Kid "Morphs" as Red MF Ranger during robbery

[JFC]

*sigh* Kid's damn lucky he didn't get shot. Period. :nono:

Hey CHiLL, your avatar is hotter then JFC's now. JFC is gonna have to come up with something new.

What for? CHiLL has a "top half" avatar, I got a "bottom half" avatar. I say, the more hottie avatars, the better!:buttrock: Besides, my sig is damn near untouchable. :anime:

 

[Z-Unit]

The kid is too young to know the real danger there. He just thought a group of people similar to the bad guys on PR would simply ''go away'' or be ''destroyed'' if he swings his plastic staff at them. Even if he saw the gun, he wouldn't really know what it is or does.


And I doubt those robbers had the balls to shoot a small boy to death right in front of his family. A smart robber would only harm some one who posses an actual threat to their main goal. Not jeopardize the operation by making too much noise with the gun and adding a murder to their charges if they were cought by the police.

 

[Forever Knight]

DAMN fucking right. :buttrock:

This little guy gets \m/

 

[icebolt]

You have to admit that the kid had guts even if he did a foolhardy thing. He might not have done a smart thing but he did something brave, even if that courage stemmed from a misplaced fantasy. Older and wiser people would've let the robbers take what they want. Years from now, the kid will prob reflect on what he's done and go, "****, what the **** was I thinking?". But for now, I say he did a brave thing.

 

[Z-Unit]

Beat your kids.:anime:

 

[NAND NOR]

The kid is lucky that the robber wasn't so high on drugs that he ended up shooting the kid. As for it being a "bad ass" story, no it's not. As a parent I can imagine the fear the mother had when she saw her four-year-old son "fend off" someone with a gun.

I think I know what you mean. I have a four year old niece and a two and a half year old nephew, both of which I love dearly. Reading this news story frightened me more than anything else. I mean, it's the last thing I would ever want myself, or especially them, to experience. That kid could have been seriously injured or even killed.

I want to think that something like this is happening is "cool" ... but I just can't.

 

[Mikazuki]

It is and it isn't. It isn't in that it was a situation of extreme danger or even potential fatality, and it is in that even a child that young has the kind of moral and courage to stand up to several (armed) people 3 times his size when his family was being threatened. Did the kid only do it because he couldn't comprehend that he was actually in serious danger? Maybe, it was just instinctual. Could he have actually done anything to stop them had they decide to start shooting? No, it would've been a bloodbath. But the fact that he was brave enough to try, and not to just take that kind of **** sitting down, now that's something we can all look up to.

Considering I have had children who were at one point that age and twins who will be that age, I can answer that question.

No, children that age do not comprehend the actual danger involved. Most likely he thought it was a game or literally something like he watched on tv. If you were to ask a child of that age if they thought what they were watching was real they would probably say yes. They don't know the difference between fantasy and reality let alone the consequences of violence.

He wasn't being brave, it's foolish to put an adult idea to what the boy did. He most likely did it because he saw it on tv and thought he could be a superhero too.

When you have your own children then and only then you will truly understand what I'm talking about. Just remember, children who are that young don't have a natural fear of many things. You could put a small child inside a cage with a tiger and the child will think the tiger is nothing more then a harmless, big cat and not something that can easily rip him/her apart. Would it be brave for a four-year-old to be in that cage with the tiger? Of course not.

 

[Mega Ranger]

"He fully believed he morphed," she said.

Did he not? He went from small child to hero trying to save his family, that sounds like one hell of a Transformation to me!

 

[MattComix]

I totally agree that he is lucky. Very, very lucky. I also recocgnize that a non-parent can't begin to understand how the idea of a son or daughter being in mortal danger makes them feel.

However, his fundemental understanding of fantasy vs. reality aside I don't think that by cheering the kid it means people are advocating child endangerment anymore than someone who is a true Robin or Billy Batson fan is when they root for their hero. It's more the spirit of the kid and what the act symoblizes especially when matched up the fact he was wearing a superhero costume when he did it.

I think the kid was at least aware enough of the real danger that he felt the basic human desire to *do something*. For all the color and flash and coolness of superheroes or sentai/Power Rangers this child got the most important aspect of the whole damn thing. He thought beyond himself and when presented with such a circumstance in real life he did it the best way he knew how because that's what heroes do. When people are in danger, they step up. No matter the odds. That's what the Rangers taught him.

 

[Bolt]

I understand where you're coming from Mika, but my opinion isn't changing. Foolish (or at least naive) as it was, he at least showed quick resolve and a steadfast willingness to defend his family which is remarkable in itself.