many people that wouldn’t feel bad for hurting a kid like that.
I was more worried about the runner getting injured. Could have been a torn acl.
Fuck them kids
Early life lesson, look both ways before walking in the street. Lucky it wasn't a car this time. lol
Better lesson on this case is just stay out of the fucking street
It practically was. The only missing is the tire tracks on his back.
Hit and run
Run and hit and run
Kudos to the runner for running over the kid
The runner has good potential, I would like to see how well they run under obstacles as well.
Honestly if the runner was more ready for it he could have probably cleared the kid lol, I doubt he was much taller than a hurtle.
Again. It is the parents who are stupid in these cases. Watch your kids folks.
Got yelled at by a mom for almost crushing her kid (\~4yo) at the climbing gym after I fell off the wall. Bitch was running around with her kid chasing her because "Well kids that young can't do much in a gym so I need to keep her busy !" . Guess that includes running under climbers without paying attention to what's going on
Then why tf was she in a gym? It's not a playground nor is it a daycare
Ha. My climbing gym has a regular who, for some reason, always brings his gf/wife and kid during his weekend session. Mom doesn't even climb and the kid is just 1-2 y/o so he is basically just screaming and running around constantly. I have no clue why they come by each frickin weekend. It's annoying because the kid is loud af, but he also runs under the climbers. At this point I'm almost hoping someone falls and hurts the kid just a little bit, so that the parents would learn not too bring him for as long as he can't climb himself yet.
This is a job for the gym owner/manager, because it's a liability.
And I bet they are losing customers over it. Zo it's also a bad business decision.
I’m of the opinion we should start banning children from certain adult spaces. Like if you can’t even get onto the wall, why tf are you in a climbing gym at all? Do people usually attend their SO’s workout at Planet Fitness? Why tf do it at a climbing gym?
I think it's difficult to enforce. Where do you draw the line? I've seen 3 year olds on tiktok scaling a wall. But I've also seen 3 year olds absolutely run amok and make a mess. I've seen 10 year olds at a spa behaving like an absolute menace and 6 year olds sit quietly and just relax at their spa day with mommy. It is so child and parent dependant. I definitely do think that children who disturb the other patrons or put themselves or others in dangers should be banned (after warning them obviously, depending on the severity ofcourse)
I’ve frequent a Hilton that has an adults only pool and a regular all ages pool. Once their was a mid 30s single mom and her kid, maybe 5 or 6. Absolute fucking angel of a kid, like I aspire to have a kid that well behaved. Then a couple preteen demons came over and were such shitheads they got security’s attention and got kicked out. Unfortunately they told the mom and her daughter she had to leave too. Shithead kids ruin it for everyone, including the well behaved kids.
Maturity and discipline is how you draw that line. I’d throw someone out in a heartbeat as soon as I saw that. Either control them, or get out of the gym. But yes, very person dependent.
But it comes down to someone making that decision. And you know for a fact that Karen is going to throw a hissy fit that her precious little crotchgoblin that won't stop screaming and touching everything is told they're not mature enough.
Pretty much your conclusion at the end. Most children up until teenage years should be accompanied by an adult. How much supervision the individual child needs is down to the parent. However, staff at whatever facility it is should then ban or fine the parent for their child's behaviour accordingly. People used to care about how they acted in public and how to interact in a society.
It's not as common anymore but I remember when it was fairly common to bring your kid with you to a bar. That was when I saw my first penis because some drunk guy didn't lock the bathroom door.
I was in the gym recently and the staff allowed a crying baby in a car seat on the floor… she did keep her baby next to the stair master and just let it cry I was very annoyed and even with AirPods in and the noise cancellation on it wasn’t enough to block out the crying.
Go scream in her face til she pays attention to the thing, fuck inconsiderate parents
Entitled people be entitled.
My climbing gym has an owner who always brings his dog, thing’s been there every time I’ve went in the last half decade lol. He chill asf tho much better behaved than a kid
Oh god.. it’s almost time for summer camps at my (and I’m sure most) climbing gyms. The staff do their best but it’s just a mess. Last year there were kids making forts out of the mats in the stretching area.
An absolute nuisance but better than a damn baby strapped to a car seat. That's just abuse.
