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A woman is being praised online for insulting a pair of parents whose son knocked her over in the airport while skateboarding.
The now-viral post, titled, "AITA for insulting someone's parenting after their kid hurt me while doing something stupid," has been upvoted 11,600 times since it was shared on June 6. Redditor @wilop00 shared the post to the subreddit "Am I The A**hole," and it's had people talking ever since.
According to the National Safety Council, in 2017 there were more than 98,000 individuals treated in a hospital ER from skateboarding injuries. In addition, more than 47,000 of the injuries happened to those between the ages of 15 and 24.
The original poster (OP), a 23-year-old female, said she had just come off a "long flight," and she was waiting for her bags in the baggage claim area. There was a family whose child, who was somewhere between 10 and 12, was skateboarding around the baggage claim area.
"He kept getting in people's way, but nobody said anything until the little brat ran into me," the OP said. "He knocked me over, and it hurt really badly, and they said nothing. I was furious, so as another man was helping me up, I look at his parents and said very sarcastically, 'Good decision. I think letting him ride a skateboard inside in a crowded room was a great choice. A+'"
The boy's mother started to get in the OP's face, "yelling" at her. Her husband pulled her away, and they went off to the other side of the carousel.
The Redditor admitted she's "normally a very passive people pleaser," so she is "second-guessing" her decision to say what she did. However, she thought it was "justified" with how "stupid" their decision was to let the boy do that, plus she pointed out "how much pain" it caused her, and she revealed she had a couple of bruises that "hurt."
One Redditor asked the OP what the woman had to say to her statement, asking "what part" was she upset about. They added they were "surprised" that security didn't "sic" the boy.
The OP replied that the woman said: "'Who the f**k do you think you are? Don't talk about my kid like that!' That kinda thing."
Over 500 comments came in over the viral skateboarding incident, and people weren't holding back. The OP was being praised for what she said to the boy's parents, who are consequently being slammed as well.
A Redditor voted NTA, or not the a**hole as their verdict, and their comment garnered 11,400 upvotes on its own. "What you said was spot on and absolutely justified," they reasoned. "I don't see how that woman could have yelled anything that could have put them in the right."
While a user thought that skateboarding while indoors "in a place not expressly meant for it is s**t behavior. The kid's parents sucked for not managing their child. Given the circumstances, your actions were not at all out of line."
Another user thought the boy's parents were "lucky" the OP didn't get the authorities involved. "The child is being rotten, but it's because he's being enabled by parents not doing their job, so it's definitely right to call them out," they said.
A Redditor admitted they would've been "mortified" to have their child act like that "let alone having them run into someone and knock them over. Terrible parenting, and you were justified in the comment. But the mom's reaction says a lot about them as parents. Gross."
Some people brought up the topic of a lawsuit given what occurred. "They're the entitled AH [a**holes], and your comment was probably what everyone was thinking," a Redditor said. "Next time see if you can sue them for medical bills. See if they keep letting their kid ride around on skateboards in public, non-skateboarding areas then. So inconsiderate smh."
Other Redditors had comments likes, "NTA, I'm a parent myself and I absolutely would've said something, they deserved to be called out," and "NTA. You were completely right. Mom is just upset someone called out their negligence."
Newsweek reached out to Redditor @wilop00 for comment.
This isn't the only viral moment involving kids. A woman was slammed for "traumatizing" her sister's foster kids. The internet is slamming a dad who kept his 10-year-old daughter a secret. In addition, a mom called a woman a "child abuser" for cooking her child frozen food.