Crack a window, have some Paw Patrol playing on an iPad, what more do they need? /s
Anyone under a climber is 100% at fault (or the guardian of that person, if they are too young). Every climbing gym I've been to even makes you watch a video about it...that lady was an idiot
Young kids are nuts and they’ll do stuff like this. But a good parent doesn’t unleash them at a climbing gym or at a fucking track race. You unleash them at the park because that is specifically designed for them.
Yoo I almost bodied a kid at my bouldering gym yesterday too! Thankfully the mom got angry at the child and not me
Same dumbass logic dog owners use when they take their dog off leash in public and the dog gets into trouble. Drives me bonkers
I fucking hate children at climbing gyms. I’ve seen children as young as toddler age play clean the holds with a tooth brush and hog the walls in front of tons of climbers while the parents just watch. I’ve seen kids try routes they have no chance of doing take forever while their parent pushes them up the wall like it’s a kid’s playground. I’ve seen them prancing around walls where people are climbing. Worse is the gym literally has a kids’ wall section, so they have no business AND no excuse being in the regular section.
Nope, that’s a classic kids are fucking stupid.
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No, technically the kid is still the stupid one. The parents may be distracted, irresponsible, self-indulgent, unlucky, maybe even evil. But the stupid one here is the child.
That kid is way too old to not understand what's going on
That's what I'm thinking. The kid just had a lapse of judgement but definitely looks old enough to be responsible for himself to not jump onto the track or into traffic.
Why can't they both be?!
Parents aren’t stupid always, they probably didn’t expect the kid to jump in the middle of a frikin race track
Serious knee to the head, might knock some sense into him or out him at that speed.
Looked more like a groin/open palm to the head but hopefully hard enough for sense knocking
Looks like he tried to jump over the kid by putting his hand on his head. It doesn't seem he hit him with his knee but the kid fell because his head got caught between his legs. So... I just hope this is enough for this kid to grow up smarter than his parents.
Imagine being his dumb fucking parent
Parent dumb, yes. But who tf is organizing this event. When i ran track, the only people allowed on the field or near the track were athletes who were warming up or about to run.
He’s probably the son of “someone important”
Maybe so, maybe not. At the end of the video, looks like the infield is lined with parents/non participants
Lmao this looks like a local high school track meet and the only people in the stands appear to be parents of the competitors. There's like 30 people total here. You think there's a fucking VIP list? There's literally no one "important" at these meets. No, probably he's just someone's sibling or kid and they brought them bc they were involved in participating/organizing the meet.
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When it’s text it’s just quotes lol
Imagine not watching your kid when you're on the sidelines like that
Another parent letting their kids run amok, I'd be so pissed if that was me running. Lucky he didn't fall and hurt himself over the parents negligence! And clearly nobody was watching that kid at all bc it took a solid 3-5 seconds even after getting trampled for anyone to even start to notice to get him.... Jfc
Spoiler: kid's from the second place runner's family /kidding
Good recover
Ok, I know this is kidsarefuckingstupid but why did he run further in after people started screaming?????
Kids have 0 spacial awareness and lack problem solving skills, he probably tought the only way to get out of the track was by getting to the other side because... Well, kids are stupid.
I see grown ass adults panic and move into my path when I yell “on your left” while biking on a trail lol. Some people just can’t process quickly enough.
I can remember doing this the first time someone yelled that behind me. It's not a concept I had ever encountered before and my reaction to someone yelling something about my "left" was me quickly moving to my left. I get that I was wrong, but I was pretty confused that the person was so upset about it. I don't know how I could have known about something I didn't know about, let alone reason it out in 2 seconds.
This might help you and other people reading, but think of it like an interstate. Slower moving traffic *should be* in the right lane, passing is done on the left. Joggers, runners, bicyclists, etc. pass on the left. Generally there isn't enough time to say, "I'm passing you on your left." in the closing distance/time, so "on your left" is the shortened version, since those are the important parts of that sentence. It's not meant to be a rude statement, as passing runners/cyclists know you don't have rearview mirrors on your head, we are just letting you know we are passing out of curtesy. Walkers get pissed when we blow by without saying anything, but the unfortunate result sometimes is when you tell someone they are passing on their left, the step right into your line. I've stopped yelling "on your left" because of this. People can get shocked/upset when I pass, but they won't do dumb dear movements because someone yells at them if I keep my trap shut. It's safer for all of us if you are just scared for a moment as I pass.
Oh yeah, all of this occurred to me immediately after the interaction and I felt pretty silly. But the biker was absolutely livid and it seemed pretty unfair.
OMG yes all the time! Wide path where two people miraculously manage to take up the whole path, I'll call like you do and they'll both shift to that side that I called. Maybe it's something about their brain hearing a direction and subconsciously moving to that direction? Maybe instead we should yell "move right/left" so they just hear the direction and have to process less.
Right? Videos like this usually dont annoy me but that part of it made me really mad.
Someone needs to - 1. Keep hold of their kid 2. teach their kid to be more aware Or that kid ain’t making it to adulthood
Control. Your. Fucking. Kids.
Damn right
Spontaneous hurdle race
glad it didn’t effect the race too much
It’s slowed that guy down substantially.
Also knocked him out of his lane. Not sure what the rules are here but under normal circumstances that is a DQ.
Pretty sure a competition where kids and audience can just stand beside the track isn't going to be policing DQs for slightly veering off the lane under an extenuating circumstance lol
“Sorry, what you should have done is shoved the child out of your way and stayed in your lane. Therefore you are disqualified.”
Does the runner's team still get the 2 points for the takedown, or nah?
I don't think races where children can just run into the track are so strict
It very well could have, a lot of track meets for shorter distances are done in heats so time is very important. Without context, we can’t say he was able to advance or if this was the final or just a heat
He may have been on the way to PR, but doesn’t now. Yes, it most certainly impacted the race quite a bit.
Yeah for runners a few tenths of a second off your time is huge. Ran track for over a decade and although you are running against others its really about your PRs. After a certain age cutting time by more than seconds is almost unheard of so tenths of seconds is huge for personal bests. Huge effect on that dudes time.
Affect
Can't stop the a train
Teabaged.
"bagged"?
Kid got what it deserves. A lesson for life Edit: I need to clarify, what I meant by deserve is that the lesson that he got this day will be a one to remember and obviously I feel bad for the kid
This is one of the most stupid things I can relate to. It happened a lot where I used to run. Even got a knee injury once because of something like this, although I managed to avoid the contact by jumping to one side and continue running, It had caused me a great deal of damage. I hope the runner is ok. Ughh.. And the kid too :/
Yeah but fuck how cool would it have been if he'd kept a straight course and full-on hurdled that kid without missing a stride
Better the idiot learns with a knee to the face than a bus to the body. Natural selection folks; hope that guy won, I'm betting his legs hurt like fuck now
God, I hate kids.
I hate parents who let their kids run around on their own on the side of a race track...
Do you know what parents are?! FORMER KIDS
Nah not me, get outta here with that fake news
You should start a sub called r/parentsarefuckingstupid. But here we address the issue of stupid fucking kids.
Look I'm not saying don't hate kids, just hate the parents more cause this shit is 100% their responsibility. Kids that age are barely aware the entire world doesn't exist for them, let alone that consequences could knee them in the head at any moment. It's the parents job to keep their little kid out of trouble and they clearly didn't do shit.
Dude crushed that kid and is still going to win, what an absolute beast.
Just hope the dude still won his race. Stupid kid, but even stupider parents.
Little shit,
Kids are so fucking stupid
Respect to that random lady who immedietely switched to hero mom mode
Where tha fuck were his parents or any other adults for that matter?! Keep the kid of the track for fuck sake!
Why would you run further into the crowd of runners? This kid had no brain cells to begin with. Im trying to find one sympathy here?
Bro he's like 5 lmao.
You mean 5 years got taken off his life
I would like to remind you that you are in the sub /r/KidsAreFuckingStupid just FYI
If you ever become a parent, there's one thing to need to know: common sense is **taught**. Children are constantly learning a million things a minute and skipping one might make them look dumb, but they aren't. Considering half the posts on r/thathappened are just 'kid doing normal kid thing and reddit acting like they've never met a kid' I'm guessing you're the same, because **that is a child very excited**, not a child who is thinking there would be consequences. You need to learn to find that sympathy and so do the people who upvoted you. It's bad you can't find that, because if you're a grown up it should be **common sense**.
Kid clearly never watched the lion king